
After having broken up with his girlfriend and left his job, Simon has come back to his small hometown in the countryside, where he meets up again with his old friend Julien. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
État de siège / State of Siege (1972) Costa-Gavras, Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Drama, Thriller

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Read More »
Sinon, oui (1997) Claire Simon, Catherine Mendez, Emmanuel Clarke, Lou Castel, Drama

The predicament of a woman who claims she is pregnant when she isn’t. What started out as a mistake becomes a pretence that has to be carried through Read More »
Liste noire / Black List (1995) Jean-Marc Vallée, Michel Côté, Geneviève Brouillette, Sylvie Bourque, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir

At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. Read More »
Le crime de Monsieur Lange / The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) Jean Renoir, René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Comedy, Crime, Drama

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description. Read More »
Ibiza al Desnudo (1982) Gérard Loubeau, Olinka Hardiman, Laura May, Dominique Saint Claire, Adult

While Mr. Oulard is philandering with a hitchhiker, his black mistress and a disco pick-up, his villa on Ibiza is invaded by three thugs who force themselves on his wife and his wife’s friend Read More »
Les amitiés particulières / This Special Friendship (1964) Jean Delannoy, Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia, Drama

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
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Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners and I (2000) François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Bodan Litnanski, Documentary

An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. Read More »
L’amour fou / Mad Love (1969) Jacques Rivette, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop, Drama, Romance

During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes Read More »
Maître du monde / Master of the World (2011) Enrico Alexander Giordano, Boris Beynet, Drama

A 40-year-old broker leaves everything and turns his back on a society that no longer holds an attraction for him. Read More »