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Tag Archives: France
Lady Jane (2008) Robert Guédiguian, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Muriel, François and René, three childhood friends from a working class neighbourhood of Marseille Read More »
Les trois couronnes du matelot / Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) Raoul Ruiz, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair
A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student. Read More »
Bill il taciturno / Django Kills Silently (1967) Massimo Pupillo, George Eastman, Liana Orfei, Luciano Rossi
Django arrives in the town of Santa Anna at the behest of a man named Sanders who’d been trying Read More »
Birds of Prey (1968) José Giovanni, Lino Ventura, Rosa Furman, Aurora Clavel
Vera Cruz, 1938. “Le Rital”, a tough French hit man, agrees to serve Mexican revolutionaries Read More »
Shoot, Gringo… Shoot! / Spara, Gringo, spara (1968) Bruno Corbucci, Brian Kelly, Fabrizio Moroni, Keenan Wynn
Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez. Read More »
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse / Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi) Read More »
Urgences (1988) Raymond Depardon
A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. Read More »
The Boldest Job in the West (1972) José Antonio de la Loma, Mark Edwards, Carmen Sevilla, Charly Bravo
A bandit gang successfully executes a complicated bank heist but disagreements arise in the aftermath and mass gunplay unfolds. Read More »
The Sun / Solntse (2005) Aleksandr Sokurov, Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, Emperor Hirohito starts his day in a bunker Read More »