The Daring Years

Moulin Rouge(en)

Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women

Girl of the Rio(en)

A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne(fr)

A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.

Scandal(en)

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.

Asfixia(pt)

French Cancan(fr)

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

Sandra, the Woman of Fire(es)

An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.

Dancer of the City(fa)

A man not content with his wife, falls in love with a club dancer; but doesn't tell her he is married. The story is as bitter as real life.

Forbidden Passion(es)

Teresa, a cabaret star, has to leave her work due to the death of her father. She decides to go to the small village where he lived to meet her brother, Miguel, who is going to marry Marisol soon. Teresa begins to feel attracted to Miguel, and tries to seduce him

The Dancer(fr)

A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.

Beauties of the Night(es)

What happened to those vedettes who represented the mexican cabaret’s exotic beauty in the ‘70s and ‘80s? Four decades after the end of their roles, they tell their stories with dignity.

Operación cabaretera(es)

Your job as a hostess in Malaga allows Hippolyta meet many men. One of them is a Chinese traveler, just in time to take her to her room, is killed. So, the blame falls on another Hippolyta customers.

C.R.A.Z.Y.(fr)

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

Midway(en)

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Memories of Murder(ko)

During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.

From Here to Eternity(en)

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Hilde(de)

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Gypo(en)

Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The film tells the story of the a couple of weeks in this family's life, beginning when a young Czech girl, Tash, comes to visit. The film is made in the Dogme95 tradition, so no costumes, no lighting, no props or sets, which gives the film a gritty texture appropriate to the story.

Welcome to the Dollhouse(en)

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.

The Son's Room(it)

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.