Simone Signoret
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa (1977) is an enduring classic of cross-cultural understanding. Simone Signoret (Diabolique) stars as Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo, an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond...
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Criterion collection volume 385
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L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes...
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A revolt has erupted in a mining town in the Amazon. As a result, a group of men and women are forced to take refuge in the virgin forest under the supervision of an adventurer called Chark. Djin, a prostitute, Castin, a mystic, his deaf and dumb daughter Maria, and a missionary called Lizardi will have to confront thirst, fear, wild animals and insects to survive.
Series
Criterion collection volume 759
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Based on a harrowing true story, the film presents the history of an influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
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Bobby Deerfield: Bobby Deerfield is a world-renowned race car driver. When a colleague is killed in an explosive crash, Bobby's world is thrown into chaos, complicated by a beautiful woman who steals his heart.
Baby, the rain must fall: A man is released from prison, but reuniting with his family is difficult due to his violent temper.
The chase: The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart in this explosive drama about power and greed.
Ship...
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In 1933, a motley crew of passengers embarks on a fateful, transatlantic sea voyage to Germany. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
9) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
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The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.