Once a professional boxer, Victor now has only one ambition: to coach a young amateur boxer to become a true champion. Read More »
Tag Archives: Marcel Carné
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) Marcel Carné, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Comedy
In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted Read More »
Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (1938) Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Life’s a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. Read More »
Terrain vague / Wasteland (1960) Marcel Carné, Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli, Drama
The members of a criminal gang teenagers gather every day in an old warehouse, where the girl that leads gives the appropriate commands for each day. Read More »
Jenny (1936) Marcel Carné
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother’s professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny’s lover…
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Thérèse Raquin / The Adultress (1953) Marcel Carné, Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby
Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a truckdriver, Laurent… and of course they fall in love. But they will be pursued by fate.
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