Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. Read More »
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Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
Love Letters (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant
France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson Read More »
Escape from Yesterday (1935) Julien Duvivier, Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. Read More »
Calmos (1976) Bertrand Blier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. Read More »
The Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street (1976) Didier Philippe-Gérard, Helga Trixi, Dawn Cummings, Nadja Mons
Following failed suicide attempts, three professional women wind up sharing a hospital room where the mysterious Maude (Dutch Trixie Heinen) comes to visit Read More »
Fievres Nocturnes (1978) Claude Bernard-Aubert, Brigitte Lahaie, Ursula White, Jean-Louis Vattier
Pierre has sexual fantasies about his next door neighbor Marianne leading his wife to get him an appointment with a sex therapist. Read More »
The Blood Rose (1970) Claude Mulot, Philippe Lemaire, Anny Duperey, Elizabeth Teissier
Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her over when he meets the lovely Anne. Read More »
The Green Glove (1952) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona Read More »
Montparnasse 19 (1958) Jacques Becker, Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Read More »