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Valentine and Proteus are devoted comrades ― until they travel to Milan and meet Silvia, the Duke's ravishing daughter. Torn between the bonds of friendship and the lure of romance, the two gentlemen are further bedeviled by Proteus's prior commitment to Julia, his hometown sweetheart, and the Duke's disdain for Valentine. Thus the stage is set for a comic spree involving a daring escape into a forest, capture by outlaws, and the antics of a clown...
2) Afterimage
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Seeing beyond Winston's disfiguring scars and foreseeing a future with him, Lise falls in love and the couple soon marry. Years later, having inherited Lise's gift, two of their children, Theresa and Jerome, must struggle to find their place within the community. But for Leo, their middle child, that is just the start of his worries. As he grows older and the chasm between himself and his family grows, Leo realizes that he doesn't belong to his family....
3) Succuba
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An evil presence attaches to a lonely widower who intends to guard it for as long as he can.
5) Flanders
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André Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another man. A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. Left behind, Barbe, alone and wasting away, faces misfortunes of her own, while awaiting the soldiers return....
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The wedding of Palo (Palos Brudefaerd) (1934), Nanook's obvious successor, is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Dr. Knud Rasmussen. Filmed in sound with an Inuit cast from the Angmagssalik district of east Greenland, Palo, like Nanook, documents a vanishing lifestyle and uses Flaherty's devise of an appealing narrative; in this case, a story of two men who desire the same woman as a wife. It is mastered...
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In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, a ballot initiative denying public education and health care to all undocumented immigrants. Laura Angelica Simon, a Mexican immigrant and fourth grade teacher at Hoover Street Elementary School in Los Angeles was, in her own words, "devastated," and felt motivated to a make film about the impact on her school.
12) Jules and Jim
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Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant...
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Charting the languorous, mysterious existence of two men who seem to share a deep, liminal understanding beyond words, until a third man enters their secluded space, Dane Komljen's debut feature, All the Cities of the North, is a radically open-ended but ravishingly beautiful work that₂s animated by rhythms and ideas entirely its own.
15) Karma
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Karma cuenta la historia de varios personajes y la forma en que sus historias se entrelazan, tales como: Camila y Rebecca, Jaime y Gloria, y muchas ms̀ historias interesantes en este drama.
The story of various individuals and the way in which their stories intertwine, such as: Camila & Rebecca, Jaime & Gloria, and many more interesting tales in this drama.
16) Astrakan
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When Samuel, a young orphan, is sent to live with foster parents Marie and Clement, he is gradually forced to face the demons that exist both internally and within his new family. Swept up in the motions of coming of age for the first time falling in love with the girl next door, exploring hobbies, and indulging in childhood passions he also learns of the secrets his foster family is keeping, leading him to question everything around him. As these...
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The heartwarming tale of a retired elf seeking a life of seclusion whose plans are interrupted when a group of unrelentingly cheerful townsfolk, brimming with the holiday spirit, come into his life. Through their unwavering kindness and infectious joy, they help him rediscover the true meaning of Christmas. Packed with yuletide laughter, chestnut-roasting moments, and Jack Frost-nipping faith, this cutesy film captures the essence of the holiday season....
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