
All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. Read More »
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Maigret voit rouge / Maigret Sees Red (1963) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian, Roland Armontel

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help Read More »
Hearth Fires / Les feux de la chandeleur (1972) Serge Korber, Annie Girardot, Jean Rochefort, Claude Jade

Alexandre Boursault, solicitor in the provinces, would have been the happiest of men if his wife had not openly displayed Read More »
The Night Affair (1958) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Read More »
Deadlier Than the Male / Voici le temps des assassins… (1956) Julien Duvivier, Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux

André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. Read More »
Time Out for Love / Les grandes personnes (1961) Jean Valère, Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Micheline Presle

Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. Read More »
Le soleil des voyous / Action Man (1967) Jean Delannoy, Jean Gabin, Robert Stack, Margaret Lee

Sophisticated crook talks ex-crook and now respectable business man into one last caper. Read More »
1/3 des yeux (2004) Olivier Zabat

1/3 of the eyes is a poetic documentary on the contradictory forces present in our society and in every human being. Read More »
Uranus (1990) Claude Berri, Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Comedy, Drama

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. Read More »
La comtesse perverse / Countess Perverse (1974) Jesús Franco, Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Howard Vernon

Two wealthy aristocrats lure a virginal girl to a Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism. Read More »