Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed Read More »
Tag Archives: France
To Skin a Spy / Avec la peau des autres (1966) Jacques Deray, Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise, Marilù Tolo
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna Read More »
Way of Youth (1959) Michel Boisrond, Françoise Arnoul, Bourvil, Lino Ventura
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation Read More »
Bonnot’s Gang / La bande à Bonnot (1968) Philippe Fourastié, Jacques Brel, Bruno Cremer, Annie Girardot
A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. Read More »
Baad el Mawkeaa / After the Battle (2012) Yusri Nasrullah, Menna Shalabi, Bassem Samra, Nahed El Sebaï
Mahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried Read More »
Una prostituta al servizio del pubblico ed in regola con le leggi dello Stato (1971) Italo Zingarelli, Giovanna Ralli, Giancarlo Giannini, Denise Bataille
A prostitute and mother of two leaves her abusive husband for a young boxer Read More »
Le trésor des îles chiennes / Treasure of the Bitch Islands (1990) F.J. Ossang, Stéphane Ferrara, Diogo Dória, José Wallenstein
The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo’Corp) and his discovery Read More »
Le Fils de Caligula (1992) Jean-Louis Costes
In his first feature film, Jean-Louis Costes is impersonating a modern day Caligula. Read More »
Days of Hope / L’espoir (1940) André Malraux, Boris Peskine, Andrés Mejuto, Nicolás Rodríguez, José Santpere
1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) Read More »
The Greatest Attack / Le toubib (1979) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Alain Delon, Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau
The story is set in June 1983. Famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée Read More »