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Tag Archives: France
Just Before Nightfall (1971) Claude Chabrol, Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Read More »
The Sentinel (1992) Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard

Mathias, whose dead father was a diplomat in Germany, decides to study the forensic medicine in Paris. Read More »
The Hunchback of Paris (1959) André Hunebelle, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. Read More »
Eldorado XXI (2016) Salomé Lamas

This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life. Read More »
Struggle in Italy (1971) Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology. Read More »
Bread and Roses (2000) Ken Loach, Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Read More »
La liceale nella classe dei ripetenti (1978) Mariano Laurenti, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali, Rodolfo Bigotti

Angela is a beautiful girl and despite her boyfriend Tonino is not exactly an Adonis, she insists to be faithful to him. Read More »
Mélo (1986) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi

In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who’s the wife of an old friend. Read More »
French Cancan (1955) Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix

Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola Read More »