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  • Paganini

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    Legendary “devil violinist” Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

  • The Wild One

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    The story of the dramatic life of folk artist Kateryna Bilokur, who sacrificed the love for her calling.

  • Člověk proti zkáze

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    Biography of Karel Čapek.

  • My Mother’s Castle

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    To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel’s father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it…

  • María Cano

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    Colombia receives the indemnity for Panama and accepts foreign credit to undertake development works, which increases the number of workers, although with poor wages and terrible working conditions. María Cano, a political activist, began her fight for the conditions of salaried workers and for the fundamental rights of the population.

  • GoodFellas

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    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

  • Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

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    A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.

  • Queen of Underworld

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    Popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip plays Sister Har — a seminal figure in 1960s and ’70s Hong Kong nightlife — in this biographical film that follows the scenester’s rise and fall from the upper echelons of society to the glamour and excess of Hong Kong’s teeming underworld. A truly fascinating portrait of the allure…

  • Sisi/Last Minute

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    The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around women but (according to this film) was constantly being propositioned, lewdly or otherwise, by ambitious courtesans. When he was finally married to his Empress, the teen-aged Bavarian princess Sisi (Elizabeth), it seems that his relief knew no bounds, for he was…

  • Van Gogh

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    After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for art.

  • Bugsy

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    New York gangster Ben ‘Bugsy’ Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn’t hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip…

  • My Best Friend, General Vasili, the Son of Joseph Stalin

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    Based on a true story of a sport star Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasili, the son of Stalin.

  • The Doors

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    The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

  • The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

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    A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

  • Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom

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    Co-stars and celebrity admirers go through Benny’s entire career

  • For a Lost Soldier

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    In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian soldier named Walt Cook, who is stationed at the same town he is…

  • Those Old Love-letters

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    A film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter and singer of the 1930s and 40s, the political changes of his country and his life after the war when his songs were considered not suitable for the Soviet way of life.

  • Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

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    Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese, he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling…

  • Chaplin

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    An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography’s editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

  • And the Wind Returns…

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    The director’s story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik’s films.

  • Malcolm X

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    A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ’50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.