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Tag Archives: France
History of Fear (2014) Benjamín Naishtat, Jonathan Da Rosa, Tatiana Giménez, Mirella Pascual
A hot summer. A private district with an enormous park. Read More »
Gambling Hell (1942) Jean Delannoy, Sessue Hayakawa, Mireille Balin, Henri Guisol
A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger, sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den. Read More »
The Monk (1972) Adonis Kyrou, Franco Nero, Nathalie Delon, Nicol Williamson
Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk’s robes. Read More »
Coming Home (2012) Frédéric Videau, Agathe Bonitzer, Reda Kateb, Hélène Fillières
The girl Gaëlle Faroult is kidnapped at school when she is about eight by Vincent Maillard Read More »
Traffic (1971) Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel
At Altra Motors, Mr. Hulot designs an ingenious camper car with lots of clever features. Read More »
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) Marco Ferreri, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell
After a lecture where a poem is read out to a group of bored students, the alcoholic and sex addicted poet Read More »
Blow to the Heart (1983) Colpire al cuore
Emilio, the son of Darius, a left-wing professor, is an introverted teenager who feels jealous of the relationship between his father and alumni. Read More »
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968) Etienne Périer, Charles Boyer, Robert Taylor, Marie Dubois
The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the “Hot’Line’ that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. Read More »
Tuesday’s Guest (1950) Jacques Deval, Bernard Blier, Michel Auclair, Madeleine Robinson
Charles is a good husband; he is not handsome but he contents himself with his collection of stamps, his slippers and his crepes. Read More »