Tag Archives: French

East/West
7.4

East/West

Sep. 01, 1999

East/West

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It’s a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a ...
Special Flight
7.4

Special Flight

Aug. 06, 2011

Special Flight

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at ...
Belle de Jour
7.7

Belle de Jour

May. 24, 1967

Belle de Jour

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. ...
Betty Blue
7.4

Betty Blue

Apr. 09, 1986

Betty Blue

Betty Blue, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg, a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The ...
Betty
7.0

Betty

Feb. 19, 1992

Betty

When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two ...
Faces of Children
7.7

Faces of Children

Jan. 24, 1925

Faces of Children

A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother’s death and his father’s remarriage which brings a ...
Giorgino
7.4

Giorgino

Oct. 05, 1994

Giorgino

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the ...
The Mountain
6.1

The Mountain

Feb. 01, 2023

The Mountain

Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the ...
The Graduation
7.0

The Graduation

Feb. 08, 2017

The Graduation

With LE CONCOURS the director will delve into the daily life of the Parisian cinema school, la Fémis, where a specific Republican ideal of ...
L’assassin de ma fille
6.8

L’assassin de ma fille

Jul. 12, 2022

L’assassin de ma fille

A father fights for decades to bring his daughter’s killer to justice in France and Germany before taking extreme measures.
Blood of the Beasts
7.9

Blood of the Beasts

Jan. 01, 1949

Blood of the Beasts

An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside ...
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
5.6

Nutty, Naughty Chateau

Nov. 20, 1963

Nutty, Naughty Chateau

Student Frederic gets himself invited to visit a Swedish family living in an isolated castle. Arriving in cold winter at a castle surrounded by ...
A Real Job
6.6

A Real Job

Sep. 13, 2023

A Real Job

Benjamin, a PhD student in need of money and under the pressure of his parents, becomes a substitute teacher in a middle school. Without any ...
Waiting for the Night
5.8

Waiting for the Night

Jun. 05, 2024

Waiting for the Night

The Feral family plan to look normal and friendly as they move into a new neighborhood. Their son, Philemon gets closer to his new neighbor, ...
Love Lies
4.7

Love Lies

Mar. 19, 1983

Love Lies

When clumsy Marcel is thrown out of his apartment by his girlfriend early in the morning, without shoes or trousers and his coffee cup still in ...
Destiny
6.3

Destiny

May. 27, 1997

Destiny

Though gay-themed stories about “coming out” and accepting one’s sexuality are not uncommon in Western countries, such tales ...
The Rain Children
6.7

The Rain Children

Jun. 25, 2003

The Rain Children

The Pyross and the Hydross are have been at war for as long as they can remember. The Pyross, who worship the sun, water brings only death and ...
The Bright Night
6.5

The Bright Night

Oct. 29, 1978

The Bright Night

In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers’ interpretation of the most beautiful passages from “Orpheus,” the opera ...
Two Women
6.5

Two Women

Sep. 06, 2021

Two Women

1965. Colette, a woman of so-called loose morals, is wrongly accused of murder by misogynist policemen. Anne-Marie, a young examining magistrate, ...