Marius is the keeper of an abandonned cement works staying high above the quarter of l’Estaque in Marseilles. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Spermula (1976) Charles Matton, Dayle Haddon, Udo Kier, François Dunoyer, Horror, Sci-Fi
The planet Spermula is facing destruction and the Spermulites plan to relocate to Earth. To do this, they have come up with a brilliant plan. Read More »
Le Baron Fantôme / The Phantom Baron (1943) Serge de Poligny, André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux, Jany Holt, Drama
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié’s daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. Read More »
La Naissance de l’amour / The Birth of Love (1993) Philippe Garrel, Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Drama
Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Read More »
La mort en ce jardin / Death in the Garden (1956) Luis Buñuel, Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Adventure, Drama
Chark, an adventurer comes to small village in the near of a gold digger’s camp. He is arrested by the local police, who accuse him of having comitted a bank robbery in a neighoured town. Read More »
Beta Som / Torpedo Bay (1963) Charles Frend, Bruno Vailati, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, Gabriele Ferzetti, War, Drama
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). Read More »
Manderlay (2005) Lars von Trier, Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Drama
After gangster Mulligan’s cars colony, fleeing northern justice, finds a hiding place in Alabama, spoiled Read More »
Lindécente aux enfers / Indecent Behavior in Hell (1997) Marc Dorcel, Laure Sainclair, Lea Martini, Coralie, Adult
A young woman visits a psychiatrist, seeking help with her nymphomania. The sessions with the psychiatrist reveal memories of past lives full of similar experiences. Read More »
Non coupable / Not Guilty (1947) Henri Decoin, Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Georges Bréhat, Crime, Drama
Michel Ancelin is an alcoholic doctor: the more the people look down on him as a miserable failure the more he hates his own guts… Read More »
Priyatel pokoynika / Friend of the Deceased (1997) Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Comedy, Drama
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Read More »
Le Confessionnal (1995) Robert Lepage, Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel, 16, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Read More »
Der Schatz der Azteken / Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) Robert Siodmak, Lex Barker, Gérard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Adventure, Western
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico Read More »
Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes / Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Robert Siodmak, Lex Barker, Gérard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Western, Adventure
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. Read More »
Les grands ducs / The Grand Dukes (1996) Patrice Leconte, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Comedy
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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JFK (1991) [Director’s Cut] Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Drama, History, Thriller
On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president’s death. Read More »