Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti’s estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Perverse Isabelle / Bedside Manor (1985) José Bénazéraf, Isabelle Domani, Christy Julian, Carole Piérac, Crime, Adult
A pretty young nurse is hired to take care of a bedridden young man at a private mansion. Read More »
Anima nera (1962) Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio Gassman, Nadja Tiller, Annette Stroyberg, Drama
A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates the relationship with his wife. Read More »
Anima persa / Lost Soul (1977) Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Drama, Mystery
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it’s soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
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Le crime de Monsieur Lange / The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) Jean Renoir, René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description. Read More »
Gas-Oil / Hi-Jack Highway (1955) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset, Crime, Drama
After a spending the night with his girlfriend Alice (Jeanne Moreau), trucker Jean (Jean Gabin) encounters a dead body on the road home. Read More »
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest (1997) Michael Haussman, Glenn Fitzgerald, Karine Adrover, Ewen Bremner, Comedy, Drama
A poetic ethereal ride centered around a young American man who hunts for his estranged girlfriend in Colorado, Paris and ultimately, Budapest, and encounters many eccentrics and bizarre situations along the way. Read More »
Shameless / Schamlos (1968) Eddy Saller, Thomas Astor, Gino Baldini, Rolf Eden, Crime, Drama
A very dynamic Udo Kier stars as Pohlmann, a teenager setting up a gang to collect protection money, who falls in love with an exotic dancer, who gets murdered. Can Pohlmann revenge her?
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Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur / My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister (1986) Jacques Rouffio, Michel Serrault, Michel Piccoli, Jean Carmet, Comedy, Thriller
This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission. Read More »
Les amitiés particulières / This Special Friendship (1964) Jean Delannoy, Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia, Drama
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
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Ni na bian ji dian / What Time is it There? (2001) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu, Drama, Romance
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. Read More »
Why We Fight (2005) Eugene Jarecki, Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman, Documentary, History, War
He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Read More »
Death and the Maiden (1994) Roman Polanski, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. Read More »
Il ragazzo invisibile / The Invisible Boy (2014) Gabriele Salvatores, Ludovico Girardello, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The film features Michele, a teenage boy seemingly like many, who lives in a quiet city by the sea. Read More »
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners and I (2000) François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Bodan Litnanski, Documentary
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. Read More »