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Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found across America. The series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Peabodys, and has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Rich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.

Series of television plays.

The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few years in prison and especially discovering his wife has cheated on him soured their relation. He is not sure if he wants to go back to his old life and family. Wandering through the night his old friend "El-Negro" appears in the dark. He announces that he was assassinated during the military coup and he is a dead man now. But he has a special mission this night and he is back for this special occasion: To help Floreal catch up fast and face with his life and his time in prison. El-Negro helps him to watch through the important events happened in his absence. He confronts some people of importance to him as he wanders around through the night while his wife is waiting for him anxiously thinking he might never come back. During the long night El-Negro helps him to get past with his anger, makes him to understand the difficulties in such a controversial time and how military coup crushes people's lives and even killing a some of them relentlessly. Finally during the dawn, El-Negro announces that he is ready to go on with his life now and he must be back. Floreal figures that he must be strong and continue his life where he left off like his coup stricken country.

Follows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.

A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.

After inheriting money, a repairman named Carrier becomes mentally unstable. Growing increasingly threatening, he starts menacing the police and government through signed communiques.

Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.

A journalist begins to receive envelopes containing erotic pictures, which he connects to a relationship he once had with an actress.

Anthology collection of French TV films, produced from 1975 to 1991 by FR3.

One of Argentina's most popular and longest-running TV shows on the air for over 50 years, where celebrities of all kinds sit down for lunch with Mirtha Legrand.

Champs-Élysées is a French television variety program presented by Michel Drucker and broadcast live from January 16, 1982 to June 1985 and from January 1986 until June 29, 1990 every Saturday evening on Antenne 2 and irregularly on France 2 from November 13, 2010 to May 11, 2013. The show owes its name to the fact that it is performed live from the Pavillon Gabriel, located on avenue Gabriel, along the avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The theme song for the show's credits was composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and Jean-Claude Petit. The credits choreography was composed by Redha.

Sarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years and two younger women to her vacation retreat in Provence. There are the simple pleasures of lounging in adjacent hammocks, the sun, the food, conversations about men. This is prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah has long taken for granted as a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, also finishing her liaison with the director, and was about to get an award and start work on a new film and begin a romance with a German writer.

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.

A depiction of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.

The film follows the parallel lives of two brothers of Danish ancestry in the "Pampas" of the Brazilian-Argentine-Uruguayan rural area. The rough life these "gauchos" (South American cowboys) lead means they must share all aspects of their lives. Suddenly, enter "A Intrusa" (the Intruder). How is this new element in their lives to be shared?

From 1975 to 1980, Michel Drucker presented the show Les Rendez-vous du dimanche, where he received many personalities from the worlds of song, cinema and the small screen.

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s in West Germany.

Artists from different backgrounds reveal themselves in a new angle and we discover those who make them dream and inspire.

It honors a music or comedy star weekly through sketches and performances with the honoree and guest artists like Michel Sardou and Nana Mouskouri. The variety show features songs, parodies, and humor.

A young man takes photos of a group of people in the act of committing a heist. He then sells the photos to a newspaper but then gets chased by the gang leader and his accomplices.

What unites a Baroque city filled with lights and the sounds of a festive band with the silence of a soak in a warm pool surrounded by snow in front of Mont Blanc? These are paths of pleasure and beauty that converge in a multicolored inlay on wood on a terrace in Sorrento, as well as in the moment when a bell is cast in an ancient foundry in the mountains of Molise. It is an Italy in harmony with the beauty of its landscape, attentive to the qualities of things, and ingenious in inventions and taste. It is the Italy of those who do things with passion.

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness.

For the first time ever the hidden archives of bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla are opened by his son. A cinematic portrait of the worldwide legendary composer who changed tango.