
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid (“Flame”) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (“Citron”), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who’s in direct contact with Allied leaders. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Jacquot de Nantes (1991) Agnès Varda, Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Biography, Drama

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. Read More »
Helga, SheWolf of Stilberg / Helga, la louve de Stilberg (1977) Patrice Rhomm, Patrizia Gori, Malisa Longo, Richard Allan, Drama, Thriller, Erotic

Vicious warden Helga runs the castle penitentiary Stilberg for female political prisoners with an iron fist. Read More »
L’as des as / Ace of Aces (1982) Gérard Oury, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache, Adventure, Comedy, Sport

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph Read More »
War of the Buttons (1994) John Roberts, Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Adventure, Drama, Family

The children of Ballydowse & Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. Read More »
Les émotifs anonymes / Romantics Anonymous (2010) Jean-Pierre Améris, Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta, Comedy, Romance

What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory Read More »
La sorcière / The Sorceress (1956) André Michel, Marina Vlady, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Courcel, Drama

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to “civilization”, but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead.
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Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Drama, Romance

A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. Read More »
College Dormitory (1984) Pierre Unia, Maureen Legrand, Raphaele Henault, Myriam Soumare, Drama, Romance, Erotic

Story about a girl who, tired of her step-mother and her step-mothers gigolo, goes to a boarding-school and falls in love with the woman who runs it. Read More »
Un grand amour de Beethoven / Beethoven’s Great Love (1936) Abel Gance, Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Biography, Drama, Music

1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick’s love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi, whom Beethoven loves but who marries a count, regrets that decision, but by then he and Thérèse are engaged. Read More »