Released Date:
1958-01-29
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
119 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (690 Reviews)
Director:
Jean DelannoyGeorges Simenon (novel)
Jean Delannoy (adaptation)
Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud (adaptation)
Michel Audiard (adaptation)
Michel Audiard (dialogue)
For some time now, women coming home at night have been savagely murdered by a mysterious serial killer. Inspector Lagrume thinks he has found the culprit in the person of Barberot, a local butcher. But Maigret, who takes over the investigation, is not convinced. Deep inside himself, he knows the murderer is still at large. But how to trap him ?
Released Date:
1961-06-26
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
180 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (10352 Reviews)
Director:
Luchino ViscontiLuchino Visconti (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (story)
Vasco Pratolini (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Pasquale Festa Campanile (screenplay)
Massimo Franciosa (screenplay)
Enrico Medioli (screenplay)
Luchino Visconti (screenplay)
Giovanni Testori (inspired by episodes in the novel "Il ponte della Ghisolfa")
The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone manages to find something to do. Simone is boxing, Rocco works in a dry cleaners, and Ciro studies. Simone meets Nadia, a prostitute, and they have a stormy affair. Then Rocco, after finishing his military service, begins a relationship with her. A bitter feud ensues between the two brothers, which will lead as far as murder...
Released Date:
1964-09-22
Languages:
French, Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (358 Reviews)
Director:
Marco FerreriRafael Azcona
Marco Ferreri
A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her.It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
Released Date:
1969-03-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (785 Reviews)
Mauro Bolognini (segment)
Fabio Carpi (segment)
Roberto Gianviti (segment)
Agenore Incrocci (segment)
Luigi Magni (segment)
Enzo Muzii (segment)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (segment)
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (segment)
Franco Rossi (segment)
Furio Scarpelli (segment)
Bernardino Zapponi (segment)
Cesare Zavattini (segment)
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Released Date:
1972-01-05
Languages:
German, French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
85 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (198 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre BlancGenres:
ComedyReleased Date:
1974-10-23
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (657 Reviews)
Director:
Claude PinoteauJean-Loup Dabadie (original scenario)
Claude Pinoteau (original scenario)
Jean-Loup Dabadie (dialogue)
Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife.His mistress has also left him.He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection.
Released Date:
1975-02-21
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (66 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco MaselliFrancesco Maselli
Franco Solinas
Released Date:
1988-03-04
Languages:
Italian, French, Spanish, German
Countries:
Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Runtime:
121 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (499 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniGenres:
DramaLuigi Comencini (screenplay)
Ruggero Maccari (screenplay)
Bernardino Zapponi (screenplay)
Roxane Boutang (screenplay)
Peter Berling (screenplay)
Josè Luis Martènez Mollè (screenplay)
Luigi Comencini (story)
A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion.
Released Date:
1978-03-22
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (2143 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ZidiGenres:
ComedyPascal Jardin
Claude Zidi
Michel Fabre
Pascal Jardin (dialogue)
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Released Date:
1968-10-30
Languages:
Serbo-Croatian
Countries:
France, Yugoslavia
Runtime:
84 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (332 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksandar PetrovicGenres:
DramaA bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Released Date:
2001-09-05
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
Austria, France, Germany
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (34573 Reviews)
Director:
Michael HanekeGenres:
DramaMichael Haneke
Elfriede Jelinek (novel)
Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?
Released Date:
2001-09-05
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
Austria, France, Germany
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (34706 Reviews)
Director:
Michael HanekeGenres:
DramaMichael Haneke
Elfriede Jelinek (novel)
Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?
Released Date:
2006-02-17
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (49457 Reviews)
Director:
Michael HanekeGeorges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family--shot secretly from the street--and alarming drawings whose meaning is obscure. He has no idea who may be sending them. Gradually, the footage on the tapes becomes more personal, suggesting that the sender has known Georges for some time. Georges feels a sense of menace hanging over him and his family but, as no direct threat has been made, the police refuse to help....
Released Date:
2005-02-23
Languages:
French, Mandarin, Spanish, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (757 Reviews)
Olivier Nakache
Eric Toledano
One is too shy to start a relationship, other too unsettled to stay in one. Will their friendship help them to find the right woman for both?
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