Detective Rolf Torring is tasked with finding out who stole a valuable ruby from a Bangkok museum. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Ladies Man (1962) Bernard Borderie, Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Claudine Coster
Eddie Constantine, One of Eddie’s many portrayals as super sleuth/agent, Lemmy Caution. This time the action and danger is set on the French Riviera. Read More »
The Reluctant Spy / L’honorable Stanislas agent secret (1963) Jean-Charles Dudrumet, Jean Marais, Geneviève Page, Maurice Teynac
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. Read More »
Omar Killed Me / Omar m’a tuer (2011) Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal Read More »
Q / Sexual Desire (2011) Laurent Bouhnik, Déborah Révy, Hélène Zimmer, Gowan Didi
Set in Cheg, France and in a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis Read More »
Marianne (1997) Benoît Jacquot
A romance of 18th-century Paris: Virginie Ledoyen plays a lovely and graceful orphan Read More »
France société anonyme / French Anonymity Society (1974) Alain Corneau, Michel Bouquet, Allyn Ann McLerie, Roland Dubillard
Year 2222. A former drug dealer who keeps someone alive artificially, tells how, in France in the 70s Read More »
The Quiet American (2002) Phillip Noyce, Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do
British Thomas Fowler enjoys his life in Saigon working as a reporter for the London Times Read More »
Rue des Prairies (1959) Denys de La Patellière
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin) Read More »
Jerk (2021) Gisèle Vienne, Jonathan Capdevielle, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Serge Ramon
From Dennis Cooper’s short novel, based upon true events. Texas, mid-1970’s. Read More »