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Tag Archives: french
All Is Forgiven / Tout est pardonné (2007) Mia Hansen-Løve, Paul Blain, Marie-Christine Friedrich, Victoire Rousseau

A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father’s drug addiction tore the family apart. Read More »
Madame du Barry (1954) Christian-Jaque, Martine Carol, Daniel Ivernel, Gianna Maria Canale

The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become Read More »
The People of France / La vie est à nous (1936) Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Jean Dasté, Simone Guisin

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing who the comrades Read More »
Cosmos (2015) Andrzej Zulawski, Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet

Witold just failed his law-school exams and Fuchs has just quit his job at a Parisian fashion company. Read More »
Happy hoboes / Due pezzi di pane (1979) Sergio Citti, Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Noiret, Gigi Proietti

Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they’ve both been lovers to the same woman Read More »
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed / Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas (1981) Laurent Heynemann, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer

“Hangar” is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. Read More »
Barracuda (1997) Philippe Haïm, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet, Claire Keim

A mad but cunning old man imprisons a young man in his apartment to be his friend. Read More »
White Fang / Zanna Bianca (1973) Lucio Fulci, Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, Fernando Rey

Set in 1896 in the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada follows the adventures of White Fang Read More »
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case / Maigret et l’affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959) Jean Delannoy, Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier

Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. Read More »