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6.2

House of Ricordi

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

1954-12-01 | it

6.7

Pack Up Your Troubles

The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.

1932-09-16 | en

7.2

Hugo

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

2011-11-22 | en

5.9

Night and Day

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.

1946-07-02 | en

6.4

Rhapsody in Blue

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

1945-06-27 | en

5.8

The Grass Harp

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

1996-10-11 | en

7.3

Miracle in Milan

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

1951-02-08 | it

6.0

Modern Cinderella

Katerina, a poor girl, finds a job as a secretary and falls in love with her boss on a trip to Rome.

1965-03-08 | el

6.7

Angels in the Outfield

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.

1951-10-19 | en

7.0

Christmas Comes But Once a Year

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.

1936-12-04 | en

7.6

The Secret Garden

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

1987-11-30 | en

6.0

Lust in the Dust

Assaulted by outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold in the Old West.

1985-03-01 | en

6.4

Little Miss Marker

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.

1934-06-01 | en

5.5

Anne of Green Gables

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.

1934-11-23 | en

5.3

Oldies But Goodies

As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France.

2024-02-14 | fr

7.4

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy resolve finally convinces him to give her a break. On the brink of stardom, however, a cruel twist of fate threatens to destroy her dream.

1991-05-24 | en

7.7

Crooks in Clover

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

1963-11-27 | fr

0.0

Kesäillan valssi

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family Annina. Annina’s family doesn’t approve of the relationship, and the couple’s happiness is also threatened by Lauri’s worsening eye disease.

1951-10-05 | fi

8.0

Castle in the Sky

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

1986-08-02 | ja

5.2

Family Plan

A bumbling guy takes a group of orphans to summer camp.

1997-01-01 | en

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Antoine Bertrand

Marguerite Laurence

Mateo Laurent Membreño Daigle

Mani Soleymanlou

Marilyn Castonguay

Ellen David

François Chénier

Benoît Gouin

Jean-François Provençal

Louise Turcot

Myriam Fournier

Jeanne Ostiguy

Francesca Barcenas

Dino Tavarone

Joelle Jérémie

Inka Malovic

Ghislain Roberge

Philippe Sly

Klara Martel-Laroche

Lyne Fortin

Stanley Hilaire

Thomas Wilkinson Fullerton

Christopher Ricardo Price

Tarek Bendahmane

Fares Chok

Firas Chok

Julien Rosales

Felix Beaulieu-Duchesneau

Lenie Scoffié

Elizabeth Vargas Murguia

Alexandre Malo-Cyr

Pier Noli

Karine Picard

Roberto Zorfini

Francis Allard

Félixe Ross

Alexis Dumais

Gaël Lane Lépine