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Tag Archives: France
Square Fortune / Fortune carrée (1955) Bernard Borderie, Pedro Armendáriz, Paul Meurisse, Fernand Ledoux

Literary adaptation of an adventure from the 30s: An escaped convict from Read More »
The Secret Killer / Le vampire de Düsseldorf (1965) Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Roger Dutoit

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders Read More »
The Day of the Owl / Il giorno della civetta (1968) Damiano Damiani, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb

Rosa Nicolosi is not the widow of Salvatore Colasberna, the man murdered in the beginning of the movie Read More »
The Finger Man / Le doulos (1962) Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly

Fresh out of prison and hell-bent on revenge, the recently paroled burglar, Maurice Faugel Read More »
The Aquarium / Genainat el-Asmak (2008) Yusri Nasrullah, Hind Sabri, Amr Waked, Gamil Ratib

A 48-hour journey into Modern Cairo following the parallel lives of Youssef and Leila. Read More »
Corsage (2022) Marie Kreutzer, Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Tamás Lengyel

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Read More »
The Big Night / La notte brava (1959) Mauro Bolognini, Rosanna Schiaffino, Elsa Martinelli, Laurent Terzieff

In Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles Read More »
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) Arthur Harari

When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda Read More »
Between Love and Duty / Le bois des amants (1960) Claude Autant-Lara, Laurent Terzieff, Erika Remberg, Horst Frank

WW2, in occupied Brittany: a military German woman comes to visit her husband, a Kommandatur officer. Read More »