France

Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.Read More »

Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.Read More »

Pauline, a psychologist and instructor of driver’s license recovery courses, waits for the driver who killed her husband to get out of prison in order to avenge him.Read More »

For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities are between two armies of young schoolboys. Their idea of war may be less damaging than that practiced by their elders, but it is prosecuted with just as much spirit and determination. One year, the two armies decide to confiscate the buttons, shoelaces and belts of anyone they capture from the opposing side; victory will go to the army which manages to accumulate the greatest quantity of these spoils. When he is beaten by his father for having lost his buttons, the leader of the Longueverne army, Lebrac, has an idea which will give his side the advantage: next time, he and his brave soldiers will go in battle without their clothes…Read More »

French erotic comedy, based on the comic strip by Jean-Marc Reizer. The action takes place on the beach south of France around the sexual intrigues of the two roommates.Read More »

Academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado’s Berlin Film Festival award-winning doc tells his and others’ stories of transition through unique reenactments and visual interpretations of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography.Read More »

It is about a text pulled from the book In service to Germany, written by Barrès in 1903 on the mount Saint-Odile. With as main actor Joseph Rottner, the director will follow the tracks of the young country doctor in walk in the mount Saint-Odile, through the roads which knew Barrès, up to the forest house of Ratsamhausen and around the famous heathen, unique wall in the region. Jean-Marie Straub will play himself the role of the inhabitant of Lorraine to which the young Alsatian speaks.Read More »

mk2 (a bit revised) wrote:
Jeanne and Jean, a sensitive young man, have one last rendez-vous at the “Pan Coupé”, the little café where they always meet. A few weeks later Jean flees, disappears… Jeanne confides in her friend Pierre and his father. They all begin an investigation of their own into the young man’s disappearance. Disillusionment, poetry and dark romanticism combine to create a compelling film in urgent need of rediscovery.Read More »

About the problems of frigidity encountered by a young married woman and how they are overcome with help of her husband.Read More »