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Gagarine (2020) Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh, Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven
Yuri fights to save his home town – which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin – from demolition. Read More »
Lovers, Happy Lovers! / Monsieur Ripois (1954) René Clément, Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
From the Louis Hemon novel “M. Ripois and His Nemesis” about Andre Ripois, a philanderer Read More »
Crime and Punishment / Crime et châtiment (1935) Pierre Chenal, Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray
Raskolnikov is a Russian man who follows an unusual moral code. Read More »
Portuguese Vacation / Vacances portugaises (1963) Pierre Kast, Françoise Arnoul, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend Read More »
Marie Antoinette Queen of France / Marie-Antoinette reine de France (1956) Jean Delannoy, Michèle Morgan, Richard Todd, Jacques Morel
In 1774, Marie-Antoinette, wife of the dauphin, heavy and clumsy Read More »
Castle of Blood / Danza macabra (1964) Antonio Margheriti, Sergio Corbucci, Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margrete Robsahm
A writer accepts a bet that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul’s Eve. Read More »
Bye Bye Blondie (2012) Virginie Despentes, Emmanuelle Béart, Béatrice Dalle, Soko
A Love Story Of Two Women Who meet up in their late forties Read More »
The Human Beast / La bête humaine (1938) Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Jacques Lantier is a train engineer who is prone to violent seizures Read More »
In the Shadow of the Wind / Les fous de Bassan (1987) Yves Simoneau, Steve Banner, Charlotte Valandrey, Laure Marsac
Stevens Brown, now an old man, recalls the events that unfurled 50 years before Read More »