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, 1h
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy
Themes Christmas films, Santa Claus in film
Rating25%
Three boys are walking home from school on the afternoon of Halloween. On the way home, one boy, Mark, agrees to help a strange old woman to get her cat, Lucifer, out of a tree. Mark climbs the tree, but falls and is knocked unconscious. When Mark wakes up, he discovers that the old woman is really a witch. The witch gives Mark a magic ring, and tells him that if he plants the seeds inside a magic tree will grow. On Thanksgiving, Mark performs the magic spell that the witch taught him, and a magic evergreen tree grows overnight in the back yard. Mark's father tries to cut down the tree, but to no avail. Later, on Christmas Eve, the Magic Tree comes to life, and grants Mark three wishes. The boy first wishes for one hour of absolute power, which he promptly abuses. Mark's second wish is to have Santa Claus all to himself. When Mark sees the unhappiness his selfishness causes, however, he uses his third wish to return Santa Claus to the children of the world. On Christmas Day, Mark wakes up, and realizes that the entire adventure was all a dream.

, 1h42
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Tecla Scarano, Aldo Puglisi, Marilù Tolo, Pia Lindström
Rating74%
It tells the World War II era story of a cynical, successful businessman named Domenico (Mastroianni), who, after meeting a naive country girl, Filumena (Loren), one night in a Neapolitan brothel, keeps frequenting her for years in an on-off relationship (as she continues working as a prostitute). He eventually takes her in his house as a semi-official mistress under the pretense that she take care of his ailing, senile mother. After having fallen for a younger, prettier girl and having planned to marry her, he finds himself cornered when Filumena feigns illness and "on her deathbed", asks to be married to him. Thinking she'll be dead in a matter of hours and that the 'marriage' won't even be registered, he agrees. After having been proclaimed his legal bride, the shrewd and resourceful Filumena drops the charade and reveals to have put up the show for the one child she bore from him (she gave birth to three sons but Domenico always maintained to have fathered none). Domenico tries to cajole her into telling him which one is his but she stalwartly refuses, telling him that sons can't be picked and chosen and that he has to be the father of all three. It stars Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Vito Moricone.

Directed by Hawley Pratt, Friz Freleng
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Rating75%
The Pink Panther and an unnamed painter (known as the "Little Man") compete over whether a house should be painted blue or pink. Each time the painter attempts to paint something blue, the panther thwarts him in a new way, and paints the object/area pink. At the end, the exasperated painter inadvertently turns the house and everything around it pink (first by repeatedly shooting at the elusive panther with a shotgun that the panther had poured pink paint into, and then by burying the panther's pink paint cans in the soil outside the house, where they "sprout"), and the panther moves in. But just before he moves in, he paints the white man completely pink. The painter gets upset and bangs his head against the mailbox outside. The Pink Panther then walks into the house as the sun (also turned pink) sets.

, 1h28
Genres Drama
Actors Stanislav Lyubshin, Mikhaïl Glouzski, Larissa Loujina, Inna Makarova, Valentin Nikouline
Rating69%
Viktor Pronin (Yevgeni Urbansky) returned from the army to the bride (Svetlana Zhgun), and she – the other. Then Victor went to great Kursk ore, where the work is in full swing – all live in anticipation of the first car of ore. To check Pronyakin, Brigadier (Vsevolod Sanaev) gives him beaten MAZ: mend – a long time came. The guy got in the hostel to repair the car and began to put one after the other records. Victor had got no friends, embittered against him brigade, but the first bucket of ore carry exactly it.

, 1h43
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll, Raoul Coutard
Rating74%
American film producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul's sudden estrangement from his wife Camille Javal (Brigitte Bardot), who becomes aloof with Paul after he leaves her alone with Prokosch, a millionaire playboy.

, 1h15
Directed by Monte Hellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Jack Nicholson
Rating52%
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, 2h13
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Mary Astor
Rating74%
In 1927, young belle Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) and her married lover, John Mayhew (Bruce Dern), plan to elope during a party at the Hollis family's antebellum mansion in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. However, after Charlotte's father intimidates him, telling him that John's wife had visited the day before and revealed the affair, John pretends he no longer loves Charlotte and tells her they must part.

, 1h39
Directed by Peter Tewksbury
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Walter Slezak, Roger Mobley, Elsa Wagner, Peter Ehrlich, Wolfgang Völz, Franz Nicklisch
Rating61%
Pendant son voyage vers Berlin, le jeune Émile Tischbein se fait voler les 400 Deutsche marks qu'il devait apporter à sa grand-mère de la poche de sa veste. Il soupçonne immédiatement son voisin de siège M. Grundeis, connu dans le monde des truands sous le nom de « la Taupe ». Seul dans la grande ville, Emile commence sa filature. Il fait la connaissance de « Gustave au klaxon » un adolescent qui commande à une bande des enfants qui jouent aux détectives. Le petit groupe d'enfants reprend l'affaire et établit un plan de bataille. Ils récoltent les premiers indices, font le tour des hôtels et retrouvent enfin Grundeis qui s'est associé à deux gangsters pour planifier le casse d'une banque.

, 1h27
Directed by Sidney Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Sports films
Actors Mary Ann Mobley, Nancy Sinatra, Chad Everett, Joan O'Brien, Lori Williams, Chris Noel
Rating49%
Terry Taylor (Mary Ann Mobley) is a senior at conservative Wyndham College for Women (fictitious) and, under an assumed name, a successful pop songwriter. After her publisher Gary Underwood (Chad Everett) unknowingly exposes her career, Wyndham's board of trustees—including the college founder's grandson, California State Senator Hubert Morrison (Willard Waterman)—condemns Terry for indecent behavior.

, 1h32
Directed by Olle Hellbom
Origin Suede
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Bengt Eklund, Maria Johannson
Rating63%

, 1h31
Directed by Jacques Demy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Pregnancy films, Films about music and musicians, Algerian War films, Musical films, Histoire de France
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Mireille Perrey, Ellen Farner
Rating77%
Madame Emery and her beautiful 17-year-old daughter Geneviève (Deneuve) sell umbrellas at their tiny (and financially struggling) boutique in the coastal town of Cherbourg in Normandy, France, in the late 1950s. Guy (Castelnuovo), is a handsome young auto mechanic who lives with, and cares for, his sickly aunt, godmother Elise. Guy and Geneviève are deeply in love; they want to get married, and they want to name their first child "Francoise". Madeleine (Ellen Farner) is the quiet, shy, dedicated young caregiver who looks after Guy's aunt; Madeleine also has feelings for Guy, but has not expressed this. Suddenly Guy is drafted and must leave to become a soldier in the Algerian War. The night before Guy leaves, he and Geneviève pledge their undying love. Then they make love (apparently for the first time) and the very next day, Guy leaves.

, 1h29
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Glenda Farrell, Kathleen Freeman, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe
Rating62%
Jerome Littlefield (Lewis) is an orderly at the Whitestone Sanatorium and Hospital who suffers from "neurotic identification empathy"—a psychosomatic problem that causes him to suffer the symptoms of others and interferes with his ability to function effectively on the job. His unwitting propensity for slapstick-style mayhem sorely tries the patience of Dr. Howard (Glenda Farrell) and Nurse Higgins (Kathleen Freeman).

, 2h22
Directed by Michael Cacoyannis, George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Dance films, Films about writers, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irène Papas, Lila Kedrova, Sotiris Moustakas, Ánna Kyriakoú
Rating75%
Basil (Alan Bates) is a half-English, half-Greek writer raised in Britain who bears the hallmarks of an uptight, middle-class Englishman. He is waiting at the Athens port of Piraeus on mainland Greece to catch a boat to Crete when he meets a gruff, yet enthusiastic peasant and musician named Zorba (Anthony Quinn). Basil explains to Zorba that he is traveling to a rural Cretan village where his father owns some land, with the intention of reopening a lignite mine and perhaps curing his writer's block. Zorba relates his experience with mining and convinces Basil to take him along.