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Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.

Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?

With musical accompaniment from the zarzuela 'The drum Grenadiers' by Ruperto Chapí, a pair of custodians are in the basement of the National Library of Madrid showing some canvas awarded with the National Prize for Painting between 1941 and 1969.

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The two brothers Ghassan and Nabil are wrestling champions. As Ghassan prepares to wed Laila, Nabil dedicates himself to the game, but his love for Suzy weakens his spirits. But Suzy is the sister of Samy who got paralyzed after a game with the brothers, and Suzy is his way to get revenge.

Angku Wan, a retired teacher who won a raffle prize from a soap company. With those billions, Angku Wan intends to build a village for the common good. However, before claiming the money, Angku Wan died. The leader and villagers then worked together to devise a plan to claim the prize by faking Angku Wan's death. Things got complicated when a company representative came to validate the win.

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A modest young woman, who dreams of a radio career, forges a lottery ticket so that she can win the prize.

Twenty-one-year-old Akihito Takaba is a young freelance photographer who takes pride in his work and seeks to get a major "scoop". After he takes photographs of the business dealings of crime lord Ryuichi Asami, Asami kidnaps and rapes him, beginning a relationship between them as they find themselves continually drawn to one another. Liu Fei Long, a rival Chinese boss who blames Asami for his father's death, takes an interest in Takaba, as well, seeking a way to get revenge.

Students of the 5th "B" class were awarded a movie camera for the first place in collecting waste paper. Anton Dudkin was assigned to shoot a chronicle of the life of the class. As a result of all the funny stories that happened to the guys during the filming, they decided to scrap the "dangerous prize" — the movie camera.

An Aikatsu! All-Star awards ceremony will take place. The film will feature songs and stages featured throughout the anime series.

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This is a story of a girl born with a bad leg. Ritsuko longs to go to school and make lots of friends, but this proves as not so easy. Her mother is very protective of her, and she is teased by her classmates, because of her disability. Will she manage to keep her smile?

The story follows four childhood friends who grew up in an orphanage: Akira, Jun, Tsukasa and Yuuto. They work hard to make ends meet, but every end of the year, they buy lottery tickets together. That year, one of the 10 lottery tickets they bought randomly won first prize! However, the winning ticket suddenly disappears, and the four friends become suspicious of each other and start looking for the culprit among themselves…

Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of rural Eastern Germany where he grew up and where people remember him as Alex from the Free German Youth, a pro-GDR youth organization.

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

Film adaptation of Natsuo Kirino's Edogawa Rampo Award-winning novel Kao ni Furikakaru Ame.

Joachim West is so unsuccessful as a writer that in order to escape his financial trouble, he stages his own disappearance. But only after sending his magnum opus--on which he had worked for the past 10 years--to his publisher. Assuming him dead, she sees the masterpiece as the perfect answer to a predicament: her star author, Fabian Remarque, is struck by writer's block. So she decides to publish Joachim's manuscript under Fabian's name.

About forest competitions in which Misha wins and becomes a symbol of the Olympics.

Three people compete in a televised competition for letters from home, but what awaits in the letters surprises the participants.

The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the first time that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.

The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.

In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.

Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters - especially Mickey, the current number one star of the team. Karen proves herself a feisty competitor but refuses to be a team player. As she skates her way to roller stardom, she incurs the wrath of jealous team members and the owner of the team.

On the last day of college, graduating seniors Jake and Evan don't want to give up their party life just yet. They have one last day to figure out how to stay on campus for a fifth year. With help from 8th year senior and fraternity legend Greg "Fossil" Karanowski they find themselves getting into more and more trouble.

Red, Chuck, Bomb and the rest of their feathered friends are surprised when a green pig suggests that they put aside their differences and unite to fight a common threat. Aggressive birds from an island covered in ice are planning to use an elaborate weapon to destroy the fowl and swine.

On a birthday trip to Mexico, 12-year-old Ronnie Anne accidentally frees a demigod trapped in a mountain and needs her family's help to set things right.

Composer Herman completely goes into writing his work "Cycle", losing absolutely all connection with the outside world. One evening, he falls asleep and when he wakes up, he begins to understand that his composition begins to come to life.

Part III in the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" spotlights Gould recording Bach's "Goldberg Variations" in a sound studio. In a brief introduction, he reminisces about his first recording of the pieces and explains why he wanted to record them again now, a quarter of a century later. It was to be his last recording of the "Goldberg Variations" and perhaps the last time he played the work: Glenn Gould died the year after the recording was made.

Part I of the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" is devoted to Bach's "Art of Fugue." Gould's performance is followed by a lively repartee with Monsaingeon, in which the pianist provides dazzling insights illustrated by music examples. He explains, for example, why he plays some pieces extremely slowly, and bemoans the "musicological overkill" of scholars who insist that Bach's keyboard music should only be played on a harpsichord.