Chance, volition, and the large effects of tiny causes swirl through Paris on a single day. Read More »
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The Visit (1964) Bernhard Wicki, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa
Karla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. Read More »
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990) Claude Chabrol, Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Barbara De Rossi
The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. Read More »
Casanova (1927) Alexandre Volkoff, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne
The main plot concerns itself with political intrigue, as Casanova travels from Venice to Russia and back again on a variety of “secret missions.” Read More »
Grazie zia (1968) Salvatore Samperi, Lisa Gastoni, Lou Castel, Gabriele Ferzetti
Young Alvise’s body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. Read More »
Poetical Refugee (2000) Abdellatif Kechiche, Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. Read More »
URGA (1991) Nikita Mikhalkov, Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin
The Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. Read More »
Apt Pupil (1998) Bryan Singer, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson
Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Mackellan) is Nazi war criminal. Read More »
The Great War (1959) Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are conscripted, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. Read More »
Alila (2003) Amos Gitai, Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner
In Tel Aviv, the gloomy Ezra hires foreign workers without permits to build an addition to a homely block of flats Read More »