Anne runs for re-election to the town council, shepherded by Matthieu, her fellow candidate and campaign manager. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
For a Cops Hide (1981) Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Anne Parillaud
In Paris, the ex-cop Choucas is a private detective that works with a mysterious partner, Tarpon, and the secretary Charlotte. Read More »
Daens (1992) Stijn Coninx, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
In the French Style (1963) Robert Parrish, Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Philippe Forquet
A young American girl studying art in Paris can’t decide if she wants to stay or go back home. Read More »
Beauties of the Night (1952) René Clair, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida
Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. Read More »
Houseboat (1958) Melville Shavelson, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. Read More »
Attila (1954) Pietro Francisci, Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal
The king of the Huns, whose hordes from various tribes and allies have been sweeping the Asian steppes and both Roman empires, dies, leaving the throne to two sons. Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
The Horse of Pride (1980) Claude Chabrol, Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Le Saché, François Cluzet
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof Read More »
A Story of Women (1988) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Drama, Romance
Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »
An Andalusian Dog (1929) Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Short, Fantasy, Horror
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction Read More »
Hell on the Beach (1966) José Bénazéraf, Marina Nicolaïdes, Georges Planchon, Georges Claess, Crime, Drama
Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Read More »
The Golden Mass (1975) Beni Montresor, Lucia Bosé, Maurice Ronet, Eva Axén, Drama, Erotic
David and Helene are a bored, rich, bourgeois couple stuck in a stale sexless marriage, who lives in a lush Art Nouveau chateau on the outskirts of Paris, France. Read More »
The Man from Acapulco (1973) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. Read More »
I Killed Rasputin (1967) Robert Hossein, Gert Fröbe, Peter McEnery, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia’s Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. Read More »