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Stefano, a shy young man who has just finished his studies in Switzerland, wants to become a priest, but his father Leonardo, a wealthy Milanese publishing magnate, intends for him to take over the family empire instead. Hoping to change his son's mind, Leonardo invites Stefano on a yacht trip with his mistress, setting a trap of pleasure and temptation designed to pull Stefano away from his spiritual ambitions. Mauro Bolognini's film is a coolly styled critique of Italy's emerging consumer society.

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Aida (Claudia Cardinale), a young chorus girl, has fallen for a wealthy playboy and turns up at his home, only to be ignored and turned away. His younger and more sensitive brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) steps in to help her — and soon finds himself falling for her. In one of her most tender performances, Cardinale anchors an unsentimental coming-of-age story that is as much about class as it is about adolescence.

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After traveling the world alongside migrating birds (Winged Migration) and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays (Oceans), Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age. Winter had gone on for 80,000 years when, in a relatively short period of time, the ice retreated, the landscape metamorphosed, the cycle of seasons was established, and the beasts occupied their new kingdom. It was only later that man arrived to share this habitat — first tentatively as migratory hunter-gatherers, then making inroads in the forest as settled agriculturalists, and later more dramatically via industry and warfare. With its exceptional footage of animals in the wild, Seasons is the awe-inspiring tale of the long and tumultuous shared history that inextricably binds humankind with the natural world.

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Cohen Film Collection introduces this French Eurotrash cult classic. Set in Saint Tropez during mid-summer, this darkly biting coming-of-age story is a tale of obsession and sexual desire. A young woman (Valerie Kaprisky) vacations in an upscale beach resort with her mother, where it becomes clear that a layer of secrets and jealousy lay beneath the sundrenched paradise.