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Plunder of the Peach and Plum: This recent feature from China, in Mandarin Chinese but with English subtitles, is described as showing “the social inequities as experienced by two Chinese college graduates.” Part of the Bowers Museum’s Chinese Cinema Series. NR.

* Screens tonight at 7:30 at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana. $5 for museum members, $7.50 general. (714) 567-3600.

Fresh Kill: An 85-minute-long video by Jessica Hagadorn that mixes low-life New Yorkers with radioactive fish to tell a story about environmental pollution and multinational corporations. Hagadorn will speak following the screening and will show clips of her latest video, “Color Scheme.” NR.

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* Screens Friday at 7 and 9 p.m. at UC Irvine’s Student Center Crystal Cove Auditorium near the corner of Bridge Road and Pereira Drive. $2 to $4. (714) 824-5588.

Outremer: This 1991 film from France centers on three sisters caught up in the Franco-Algerian war during the ‘50s. NR.

* Screens Friday at 7 p.m. as part of Saddleback College’s foreign-film series at the Science/Math Building, room 313, 28000 Marguerite Parkway, Mission Viejo. FREE. (714) 582-4788.

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Apollo 13: This recent release stars Tom Hanks as commander of the manned mission to the moon that doesn’t touch down and barely returns home in one piece. PG-13.

* Screens Friday at 12:45 p.m. at the Cypress Senior Citizen Center, 9031 Grindlay St., Cypress. FREE. (714) 229-6776.

Closely Watched Trains: Jiri Menzel’s acclaimed 1966 Czechoslovakian movie about a young switchman who learns about sex and life during the German occupation of his country in World War II. NR

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* Screens Tuesday at 7 p.m. as part of the Chapman Film Classics series at Chapman University’s Argyros Forum, Room 208, 333 N. Glassell St., Orange. FREE. (714) 744-7018.

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