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Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) Georges Franju, Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch
When he sees his days are old count Hervé p Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to perish there, simply to frighten his heirs. Read More »
The Demise of Father Mouret / La faute de l’abbé Mouret (1970) Georges Franju, Francis Huster, Gillian Hills, André Lacombe
Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. Read More »
Shadowman (1974) Georges Franju, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin
The butler of the writer Maxime de Borrego goes to the store of an old lady Read More »
La tête contre les murs / Head Against the Wall (1959) Georges Franju, Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Drama
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) Georges Franju, Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Drama
After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged. Read More »
Thomas l’imposteur / Thomas the Impostor (1965) Georges Franju
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
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