France

  • Luc Moullet – Toujours plus AKA More and More (1994)

    1991-2000DocumentaryFranceLuc MoulletShort Film

    Documentary short film from the french director Luc MoulletRead More »

  • Anissa Bonnefont – La Maison AKA The House (2022)

    2021-2030Anissa BonnefontDramaEroticaFrance

    An erotic drama based on Emma Becker’s controversial bestselling novel chronicling the young author’s two-year undercover experience working as a sex worker at a Berlin brothel… ~VarietyRead More »

  • Jean Girault – Pouic-Pouic AKA Squeak-Squeak (1963)

    1961-1970ComedyFranceJean Girault

    Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in South America. Convinced that the concession is a fake, Monestier decides to sell it on to a friend of the family, the naive millionaire Antoine Brévin. Antoine wants to marry his daughter, Patricia. However, Patricia has a different opinion on the matter. She manages to persuade the car delivery guy, Simon Guilbaud, to pretend to be her husband. Unaware of this development, Monestier invites Antoine to his house in order to get him to agree to buy the oil concession. After the invitation to Antoine, the butler Charles informs Monestier of the rushed marriage of Patricia. To prove that the concession is genuine, Monestier hires his son-in-law Simon to pretend to be his son, Paul, who is currently in South America. At this point, the real Paul turns up, with a Latin showgirl, Palma. Monestier has to resort to ever more desperate schemes to get Antoine to sign his cheque.Read More »

  • Philippe Harel – La femme défendue AKA The Forbidden Woman (1997) (HD)

    1991-2000ArthouseFrancePhilippe HarelRomance

    39-year-old François meets 22-year-old Muriel, who is a virgin. She agrees that on a certain day they will meet at a hotel and he will see her naked, and promises not to sleep with her at that occasion.

    This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of Isabelle Carré’s face. She is capable of changing her facial mimic so much that she never looks artificial or inappropriate. 39-year-old François meets 22-year-old Muriel, who is a virgin. Several times he invites her to fine restaurants. She agrees that on a certain day they will meet at a hotel and he will see her naked. He promises not to sleep with her at that occasion…Read More »

  • Georges Lampin – Les anciens de Saint-Loup AKA Old Boys of Saint-Loup (1950)

    1941-1950ComedyDramaFranceGeorges Lampin

    “Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster’s niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin’s niece has just been murdered.”Read More »

  • François Truffaut – L’histoire d’Adèle H. AKA The Story of Adele H. (1975)

    François Truffaut1971-1980ArthouseDramaFrance

    Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet obsessive love and self-destruction is based upon the real diary of Adèle Hugo.Read More »

  • Jean-Marie Straub – Corneille-Brecht (Versions A, B, C) (2009)

    Jean-Marie Straub2001-2010FranceShort Film

    SYNOPSIS
    In leaps of physical color and sound, Cornelia Geiser recites verses from two of Pierre Corneille’s Roman plays, Horace and Othon (“As for the school of dialectics, well Corneille is nevertheless the greatest…” said Straub), followed by a reading of Bertolt Brecht’s 1939 radio play The Trial of Lucullus, a powerful recitative on war-crimes in fourteen short pieces (never broadcast; later turned into an opera by Brecht and Paul Dessau in East Germany).Read More »

  • Eva Ionesco – La loi de la forêt AKA The law of the forest (2006)

    2001-2010EroticaEva IonescoFrance

    Synopsis
    Alberte a une liaison passionnée avec Mathias, son médecin. Il la traite sous narco-analyse pour pouvoir déceler un symptôme plus profond. Il s’introduit en elle à son insu et prend possession de son être afin de lire ce qui le pourchasse lui, pourquoi on lui en veut, quelle est la maladie étrange qui l’habite.Read More »

  • Robert Vernay – Passeport diplomatique agent K 8 (1965)

    France1961-1970ActionRobert VernayThriller

    The daughter of a foreign diplomat in Paris is courted by two men. She is persuaded to take a necklace through customs on her diplomatic passport. But it’s a trap, she finds out that it contained microfilm and the young girl is forced to work for the spies from the East…taking part in a plot to kidnap a scientist…Read More »

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