North/South Triptych – Part I. The impending birth of the director’s youngest child motivates him to explore the society in which it will have to live. Shot in the Cameroons, Morocco and the Netherlands, this film, the first of a series of three, attempts to define, from hoe to computer, the relationship between the poor, developing countries of the South and the rich, industrialized Northern countries.Read More »
Two men are secretly investigating a clinic in a remote area near Paris in which the nurses are rumored to provide special, non-medical services to their patients. When the men are discovered, they flee to Paris with several of the nurses in hot pursuit. Soon they discover that although they can run, they cannot hide.
This film is also known as Les suceuses.Read More »
Jean-Louis Vattier dreams about his lovely downstairs neighbor, Brigitte Lahaie, although his dreams occasionally turn into nightmares involving his hard hat co-worker Dominique Aveline. One particularly strange and violent sequence is not made any more watchable by some slow motion fighting accompanied by the usual ‘arousing’ sax music instead of more threatening music, but this entire film is one big incomprehensible trip anyway, so the viewer had better prepare for more far out scenes. Pierre awakes to find his beautiful blond wife (although she’s no Brigitte) played by Ursula White. Obviously their marriage is in trouble, with him living in a fantasy world of his own making while she, Janine, has taken a lover of the same sex (Liliane Lemieuvre as Rosette). Pierre spots Brigitte in a book store and begins to fantasize once more.Read More »
When his father, a wealthy industrialist, is killed in aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell returns to France to take up the reins of the empire he has inherited. As a prostitute attempts to frame him for drug smuggling, Bart begins to suspect is father may have been murdered. His investigation uncovers a complex web of political intrigue, in which his own family and his stepfather are heavily implicated…Read More »
In a play drawn from his non-fiction book of the same name, David Yallop combines dramatic reconstruction with direct documentary address to detail the miscarriage of justice which led to the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1953.
The tense opening film sequence shows 16-year-old Christopher Craig’s shoot-out with police, during which PC Sidney Miles is shot dead. Craig’s 19-year-old friend Derek Bentley is unarmed and placidly under arrest throughout. In court, however, both are found guilty of murder; Craig is too young to receive the death sentence but Bentley, despite widespread protests, is hanged. Yallop uncovers serious judicial failings, and denies that Bentley incited Craig, or that he ever said the famous phrase “let him have it, Chris”.Read More »
Philippe & Jean-Pierre enjoy the companionship of women they met at an auction.
The film is also known as Sarabande porno.
Starring: Emmanuelle Parèze, Danielle Troger, Brigitte Lahaie, Karine Gambier, Bernard Hug & Richard Allan.Read More »
The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) masterminded this elaborately detailed, and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In twenty-nine years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and “Birdman” Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates who were never heard of again.Read More »
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.Read More »
AUTO-STOPPEUSES EN CHALEUR (HITCHHIKERS IN HEAT) – 1979
Classic Brigitte Lahaie film in which she plays a hitch-hiker who is more than generous to repay the favor! A happy husband and his wife are about to leave on vacation, but on the way the husband happily picks up 2 young Danish hitch-hikers and takes them back to a hotel. After this exciting romp the husband is more than willing to pick up Brigitte from the side of the road. Soon he finds himself with Karine Gambier and the action continues…Also stars Karine Gambier, Karen Allan, and Cathy Stewart.Read More »