Comédie dramatique

French

The circus (Le cirque)

Title The circus (Le cirque)
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Charlie le vagabond, pour echapper à la police, se refugie dans un cirque où il déclenche l'hilarité du public. Engagé par le directeur, il tombe amoureux de sa fille qui aime le funambule.

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The man who understood women (L'homme qui comprend les femmes)

Title The man who understood women (L'homme qui comprend les femmes)
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Hollywood producer Willie Bauche is so obsessed with turning his wife and actress Ann Garantier into the sexiest Hollywood star that he neglects her real needs. Ann gets frustrated, feeling that he cares more for her as a vehicle for his writing and directing than as a flesh-and-blood French woman. As they go to the French Riviera to prepare their next movie, Ann is charmed by good-looking pilot Marco Ranieri she met during the Nice Carnival celebrations.

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The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia/ Le Mari de la femme à barbe)

Title The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia/ Le Mari de la femme à barbe)
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A modest Napolitan guy meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. He then receives a tempting offer from a French manager.

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Yoyo

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A 1920s millionaire lives in a huge old palace and has everything he fancies, yet he is not happy. One day a circus comes by, and there she is, the horserider he secretly loved before she disappeared, years ago! She tells him that the little boy who is already playing as a clown is his son. When the Great Depression occurs, rendering him both poor and free, he joins the traveling circus and hits the road with his little family. The little boy becomes clown Yo-yo. Time goes, WWII breaks out and Yo-yo now a successful producer can buy back his father's palace in decay.

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Remi, Nobody's Boy (Rémi sans famille)

Title Remi, Nobody's Boy (Rémi sans famille)
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The adventures of the young Rémi, an orphan, collected by the gentle Madam Barberin. At the age of 10 years, he is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its sides, he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.

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Rémi sans famille

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Les aventures du jeune Rémi, orphelin recueilli par la douce Madame Barberin. A l’âge de 10 ans, il est arraché à sa mère adoptive et confié au Signor Vitalis, un mystérieux musicien ambulant. A ses côtés, il va apprendre la rude vie de saltimbanque et à chanter pour gagner son pain. Accompagné du fidèle chien Capi et du petit singe Joli-Cœur, son long voyage à travers la France, fait de rencontres, d’amitiés et d’entraide, le mène au secret de ses origines…

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Fellini Roma

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Life in Rome from 1900 to present as seen by its big fan Federico Fellini. Monumental saga in which reality and fantasy are tightly woven together.

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The Day the Clown Cried

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The story of a washed-up German circus clown named Helmut Doork during the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Although he was once a famous performer who toured North America and Europe with the Ringling Brothers, Doork is now past his prime and receives little respect. After Doork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Doork. Upon returning home, Doork confides his problems to his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself.

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Fellini’s Casanova (Le Casanova de Fellini or Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)

Title Fellini’s Casanova (Le Casanova de Fellini or Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)
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Here Fellini presents a portrait that goes against the traditional notion of Casanova as an enlightened gadabout. A stark look at the man’s loneliness, as the respect for which he yearns is constantly undermined by his more basic urges.

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