
At 30, boyish penniless aristocrat Ryno de Marigny has separated from Villini, a passionate Spaniard and his mistress of 10 years. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
For a Cops Hide (1981) Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Anne Parillaud

In Paris, the ex-cop Choucas is a private detective that works with a mysterious partner, Tarpon, and the secretary Charlotte. Read More »
Daens (1992) Stijn Coninx, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
Beauties of the Night (1952) René Clair, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida

Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. Read More »
Houseboat (1958) Melville Shavelson, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer

Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. Read More »
The Bloodiest (2005) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, Emile Abossolo M’bo

A futuristic film set in a dystopian Cameroonian city vaguely reminiscent of the dystopian Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s classic BladeRunner Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
The Horse of Pride (1980) Claude Chabrol, Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Le Saché, François Cluzet

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof Read More »
A Story of Women (1988) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Drama, Romance

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »
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 »