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Sweetie / La puce (1999) Emmanuelle Bercot, Isild Le Besco, Olivier Marchal, Jowan Le Besco

Marion is a 14 year old girl, on holidays at the sea. She is in conflict with her mother and family. Read More »
The Pebbles of Etratat (1972) Les galets d’Étretat

A woman seeks revenge against the man who raped her after a car accident. Read More »
Waiting for the Barbarians / En attendant les barbares (2017) Eugène Green, Fitzgerald Berthon, Hélène Gratet, Arnaud Vrech

On the night of the world loom the barbarians, and six refugees Read More »
Square Fortune / Fortune carrée (1955) Bernard Borderie, Pedro Armendáriz, Paul Meurisse, Fernand Ledoux

Literary adaptation of an adventure from the 30s: An escaped convict from Read More »
The Secret Killer / Le vampire de Düsseldorf (1965) Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Roger Dutoit

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders Read More »
The Finger Man / Le doulos (1962) Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly

Fresh out of prison and hell-bent on revenge, the recently paroled burglar, Maurice Faugel Read More »
Between Love and Duty / Le bois des amants (1960) Claude Autant-Lara, Laurent Terzieff, Erika Remberg, Horst Frank

WW2, in occupied Brittany: a military German woman comes to visit her husband, a Kommandatur officer. Read More »
Courier of Lyons / L’affaire du courrier de Lyon (1937) Claude Autant-Lara, Maurice Lehmann, Pierre Blanchar, Dita Parlo, Jacques Copeau

Historical drama based on a true case of miscarriage of justice, the “Joseph Lesurques case” of 1796. Read More »
The Heart’s Cry / Le cri du coeur (1994) Idrissa Ouedraogo, Richard Bohringer, Saïd Diarra, Félicité Wouassi

Moctar lives in Mali with his mother Saffi and his ailing grandfather. Read More »