Honorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera “Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere”.
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Shiruku hatto no ô-oyabun / Big Boss in a Silk Hat (1970) Noribumi Suzuki, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yuri Yamashina, Masumi Harukawa, Crime
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there’s no tomorrow.
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Pane e tulipani / Bread and Tulips (2000) Silvio Soldini, Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Comedy, Romance
Life is often just “for sake of” and we need to know about it and want to benefit when we are presented with the occasion to.
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Solange Leben in mir ist / As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965) Günter Reisch, Horst Schulze, Lyudmila Kasyanova, Rita Krips, Drama
In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat Karl Liebknecht, a virulent antimilitarist, is the only one of 110 SPD members of parliament who votes against according war loans. From then on he is considered un-German and a traitor to the Fatherland, and his own party leadership turns against him.
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Agein: 28-nenme no Koushien / Again (2015) Sumio Ohmori, Kiichi Nakai, Haru, Emi Wakui, Drama
A high school baseball team had to quit before the final because of the fact that one player was envolved in a student pregnancy and abortion. After twenty eight years, the daughter of the dismissed player found the old players of the team and persuaded them to play the baseball again.
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Los pianos mecánicos / The Uninhibited (1965) Juan Antonio Bardem, Melina Mercouri, Hardy Krüger, James Mason, Drama
Vincent, a young man from Paris, arrives at the small Spanish village of Caldeya. where his has been loaned a home by his friend, Reginald.
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Signorina Effe (2007) Wilma Labate, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Drama
The film’s central love story is interwoven with the massive strike that blocked Fiat for 35 days in Turin in 1980.
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Pakeezah / The Pure One (1972) Kamal Amrohi, Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Musical, Romance, Drama
A girl, whose mother dies of sorrow from her husband’s family’s rejection, grows up singing and dancing like her mother. She works as a dancing girl and is courted by a prince, but can think only of a man she has never met, who left her a message on the train. She dreams of him and cannot dance, becomes frightened and runs into the night.
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Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931) W.S. Van Dyke, Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro, C. Aubrey Smith, Drama
Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as “the icebox” by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted Leprosy and asks Dan to be the guardian of his South Sea island daughter Tamea.
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Another Shore (1948) Charles Crichton, Robert Beatty, Moira Lister, Stanley Holloway, Comedy
Young Dubliner, Gulliver Sheils, fantasises about escaping his humdrum life and living in Tahiti.
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