Jan Bucquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception Read More »
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Marked Girls / Prisons de femmes (1938) Roger Richebé, Viviane Romance, Renée Saint-Cyr, Marguerite Deval
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. Read More »
Nuit docile (1987) Guy Gilles, Patrick Jouané, Claire Nebout, Pascal Kelaf
A man decides one night to leave the woman he loves. He tells him by phone. All night, he calls her. Read More »
Nationalité immigré (1976) Sidney Sokhona, Jacques Ruisseau, Constant Hames
A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers Read More »
Origins of a Meal / Genèse d’un repas (1979) Luc Moullet
Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Read More »
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Françoise Rosay
“Le Dabe” retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. Read More »
The Cop / Un condé (1970) Yves Boisset, Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko
Gang war rages between friends roger dassa and those of mandarin. Read More »
Day of Atonement (1992) Alexandre Arcady, Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon
It’s an all-out-war when a government agent tries to regain control of a turf struggle between drug lords. Read More »
The Proud Ones (1953) Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas, Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
The first to die in an outbreak of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. Read More »
I as in Icarus / I… comme Icare (1979) Henri Verneuil, Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz
After the recently re-elected President of a fictitious state has been assassinated Read More »