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91
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80
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cc age 14+

The Day of the Jackal (1973)
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/26569/
72
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74
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4.1
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84
/45/
87
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The Trial (1962)
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/18369/
73
/300/
74
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4.0
/24765/
85
/26/
91
/244/

The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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82
7.8
/91812/
74
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73
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4.0
/72964/
96
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89
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86
/12/
cc age 10+

The Remains of the Day (1993)
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
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Criterion Channel
81
7.5
/11534/
70
/263/
70
/206/
3.8
/13196/
94
/18/
86
/173/
7.1
/5136/
cc age 18+

Murmur of the Heart (1971)
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
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Kanopy
79
7.2
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74
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69
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3.7
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96
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83
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Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
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Criterion Channel
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78
7.5
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73
/308/
72
/451/
3.9
/37552/
97
/29/
89
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Stolen Kisses (1968)
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
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78
7.5
/251774/
73
/5014/
71
/2901/
3.8
/134421/
79
/210/
83
/10574/
74
/39/
cc age 15+

Munich (2005)
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Amazon Prime Video
76
7.2
/11268/
68
/163/
71
/281/
3.7
/14511/
85
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80
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The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
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Criterion Channel
81
76
7.5
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74
/212/
72
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4.0
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100
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88
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Mr. Klein (1976)
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
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76
7.2
/16710/
68
/340/
67
/404/
3.8
/9526/
93
/113/
75
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86
/29/

Of Gods and Men (2010)
A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.
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74
7.6
/1845/
68
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71
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3.9
/1919/
81
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Special Section (1975)
In Nazi-occupied France, a German officer is assassinated. The Germans demand justice, and the Vichy government is quick to capitulate. Unable to apprehend the actual culprits, Minister of Justice Joseph Barthélémy decides the execution of token Frenchmen will suffice, but the problem is finding judges and jurors eager to participate in a sham trial of innocent men. The solution is a Special Section, a court comprised of individuals handpicked for this exact purpose.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
7.2
/206457/
75
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69
/2570/
3.6
/99300/
69
/72/
80
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67
/23/
cc age 15+

Ronin (1998)
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
7.7
/126007/
77
/4318/
74
/3235/
3.7
/98461/
72
/25/
85
/1307/
54
/12/

The Name of the Rose (1986)
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
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69
6.5
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58
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59
/120/
3.3
/2314/
79
/14/
58
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Stavisky... (1974)
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
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AMC+
68
6.2
/3985/
63
/70/
56
/69/
3.4
/2705/
77
/97/
59
/313/
78
/25/
cc age 18+

The Last Mistress (2007)
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
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73
66
6.7
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67
/112/
64
/150/
3.5
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100
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71
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
7.1
/75966/
71
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69
/1519/
3.4
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56
/95/
65
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55
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Agora (2009)
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
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Kanopy
62
6.5
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60
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59
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3.4
/619/
44
/7/

Galileo (1975)
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
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Netflix
61
6.3
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65
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61
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2.9
/91013/
59
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43
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66
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cc age 13+

Moonraker (1979)
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
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Kanopy
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7.4
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72
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4.1
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96
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85
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87
/7/

Out 1 (1990)
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
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Hoopla
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59
6.6
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68
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67
/499/
3.4
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59
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Hibernatus (1969)
Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.
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Amazon Prime Video
59
6.9
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67
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66
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3.2
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30
/86/
57
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52
/25/
cc age 17+

Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
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The Roku Channel
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59
6.6
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64
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3.3
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65
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69
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Five Times Two (2004)
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
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Criterion Channel
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6.1
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63
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3.7
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India Song (1975)
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
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Hoopla
47
5.7
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53
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50
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33
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45
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Jefferson in Paris (1995)
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
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fuboTV
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43
6.7
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64
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59
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3.5
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90
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71
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Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
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40
6.2
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Heartbeat Detector (2007)
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
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Kanopy
65
40
6.6
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69
/21/
56
/31/
3.4
/552/
76
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58
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Free Men (2011)
In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.
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MGM Plus
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40
5.7
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59
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55
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2.9
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30
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31
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The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
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40
6.3
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62
/101/
61
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3.4
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32
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Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007)
The Daltons have escaped to New York, where their accumulated loot is hidden in the carts of Monsieur Pierre's group of honest, naive European immigrants, who naively bought land in California from Crook, who inserted a clause they must claim it within 80 days. Joe emotionally blackmails Luke to guide them there, hoping to escape on the way. The usual route must shortened from 6 to 2 months, so no danger can be avoided. Given Lucky's reputation, Crook decides to shadow them to add sabotage, just to be sure- or is it?
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Hoopla
63
39
6.8
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65
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61
/54/
3.3
/985/
55
/16/

The Bunker (1981)
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
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71
38
6.4
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73
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67
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3.6
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100
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71
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Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be hiding something, especially to Doroteia, who is anxiously waiting to see her son again. Sofia is also waiting for her husband to come home, and yet she fears him. All of a sudden, João arrives and everything changes.
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Plex
46
37
6.0
/4327/
61
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59
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2.9
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7
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43
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40
/15/

Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
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70
37
7.2
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68
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3.8
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The Track (1975)
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
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6.3
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3.4
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
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34
7.2
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3.7
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Out 1: Spectre (1973)
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
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Kanopy
57
34
6.0
/1609/
54
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53
/36/
3.2
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80
/5/
36
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The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
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64
34
6.1
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58
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61
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3.6
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
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Criterion Channel
69
33
7.1
/507/
68
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64
/31/
3.7
/1845/

A Dirty Story (1977)
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
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Amazon Prime Video
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32
5.8
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62
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57
/142/
3.2
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49
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Titeuf (2011)
Titeuf is a comic series created by Swiss draughtsman Zep (real name Philippe Chapuis) depicting the life of a young boy (the title's namesake Titeuf, "Tootuff" in the English translation) and his vision of the adult world & themes such as love, sex, seduction and mysteries about the girls. In this film, Titeuf (Donald Reignoux) is off on a new comedic adventure! Things get complicated when Nadia (Melanie Bernier) doesn’t invite Titeuf to her birthday party, which is surely the most horrible moment of his life. Before long, Titeuf’s whole life is turned upside down when his parents are nearly deported. Everything continues to spiral out of control even in the midst of Titeuf’s exhaustive attempts to make matters right.
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31
5.9
/1409/
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57
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3.4
/2546/
50

Actors (2000)
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
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MGM Plus
52
31
6.0
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63
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61
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3.0
/1131/
43
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25
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The Passage (1979)
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
poster
64
30
6.7
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60
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3.6
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Chronopolis (1983)
In a gargantuan city lurking in the sky, powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
27
5.8
/583/
63
/21/
64
/47/
3.4
/839/

A Monkey's Tale (1999)
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
poster
56
27
6.2
/998/
59
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55
/26/
50

Under a False Name (2004)
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
poster
The Roku Channel
53
26
5.9
/1833/
61
/56/
55
/40/
3.1
/689/
27
/14/

Enigma (1982)
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
poster
59
26
5.6
/671/
64
/16/
60
/30/
3.3
/480/
51

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005)
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.


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