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Tag Archives: France
Hell on the Beach (1966) José Bénazéraf, Marina Nicolaïdes, Georges Planchon, Georges Claess, Crime, Drama

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Read More »
The Golden Mass (1975) Beni Montresor, Lucia Bosé, Maurice Ronet, Eva Axén, Drama, Erotic

David and Helene are a bored, rich, bourgeois couple stuck in a stale sexless marriage, who lives in a lush Art Nouveau chateau on the outskirts of Paris, France. Read More »
The Man from Acapulco (1973) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. Read More »
The Red and the Black (1954) Le rouge et le noir

It’s no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post- Napoleonic era Read More »
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995) Claude Sautet, Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Drama

When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities. Read More »
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) Marcel Carné, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Comedy

In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted Read More »
The Stranger (1991) Satyajit Ray, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Bikram Bhattacharya, Drama

A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman’s long-lost uncle. Read More »
A Gentle Woman (1969) Robert Bresson, Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Drama, Romance

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. Read More »
La terre (1921) André Antoine, Armand Bour, René Alexandre, Germaine Rouer, Drama

As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Read More »