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Tag Archives: France
Three Hours (1939) Léonide Moguy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Corinne Luchaire, Édouard Delmont, Drama, Romance, War

During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier ,Paul,takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents. Read More »
Espionage in Lisbon (1965) Federico Aicardi, Tulio Demicheli, Brett Halsey, Marilù Tolo, Fernando Rey, Action, Adventure

An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in 30 seconds. The authorities have reason to believe this may be true, and the spying battle is on. Read More »
Wise Guys (1961) Claude Chabrol, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Tissier, Drama

Tale follows a threesome of teens–one a rebellious type, another a more serious type, and the young girl who fits in the middle–as they parade around Paris with carefree attitudes. Read More »
Some Like It Cool (1977) Franz Antel, Tony Curtis, Marisa Berenson, Marisa Mell, Comedy, Erotic

While hiding from the royal authorities,Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Read More »
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Drama

Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. Read More »
Gebo and the Shadow (2012) Manoel de Oliveira, Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau, Drama

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son. Read More »
56 rue Pigalle (1949) Willy Rozier, Jacques Dumesnil, Marie Déa, Aimé Clariond, Drama

Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron’s manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Read More »
Body of My Enemy (1976) Le corps de mon ennemi

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Read More »
The Day of Despair (1992) Manoel de Oliveira, Teresa Madruga, Mário Barroso, Luís Miguel Cintra, Biography, Drama

Portrait of the last years of the XIX century’s Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco, who had been suffering from an eye disease and one day wakes up blind. Read More »