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And Satan Calls the Turns (1962) Grisha Dabat, Françoise Brion, Catherine Deneuve, Bernadette Lafont
On a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires before the day is out. Read More »
Beyond Fear (1975) Yannick Andréi, Michel Bouquet, Michel Constantin, Marilù Tolo
A group of outlaws takes a man’s wife and child hostage. Read More »
Lady Paname (1950) Henri Jeanson, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Henri Guisol
Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer Read More »
Declaration of War (2011) Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. Read More »
There Is No Sexual Rapport (2011) Raphaël Siboni, Hervé P. Gustave, Cindy Dollar, Michael Cerrito
An amusing and poignant examination of one man’s career as a director-performer of pornography. Read More »
Queen of Montreuil (2012) Sólveig Anspach, Florence Loiret Caille, Didda Jónsdóttir, Úlfur Ægisson
It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. Read More »
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973) Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carrière
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. Read More »
Tower of Nesle (1955) Abel Gance, Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy Read More »
Who Knows? (2001) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler
The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted Read More »
My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940) Alexandre Ryder, Roger Karl, Line Noro, Pierre Labry
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Read More »
The Escort (1999) Michel Blanc, Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker
Tom is a male escort boy for ladies, a gigolo. His friend Pierre doesn’t find this out until later Read More »
Angel and Sinner (1945) Christian-Jaque, Micheline Presle, Berthe Bovy, Louise Conte
This film is an adaptation of two stories by Guy de Maupassant, Tallow Ball and Mademoiselle Fifi. Read More »
The Law Is the Law (1958) Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, Totò, René Génin
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. Read More »
The Beast (1975) Walerian Borowczyk, Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza
“La Bête” by Walerian Borowczyk is based on the short story “Lokis” written by Prosper Merimée. Read More »