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Tag Archives: France
The Marvelous Visit (1974) Marcel Carné, Gilles Kohler, Roland Lesaffre, Debra Berger
Jean stars as an angel who has fallen from heaven and landed in a picturesque French village. Read More »
La religieuse / The Nun (1966) Jacques Rivette, Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle
In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Read More »
Wajib / The Wedding Invitation (2017) Annemarie Jacir, Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty
A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter’s wedding Read More »
Omaret yakobean / The Yacoubian Building (2006) Marwan Hamed, Adel Imam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Read More »
Egon Schiele – Exzesse / Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1981) Herbert Vesely, Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann
The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women. Read More »
Crime et châtiment / Crime and Punishment (1956) Georges Lampin, Jean Gabin, Marina Vlady, Ulla Jacobsson
Convinced of his own intelligence and talent, René Brunel (Robert Hossein) decide to try that is above Read More »
Operation Double Cross / Train d’enfer (1965) Gilles Grangier, Jean Marais, Marisa Mell, Gérard Tichy
In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist. Read More »
The Others / Les autres (1974) Hugo Santiago, Maurice Born, Noëlle Châtelet, Patrice Dally
Spinoza tries to discover the causes why his son committed suicide. Read More »
The Old Lady Who Wades in the Sea (1991) Laurent Heynemann, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Serrault, Luc Thuillier
Lady M. wades every morning through the sea in order to heal her pain. Read More »