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- A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
- A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
- In 1820s Spain the soldier Don José falls in love with the fiery and charismatic factory worker Carmen. Conflicts and grievances multiply, however, as it becomes apparent their views on love and commitment are fundamentally incompatible.
- The story of a young geisha who falls madly in love with an american captain that travels all around the world collecting hearts.
- They call each other Emmanuel and Vladimir - but despite the informal tone, a fateful negotiation is taking place. During France's presidency of the EU, President Macron takes on the task of negotiating with President Putin in an attempt to prevent an invasion of Ukraine. For the first time, we get to follow the diplomatic game behind the scenes and hear parts of their phone conversations.
- When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is.
- The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The recording was actually made two years before the filming with the participation of the Washington Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich) and several opera stars (the part of Marina is sung by Galina Vishnevskaya). Zulawski made the film just as we would be watching the theatrical performance. Then we are going through the sets and, finally, we notice the film crew. The director deliberately filled the picture with a plenty of anachronisms making the implications on the Soviet history and the other dictatorships of the 20th century.
- A hot young phone sex addict and his narcissistic opera diva mom. A dangerously agitated hustler and a half-dozen dangerously agitated hustlers who look just like him. A tittering neurotic who thinks she's Vanessa Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave herself. Pot brownies, puke jokes, a gay dad, a flying lesbian, Jerry Hall, a dead body and a fetish for Brian DePalma movies! Anchoring the mayhem is Elisabeth Beaumont, an American opera star visiting Paris to perform "Turandot" and dabble in some belated mothering of her 23 year-old son Thomas. Thomas doesn't need mothering; he needs some good hot manhandling. And, in the best DePalma tradition, the quest for sex leads to voyeurism and voyeurism, leads to murder. From there, it's just a short path to therapy. Unfortunately, the psychiatrist that Thomas visits is a little on the dead side herself, and a nutty patient has taken her place.
- Paris, 1910. On Christmas Eve, a young woman knocks on her neighbor's door to borrow some lamp oil. A touching romance is ignited even as the young woman becomes very sick.
- Based on a true story: In 1805, a Milanese girl, Antonietta Frapollo, was kidnapped and taken to the court of Mustapha-ibn-Ibrahim in Algiers.
- La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone.
- Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
- Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels. This passionate new production by Jose Montalvo, stunningly choreographed by Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, sets new standards in entertainment, charm and ingenuity. The sharp and spectacular multimedia staging does full justice to Rameau's dazzling burlesque, confirming Olivier Rouviere's statement that 'Les Paladins is the last laugh of a witty 77-year old composer'. Recorded live in 2004 at the Paris Theatre du Chatelet, both the virtuoso cast and Les Arts Florissants are in top form, clearly enjoying themselves in the masterful hands of William Christie.
- A look at the violent consequences faced by a middle-class family, as seen by three different points of view.
- A pictureless film in 3D sound based on the poetry and diaries of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young poet driven out of his country after kidnapping his future young wife, Mary Shelley.
- An adaption of Claudio Monteverdis opera.
- Carmen, a wild Spanish gypsy, is unscrupulous in matters of the law and of the heart. A knife fight breaks out between Carmen and another woman, and José, an incorruptible constable in Seville, is ordered to arrest Carmen.
- Inside Kabul follows Marwa and Raha, two friends living in Kabul. When the country fell to the Taliban they began sending voice messages to their friend, journalist Caroline Gillet, wanting to share what they were seeing, hearing, and feeling. These are their personal audio diaries.
- With the coming opening (1971) of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacqueline Kennedy the widow of President Kennedy, asked Leonard Bernstein to write a piece to open its theater. Bernstein was a great American Composer and the preeminent conductor of the New York Philharmonic. It had been ten years since his 1961 success from West Side Story. The composer decided that the most universal quality of who John Kennedy was, was that he was the first Catholic president. Bernstein believed could create his version of the Mass in opera. Bach and Mozart had famously created orchestration based upon the segments of the Catholic mass. Through the music, from "confessions" to segments of the ritual, the opera 'questions' the relevancy of God and faith, but in the end reaffirms our faith and God's relevance in our lives. Opening night attendance was a parade of the powerful in DC including the wealthy and powerful government leaders.
- The Prince suffers from severe hypochrondria and melancholy, and only laughter can save him. However, there is a plot, by his ambitious cousin, to keep the Prince feeling depressed.
- Musical based on Jean-Baptiste Lully's musical piece, Alceste ou Le Triomphe d'Alcide. Directed during the production of the opera staging by music director Jean-Claude Malgoire and stage director Jean-Louis Martinoty.
- French performance of Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) operetta created by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár, an international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna, by the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon.
- Prince Paris of Troy runs away with Queen Helene of Sparta!
- This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.
- Cardillac is a master jeweler who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship, and conferring the status of art upon the act of murder.