Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »
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An Andalusian Dog (1929) Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Short, Fantasy, Horror
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction Read More »
Hell on the Beach (1966) José Bénazéraf, Marina Nicolaïdes, Georges Planchon, Georges Claess, Crime, Drama
Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Read More »
The Golden Mass (1975) Beni Montresor, Lucia Bosé, Maurice Ronet, Eva Axén, Drama, Erotic
David and Helene are a bored, rich, bourgeois couple stuck in a stale sexless marriage, who lives in a lush Art Nouveau chateau on the outskirts of Paris, France. Read More »
The Man from Acapulco (1973) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. Read More »
I Killed Rasputin (1967) Robert Hossein, Gert Fröbe, Peter McEnery, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia’s Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. Read More »
Uranus (1990) Claude Berri, Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Comedy, Drama
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. Read More »
The Red and the Black (1954) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi, Drama, Romance
It’s no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post- Napoleonic era Read More »
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995) Claude Sautet, Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Drama
When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities. Read More »
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) Marcel Carné, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Comedy
In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted but still keeping the appearance due to the successful crime novels Read More »