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Let Joy Reign Supreme / Que la fête commence… (1975) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle
France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d’Orleans is the regent. Read More »
The Last Train (1973) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud
May 1940 – Germany invades Europe, people panic and try to flee by any means possible. Read More »
Monsieur Fantômas (1937) Ernst Moerman, Jacqueline Arpé, Françoise Bert, L. Degroote
In this surrealist piece of avant-garde generation of Belgian cinema, French masked master of crime Fantômas travels Read More »
Élise ou la vraie vie (1970) Michel Drach, Marie-José Nat, Mohamed Chouikh, Bernadette Lafont
In 1957, Elise Le Tellier, a young woman from Bordeaux, decides to join her brother Lucien Read More »
Deux hommes dans Manhattan / Two Men in Manhattan (1959) Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) Read More »
The Taste of Violence / Le goût de la violence (1961) Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf
This European “western” by Robert Hossein (scripter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. Read More »
Liar’s Moon (1982) David Fisher, Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Hoyt Axton
Against the wishes of both families, a poor boy and a wealthy banker’s daughter elope Read More »
La femme de Gilles / Gilles’ Wife (2004) Frédéric Fonteyne, Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet
Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him Read More »
The Xango from Baker Street / O Xangô de Baker Street (2001) Miguel Faria Jr., Joaquim de Almeida, Anthony O’Donnell, Maria de Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city’s Municipal Theater Read More »