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3) La ronde
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A chain of love started between a young whore and a soldier ends with the same whore after having gone full circle through various characters.
5) Gigot
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English
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Though the more 'upstanding' members of the Parisian community may shun him, the lovable oaf named Gigot is a favorite among the neighborhood children. Gigot finds a sense of purpose when a young girl, the child of a cold-hearted woman of the night, seeks refuge with him.
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Helga, a poor farm girl, runs off from the lecherous brute who means to marry her and lands in the arms of a charming neighbor, engineer Rodney Spencer. When misfortune separates them, Helga seeks refuge with circus folk, then is forced to trade her body for survival in an uncaring world. Using the name Susan Lenox, the fallen woman rises high, all the way to a Manhattan penthouse.
8) Virtue
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English
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"This fast-paced comedy-drama features Pat O'Brien as an honest, enterprising cab driver and Carole Lombard as Mae, a prostitute he mistakes for an unemployed stenographer. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Mae's past comes back to haunt her when a duplicitous acquaintance implicates her in a sordid affair that she tries to hide from her husband."--Container.
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Iris, a good-hearted $100-a-flop hooker, owes her allegiance to Jesse, a free-spirited recent parolee just itchin' to get back to his career as a slam-bam demolition derby driver. Iris and Jesse's other friends enlist his help in refurbishing a big-bellied, amphibious prop plane so they can fly off to a never-never land where there are no jails and where there are no rules.
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London, 18th century. Casanova, famous for his taste of pleasure and gambling, arrives from Paris, forced into exile. In this city he knows nothing about, the libertine meets on several occasions a young prostitute, Marianne de Charpillon. She attracts him to the point he starts disregarding all other women. The legendary seducer is ready to do anything to get her, but La Charpillon always escapes under various excuses. She challenges Casanova: "You...