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Don Juan (1998) Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Béart

Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Read More »
Guns for San Sebastian / La bataille de San Sebastian (1968) Henri Verneuil, Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. Read More »
Genet à Chatila (1999) Richard Dindo, Mounia Raoui, Leila Shahid, Jean-François Stévenin

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. Read More »
Happy New Year (1973) Claude Lelouch, Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed Read More »
Long Live Life (1984) Claude Lelouch, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose Read More »
Tartarin of Tarascon (1934) Raymond Bernard, Raimu, Fernand Charpin, Sinoël

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa Read More »
La Main du Diable / Carnival of Sinners (1943) Maurice Tourneur, Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert, Fantasy, Horror

A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. The man is panic-struck when Read More »
Elles (1997) Luís Galvão Teles, Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life’s ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Read More »
Retour à Kotelnitch (2003) Emmanuel Carrère

Kotelnitch is a small town 800 km east of Moscow. The author went on the trail of a Hungarian prisoner Read More »