Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Read More »
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Dainah the Mixed / Daïnah la métisse (1932) Jean Grémillon, Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Read More »
The Police War (1979) La guerre des polices
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Read More »
Safe Conduct / Laissez-passer (2002) Bertrand Tavernier, Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady
In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Read More »
The Queen of Spades / La dame de pique (1965) Léonard Keigel, Dita Parlo, Michel Subor, Simone Bach
A countess married to Russia’s envoy to the court of Louis XVI is a gambling addict Read More »
Netchaiev Is Back (1991) Netchaïev est de retour
Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev Read More »
Cold Water / L’eau froide (1994) Olivier Assayas, Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, László Szabó
Gilles and Christine a boy and a girl live in the outskirts of Paris Read More »
The Hunchback / Le bossu (1944) Jean Delannoy, Pierre Blanchar, Paul Bernard, Yvonne Gaudeau
A wealthy aristocrat disguises himself as a poor, deformed hunchback in order to avenge a murder. Read More »
Prom / Le bal (1931) Wilhelm Thiele, Germaine Dermoz, Danielle Darrieux, André Lefaur
Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl. Read More »
A Simple Story / Une histoire simple (1978) Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Claude Brasseur
A simple story about simple people. A 38 old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him Read More »