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Bamako - Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, BAMAKO is both a courtroom drama and portrait of everyday Mali life.
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Devil in the Flesh - One of the most controversial Italians films of the '80s, DEVIL IN THE FLESH takes Raymond Radiguet's classic novel and updates it to modern times.
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Fric-Frac - An oblivious jeweler’s assistant with love on his mind falls in with petty criminals, without knowing their trade, until they decide to rob his employer.
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A Game for Six Lovers (L’eau à la bouche) - In a lavish country villa, a will reading is the occasion for three couples’ romantic and sexual pursuits and deceptions.
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Julietta - A champagne-fizzy comedy of errors, in which a whimsical teen hides out in a sprawling country manor, to the chagrin of its bedeviled owner.
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La Dénonciation - A film producer is roped into a murder investigation, which starts to intersect with a long-hidden crime from his time as a Resistance fighter during WWII.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover - Veteran director Marc Allegret’s philosophical and restrained adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s sexually explosive novel, the first time it was ever brought to film.
Le Crabe-Tambour - A squadron commander suffering from an incurable illness searches for an old comrade from Southeast Asia.
Le Navire Night - A telephone operator, J.M., falls in love with a mysterious woman, F., entirely by phone.
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Mambar Pierrette - Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rosine Mbakam's narrative film debut about a seamstress facing a series of misfortunes.
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts - In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina, a young widow, is robbed and raped for her cattle. Seeking justice, she goes on a journey for empowerment and redemption.
Martin Roumagnac - A provincial builder falls in love with an alluring shopgirl, oblivious to her crowded romantic past or that she’s waiting for a local politician’s wife to die so she can marry rich.
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A New Old Play - One evening in the 1980s, Qiu Fu, a leading clown-role actor in 20th-century Sichuan opera, is killed in an accident and must reluctantly set off for the Ghost City.
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The Scheming Women (Les Intrigantes) - The owner of a theater is accused of murder, revealing a web of plots, betrayals and alliances within the theater’s cast and crew.
School for Love (Futures vedettes) - At a Viennese conservatory, a seductive singing teacher seduces his students, with both dramatic and near-tragic results. Stars Brigitte Bardot.
Six in Paris (Paris vu par) - The City of Lights as seen in short films by six New Wave master directors.
Suzanna Andler - Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.
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The 317th Platoon - A platoon of French soldiers and Laotian allies fight their way through enemy territory and dense jungle to meet up with their compatriots as the Indochina War grinds to a halt.
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Wild - WILD is a strange, dream-like journey of sexual and spiritual liberation, which begins when Ania locks eyes with a feral grey wolf.
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