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Beauty and the Beast
(La belle et la bête)

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• France • 1946
• Director Jean Cocteau
• Cast Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
• Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max

Before the Disney classic, there was "La Belle et la Bête."

The Rules of the Game
(La Règle du jeu)

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• France • 1939
• Director Jean Renoir
• Cast Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Odette Talazac, Claire Gérard, Anne Mayen
• Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Pantaflix

Andrei Rublev
(Андрей Рублёв)

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• Soviet Union • 1966
• Director Andrei Tarkovsky
• Cast Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Irma Raush
• Genre Drama, History
• Available on Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Freevee Amazon Channel

An expansive Russian drama following the life of revered icon painter Andrei Rublev.

The Young Girls of Rochefort
(Les demoiselles de Rochefort)

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• France • 1967
• Director Jacques Demy
• Cast Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Michel Piccoli
• Genre Music, Romance, Drama, Comedy
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Vudu, HBO Max

They're singing and dancing in the streets.

Last Year at Marienbad
(L'Année dernière à Marienbad)

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• France, Italy • 1961
• Director Alain Resnais
• Cast Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

The mysterious story of a man and woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

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• United Kingdom • 1949
• Director Robert Hamer
• Cast Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

A hilarious study in the gentle art of murder.

Proof

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• Australia • 1991
• Director Jocelyn Moorhouse
• Cast Hugo Weaving, Russell Crowe, Geneviève Picot, Heather Mitchell, Jeffrey Walker, Daniel Pollock
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube

Photographs don't lie, people do.

Lola Montès

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• France, West Germany • 1955
• Director Max Ophüls
• Cast Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Adolf Wohlbrück, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

She lived too intensely and far too well!

Le Plaisir

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• France • 1952
• Director Max Ophüls
• Cast Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Mila Parély, Danielle Darrieux
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, ARROW, YouTube

Ordet

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• Denmark • 1955
• Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Cast Birgitte Federspiel, Henrik Malberg
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel

A Legend for Today

La Ronde

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• France • 1950
• Director Max Ophüls
• Cast Adolf Wohlbrück, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Fernand Gravey
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel

Early Summer
(麦秋)

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• Japan • 1951
• Director Yasujirō Ozu
• Cast Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai, Chieko Higashiyama
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, HBO Max

28-year-old Noriko's parents pressure her to marry in postwar Japan.