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Beauty and the Beast

  An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has Read More

Pocahontas

  Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical comedy romance-drama film released by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is the 33rd full-length animated feature film in the Disney Animated Canon Read More

The Marquis of Grillo

  A mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious trouble when a practical joke ends badly and inadvertently ends up endangering the Pope. Rome, Year of our Lord Read More

The Leopard

  As Garibaldi’s troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but Read More

Amarcord

  In an Italian seaside town, young Titta (Bruno Zanin) gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing Read More

Marriage Italian Style

  When handsome, successful Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) first meets the sexy young waif Filomena (Sophia Loren) in Naples during World War II, he is instantly smitten. Flash forward to the Read More

Phèdre

  In the absence of her royal husband, Theseus, thought to be dead, Phèdre declares her love to Hippolyte, Theseus’s son from a previous marriage.   Marie Bell enacts the role Read More

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

  The film revolves around the French king Louis XIV’s rise to power after the death of his powerful advisor, Cardinal Mazarin. To achieve this political autonomy, Louis deals with Read More

Donkey Skin

  In a magical, faraway land, a widower king (Jean Marais) decrees that he will wed his daughter, the princess (Catherine Deneuve), because she’s the only woman able to match Read More

Life is Rosy

  Kourou (Papa Wemba) is a young man seeking fame and fortune as a singer in Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa. He finds work with Mamou (Landu Nzunzimbu Matshia), the wife of Read More