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Tag Archives: french
Equation to an Unknown AKA Équation à un inconnu (1980) Francis Savel, Gianfranco Longhi, Jean-Jacques Loupmon, Reinhard Montz
This long-lost masterpiece of gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle Read More »
Tea in the Harem AKA Le thé au harem d’Archimède (1985) Mehdi Charef, Kader Boukhanef, Rémi Martin, Laure Duthilleul
In a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime. Read More »
The Burning Crucible AKA Le brasier ardent (1923) Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Nicolas Koline
A woman, named simply “Elle” and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. Read More »
Time Out AKA L’emploi du temps (2001) Laurent Cantet, Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet
Recently fired from his job, but unable to confess the truth to his close-knit family Read More »
The Wind Turns AKA Le vent tourne (2018) Bettina Oberli, Mélanie Thierry, Pierre Deladonchamps, Nuno Lopes
Pauline, a young farmer, raises her animals far from the modern world. Read More »
In the Dust of the Sun (1972) Dans la poussière du soleil
In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother Read More »
Tango libre (2012) Frédéric Fonteyne, François Damiens, Sergi López, Jan Hammenecker
A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works Read More »
Kings and Queen AKA Rois et reine (2004) Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
The stories of Nora during a brief period when her father falls ill and of Ismaël while involuntarily committed Read More »
Girls in Distress AKA Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Marcelle Chantal, Jacqueline Delubac, André Luguet
Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). Read More »