Released Date:
1990-12-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
137 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (16764 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Paul RappeneauJean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Edmond Rostand (play)
Released Date:
1992-12-23
Languages:
French, Vietnamese
Countries:
France
Runtime:
159 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (6961 Reviews)
Director:
Règis WargnierErik Orsenna
Louis Gardel
Catherine Cohen (original scenario & adaptation and dialogue)
Règis Wargnier
This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. An unmarried French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French navy officer, which will change both their lives significantly.
Released Date:
1994-12-09
Languages:
French, Italian
Countries:
France, Italy, Germany
Runtime:
159 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (12786 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice ChèreauAlexandre Dumas père (novel)
Danièle Thompson (scenario & adaptation)
Patrice Chèreau (scenario & adaptation)
Danièle Thompson (dialogue)
The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.
Released Date:
1996-08-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
4.5 (14743 Reviews)
Director:
Tim PopeJames O'Barr (comic book series and comic strip)
David S. Goyer
Some time ago, Ashe Corven and his son Danny were killed when they stumbled across a pack of drug dealers murdering a fellow dealer. The dealers work for Los Angeles drug kingpin Judah Earl. Local tattoo artist Sarah, who has great knowledge of the crow legend because of what happened with her late friend Eric Draven, has been having dreams about Ashe and Danny. One night when a crow leads her to the scene of the murders of Ashe and Danny, Ashe appears before her. The crow has resurrected Ashe, so Ashe can go after Judah and his right hand man Curve. With the guidance of the crow, Ashe starts killing off Judah's men one by one, on his way to Judah.
Released Date:
1998-03-20
Languages:
French, Italian
Countries:
France, Italy, Germany
Runtime:
128 min
IMDB Ratings:
(2522 Reviews)
Director:
Philippe de BrocaPhilippe de Broca
Jean Cosmos
Paul Fèval (book)
Jèrème Tonnerre
The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a baron's daughter, in her father's isolated chateau. The occupants of the castle are surprised and murdered by the Count and his men. The only ones to escape are the Duke's friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère, and the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Duke's vast fortune. The Count believes the pair to have drowned, when in fact they have been concealed by a travelling troupe of Italian players. Twenty years pass. The Count has discovered that the two survive and seeks to have them slain. But Lagardère gains the confidence of the Count, and employment as his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back...
Released Date:
1998-10-30
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (675 Reviews)
Director:
Nick HammAnn Guedes (screenplay)
Frank McGuinness (screenplay)
Kate O'Brien (novel)
This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland.
Released Date:
2000-05-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (3590 Reviews)
Director:
Hugh HudsonKuki Gallmann (book)
Paula Milne (screenplay)
Susan Shilliday (screenplay)
Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn't know well, and she moves to Kenya with him and her young son to start a cattle ranch. Challenges beset her, not the least of which is Paulo's love of danger and his leaving for days on end to hunt and fish with pals. She must face fierce storms, roving lions, venomous snakes, and murderous poachers, and she must find accommodation with a neighboring tribe. Her mother entreats her to return home. Can Kuki live her dream, tame Paolo, guide her son safely past the perils and errors of youth, and serve Africa?
Released Date:
1999-05-19
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, Portugal
Runtime:
169 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1772 Reviews)
Director:
Raoul RuizMarcel Proust (novel)
Gilles Taurand (scenario)
Raoul Ruiz (scenario)
Released Date:
2002-02-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Australia
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (41552 Reviews)
Director:
Michael RymerAnne Rice (novels)
Scott Abbott (screenplay)
Michael Petroni (screenplay)
After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king...
Released Date:
2004-10-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.6 (1459 Reviews)
Director:
Marcus NispelDean R. Koontz (concept)
John Shiban
Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O'Connor is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil.
Released Date:
2007-10-04
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.9 (948 Reviews)
Director:
Vadim ShmelevDenis Karyshev
Vadim Shmelev
Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The Executioner," is about to blow up the bombs. The Executioner is chased by FSB, whose agent Marie has previously infiltrated Zayidi's team.
Released Date:
2009-08-12
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (320 Reviews)
Director:
Denis DercourtGenres:
DramaMathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play becomes real.
Released Date:
2010-12-22
Languages:
Catalan, Spanish, French
Countries:
Spain
Runtime:
85 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (524 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel BenmayorPatxi Amezcua (screenplay)
Jordi Gasull (screenplay)
Josè Luis Latasa (collaboration)
1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders the captain of the Imperial Guard to bring back the head of the young hero responsible for his army's defeat. The captain gathers together a band of his best and most deadly men and so begins the hunt to death of the soldier who was to become a legend.
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