Georges “Jojo” Castagnier is an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roof of a block of apartments in the Pigalle section of Paris. He ran away from home when he realized that his stepmother hates him. Among Jojo’s many neighbors is the object of his affection, gorgeous nightclub dancer Jenny Dorr. But, to Jojo’s disappointment, Jenny becomes the lover of former boxer Dicky, who spends his time loafing about the Pigalle cafés.Read More »
Very rare. Fedor Hanzekovic’s comedy drama “Master of His Own Body” (1957) is certainly one of the audience’s most loved Croatian films made in the fifties. Based on a short story written by Slavko Kolar.
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Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father’s demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.Read More »
A young girl plays a series of pranks and soon has a crowd of angry villagers chasing after her.
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Léontine is a specialist, who can destroy whole households in five minutes of film. Her chosen weapon may be water, fire or explosives. Here she uses string to topple everything and everyone. In 1910 Pathé set up the Comica studio in Nice, and Léontine was one of its first comedienne based series.Read More »
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Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn’t a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.Read More »
A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid.Read More »
Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne’s essentially unfilmable novel, “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.”Read More »
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Time and Tide (時代屋の女房 Jidaiya no nyobo) is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Azuma Morisaki and based on a novel by Muramatsu Tomomi. It involves a woman, her cat, and an antique shop owner.
Stars the beautiful Masako Natsume who passed away a mere 2 years after this film’s release from leukemia.Read More »
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Aloha High cheerleaders, who wield considerable power in their ineptly run school, struggle against real estate developers aiming to merge their school with a rival one in order to turn the location into a shopping mall.Read More »
On the Eve of WW2, the royal government of Yugoslavia hid the national money inside the cave around village of Ozrinic in Montenegro. The locals discovered the heaps of money by accident, and soon begun to build new houses and buy the land. Unfortunately, the Italians occupied the country and burned their properties to ashes. Based on a true story.Read More »