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A retired bakery tycoon is alienated from his sons and guards his fortune jealously. A cunning young woman marries one son, seduces the other, then carefully moves in to capture both the father and the fortune.

The son of a landowner and the son of a peasant become enemies in 20th century Italy.

A sixteen-year-old boy becomes infatuated with an impoverished princess in czarist Russia, but things take a tragic turn when she falls for the boy's father.

Two women who have been friends since childhood travel through the south of France and share jokes, meals, and erotic daydreams.

This totally original dreamlike film "notebook" features Annie Lennox of The Eurythmics in an imaginative exploration of the Golem myth. The myth of the statue made of clay that comes to life becomes a platform for a parable about the art of filmmaking and the creative process.

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes to Paris to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

This drama is set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semetic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.

"Son los años de plomo de Argentina: persecuciones políticas, campos de concentración, torturas y asesinatos, 'vuelos de la muerte.' En ese contexto María, militante y docente de 19 años, vive con su madre en una pensión de decadencia. Hasta allí llega un pensionista, sin pasado y sin familia, que supuestamente trabaja como sereno en un garage. Pero una mañana, un grupo de policías y militares sin uniforme secuestra a María, quien es trasladada a un centro clandestino. El encargado del lugar se la entrega a uno de sus hombres de confianza para que sea interrogada. Es allí cuando María descubre que quien está a cargo de ese interrogatorio es el misterioso inquilino. Secuestrada y captor deben pactar para asegurar la supervivencia de ella."--Container.
Maria is a middle-class teacher living in a deteriorating mansion in Buenos Aires with her Italian mother. They've rented out rooms for extra money and one of the tenants is Felix, a secret officer assigned to watch her. One day Maria is kidnapped and taken to Garage Olimpo, one of the many undercover detention places at the time, where she is brutally interrogated. Her only hope is through Felix who is in love with her and is willing to do anything to win her approval, even if it means lying.

Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's his job to become what he isn't-- even a thief and convict-- to convince the group he infiltrates that he's one of them. And it's his job to get through it all alive.

"1900 is an epic film of massive scope, power and controversy. It is both a vast history of the 20th century Italy and an intimate portrait of two friends, both born on January 1, 1900-- the son of the socialist peasant farmer ... and the son of the fascist landowner"--Container.

This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.

A serial killer is preying upon victims in a remote French Alps college town. Local law enforcement officials call in France's leading serial killer investigator to try and catch this madman.
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Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.