Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress, dancer and writer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Caron started her career as a ballerina. She made her film debut in the musical An American in Paris (1951), followed by roles in The Man with a Cloak (1951), Glory Alley (1952) and The Story of Three Loves (1953), before receving critical acclaim for her role as an orphan in Lili (also 1953), which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. As a leading lady, Caron went on to star in films such as The Glass Slipper, Daddy Long Legs (both 1955), Gigi (1958), Fanny (1961), both of which earned her Golden Globe nominations, Guns of Darkness (1962), The L-Shaped Room (both 1962), Father Goose (1964) and A Very Special Favor (1965). For her role of a single pregnant woman in The L-Shaped Room, Caron, in addition to receiving a second Academy Award nomination, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a second BAFTA Award. Caron's other roles include Is Paris Burning? (1966), That's Entertainment! (1974), The Man Who Loved Women, Valentino (both 1977), Damage (1992), Funny Bones (1995), Chocolat (2000) and Le Divorce (2003). In 2007, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance of a child molestation victim in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Caron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Leslie Caron
  • Popularity: 7.665
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-07-01
  • Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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  • Also Known As: Лесли Карон, Leslie Claire Margaret Caron
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Leslie Caron Movies

  • 2000
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    Chocolat

    Chocolat

    6.972 2000 HD

    A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they...

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  • 1977
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    The Man Who Loved Women

    The Man Who Loved Women

    7.2 1977 HD

    At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told...

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  • 1951
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    An American in Paris

    An American in Paris

    7.002 1951 HD

    Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist...

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  • 1990
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    Lenin: The Train

    Lenin: The Train

    6.1 1990 HD

    March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich...

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  • 1966
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    Is Paris Burning?

    Is Paris Burning?

    7.2 1966 HD

    Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if...

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  • 1992
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    Damage

    Damage

    6.6 1992 HD

    The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

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  • 1964
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    Father Goose

    Father Goose

    7 1964 HD

    During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for...

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  • 2001
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    Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express

    6 2001 HD

    Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and...

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  • 2003
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    Le Divorce

    Le Divorce

    5 2003 HD

    While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

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  • 1955
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    Daddy Long Legs

    Daddy Long Legs

    6.3 1955 HD

    Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her...

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  • 1995
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    Funny Bones

    Funny Bones

    6.5 1995 HD

    Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a...

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  • 1977
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    Valentino

    Valentino

    5.9 1977 HD

    In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...

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  • 1953
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    Lili

    Lili

    6.7 1953 HD

    Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already...

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  • 1984
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    Dangerous Moves

    Dangerous Moves

    5.8 1984 HD

    World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the...

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  • 1958
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    Gigi

    Gigi

    6.2 1958 HD

    A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone...

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  • 1960
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    The Battle of Austerlitz

    The Battle of Austerlitz

    6.7 1960 HD

    Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

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  • 1996
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    The Ring

    The Ring

    5.7 1996 HD

    During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a...

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  • 1978
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    Nicole

    Nicole

    2.8 1978 HD

    Nicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and chauffeur. But without someone to really account to,...

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  • 1951
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    The Man with a Cloak

    The Man with a Cloak

    6.9 1951 HD

    Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is...

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  • 1961
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    Fanny

    Fanny

    6.8 1961 HD

    Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The...

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  • 1962
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    The L-Shaped Room

    The L-Shaped Room

    6.7 1962 HD

    Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion....

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  • 1980
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    The Contract

    The Contract

    5.3 1980 HD

    Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

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  • 1976
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    Surreal Estate

    Surreal Estate

    4.6 1976 HD

    An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the...

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  • 1971
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    Chandler

    Chandler

    4.5 1971 HD

    A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

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  • 1966
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    Promise Her Anything

    Promise Her Anything

    3.3 1966 HD

    A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is...

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  • 1956
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    Gaby

    Gaby

    7 1956 HD

    A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.

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  • 1965
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    A Very Special Favor

    A Very Special Favor

    5.7 1965 HD

    The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.

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  • 1953
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    The Story of Three Loves

    The Story of Three Loves

    5.5 1953 HD

    Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

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  • 1962
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    The Four Truths

    The Four Truths

    3.6 1962 HD

    "Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the...

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  • 1955
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    The Glass Slipper

    The Glass Slipper

    6.3 1955 HD

    Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.

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  • 1959
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    The Doctor's Dilemma

    The Doctor's Dilemma

    6.1 1959 HD

    Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

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  • 1999
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    Passion's Way

    Passion's Way

    4 1999 HD

    Set in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new...

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  • 1967
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    The Head of the Family

    The Head of the Family

    6.8 1967 HD

    A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family...

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  • 1985
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    Reel Horror

    Reel Horror

    2.4 1985 HD

    Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.

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  • 2002
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    From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

    From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

    7 2002 HD

    From Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest film, narrator Gregory Peck joins an A-list of Hollywood stars to take us through the...

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  • 1952
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    Glory Alley

    Glory Alley

    5.9 1952 HD

    A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.

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  • 1960
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    The Subterraneans

    The Subterraneans

    4.8 1960 HD

    A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

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  • 1959
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    The Man Who Understood Women

    The Man Who Understood Women

    3.6 1959 HD

    A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

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  • 1970
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    Madron

    Madron

    5.1 1970 HD

    A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.

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  • 1962
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    Guns of Darkness

    Guns of Darkness

    6 1962 HD

    Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife...

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  • 2008
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    Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'

    Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'

    7 2008 HD

    Documentary on the making of Gigi

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  • 1973
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    The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

    The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

    1 1973 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

    The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

    6.8 2000 HD

    After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an...

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  • 1988
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    The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

    The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

    4 1988 HD

    In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous...

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  • 1982
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    The Unapproachable

    The Unapproachable

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1980
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    All Stars

    All Stars

    1 1980 HD

    Three music students decide to create a science-fiction musical.

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  • 1974
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    That's Entertainment!

    That's Entertainment!

    7.2 1974 HD

    Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

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  • 1988
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    Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

    Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

    7 1988 HD

    A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

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  • 1982
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    Imperative

    Imperative

    5.5 1982 HD

    Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story...

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  • 1976
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    That's Entertainment, Part II

    That's Entertainment, Part II

    6.8 1976 HD

    Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

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  • 1979
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    Goldengirl

    Goldengirl

    4.8 1979 HD

    A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in...

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  • 1995
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    Let It Be Me

    Let It Be Me

    5.6 1995 HD

    Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.

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  • 2016
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    Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star

    Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star

    7.7 2016 HD

    Leslie Caron, beloved star of Gigi and An American in Paris, is one of the last witnesses to the golden age of American cinema of the mid 20th...

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  • 2011
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    Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »

    Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2002
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    Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

    Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

    7.7 2002 HD

    American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and...

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  • 1994
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    That's Entertainment! III

    That's Entertainment! III

    6.9 1994 HD

    Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

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  • 1990
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    Courage Mountain

    Courage Mountain

    6.5 1990 HD

    At the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.

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  • 2017
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    Love, Cecil

    Love, Cecil

    6.4 2017 HD

    A documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist, and set designer, Beaton was best known...

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  • 1975
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    James Dean: The First American Teenager

    James Dean: The First American Teenager

    6 1975 HD

    Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early...

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  • 2008
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    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

    7 2008 HD

    The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

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  • 1973
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    Carola

    Carola

    6 1973 HD

    Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in...

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  • 1952
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    The Million Dollar Nickel

    The Million Dollar Nickel

    4 1952 HD

    Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron and Ricardo Montalban urge the audience (in their...

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  • 2020
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    7.4 2020 HD

    The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the...

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  • 1990
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    Warriors and Prisoners

    Warriors and Prisoners

    1 1990 HD

    Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway,...

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  • 2015
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    Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood

    Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood

    5.4 2015 HD

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  • 1994
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    Normandy: The Great Crusade

    Normandy: The Great Crusade

    10 1994 HD

    Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing diaries, personal letters, home movies, snapshots,...

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  • 2017
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    The Perfect Age

    The Perfect Age

    1 2017 HD

    One night, a little boy is forced to spend the evening at his grandmother's, an eighty-year-old stage actress. He is bored. She doesn't want to play...

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  • 2008
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    'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris

    'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris

    7 2008 HD

    This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis of the cinematic adaptation, casting, the shoot,...

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  • 2017
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    Quand Jean devint Renoir

    Quand Jean devint Renoir

    10 2017 HD

    The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...

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  • 2010
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    Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    6.9 2010 HD

    In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

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  • 2020
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    Written on Water

    Written on Water

    5 2020 HD

    A choreographer must face an unresolved romantic encounter from her past as she creates a new dance work.

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  • 2008
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    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

    1 2008 HD

    The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies and the emergence of...

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  • 2009
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    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

    1 2009 HD

    During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore...

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  • 2009
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    Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

    Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

    1 2009 HD

    In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the genre is resilient. A handful of masterpieces...

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  • 1981
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    Falcon Crest

    Falcon Crest

    5.6 1981 HD

    Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A...

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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.683 1979 HD

    A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.3 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.9 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 1974
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    QB VII

    QB VII

    7.7 1974 HD

    A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.5 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.5 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1988
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    Lenin... The Train

    Lenin... The Train

    6 1988 HD

    In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey,...

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  • 1984
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    Master of the Game

    Master of the Game

    5.9 1984 HD

    Elderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his...

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1996
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    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

    8.3 1996 HD

    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It...

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  • 2016
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    The Durrells

    The Durrells

    7.5 2016 HD

    In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons,...

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  • 1954
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    Reflets de Cannes

    Reflets de Cannes

    1 1954 HD

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