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Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.

A perfect summer divertissement, the very rare Break of Day is based on the quasi-autobiographical novel by Colette, a serene, sometimes joyous meditation in which the novelist puzzles through the state in which she found herself, an older woman, traduced and misused in love, fearing that she would never be wanted again. Instead of obsessing on loss, she insists, one must accept it; at a certain age one must recognize the limits of human relationships and transfer one's attentions to nature.

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.

A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.

Paul and Bernard seek in the reproductions of Jerome Bosch's "Jardin des délices" a definition of lust. Bernard remembers his childhood, where he confused lust with luxury. Jacques Demy based this 1962 short, made for the omnibus feature "The Seven Deadly Sins",on his memories of growing up in Nantes.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.

Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young child. After a series of dizzy spells, he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-month pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous...

Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man.