
Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
Magnet of Doom (1963) Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier

When French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet looses his last fight he decides to quit boxing. Read More »
Chasing Butterflies (1992) Otar Iosseliani, Narda Blanchet, Pierette Pompom Bailhache, Aleksandr Cherkasov

A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants. Read More »
Amok (1934) Fyodor Otsep, Marcelle Chantal, Jean Yonnel, Valéry Inkijinoff

Dr. Holk leads a lonely life in a small dutch colony in the tropics. Read More »
The Beautiful Story (1992) Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lanvin, Béatrice Dalle, Vincent Lindon

Jesus is a French gypsy who might have become a bull fighter had he not been framed on a drug charge and sent to prison. Read More »
De Sade (1969) Cy Endfield, Roger Corman, Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion. Read More »
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Jean Epstein, Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy

Allan has a hard time finding the Usher’s house, which is known to be cursed… Read More »
We’re All Still Here (1997) Anne-Marie Miéville, Aurore Clément, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Godard

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé

Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »
Hell (1994) Claude Chabrol, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone

Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife’s infidelity. Read More »