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64) Cardboard city
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"Cardboard City follows the lives of two young teens-members of a Romani family. Saida and Nikola experience harsh discrimination at school and crushing poverty in their improvised settlement, spread out under a bridge in Belgrade. Their dreams of escape and of leaving deplorable conditions behind trigger a family crisis. In particular, Nikola is a gifted trumpeter and aspires to be a famous musician, but it proves challenging to surmount the enormous...
65) Burning
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English
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In the scorching Nevada desert during the Burning Man festival, a small town boy meets a Gypsy girl, when both are at crossroads in their lives.
67) Gypsy lord
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English
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Dashing aristocrat Dominic Edgemont is also leader of a gypsy band, and when he rescues a ravishing beauty from a beating, he has no idea she is an English heiress, Lady Catherine Barrington. Outraged at the incident, she vows revenge.
68) Thinner
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Based on the best-seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna in a story of supernatural terror and countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems a more likely option.
74) Korkoro
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Français
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During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.
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"Sway combines sociological and anthropological approaches to provide both an analysis of daily Gypsy life and a global understanding of the ethnic group. she draws on her extensive ethnographic field study of Gypsies in the United States, focusing on California and Virginia, and compares them to Gypsies in Great Britain and Yugoslavia." --Dust jacket.
78) A Ciambra
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Italiano
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Fourteen-year-old Pio wants nothing more than the respect of his older brother, whom he emulates in every way, including his career as a petty criminal. When both his father and brother are arrested, Pio is determined to prove that he can step up and be the head of his Romani family. But a fateful night and a wrenching decision soon test just how ready he is.
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In the shadows of a rusted Pennsylvania steel town, the mangled body of a teenage girl is discovered. As they hunt for a monster among them, rumors mount and many of the eccentric residents become suspects, from the newly-arrived gypsy family to the wealthy Godfrey clan. In the twisted world of Hemlock Grove, everyone hides a dark secret.
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