Released Date:
1970-03-22
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (5945 Reviews)
Director:
Eric RohmerGenres:
DramaEric Rohmer
The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond he notices at mass. Vidal, an old school friend, invites him to visit the recently divorced Maud, and the narrator ends up staying the night, having philosophical discussions in her bedroom. Next morning the narrator engineers a meeting with Francoise.
Released Date:
1973-04-13
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (829 Reviews)
Director:
Claude LelouchClaude Lelouch (original scenario)
Pierre Uytterhoeven (adaptation)
Claude Lelouch (adaptation)
Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there.
Released Date:
1975-11-28
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (131 Reviews)
Director:
Mauro BologniniGenres:
DramaRaffaele Andreassi
Mario Arosio
Sinko Solleville Marie
Tullio Pinelli
Mario Tobino (novel)
Bernardino Zapponi
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him?
Released Date:
1988-11-23
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (235 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques DemyGenres:
MusicalA pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many highlights of his life, meeting figures from his past and remembering the old days.
Released Date:
1989-05-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, West Germany, UK
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(357 Reviews)
Director:
Jerry SchatzbergGenres:
DramaHarold Pinter
Fred Uhlman (novel)
Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as anti-semitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals with that era, the film flashes to the present and the Jewish man now returns to his boyhood home and seeks his old friend with some surprises.
Released Date:
2004-09-01
Languages:
French, English, Italian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (7240 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois OzonFranèois Ozon (scenario)
Emmanuèle Bernheim (scenario collaborator)
The end and beginning of the love of the French couple Marion and Gilles is disclosed backwards through five moments in their lives: 1st moment: They divorce and have one last brutal intercourse without love. 2nd moment: With their relationship shaken, they have a dinner party with Gilles's gay brother Christophe and his younger mate, when an infidelity is disclosed at the dinner table. 3rd moment: The troubled pregnancy of Marion and the delivery of their premature son Nicolas, with the total absence of Gilles. 4th moment: Their wedding, when Marion commits adultery with an unknown guest of the hotel. 5th moment: When they meet each other in an Italian resort and begin their relationship.
Released Date:
2009-11-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
125 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1623 Reviews)
Director:
Lucas BelvauxGenres:
DramaStanislaff Graff, a rich industrialist with a wife and a lover, is kidnapped brutally from his limousine on the eve of his visit to China as part of the entourage of the French president. The kidnappers demand a fifty million euro ransom. In order to prove they are serious, they cut off one of his fingers. What follows is a terrifying sparring match between kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which Graff is the director. The main question for the board: is a human life worth more than fifty million euros? Will they be able to get that amount of money together in time anyway? While they decide this he degenerates physically and mentally in imprisonment. In the meantime, the press dredges up the businessman's past with revelations that are especially painful for his wife.
Released Date:
2013-11-20
Languages:
French, English, Spanish, German
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
85 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (5112 Reviews)
Director:
Guillaume GallienneGenres:
ComedyGuillaume Gallienne (screenplay)
Claude Mathieu (collaboration on screenplay)
Nicolas Vassiliev (collaboration on screenplay)
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