
As its title indicates, La Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan) is set in the special world of the ballet. Read More »
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A Lovers Return (1946) Christian-Jaque, Louis Jouvet, Gaby Morlay, François Périer

A man returns to his hometown after 20 years: to the woman he loved and the man who tried to kill him. Read More »
Storm Over the Mountain / Premier de cordée (1944) Louis Daquin, Irène Corday, André Le Gall, Marcel Delaître

Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust Read More »
Voyage of Silence / O Salto (1967) Christian de Chalonge, Marco Pico, Ludmila Mikaël, Antonio Passalia

“O salto” means the leap, more precisely the big leap Potuguese illegal emigrants have to make Read More »
Le soupirant / The Suitor (1962) France Arnel, Pierre Étaix, Laurence Lignières

Pierre is a shy man whose sole focus in life is studying astrology in solitude Read More »
Barbed Wire Dolls / Frauengefängnis (1976) Jesus Franco, Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn

Maria (Lina Romay) is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her sexually abusive father (Jess Franco). Read More »
La vallée / The Valley (1972) Barbet Schroeder

Viviane, a French Consul’s wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. Read More »
Adorable menteuse / Adorable Liar (1962) Michel Deville, Marina Vlady, Macha Méril, Michel Vitold
Without a doubt, lovely Juliette loves to play the game of deception. Indeed, Juliette can’t resist Read More »
The Cat / Le chat (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence Read More »
The Seventh Juror (1962) Georges Lautner, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Francis Blanche

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Read More »
