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Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty.

Les dragueurs

78 мин

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Jean-Pierre Mocky

In order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments, in constant conflict with Dr. Emery, whose therapy takes the psychology of patients into account. François soon makes friends with Heurtevent, a sweet epileptic, and both decide to escape from the place. Their attempt is a failure and Heurtevent, unable to get over what he considers a return to hell, commits suicide. But rebellious François tries again and this time around he is successful. He finds shelter at his friend Stephanie's home.

La Tête contre les murs

93 мин

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Georges Franju

Shoot the Piano Player is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life. It is based on the novel Down There by David Goodis.​​​​

Tirez sur le pianiste

78 мин

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Francois Truffaut

A group of ten people are brought to a remote, vacant hotel in the middle of the Iranian desert by the mysterious Mr. U.N. Owen whom none of the guests have met. When they arrive, a tape recording left by Owen is played, informing them that each of them is guilty of murder but managed to get away with it. In each room of the hotel is a copy of the song "Ten Little Indians", and the moment the party begins, the guests are killed one by one, just like in the song.

Ils étaient dix

98 мин

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Peter Collinson

In Danzig, young Agnes is entangled in a love triangle with her Polish cousin Jan Bronski and drug dealer Alfred Matzerath. She marries Alfred, but has a son, Oskar, with Bronski. On his third birthday, Oskar decides to stop growing. During the following years, the family is followed in the period between the two wars, and during the rise and fall of the Nazi regime.

Le tambour

136 мин

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Volker Schlöndorff

Taxi for Tobruk (French: Un taxi pour Tobrouk) is a 1961 war film directed by Denys de La Patellière and starring Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura and Hardy Krüger. It was made as a co-production between France, Spain and West Germany. The story takes place during World War II in the North African desert at the Battle of El Alamein. Location shooting took place in Almería in Spain. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul-Louis Boutié.

This is a French film from 1962 directed by Julien Duvivier that consists of seven sketches (eight in the versions shown in Germany and Japan) played by an ensemble cast that includes Michel Simon, Micheline Presle, Françoise Arnoul, Mel Ferrer, Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Fernandel, Alain Delon, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Louis de Funès.

The film contrasts a series of human failings with the ever-present hope of redemption and a snake (voiced by Claude Rich) adds the Devil's comments.

Un taxi pour Tobrouk

95 мин

Le Diable et les Dix Commandements

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120 мин

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Denys de La Patellière

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Julien Duvivier

Testament of Orpheus (French: Le testament d'Orphée) is a 1960 black-and-white film with a few seconds of color film spliced in. Directed by and starring Jean Cocteau, who plays himself as an 18th-century poet, the film includes cameo appearances by Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Pierre Leaud, and Yul Brynner. It is considered the final part of The Orphic Trilogy, following The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orphée (1950).

One critic described it as a "wry, self-conscious re-examination of a lifetime's obsessions" with Cocteau placing himself at the center of the mythological and fictional world he spun throughout his books, films, plays and paintings. The film includes numerous instances of "double takes", including one scene where Cocteau, walking past himself, looks back to see himself in what was described by one scholar as "a retrospective on the Cocteau œuvre".

Le Testament d'Orphée

It is a French-Italian comedy that explores the relationships of the youth of the 60s. Mocky draws five portraits of young girls who discover physical love for the first time. As the title suggests, this is a paradoxical and curiously poetic film.

77 мин

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Les vierges

Jean Cocteau

85 мин

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Jean-Pierre Mocky

Following the defeat of France by Germany during World War II, two French soldiers are taken as forced laborers on a German farm. In the years that follow, they become deeply involved in the life of their sensors.

Le Passage du Rhin

125 мин

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Three petty criminals are given a clue for a big hit with a promise of big money. Unfortunately, they lack the funds for a necessary basic tool, the torch. So they convince their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. The well-planned coup fails, and Alphonse and the only person between them are imprisoned for several years. As soon as he is released from prison, he prepares for revenge.

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André Cayatte

La Métamorphose des cloportes

78 мин

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Pierre Granier-Deferre

Candy Christian (Ewa Aulin) is an innocent but lovely high school girl who finds herself on a long adventure of sexual discovery - in her extravagant travels, Candy encounters desire and madness by way of a drunken poet, a Mexican gardener, a patriotic General , a mad surgeon, and a mystical guru. Will the world's most valiant characters be able to have a sweet piece of Candy? Or will a final, bizarre derailment take over forever? John Astine, Charles Aznavour, John Huston, Elsa Martinelli, Florinda Bolkan, Anita Pallenberg, Enrico Maria Salerno, and boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson star in this sexy, satirical '60s flick.

Candy

115 мин

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Christian Marquand

The wealthy, playboy son of a murdered South American politician discovers that his father was killed on the orders of the country's corrupt president - a man who had been his father's friend and helped him to rise to power. The son leaves his life of luxury in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to realize that things are not as black and white as assumed.

Les Derniers Aventuriers

177 мин

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Lewis Gilbert

A group of prisoners are subjected to forced labor under the Nazis in France when their position is hit by a bombing raid by Allied forces. A few of the men take refuge in a supply building, but that building collapses from the bombardment, trapping them inside. The latter find themselves surrounded by food and wine, and Rouquet the Frenchman (Peter Sellers), Visconti the Italian (Charles Aznavour), Lund the Swede (Per Oscarsson) and the others optimistically await the arrival of help. But the hours turn into days, then weeks, then years.

93 мин

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Clive Rees

Labbé is a quiet hatter in a small town, living with his handicapped wife who never goes out. His neighbour, a tailor, is fascinated by him. A series of female murders shakes the town. Is Labbé involved?

Les fantômes du chapelier

115 мин

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Claude Chabrol

Carl Fredericksen, a retired balloon salesman, is ready for his last chance at a high-flying adventure. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets off into the forgotten world of his childhood. Unbeknownst to Carl, little Russell, an 8-year-old adventure explorer is on his porch! The world's most unlikely duo meet fantastic friends like Dug, a dog with a special collar that lets him talk, and Kevin, a rare 4-meter flightless bird. Stuck together in the wild jungle, Carl realizes that sometimes life's greatest adventures are the ones you don't seek.

Là Haut

92 мин

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Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.

After being exiled to the United States following the death of his parents in a mafia-orchestrated attack, Thomas, now an adult, returns to live in Italy. There, with a tortured past and the deaths of his parents coming back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, the wife of his mysterious uncle. Soon, Thomas will learn the truth surrounding the death of his parents and will sow revenge from a great height.

La Montagne magique

153 мин

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W. Geissendörfer

Dennis Berry

You have the opportunity to listen to the Palais des Sports concert of Charles Aznavour, one of the most captivating and prodigious stars in the world of music - admired by artists as varied as Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan - Mr. Aznavour has wrote or co-wrote around 1300 songs and sold over 200 million albums. He has recorded or performed in French, Spanish, English, Italian and German, bewitching audiences with a chemistry Time magazine once described as "fire and sadness."

117 мин

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Marc Di Domenico

Moshe, the owner of a deli counter, Aron, a resourceful dealer, Zvir, eager to marry Rebecca, and Samy, looking for a career as an impresario, are four friends and residents of the same neighborhood. Together, they undertake a heist to achieve their dreams.

Yiddish connection

90 мин

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A Canadian director of Armenian descent, Edward Saroyan, aims to explore his heritage by making a film about the Defense of Van which resulted in the genocide of more than a thousand Armenians in 1915. Raffi, at twenty-one, is sent to Turkey to shoot background footage for the film. What begins with a search for clues becomes a determined search for answers through a great and ancient terrain of disappointment, denial, and fear.

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Paul Boujenah

115 мин

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Atom Egoyan

A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenant Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.

Mon Colonel

106 мин

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Laurent Herbiet

A teenager enters adulthood during a summer in the Rhone Valley with his grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distant from his father, who wants Jules out of their Parisian house. It's to be a summer of transition, perhaps to a boarding school, and during these weeks in the country, Jules fishes with his grandfather; proves himself to the local youths, a group led by the bullying Red; takes on some tough guys; feels rejected by his mother; and, meets and pursues Evelyne, the village beauty. She's responsive, and Jules doesn't exactly know what to do next. Then, something happens that propels Jules into decisiveness and maturity.

Les Années campagne

95 мин

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Philippe Leriche

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