On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president’s death. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Barbarella (1968) Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In the year 40,000, voluptuous astronaut Barbarella lands on the icy planet Lythion and sets out to find renowned scientist Durand Durand in the City of Night Read More »
Au pan coupé / Wall Engravings (1968) Guy Gilles, Macha Méril, Patrick Jouané, Bernard Verley, Drama, Romance
Jean Jeanne loves, but he does not think more than leave. One day flees down the road, then dies. Jeanne never know. Read More »
La charrette fantôme / The Phantom Wagon (1939) Julien Duvivier, Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey, Drama, Fantasy
According to Scandinavian legend, whosoever dies on the stroke of Midnight on the last day of the year (St. Sylvester’s Night) must assume the duties of the “phantom charioteer,” collecting souls for the next 365 days. Read More »
Don Camillo / The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Comedy
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. Read More »
La fille de 15 ans (1989) Judith Godrèche, Melvil Poupaud, Jacques Doillon, Drama, Romance
Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Read More »
La victoire en chantant / Black and White in Color (1976) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jean Carmet, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Comedy, Drama, War
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Read More »
Les voleurs de la nuit / Thieves After Dark (1984) Samuel Fuller, Véronique Jannot, Bobby Di Cicco, Victor Lanoux, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple — how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed. Read More »
Man with the Transplanted Brain (1971) Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Mathieu Carrière, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. Read More »
Kamikaze (1986) Didier Grousset, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Albert is old, lonely, drunken and unemployed, but an expert in computers. Read More »