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Repeated Absences AKA Absences répétées (1972) Guy Gilles, Danièle Delorme, Nathalie Delon, Patrick Penn
Young man Francois Nole works in a Bank. Often skips a walk, and one day he never comes to work. Read More »
Deadlier Than the Male AKA Voici le temps des assassins… (1956) Julien Duvivier, Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. Read More »
Le Voyou / The Crook (1970) Claude Lelouch, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Danièle Delorme, Charles Gérard, Crime, Thriller
When Simon (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is released from prison, he emerges with a bold kidnapping scheme. He enlists the help of an old cohort and his former lover, Martine (Christine Lelouch), to kidnap a young boy. The child’s father is an employee at a bank, and the three criminals blackmail the financial institution, demanding $1 million in ransom. Out of fear, the bank pays the sum, but the kidnappers may have bitten off more than they can chew.
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Belle (1973) André Delvaux, Jean-Luc Bideau, Danièle Delorme, Adriana Bogdan, Drama
The line between fantasy and reality is once more blurred in this Belgian/French drama about a professor of literature who develops an obsession with a beautiful woman he meets (or imagines meeting) in the woods. He has an affair with this woman, but before he can run off with her, his daughter, who is an object of his incestuous desire (as several daydream sequences make clear), kills the stranger. Perhaps, though, his daughter only kills his daydreams when she gets married.
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