A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays Read More »
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Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2009) Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary. Read More »
Exiles (2004) Tony Gatlif, Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem
Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Read More »
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby
1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
Zouzou (1934) Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey
As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
Rossini! Rossini! (1991) Mario Monicelli, Philippe Noiret, Jacqueline Bisset, Sergio Castellitto
Rossini! Rossini! is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. Read More »
The Art of Breaking Up (2005) Michel Deville, Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Dominique Blanc
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. Read More »
Shun Li and the Poet (2011) Andrea Segre, Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia Read More »
Blue Rita (1977) Jesús Franco, Martine Fléty, Sarah Strasberg, Dagmar Bürger
Nightclub owner and erotic dancer Rita Blue uses her place as a front for working undercover as a spy. Read More »