France

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.Read More »

A brother and sister are preparing to celebrate their father’s birthday.Read More »

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“C’est un film simple sur des choses compliquées”, this is how J.L. Godard once described Le mépris : “It’s a simple film about complicated things.”

I. “Totalement, tendrement, tragiquement”
II Cinecittà, “All kinds of real human beings.”
III. Prokosch’s villa in Rome – “About the money and your wife”
IV. In the appartment – “I’m not going, I’m not going”
V. In the theater (where one sells lies)
VI. Capri – “I have to know why you despise me”
VII. “Adieu”
VIII. Ithaque – “Silenzio!”Read More »

A French diplomat must escape an FSB plot in Siberia.

Based on incredible true events, Jérome Salle’s gripping new espionage thriller depicts the remarkable story of a French public servant who unwittingly finds himself in conflict with one of the modern era’s most powerful and dangerous forces: Russia’s FSB. Gilles Lellouche stars as Mathieu, a gregarious and dedicated diplomat who accepts a posting to Irkutsk as the head of Siberia’s Alliance Francaise. He hopes the change will be good for his family and struggling marriage, but before long Mathieu’s staging of cultural events and support of artistic expression sees him fall afoul of local authorities. Accused of a terrible crime, he soon realises someone has fabricated a case with Russia’s Federal Security Service – he has been framed. Arrested, imprisoned and isolated, Mathieu has nowhere to turn. Defending himself is impossible, the French authorities are helpless – it seems he has no choice: to try and escape.Read More »

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A retired army man lives in the Temple Woods housing project outside Paris, where his young neighbor belongs to a local gang about to rob the convoy of an Arab prince.Read More »

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“Chasing Butterflies” examines the strange whims and peccadilloes of a group of eccentrics who reside in a small French town. There’s an alcoholic priest, the assorted residents of a now-decrepit chateau, and a variety of unusual guests who stop by. Events come to a head when Sophie, the rambunctious cousin of the chateau’s owner, passes away… creating a battle among the potential heirs for her money and possessions.Read More »

Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take a sinister turn.Read More »

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This visually magnificent and poetic city symphony of Paris in the late 1920s earned Sauvage the admiration of Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo. Sauvage maps the metropolis through its street life, monuments, ports, and automobile traffic.Read More »

A family living on a remote island learns an escaped prisoner may be in the area. Allan (Sterling Hayden) is the professor who studies the migratory habits of birds. His wife Clea (Maureen McNalley) has a fascination for all things dead. Her sister Lis (Susan Strasberg) is visiting to break the news of her impending marriage to an older man. Clea leaves tobacco and food out for the unseen escapee. Lis meets the prisoner (Stuart Whitman) on the beach and the two make love. The quiet paradise is interrupted by the escaped prisoner who later suffers a potentially fatal wound while killing another man.Read More »