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Tag Archives: France
Man About Town / Le silence est d’or (1947)

1910 : A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Read More »
Paris Asleep / Paris qui dort (1925) René Clair, Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean

Early roots of sci-fi magic are given to us in the form of a scientist who invents Read More »
Double Murder / Doppio delitto (1977) Steno, Marcello Mastroianni, Agostina Belli, Ursula Andress

A police commissioner and a political activist join to investigate the suspicious death of a playboy Prince. Read More »
Women Do Cry (2021) Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva, Maria Bakalova, Bilyana Kazakova

A family full of women in a society where “gender” is not a familiar word. Read More »
My Queen Karo (2009) Dorothée Van Den Berghe, Anna Franziska Jaeger, Déborah François, Matthias Schoenaerts

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. Read More »
Fric-Frac (1939) Maurice Lehmann, Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty

Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. Read More »
Ramuntcho (1959) Pierre Schoendoerffer, François Guérin, Mijanou Bardot, Gaby Morlay

The Basque smuggler Ramuntcho is engaged to Gracieuse, whose mother Dolorès Read More »
Hélène (1936) Jean Benoît-Lévy

Helene Wilfur is a brilliant student at a medical school devoted to research Read More »
Nothing to Report / R.A.S. (1973) Yves Boisset, Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Villeret, Jacques Weber

Three French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion Read More »