
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Le futur aux trousses (1975) Dolorès Grassian, Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol

The desire that many people have to live life with another more glamorous identity is the focus of this French satire. Read More »
Hothead (1979) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma

François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team’s star, and is ordered off the field. Read More »
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu

It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
The Serpent (1973) Henri Verneuil, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde

Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. Read More »
The Burning Court (1962) Julien Duvivier, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Perrette Pradier

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. Read More »
Wooden Crosses (1932) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. Read More »
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) Alain Resnais, Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. Read More »
Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa

After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
Countdown to Doomsday (1966) Marcello Baldi, George Ardisson, Pascale Audret, Christa Linder

NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas. Read More »