The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
The Vanishing Corporal (1962) Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Read More »
Just Before Nightfall (1971) Claude Chabrol, Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet
Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Read More »
The Sentinel (1992) Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard
Mathias, whose dead father was a diplomat in Germany, decides to study the forensic medicine in Paris. Read More »
The Hunchback of Paris (1959) André Hunebelle, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. Read More »
Struggle in Italy (1971) Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology. Read More »
Mélo (1986) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who’s the wife of an old friend. Read More »
French Cancan (1955) Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix
Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola Read More »
Little Theater of Jean Renoir (1970) Jean Renoir, Nino Formicola, Milly, Roger Trapp
Made for television, this film consists of four parts: Part One, “The Last Christmas Dinner,” is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Read More »
Love Hate (1971) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marion Game, Paul Muller
A prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He’s involved in a bad business where politicians and underworld are leading the dance. Read More »