Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Last Train (1973) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud
May 1940 – Germany invades Europe, people panic and try to flee by any means possible. Read More »
Élise ou la vraie vie (1970) Michel Drach, Marie-José Nat, Mohamed Chouikh, Bernadette Lafont
In 1957, Elise Le Tellier, a young woman from Bordeaux, decides to join her brother Lucien Read More »
Deux hommes dans Manhattan / Two Men in Manhattan (1959) Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) Read More »
The Taste of Violence / Le goût de la violence (1961) Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf
This European “western” by Robert Hossein (scripter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. Read More »
Three Sisters / San zimei (2012) Bing Wang
Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunan region. Read More »
Le révélateur (1968) Philippe Garrel, Laurent Terzieff, Bernadette Lafont, Stanislas Robiolle
A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. Read More »
Ada dans la jungle (1988) Gérard Zingg, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Isaach De Bankolé
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago. Read More »
Walking on the Wild Side / Lai xiao zi (2006) Jie Han, Peijiang Bai, Qiang Guo, Jing Hou
Three young men go on the run from their dying mining town in Shanxi when they Read More »
Glória (1999) Manuela Viegas, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Raquel Marques, Francisco Relvas
Ivan goes to live with his father, Vicente, the stationmaster, in a small remote village inland Portugal. Read More »