Georges Delerue
1) Curly Sue
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Bill and Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold, not looking to turn a profit but just get enough to eat.
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When Emily Crane refuses to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee chairman, Ray Salwen, she's blacklisted and immediately fired from her job. But when she stumbles upon Salwen's nefarious plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the U.S., she - and an FBI agent she's enlisted to help her - must find a way to bring an end to Salwen's conspiracy - before he brings an end to them.
4) Jules et Jim
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Criterion collection volume 281
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Story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman. Considered Truffaut's greatest film.
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Robert has a wife and two daughters who learns that he has a son. Years ago while visiting France, he was involved in an accident. He had an affair with the doctor who treated him. He learns that she has just died and that he fathered her son. He tells his wife, Sheila, and she suggest that they bring him over. While there, all sorts of tension begin to arise. Now, this family's deep love is shaken, tested and ultimately reaffirmed during the adjustment...
6) Julia
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Born to great wealth, the fiercely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting fascism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, playwright Lillian Hellman, a friend of Julia's, is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders.
7) Stone pillow
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The great Lucille Ball plays an elderly bag lady struggling to survive on the streets of New York City. When approached by a young social worker, both women discover a new perspective on their lives.
9) Twins
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An ambitious genetic experiment takes the wrong turn when twins -- who look nothing alike -- are born and then separated. Years later the unlikely siblings meet.
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When Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is unable to produce an heir to the throne, he uses that as a pretext for the Pope to grant him a divorce, so he can marry his newest conquest, Anne Boleyn. The King is backed by everyone on this request except the highly regarded and religious Sir Thomas More. When Cardinal Wolsey, Chancellor of England, names More as his successor, it becomes important for Henry to get More's support, but More cannot...
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Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan in 3 roles as the women in Joe's life have their way
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"Chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici ... who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri ... a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clarici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia ... as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri's sensuous, haunted wife Anna ... and the fascist tenets he once accepted without question begin to waver in his mind."--
13) Women in love
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Criterion collection volume 916
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Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, this traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters to a freethinking dreamer and a hard willed industrialist, as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship.
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Black, a stunning stallion and a world-renowned champion race horse, is stolen by mysterious foreigners. His young American owner, Alec Ramsay (Kelly Reno) frantically seeks his return. Alec stows away on a plane to Casablanca and crosses the perilous Sahara Desert. With the help of a special friend named Raj (Vincent Spano), Alec unravels the mystery of Black's theft.
16) Queenie
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Based on fictionalized events that mirrored the life of the late actress Merle Oberon, the story deals with an exotic young girl from Calcutta, India who rises up the ranks to international stardom but is held back by her haunted past. Set in the 1930s.
17) True confessions
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Detective Tom Spellacy and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brother and rock the foundation of his beloved church.
18) Steel magnolias
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"Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility...
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Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning masterpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Mary Queen of Scots: The battle between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England comes alive in this epic film.
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Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.