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Tag Archives: France
Eden (2001) Amos Gitai, Samantha Morton, Thomas Jane, Luke Holland

Is the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Read More »
And Soon the Darkness (1970) Robert Fuest, Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès

Jane and Cathy, two English women in their early twenties, are on a cycling tour. Read More »
Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986) Paul Vecchiali, Marianne Basler, Jean Sorel, Pierre Cosso

Rosa la Rose is a Parisian hooker who works in Les Halles area. Read More »
Maniac Killer (1987) Andrea Bianchi, Bo Svenson, Chuck Connors, Robert Ginty

A murderous cult kidnaps French prostitutes and tortures them to death to “purify” them of their evil ways. Read More »
Traviata ’53 (1953) Vittorio Cottafavi, Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli, Eduardo De Filippo

Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress Read More »
Young Ahmed / Le jeune Ahmed (2019) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou

A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran. Read More »
Carrot Top / Poil de carotte (1925) Julien Duvivier, Henry Krauss, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss, André Heuzé

François’ mother, Mme Lepic, hates him and she nicknames him “Poil de Carotte” (Carrot hair). Read More »
Odette Toulemonde (2006) Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber

Odette dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite writer, for the optimism which she believes emanates from him. Read More »
The Widow Couderc / La veuve Couderc (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo

Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son Read More »