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Wooden Crosses (1932) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. Read More »
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) Alain Resnais, Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin

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 »
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 »