Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Le Confessionnal (1995) Robert Lepage, Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel, 16, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Read More »
Der Schatz der Azteken / Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) Robert Siodmak, Lex Barker, Gérard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Adventure, Western
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico Read More »
Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes / Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Robert Siodmak, Lex Barker, Gérard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Western, Adventure
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. Read More »
Les grands ducs / The Grand Dukes (1996) Patrice Leconte, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Comedy
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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JFK (1991) [Director’s Cut] Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Drama, History, Thriller
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 »
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 »