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Man with the Transplanted Brain (1971) Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Mathieu Carrière, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. Read More »
Kamikaze (1986) Didier Grousset, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Albert is old, lonely, drunken and unemployed, but an expert in computers. Read More »
Sweetgrass (2009) Ilisa Barbash, Documentary, Adventure, Western
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme northwest of the United States. Read More »
Midnight Party (1976) Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Olivier Mathot, Claude Boisson, Drama, Comedy, Crime, Erotic
A nightclub stripper hooks up with two playboys and ends up with an invitation to their midnight orgy. Read More »
I Am Frigid Why? (1972) Max Pécas, Sandra Julien, Marie-Georges Pascal, Jean-Luc Terrade, Drama, Erotic
The title to this underrated follow-up to director Pecas “I Am A Nymphomaniac” seems to mislead people into thinking this film doesn’t deliver the eurosex goods. Read More »
Maria Chapdelaine (1934) Julien Duvivier, Madeleine Renaud, Suzanne Desprès, Gaby Triquet, Drama
A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris. Read More »
The Norman Swordsman (1971) Roberto Mauri, Mark Damon, Luis Dávila, Krista Nell, Adventure
Following the death of Henry I in 12th-century England, the throne is usurped by Stephen Cunningham who claims to possess the legendary “Sword of Normandy”. Read More »
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) Jacques Becker, Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Crime, Drama
The middle age bon-vivant Max is a former gangster and close friend of his partner Riton. Read More »
Simple mortel (1991) Pierre Jolivet, Philippe Volter, Christophe Bourseiller, Nathalie Roussel, Thriller
A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. Read More »
La symphonie pastorale (1946) Jean Delannoy, Pierre Blanchar, Michèle Morgan, Line Noro, Drama
On Christmas Eve, Jean Martens, a Swiss minister, takes in a blind half-crippled orphan and brings her up with his four children. Read More »
The Delay / La demora (2012) Rodrigo Plá, Néstor Guzzini, Fernando Amaral, Andrea Fantoni, Drama
It’s the sort of everyday personal tragedy that would hardly even merit inclusion in a short news column – overworked and underpaid, a forty-something mother of three is driven to abandon her senile father so she can take better care of her children. Read More »
From the other side (2002) Chantal Akerman, Documentary
A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States. Read More »
Les innocents aux mains sales / Dirty Hands (1975) Claude Chabrol, Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, François Maistre, Crime, Thriller
Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. Read More »
The Road to Fort Alamo (1964) Mario Bava, Ken Clark, Jany Clair, Michel Lemoine, Western
A lone rider comes across a dying soldier, the victim of an Indian attack, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. Read More »