
Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »
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Lucrezia Borgia (1935) Abel Gance, Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande, Drama, History, Romance

After the advice of his main adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to try to unify the nation so as to become even stronger. Read More »
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) Andrzej Zulawski, Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Drama, Romance

Servais Mont, a photographer, matches Nadine Chevalier who makes her cash starring in economical soft-core films. Read More »
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954) Don Weis, John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Thomas Gomez, Action, Adventure, Romance

Back in Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is departing his father’s store to seek out a larger chance, although the Princess Fawzia is hoping to speak her daddy Read More »
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961) Giuseppe Masini, Edgar G. Ulmer, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Haya Harareet, Georges Rivière, Adventure, Fantasy

A helicopter crashes in town, as well as the crew pops up at the underground city of Atlantis and have mixed up in a slave revolt. Read More »
If the Wind Frightens You (1960) Emile Degelin, Elisabeth Dulac, Guy Lesire, Henri Billen, Drama

Having a literary, stylistic strategy and rigid dialogue, this emotional drama by director Emile Degelin handles the generally taboo topic of incest at a round-about manner. Read More »
The Woman Who Dared (1944) Jean Grémillon, Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Jean Debucourt, Drama

Within this uplifting romantic play, the spouse of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the notion of flying herself. Read More »
N. Took the Dice (1971) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Drama, Horror

A reshuffling of Grillet’s Eden and afterwards, the name an anagram of the film Read More »
The Color of Lies (1999) Claude Chabrol, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Antoine de Caunes, Crime, Drama

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. Read More »
Le banquet (1989) Marco Ferreri, Lucas Belvaux, Jean Benguigui, Marc Berman, Drama

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial. Read More »