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- Instead of attending seminars and lectures at the University of World Trade, Peter Baumann prefers to work exclusively in the student orchestra. With his friends Hans, Tommy, Udo, Gus and Max, he tries so far in vain to get a recording contract or at least an audition in the Wiener Stadthalle.
- Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
- On 6 May 2012, the day of the second round of the French presidential election, TV journalist Laetitia is late leaving home for her assignment covering the events on Rue de Solférino (at the headquarters of the Socialist Party) when her ex, Vincent, shows up a day late to his court-appointed time to visit their two daughters.
- 21 parts serie, This classic series looks at history's major warring civilizations and documents how they lived,fought, trained, died and changed the World. Citation from Magellan serie page
- After twenty-five years of practice in a popular district of Paris, Hippolyte and Josephine decided to close their restaurant. Not for economic or urbanistic reasons but, more serious, because Hippolyte is suffering from a cancer of the nose which deprives him to the taste and to smell.
- A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
- Scientists install a micro chip, called Black Cat, inside the brain of a violence prone girl in an attempt to refine and control her fits of rage. Their plan is to turn her into the perfect government secret agent "killing machine".
- In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a queen.
- Five bourgeoisie women. Five men - husbands or companions - who, in different fields, possess a certain power. Characters who live in embassy lounges, frequent palaces and large houses, travel in expensive cars and yachts, eager for pleasure, guided by ambition.
- France, July, 1789. Whilst a party of aristocrats are enjoying themselves in the Bois de Vincennes, the French Revolution is beginning to get underway. At the insistence of her father, 16 year old Caroline de Bièvre must marry the politician Georges Berthier, but she is in love with the younger, more handsome Gaston de Sallanches.
- Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two million dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on the plane immediately after take off. Tony has to reach the widow who is currently abroad.
- Slava, a successful businessman discovers his beloved wife, Olga is having an affair with Paul, a penniless young writer. Consumed with jealousy and bitterness but, in an attempt to save his marriage, Slava offers Paul $300,000 to kill Olga.
- Based on short story by Nedzad Ibrisimovic. At the very beginning of the 20 century, guy from Sarajevo slips on railway bridge and stays hanging in the air. In order to save him, gathered people begin to search for large, firm carpet on which he could jump.
- Francisco Alcazar is a wealthy landowner, who owns sugar cane fields. Francisco is married to Sofia, a severe and uncompassionate woman, with whom he has a son named Andres. Before his marriage to Sofia, Francisco had an affair with a married woman who was physically abused by her husband. The woman became pregnant and died when the child was 3 years old. This love-child is, in fact, Francisco's true firstborn.
- A married man, father of two daughters, finds out that he has a son with his ex-flame. Disappointed by the news and worried about the repercussions that he will have on his family, the man entrusts the child first to his mother and then, revealing the truth to his wife and daughters, decides to take him home.
- The region of Pantanal is the ideal place for unscrupulous men in search of fortune, adventure and anonymity. Pilot of a small airplane that provides services in the place, the young Tiger decides to defend Monica, heiress of a great farm, against the predatory conduct of the ambitious Malamud. Aiming to become the region's largest landowner, Malamud uses a gang of violent men to extort and kill other farmers.
- Well-intentioned Marsha and David hire a foreign housekeeper, Sophia, to care for their new baby and put some "sanity" back in their lives. What follows is a situation that spirals out of control. In a frenzy to find an American husband before her visa expires, Sophia manipulates poor Marsha and David into caring for her ten-year-old daughter while she goes on a dating marathon.
- Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The commissioner and the judge Puglisi Corelli accuse her of collaborating with the mobster Franco Maresco. In jail meet three women, Anna, Giulia and Elvira, who have been victims of Maresco. From this moment the four women join forces to find and kill the brawler.
- An author spent a year and a half filming what happened as a new apartment building was built in the El Chino neighborhood of Barcelona. En Construccion focuses less on the practicalities of raising a building than the impact the project has on those who live in the neighborhood, including a teenage couple squatting in a nearby building, an illegal alien looking for work for himself and his son, and a neighborhood girl who becomes infatuated with one of the construction workers. The death of a stray cat and the discovery of a mass grave during construction also points to the tragic losses that are sometimes part and parcel of progress.
- In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business, where he would have to spend the night. If he succeeds in reassuring his young wife, who has a presentiment of being separated for the first time from him, the first night spent in his host's house will topple everything.
- Writer Jake Blackburn and his model girlfriend Chelly, are a new-age couple living together in Los Angeles. When Chelly's tragic past begins to catch up with her, she and Jake will need more than psychics and spirits to save their relationship.
- Guelfo Guelfi is a prince who wants to have a good life, but instead lives with his mother in a secluded way. One day an old princess dies after a bad fall and Guelfo does not mourn too hard because he is convinced an inheritance is coming.
- A young bank officer ogles the girls in his office and goes home to his prim wife. After reading a book of erotic poems by Guillaume Appollinaire of the World War I era, he finds himself inside the adventures of the book, which are largely of an erotic nature. When he awakens the next morning, he is inspired to order his life in a more satisfactory manner.
- Returned from North Africa, a British novelist is at odds with his wife when she insists on dividing the house and the domestic chores, and he goes mad when she starts writing his biography and flirting with his publisher.
- Arthur Flegenheimer is a thief recently released from prison who is recruited by noted hood Jack "Legs" Diamond. Flegenheimer changes his name to Dutch Schultz and, thanks to his brutal and unscrupulous ways, rises to become Diamond's right-hand man during the bleak days of Prohibition.
- A film consisting of three short stories: "The Closure", "The Trial", "Men of Good Taste". The events of all three parts develop around an ordinary street lamp.
- The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry, seizes upon news of the impending arrival of their rich Canadian Uncle George as the solution to their financial troubles.
- The sons of Medea are an Italian "teledramma", broadcast live on 9 June 1959 on the National Program. It became a sensational media event because many viewers, not realizing it was a fiction, perceived the event as real, similar to what happened with Orson Welles's radio broadcast The War of the Worlds in 1938 in United States (to which the authors of the program were inspired). The transmission of the first episode of the drama The children of Medea was abruptly aborted by RAI to announce the kidnapping of Alida Valli's son by the actor Enrico Maria Salernor.
- On the anniversary of the death of Commissioner Ibrahim Kovaçi, six of his war friends are accompanying his statue to his native village, where a ceremony will be held. During the road, each of them remembers moments related to the life of Ibrahim.
- A philology professor at Milan University is attacked by a magazine specializing in an anonymous critic. At first he convinces himself that whole thing has no importance, but eventually he became obsessed with discovering of the identity of his enemy.
- Julien is on a trip to Mauritius when he and his friend offend the gods of the island. As a result strange things happen to them. Back in Paris, they adjust to normal life, and soon they learn to control their powers for their benefit.
- Based on Zija Dizdarevic's short story. Jozo and Mujo are mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Reluctantly drawn into the war they make a bond of unbreakable friendship. To realize the plan to leave hated Army, Jozo are pretending to be deaf and dumb. But his firm determination comes into question when his friend's life comes into mortal peril.
- The film, based upon the Bristol heart scandal of the 1980s and 90s, tells the story about James Wisheart and Janarda Dhasmana, who whilst working together to perform 33 arterial-switch operations, drew up a mortality rate of 66% among patients under a month old, and 43% among those over a month old.
- Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
- Julietta Valendor is a romantic and dreamy girl who accepts with difficulty the fifth-year-old fiancé chosen by her mother: the very worldly prince of Alpen. One day she is given the opportunity to meet the man of her dreams in the person of lawyer André Landrecourt.
- Kitami is requested by the intelligence director, Suritai, to steal a large amount of money from the anti-government guerrillas who fund gangs from Gegen. However, once Kitami infiltrates a Gegen ship in disguise, he discovers there is no cash in the safe, only a cipher on a piece of paper.
- Very popular TV series describing life in the Bosnian small town called Stavnik at the time of World War I until the end of World War II. The main character is Adem Cabric, disbanded soldier who gets a job in Stavnik as a worker in the tanner store of old master Arif Zejnilovic. Adem has proven himself a skillful trader, eventually getting married master Zejnilovic's deaf-mute heiress daughter Safija.
- Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have been lost.
- A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his daughter's hand. After 20 yeas he has become a wealthy financier in America; he returns to his homeland and starts to track down the girl of his dreams.
- A young wife, thinking that her husband no longer loves her, invents a suitor to make him jealous. With the collaboration of several merchants she sends flowers, jewelry and even love letters to herself. All to the total indifference of her husband.
- Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named 'le Moujik'.
- After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared.
- Philippe, contrabassist, has a passion: music, an affair: Laura, and a violinist friend in the same orchestra as him: Laurent. The two friends play for private individuals to make some money. At a wedding at the Villegrain, Laurent meets Sophie.
- The Count De Rochambeau wants to marry Mireille but she likes Etienne. The sister of Etienne, nicknamed "the girl with buttons" schemed with a friend to pose as a Russian princess to seduce the count and allow the marriage of his brother with Mireille.
- On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and his wife is having an affair with a TV presenter. Gérard's only comfort in this time of mid-life crisis is his colleague, a young punk girl named Martine.
- This movie deals with the sixteenth century conflict between the Catholic Church and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (Melvyn Douglas). After exhaustive research, Galileo concludes that the Aristotelean concept of the Universe is incorrect. It is Galileo's contention, like Copernicus before him, that the Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely another planet, revolving around the sun. This theory is considered heresy by the Church, and before long, Galileo is dragged before Cardinal Bellarmin (George Voskovec), leader of the dreaded Court of the Inquisition.
- Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers decides to return to his hometown La Rochelle to die. Forty years earlier, he had been driven by his father. Before passing away he had announced that he has a hidden son, Emile, fisherman whom he wishes to leave his property.
- In Haute-Provence, two clans of rival peasants clash throughout the four seasons of a year. A young woodcutter, gone to the Rebeillard country to cut down trees, has not given a sign of life for several months. Anxious about this long absence, his father went off to look for him.
- Marc is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate in this routine spy feature. With the help of his comedy-relief sidekick Jacques, the duo goes to protect a noted scientist from falling into the hands of a gang of underworld thugs. Marc finds love with one of the female gang members who turns out to be a double agent with the British Secret Service.
- The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him to Paris, and then has a series of unsatisfactory but interesting relationships, one of which is with a woman.