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Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.Read More »
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Jean Aurel – Les femmes AKA The Vixen (1969)
1961-1970ComedyFranceJean Aurel -
Claude Berri – Je vous aime AKA I Love You All (1980)
1971-1980Claude BerriComedyFranceRomanceQuote:
A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year’s Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times.Read More » -
Sacha Guitry – Donne-moi tes yeux AKA My Last Mistress (1943)
1941-1950DramaFranceRomanceSacha GuitrySynopsis
François (Guitry) is a young sculptor who falls madly in love with his model Catherine (portrayed by Guitry’s real-life wive Genevieve). When his eyesight fails him, Bressoles begins to feel unworthy of Catherine…Read More » -
Gilles Grangier – Le rouge est mis AKA Speaking of Murder (1957)
1951-1960CrimeFilm NoirFranceGilles GrangierLouis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when “the red light is on” at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis’ younger brother is a police informer.Read More »
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Jean Rollin – Fascination (1979)
1971-1980CultEroticaFranceJean RollinSynopsis:
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.Read More » -
Djibril Diop Mambéty – Badou Boy (1970)
1961-1970African CinemaComedyDjibril Diop MambétyExperimentalSenegal

Publisher’s description:
The 1970 colour full-lengh film Badou Boy, a south-Sahara “cops and robbers” movie, “it’s a part of my youthful years, many Africans empathizes with the amoral waif, the movie character that is so similar to me”, declared the director. Shot in 16mm, it won the gold medal at the MIFED of Milan and the golden Tanit at 1970 Cathage Festival.Read More » -
Alain Corneau – Le deuxième souffle AKA The Second Wind (2007)
2001-2010Alain CorneauDramaFranceThriller

The misadventures of an gangster who escapes from prison and who wants to quit the crime world. Having killed a criminal as pay-back, he goes to Marseille to head abroad with his girlfriend. But a lack of money forces him to accept a job, a hold-up, to settle accounts with the victim’s brother, all this with the cops on his tail.Read More »
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Samantha Lang – L’Idole AKA The Idol (2002)
2001-2010DramaFranceSamantha LangIn an old Parisian apartment block, Zao, an elderly refined Chinese man, crosses paths with Sarah, a troubled young Australian actress, who has just moved in across the hallway. The day she reveals her plans for a vengeful suicide, he proposes a pact: to cook for her until the fateful date. And so begins an ambiguous and subtly erotic friendship, under the ever watchful and envious eyes of the other inhabitants who do their best to disrupt this mystifying relationship.Read More »
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Claude Berri – Jean de Florette (1986)
Claude Berri1981-1990ComedyDramaFranceQuote:
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.Read More »






