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La Derive (La Dérive) (Year: 1964; Director: Paula Delsol; Writer: Paula Delsol; Stars: Jacqueline Vandal, Paulette Dubost, Pierre Barouh, André Nader, Noëlle Noblecourt, Anne-Marie Coffinet, Jean-François Calvé, Lucien Barjon)
Jacquie, a beautiful 20-year-old, experiences various encounters with men in the south of France, where she returns to her family after leaving Paris.
The Devils (Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Ken Russell; Writer: Aldous Huxley, Ken Russell, John Whiting; Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Michael Gothard, Georgina Hale, Brian Murphy, Christopher Logue)
Ken Russell’s camp-horror psychodrama was a breakthrough film for Jarman, who was production designer.
Gone To Earth (Country: UK; Year: 1950; Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Writer: Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel by Mary Webb; Stars: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman, Esmond Knight, Hugh Griffith, George Cole, Beatrice Varley, Frances Clare, Raymond Rollett)
A barefooted Shropshire lass marries the vicar and is seduced by the squire.
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Pakeezah (Pure Heart) (Year: 1972; Director: Kamal Amrohi; Writer: Kamal Amrohi; Stars: Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar)
A woman doomed from birth falls for a man she can never be with.
Panelstory, Or How A Housing Development Is Born (Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště, Panelstory Or Birth Of A Community) (Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1981; Director: Věra Chytilová; Writer: Eva Kačírková, Věra Chytilová; Stars: Lukáš Bech, Antonín Vaňha, Eva Kačírková, Alena Rýcová, Bronislav Poloczek, Dagmar Slivinská, Miloslav Homola, Michal Nesvadba, Ladislav Krečmer, Věra Uzelacová, Miluše Šplechtová, Oldřich Navrátil, Daniela Šrajerová, Květoslava Vonešová, Helena Pokorná)
A single day in a colossal unfinished housing estate on the fringes of Prague becomes a corrosive social satire.
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