Girl of the Rio

Moulin Rouge

December 1952 •English

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

French Cancan

December 1954 •French

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.

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

September 1945 •French

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

March 1989 •English

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.

Sandra, the Woman of Fire

June 1954 •Spanish

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

Dancer of the City

September 1970 •Persian

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.

The Strip

August 1951 •English

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.

The Daring Years

September 1923 •English

Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.

Asfixia

November 2019 •Portuguese

Forbidden Passion

October 1980 •Spanish

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

September 2016 •French

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.

Operación cabaretera

October 1967 •Spanish

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.

Beauties of the Night

September 2016 •Spanish

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.

Gloria Mundi

November 2019 •French

Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted by taxi drivers determined to reduce unfair competition.

Trophy Boy

October 2018 •English

James, a sexy, youthful sought-after instagram star in high-society and self-proclaimed 'Trophy,' is dumped by his wealthy live-in benefactor. Now he must learn that the real world is not the facade he's built for himself on social media.

Noah's Ark

March 2000 •French

The peaceful lives of Antoine and the dowser Noé are disrupted by the irruption of a woman they find crying on the side of the road.

Stephen's Test of Faith

January 1998 •English

Twelve year old Stephen is mocked and ridiculed for his faith. But that test leads to a new understanding and inner strength that changes his life.

The Promise (Director's Cut)

February 2016 •English

A middle-aged university professor has a very serious date with a Female Air Marshall who may or may not share his family values and may or may not understand his family values-based pain. The Director's Cut is 20 minutes longer than the other two cuts and is presented as a bonus feature, but it is also the only cut that provides the necessary information to truly appreciate the story.

A Head for Business

August 2000 •French

A satirical examination of the transformation of a French investment bank into a Hollywood power broker, Le Sens des Affaires begins with a lowly bank clerk's embezzlement of $104 million francs (about $14 million dollars) to finance his screen adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters. The clerk, Gerard Dutillard, funnels bank funds into three fictional affiliates in a way that makes the bank's president, Jean-Francois de Roquemorel, legally responsible. Financial ruin seems a distinct possibility, but Dutillard has worked out a plan to make the system work in his favor, and soon enough his banking superiors are doing their best to salvage his film and make it marketable, prompting actual investors to fuel the production with cash.

Closed Eyes

December 2000 •French

Vincent and Olivier have an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third partner to participate in their sexual games. Olivier has a background in the theater. He believes in, but is preoccupied by their relationship; he wants to free Vincent from the ghosts haunting him. But Vincent is locked into the past. His father, a pilot, was killed in a plane accident. Vincent’s job is a strange, uncommon one that plunges him deep into contemplation from which no one can make him budge: he deciphers plane disaster recordings. Vincent’s unconscious repression is so powerful that he hasn’t even recognized the link between his father’s death and his work. It will take the stormy encounter with Olivier for Vincent to obtain his ‘black box.’ Indeed, the two young men come to life through their connection with each other, a connection which shatters the framework of typical love stories.