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Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
: :Based on the popular french sci-fi comic strip this cult classic details the bizarre adventures of a space nymphette encountering fantastic creatures and super beings. Youll see sides of fonda that you have never seen before. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Jane Fonda David Hemmings Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Roger Vadim essential video:Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on ...
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La Cage Aux Folles
:Description:One of 'the most successful foreign films ever shown in the U.S.' (The Wall Street Journal),this 'wildly hilarious' (Independent Film Journal) French farce is 'giddy, unpretentious andan entirely lovable film' (Time)! When young Laurent returns to exotic St. Tropez, he bears big news for his beloved father, Renato. Laurent has found the girl of his dreams and they are engaged! What's more, she and her family are on their way over for dinner at Renato's home to meet the in-laws-to-be. This traditional meeting of families seems typical, but because this ultraconservative ...
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La Cage Aux Folles II
:Description:'Even more funny this time around' (The Film Journal), Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault reprise their roles as the two madcap domestic partners from the hilarious hit La Cage Aux Folles. Having 'become the most improbable of male screen heroes' (New York), Renato and Albin are this time taking on the secret service in an unforgettable cross-country - not to mention cross-dressingadventure. In a move to make his partner, Renato (Tognazzi), jealous, the flamboyantAlbin (Serrault) waits in a local café - dressed as a womanhoping to be picked up. But Albin ...
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La Grande Bouffe [Region 2]
:Description:'Even more funny this time around' (The Film Journal), Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault reprise their roles as the two madcap domestic partners from the hilarious hit La Cage Aux Folles. Having 'become the most improbable of male screen heroes' (New York), Renato and Albin are this time taking on the secret service in an unforgettable cross-country - not to mention cross-dressingadventure. In a move to make his partner, Renato (Tognazzi), jealous, the flamboyantAlbin (Serrault) waits in a local café - dressed as a womanhoping to be picked up. But Albin ...
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Don't Touch The White Woman!
:Description:In this surreal, satirical comedy, Italian director Marco Ferreri presents his take on the classic American Western, sympathizing with the Indians instead of the cowboys. This time, the Battle of Little Big Horn, the scene of General Custer's humiliating defeat by the Indians, rages at the demolished site of a formerly thriving marketplace in Paris. Starring Marcello Mastroianni as General Custer and Catherine Deneuve as his ravishing frontier gal.
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Barbarella [Region 2]
: essential video:Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the adventures of a 41st-century woman, who pretty much gets it on with whomever asks. The sci-fi sets were pretty interesting at the time, though they look rather anachronistic now. Appreciated today mostly as a camp classic, the movie is actually more trying than anything else. --Tom Keogh
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Tolerance
:Description:The story of a monk (played by Rupert Everett) who was expelled by the church and his story thereafter. He finds sanctuary on a small estate owned by a man named Marmant (Ugo Tognazzi), who dreams of starting an academy of gastronomy. Marmant’s young wife Tolerance (Anne Brochet) welcomes the austere monk with open arms, but tensions with the nobleman increase day by day. Conflicts and alliances form and re-form within the stately residence...until the monk reveals himself to be much less than the pious man he portrayed on his arrival.
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Porcile
: :Porcile, (Pigsty) the story of a cannibal in a medieval wasteland is interwoven with that of the son of an ex-Nazi industrialist in modern day Germany. The young German, who is more attracted to pigs than his fiancee, and the cannibal become sacrificial victims of their different societies. This strange, grotesque and thought provoking parable is filmed with such a calm beauty and underlying disgust that it gains a deep significance as an attack on the middle classes of the 20th century.
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The Master and Margaret (Il Maestro e Margherita)
: :Porcile, (Pigsty) the story of a cannibal in a medieval wasteland is interwoven with that of the son of an ex-Nazi industrialist in modern day Germany. The young German, who is more attracted to pigs than his fiancee, and the cannibal become sacrificial victims of their different societies. This strange, grotesque and thought provoking parable is filmed with such a calm beauty and underlying disgust that it gains a deep significance as an attack on the middle classes of the 20th century.
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Amici Miei (My Friends) [Non-US Format, Region 2]
: :Plot summary:Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free moment together organizing complex and terrible jokes to all the people they meet, or just wandering around Tuscany. One of these crazy trips ends up in the hospital run by military-like Professor Sassaroli. Melandri falls in love with his wife, and steals her from the husband, much to the delight of Sassaroli himself. The relationship won't last but the ...
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