An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. Read More »
Tag Archives: Simone Signoret
Term of Trial (1962) Peter Glenville, Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles
Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during World War II Read More »
Games (1967) Curtis Harrington, Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross
A young hip New York couple, Jennifer and Paul Montgomery, love to play games. Read More »
Against the Wind (1948) Charles Crichton, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner
Philip Elliot, refugee Belgian priest, reports to a secret school in London for spies and saboteurs behind German lines. Read More »
The Deadly Affair (1966) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret
After Charles Dobbs, a security officer, has a friendly chat with Samuel Fennan from the Foreign Office, the man commits suicide. Read More »
The Sea Gull (1968) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, Drama, Romance
An aging actress named Irina Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. Read More »
La vie devant soi / Madame Rosa (1977) Moshé Mizrahi, Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb, Drama
La mort en ce jardin / Death in the Garden (1956) Luis Buñuel, Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Adventure, Drama
Chark, an adventurer comes to small village in the near of a gold digger’s camp. He is arrested by the local police, who accuse him of having comitted a bank robbery in a neighoured town. Read More »
I Sent a Letter to My Love / Chère inconnue (1980) Moshé Mizrahi, Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, Drama
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. Read More »
Compartiment tueurs / The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) Costa-Gavras, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. Read More »
Ship of Fools (1965) Stanley Kramer, Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Drama, Romance, War
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship’s doctor who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Contessa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are. The once famous Mary Treadwell gets much of her attention.
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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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