Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family’s life savings in an African mine, on his banker’s recommendation. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
La fille de l’eau / The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne, Drama, Romance
After her father’s death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. Read More »
Day Night Day Night (2006) Julia Loktev, Luisa Williams, Josh Philip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. Read More »
Corps à coeur / Drugstore Romance (1979) Paul Vecchiali, Hélène Surgère, Nicolas Silberg, Béatrice Bruno, Drama, Romance
Pierrot, a mechanic in Paris, falls madly for an older woman, a chemist, who at first refuses his love. Read More »
Only the Cool / La peau de torpedo (1970) Jean Delannoy, Stéphane Audran, Klaus Kinski, Lilli Palmer, Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir
A secret agent is murdered by his jealous wife who mistakenly interprets his absences from home as acts of infidelity. This triggers a deadly chain of events. Will she be next? Read More »
Bice skoro propast sveta / It Rains in My Village (1968) Aleksandar Petrovic, Annie Girardot, Ivan Palúch, Mija Aleksic, Drama, Romance
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. Read More »
Les nuits d’été / Summer Nights (2014) Mario Fanfani, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Bouchaud, Drama
Michel and Hélèn Aubertin form a perfect couple. Michel is an ambitious notary and Hélèn splits her time between charity work and raising their son. Read More »
La prochaine fois je viserai le coeur / Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart (2014) Cédric Anger, Guillaume Canet, Ana Girardot, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Crime, Drama, Thriller
For several months in 1978 and 1979, inhabitants of Oise live in fright and terror as a serial killer disturbs the peace and quiet. Read More »
Victoria / In Bed with Victoria (2016) Justine Triet, Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who’s struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. Read More »
Hors la vie / Out of Life (1991) Maroun Bagdadi, Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity, Drama
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Read More »