
Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust Read More »
Tag Archives: french
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 »
The Sexual Life of the Belgians / La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994) Jan Bucquoy, Jean-Henri Compère, Noe Francq, Isabelle Legros

Jan Bucquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception Read More »
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 »
