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Séraphine

Séraphine

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector Wi...

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The Baby of Mâcon

The Baby of Mâcon

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's old...

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Violette

Violette

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based...

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Funan

Funan

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is...

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Het gezin van Paemel

Het gezin van Paemel

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.8

The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Désire is accidentally shot during a hunting party on the estate and remains an invalid. Eduard, the eldes...

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Farinelli

Farinelli

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Farinelli is a 1994 biopic film about the life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

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Benedetta

Benedetta

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

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The Young Karl Marx

The Young Karl Marx

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 6.6

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the Britis...

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The Childhood of a Leader

The Childhood of a Leader

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 6.1

The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his belie...

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Grace of Monaco

Grace of Monaco

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 5.7

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French in...

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