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La poison (1951) Sacha Guitry, Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes

Fed up with his wife Blandine, an alcoholic shrew, Paul Braconnier decides to get rid of her. Read More »
Disorder (1986) Olivier Assayas, Wadeck Stanczak, Ann-Gisel Glass, Lucas Belvaux

A group of young musicians burglarizes a shop and they kill a man. Read More »
L’été en pente douce (1987) Gérard Krawczyk, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Pauline Lafont

Fane wants nothing but a quiet countryside life with the woman and the sweet, brain damaged brother he loves. Read More »
Edge of the Horizon (1993) Fernando Lopes, Claude Brasseur, Andréa Ferréol, Ana Padrão

Spino, a 50-year-old pathologist, works at the city morgue. Read More »
To Commit a Murder (1967) Édouard Molinaro, Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger, Edmond O’Brien

Charles Beaulieu, who served as an Army officer during the Algerian War, has become a novelist. Read More »
Polar (1984) Jacques Bral, Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist Read More »
Black Sunday (1977) John Frankenheimer, Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller

Terrorist organization Black September is planning an attack on the United States. Read More »
The Erl King (1931) Marie-Louise Iribe, Joë Hamman, Mary Costes, Rosa Bertens

A young man races to save his son’s life, but death – incarnated in the child’s imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly. Read More »
The Crossing of the Rhine (1960) André Cayatte, Charles Aznavour, Nicole Courcel, Georges Rivière

Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers. Read More »