Released Date:
1974-09-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
193 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (3061 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RivetteJuliet Berto (scenario)
Dominique Labourier (scenario)
Bulle Ogier (scenario)
Marie-France Pisier (scenario)
Jacques Rivette (scenario)
Eduardo de Gregorio (dialogue)
Henry James (Film-within-film based on stories by)
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Released Date:
1982-04-14
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, West Germany
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (630 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RouffioGenres:
DramaJacques Rouffio (scenario and adaptation)
Jacques Kirsner (scenario and adaptation)
Joseph Kessel (novel)
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? Eventually, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his younger wife Lina, and that in a roundabout way concerns her as well. It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis.
Released Date:
2000-11-22
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
94 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1025 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre DenisJean-Pierre Denis
Paulette Houdyer (novel)
Michèle Pètin
On February 2nd 1933, in the town of Le Mans, in the West of France, two sisters, Christine Papin, 27, and her younger sister Lèa Papin, 21, brutally killed their employer Mrs. Ancelin and her daughter Geneviève. Why did they commit this horrifying murder? As a result of an unhappy childhood? Because they could no longer stand being commanded and exploited by arrogant bourgeois employers? Because their incestuous relationship had been exposed? The film tries to answer these questions and make us understand why and how the two sisters turned from meek sheep to bloody monsters.
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