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Tag Archives: France
Scandal in Sorrento AKA Pane, amore e… (1955) Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani
Marshall Antonio Carotenuto comes back to native Sorrento to take care of the local fire brigade. Read More »
Priceless AKA Hors de prix (2006) Pierre Salvadori, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-Christine Adam
In Biarritz with her elderly provider to celebrate her birthday, Irene slips down Read More »
Promised Land AKA Ha-Aretz Hamuvtachat (2004) Amos Gitai, Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni, Hanna Schygulla
“Promised Land” tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls Read More »
Fire’s Share AKA La part du feu (1978) Etienne Périer, Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. Read More »
The Elegant Criminal AKA Lacenaire (1990) Francis Girod, Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Jacques Weber
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. Read More »
Run, Man, Run AKA Corri uomo corri (1968) Sergio Sollima, Tomas Milian, Donald O’Brien, Linda Veras
A knife-wielding Mexican ne’er-do-well is tasked by a scholar with locating $3 million Read More »
It Happens in Roma AKA Gli ultimi cinque minuti (1955) Giuseppe Amato, Linda Darnell, Vittorio De Sica, Peppino De Filippo
Renata and Carlo covet the same apartment in Rome. They first quarrel but Carlo finds Read More »
Corps perdus (1989) Eduardo de Gregorio, Laura Morante, Tchéky Karyo, Gerardo Romano
Set in Buenos Aires. A man is called upon to identify and evaluate an unfinished Read More »
Ta’ang (2016) Bing Wang
A portrayal of the forced migration, which the Ta’ang people need to undergo Read More »
Giuditta e Oloferne (1959) Fernando Cerchio, Massimo Girotti, Isabelle Corey, Renato Baldini
A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city. Read More »
Son of Samson AKA Maciste nella valle dei Re (1960) Carlo Campogalliani, Mark Forest, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti
During the Persian rule over Egypt (circa 525-480 B.C.), the young prince Kenamon Read More »
Gold of Rome AKA L’oro di Roma (1961) Carlo Lizzani, Gérard Blain, Paola Borboni, Miranda Campa
Set in Rome in 1943, this standard wartime drama has its moments. Read More »
Papicha (2019) Mounia Meddour, Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Hilda Amira Douaouda
Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups that seek to establish an archaic Islamic state. Read More »
Port Authority (2019) Danielle Lessovitz, Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom, McCaul Lombardi
Port Authority is a love story set in New York’s kiki ballroom scene, and follows Paul Read More »