Jesus is a French gypsy who might have become a bull fighter had he not been framed on a drug charge and sent to prison. Read More »
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Louise Michel (2009) Sólveig Anspach, Sylvie Testud, Nathalie Boutefeu, Alexandre Steiger
A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Read More »
De Sade (1969) Cy Endfield, Roger Corman, Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer
Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion. Read More »
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Jean Epstein, Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
Allan has a hard time finding the Usher’s house, which is known to be cursed… Read More »
Les misérables (1982) Robert Hossein, Lino Ventura, Jean Carmet, Michel Bouquet
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert. Read More »
Regain (1937) Marcel Pagnol, Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel
One by one, the inhabitants of a provincial French village depart, until only the poacher Panturle remains. Read More »
We’re All Still Here (1997) Anne-Marie Miéville, Aurore Clément, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Godard
Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »
Hell (1994) Claude Chabrol, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife’s infidelity. Read More »
The Beaches of Orouet (1971) Jacques Rozier, Caroline Cartier, Danièle Croisy, Françoise Guégan
A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village Read More »
Le destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin (1948) Guillaume Radot, Héléna Bossis, Michel Barbey, Germaine Kerjean
Being born a witch’s daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Read More »
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) Agnès Varda, Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Read More »
The Game of Love (1954) Claude Autant-Lara, Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Pierre-Michel Beck
Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. Read More »
Coeur de lilas (1932) Anatole Litvak, Marcelle Romée, André Luguet, Jean Gabin
Lilac is consorting with the criminal scum of Paris but then she falls in love with a handsome detective… Read More »
Liliom (1934) Fritz Lang, Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a “public figure,” a rascal who’s a carousel barker Read More »