The ‘30s bring voice and depth. Style meets realism, and the first big studios shape the early world stage of cinema.

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The best known of the five films made by Hungarian André de Toth before he went to Hollywood was made in 1938, but it reveals a still modern and pioneering filmmaker and a strikingly contemporary and timely look at the power of female solidarity.

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Two girls escape from a small village and meet on the streets of Budapest. They move in together, supporting each other at every stage of their ever-changing financial situation, the advances of promiscuous men and their amorous adventures.

Two Girls on the Street

The first part of Marcel Pagnol's iconic "Marseille Trilogy" is adapted by the legendary producer Alexander Korda ("The Third Man"), taking the audience of the time on a formidable journey with an emotional drama that carries you away, and the weight of personal choice.

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Marius has known and adored the beautiful fishmonger Fanny since they were children, but he is torn between his love for her and his love for the sea. Fani, meanwhile, is courted by the older, kind shopkeeper Panisse, who offers wealth and stability. Marius and Fanny are torn between freedom and responsibility, and each decision they make leads to more disappointment.

Marius

A cat and mouse game in an exotic, remote island becomes a riveting 30s Hollywood film that holds a special place in the history of cinema: shot at night during the filming of King Kong, from the same creators, with the same cast, using the same set, as the most imaginative creative challenge ever.

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When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford gets shipwrecked in the dangerous reefs that surround a mysterious island, he becomes the guest of the isolated and eccentric Count Zaroff. While polite at first, Zaroff ultimately forces Rainsford and two other survivors of the shipwreck, siblings Eve and Martin Trowbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse where they are the prey and he is the hunter.

The Most Dangerous Game

“If I could only save one film, it would be The Great Chimera”, Orson Welles. A constant on lists of the best films of all time, Jean Renoir's anti-war masterpiece is a tribute to humanity and solidarity.

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A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of an aristocratic German officer, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

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Nomination for Best Picture | Oscars | 1939
Best Artistic Contribution Award | Venice Film Festival | 1937

The Grand Illusion

The Industrial Revolution through cinema, a belated welcome to the 20th century with unimaginable kinesiology that unites man and machine in a common rhythm, in the interest of our productivity, political analysis and entertainment.

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Subjected to the infernal production rate of the factory, a model worker suddenly has a nervous breakdown and goes mad. From hospital, to prison, to unemployment, the Little Tramp gets caught up in the sprockets and cogs of modern industrialization. That is, until he comes across a beautiful orphaned gamine, whom he helps escape from the police. How to break free from the constraints of modern life? Chaplin provides a critical look at productivity in the early 20th century… and well beyond!

Modern Times

One of the most classical movies of all times, with a constant position in the top-50 imdb movies. Chaplin's famous hero falls in love with a blind girl and the rest is cinematic history.

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A young troublemaker falls in love with a beautiful blind girl whose family is in dire financial condition. The friendly relationship of the boy with a rich man will give him the chance to help his beloved in one of the most iconic films of the first cinematic century.

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