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  • Angels Are Amongst Us

    Angels Are Amongst Us

    Drama

    1949

    1h.23min

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    Doctor Rougel is so absorbed in his work that he neglects his wife Nadine, who is subjected to the advances of Gérard Bérault, an admirer. A series of ...


  • It's a Wonderful Life
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    Drama, Kids & Family

    1946

    2h.10min

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    A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint ...


  • Pursued
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    Pursued

    Action & Adventure

    1947

    1h.41min

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    A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely ...


  • I've Always Loved You
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    I've Always Loved You

    Romance, Drama

    1946

    1h.57min

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    A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.


  • Histoires extraordinaires

    Histoires extraordinaires

    Crime

    1949

    1h.25min

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  • Il était une fois : la Reine Astrid

    Il était une fois : la Reine Astrid

    Documentary, Shorts

    1946

    20min

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  • Germany Year Zero
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    Germany Year Zero

    Classics

    1947

    1h.18min

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    A young German boy faces the problems of a tough life in immediate post WWII Berlin. Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the ...


  • Rome, Open City
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    Rome, Open City

    Classics

    1945

    1h.38min

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    Life stories cross, while Rome is occupied by the Nazis. Pina loves Francesco, a clandestine printer. Manfredi is the leader of the Roman resistance movement. ...


  • Beauty and the Beast
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    Beauty and the Beast

    Classics

    1945

    1h.40min

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    The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests ...


  • Jour de colère
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    Jour de colère

    Classics

    1943

    1h.32min

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    Peu après avoir refusé de gracier une paysanne accusée de sorcellerie, le pasteur Absalon voit son cercle intime se déliter. Ses convictions en sont ébranlées. Accusée ...


  • Monsieur Verdoux
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    Monsieur Verdoux

    Classics

    1946

    2h.2min

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    A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards. Monsieur ...


  • Thanasse et Casimir

    Thanasse et Casimir

    Classics

    1946

    1h.50min

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  • Pilgrimage to Hell

    Pilgrimage to Hell

    Classics

    1946

    1h.32min

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    A biopic on Father Damian and his life and work on the island of Molokai.


  • A propos d'une coupe

    A propos d'une coupe

    Classics

    1945

    17min

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  • Les danseurs d'Echternach

    Les danseurs d'Echternach

    Documentary

    1949

    19min

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    Legend has it that, In the fifteenth century, a violinist unjustly condemned to be hanged in Echternach was miraculously saved by the sound of his violin. ...


  • Stromboli
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    Stromboli

    Classics

    1949

    1h.45min

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  • L'Amore
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    L'Amore

    Classics

    1947

    1h.17min

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    "Amore" includes two medium-length films by Rossellini. "The human voice", after Jean Cocteau, shows a woman by her phone waiting for her lover, who has ...


  • Paisà
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    Paisà

    Classics

    1946

    2h.4min

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    In six short episodes, Rossellini characterises the liberation of Italy after WW2 in one of the great masterpieces of Italian Neorealism. Paisan is the ...


  • Sabotage

    Sabotage

    Classics

    1945

    14min

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    World War II is a black page in the history of the Belgian railroads. The company came under the command of the German occupiers. The "trains of death" ...