French

PLOT:
As the film begins, Emmanuelle is travelling by ship to join her husband, Jean, in Hong Kong. To her annoyance there are no cabins available and she has to sleep in an all-female dorm. During the night, she is awakened by the girl in the neighboring bunk, who tells her that she is afraid of sleeping in a room full of women because she was raped by three Filipino girls while at boarding school in Macao—she concludes by confessing that she enjoyed it. Emmanuelle recognizes this as an invitation and the two women have sex.Read More »

Synopsis:
Claude Lelouch’s Bandits combines a murder story with a skewered view of “family values.” Jewel thief Jean Yanne ships his daughter Marie-Sophie Lelouch off to a Swiss boarding school. His motives are not altogether paternal: Yanne intends to avenge the murder of his wife, and doesn’t want his daughter around to complicate his plans. In Switzerland, Lelouch falls in love with a young criminal, and the cycle that has entrapped her father starts all over again. Nothing is what it seems and nothing that happens is what we expect in Bandits.
~ Hal Erickson, RoviRead More »

Two children wake up and go off to school, just as they do every morning. They invent games; their ritual of nastiness and complicity continues the way it always does. But this morning something …Read More »

Synopsis
Thomas, thirty-five, has decided that he will not go outside again. He llives in a caravan in a hanger in the middle of metropolis and invites to his place his family, friends, and neighbours. He organizes parties.Read More »

A photographer who still grieves for his dead girlfriend arrives in a small French village. His horny models join him there for a photo shoot. Meanwhile, a sleazy local farmer tries to rape his female farmhands and the models.Read More »

Synopsis
Double-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called “Le Diable Rose” in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by both Nazis and Partisans alike.Read More »

Ten years after they went their separate ways following the breakdown of their marriage, Jacques makes a sudden reappearance in Mado’s life. Whilst Jacques has been unable to move on and build a new life for himself, Mado has married another man, Stéphane, with whom she has had a son, Paul, now seven years old. It was the tragic death of their child which led to Jacques and Mado’s separation, and it is something which Jacques has been unable to put behind him. When she sees how Jacques and Paul warm to one another, Mado becomes concerned and insists that her ex-partner he should never see her son again. Unwilling or unable to let go of the tragedy that still haunts him Jacques holds a private vigil in the basement of the apartment block where Mado and her family live, just so that he can be near to the little boy who has come to replace the one he has lost…Read More »

In a boxcar, three escapees hope to get to Sweden; there’s the military man who wants to resume the fight, the simple private who’s tired of being a fighter, and the intellectual, a schoolteacher fluent in German -which is useful- who does not exactly what he is going to do. Their main problem is water. On the train,their journey will be perilous: every station is a threat, for they may be discovered by the German soldiers.Read More »

The pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her. To his chagrin, his adopted son, Jean, is also in love with Gertrude, even though he is shortly to be married to another woman. Jean’s fiancée is jealous of Gertrude and arranges for her to see a doctor in the hope that she might be cured and to enable Jean to choose equally between the two women. Miraculously, Gertrude’s sight is restored and she returns to the village a changed woman. Unable to accept Jean’s love and disappointed by the pastor’s affections for her, she realises that her former happiness has been lost forever. (Films de France)Read More »