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The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Poster for the movie "The Crime of Monsieur Lange"
Poster for the movie "The Crime of Monsieur Lange"

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

80 min - Drama, Crime, Comedy - 24 January 1936
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A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?

Director:  Jean Renoir
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Z

Poster for the movie "Z"
Poster for the movie "Z"

Z (1969)

127 min - Thriller, History, Drama - 26 February 1969
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Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.

Director:  Costa-Gavras
Writers:  Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún, Ben Barzman
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