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Crew: Producer
Actors: Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Juzo Itami
Synopsis: In this 40-minute avant-garde film based on a story by the surrealist writer Kyoka Izumi, director Shuji Terayama uses the pretext of a young man's determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved in his childhood in an exploration of widely variant perceptions of reality. Akira (Takeshi Wakamatsu Read More
Actors: Laura Gemser, Marpessa Dawn
Synopsis: Three short films are gathered together in Collections Privées. The first is L'Ile Aux Sirenes (Island of the Sirens), directed by Just Jaeckin. In the story, a wealthy lout who is out yachting is washed overboard and winds up on an island where his sexual whims are catered to by four beautiful Read More
Actors: Claude Brasseur, André Pousse, Jean-Pierre Darras, Robert Castel, Guy Marchand
Synopsis: The difficulty experienced by a softcore porn film producer, who must somehow transform an academically praised novel into an erotic thrill-fest, is the subject of this comedy. In the film, Claude Brasseur is Manuel, who confronts vain but..incapable..male stars, an inane and silly script Read More
Actors: Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This dark French comedy satirizes suburban living. Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin play a newly married couple who have just moved into the suburbs. Nearly everything is oppressive: among other things, the walls of their house are too thin and their neighbors harangue them with complaints of all Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: In rural Arkansas, strippers are using a bikini bottom made of stolen jewels. Two brothers, one a moonshiner who also uses moonshine as a tannery chemical, and the other a less-countrified lad, try to outwit both the police and the original thieves and steal the bikini for themselves. As it is Read More
Actors: Philip Da Costa, Clive Gazes, Fiona Moore, Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Tom Courtenay, Patrick Mower
Synopsis: Dick Clement directed this late-in-the-game spy thriller, starring Kirk Douglas. Douglas plays Andrej, a drone that smuggles books out of communist countries. Unfortunately for Andrej, he is mistaken for a spy and gets into a series of convoluted situations. Fabienne (Marlene Jobert), who lives Read More
Actors: Robert Dhéry, Claude Brosset, Colette Brosset, Jean Poiret, Pierre Tornade, Jacques Charon
Synopsis: Eric (Robert Dhery) is the beleaguered husband of a harridan wife who works as a writer of advertising slogans. When he develops an uncanny ability to select the winner of the daily horse races, local gamblers take a sudden interest. Eric is cornered by the gamblers who find it hard to believe he Read More
Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean Yanne, Francis Blanche, Dominique Maurin
Synopsis: A married woman in her 30s tries to spice up her sex life with her distracted husband. Annie (Annie Girardot) buys clothes to entice her husband Philippe (Jean Yanne) who is preoccupied with an upcoming tax audit. Even the presence of a beautiful fashion model who visits with Phillipe's brother Read More
Actors: Marlène Jobert, Horst Buchholz, Magali Noël, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Claude Genia
Synopsis: After serving time in prison for an undisclosed crime, a woman keeps herself alive by resorting to robbery and prostitution. She often waits for her boyfriend, an ex-convict who is forbidden to spend any time in Paris according to his probation agreement. She escapes jail only to break her ankle Read More
Synopsis: In this French crime drama, an ex-Resistance fighter has a ruined reputation after he succumbed to Nazi torture during the war and spilled vital information. After the war, he witnesses a killing and finds himself considered the prime suspect. He is brought in for questioning. The leader of an Read More
Synopsis: Director Jean Roche follows bow hunters in West Africa as they track down lions in this informative documentary. The hunters prepare arrows, poison, and the traps that will catch the king of the beasts before the kill. Before the animal is skinned and eaten, Natives exorcise the soul of the lion. Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean Sorel, Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli
Synopsis: Michel Piccoli stars as an amorous dentist whose philandering seemingly knows no bounds. He is no sooner shooing such lovelies as Anna Karina and Elsa Martinelli out the back door than he is welcoming such "new blood" as Joanna Shimkus into his living room. When Shimkus demands a commitment Read More
Synopsis: In this convoluted drama, a young woman and two cousins, whom she doesn't know, find that they are named as beneficiaries in their grandmother's will. The young woman, because she's never met them, mistakes a friend of her cousin, for her cousin. Meanwhile a maid begins sleeping with the butler Read More
Actors: Anna Karina, Saddy Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Eric Schlumberger, Brice Parain, Gerard Hoffman, Monique Messine
Synopsis: Vivre Sa Vie presents 12 episodes in the life of a young woman who turns to prostitution to pay her rent. Each episode features a theatrical scene preceded by a title that lists the characters in the episode, its location, and a brief summary of the action. As he would throughout his career Read More
Actors: Charles Aznavour, Nicole Berger, Marie Dubois, Michele Mercier, Albert Remy
Synopsis: Francois Truffaut's loving homage to Hollywood gangster films is less a plot-filled film noir than a free-associative meditation on the genre. Charles Aznavour stars as a one-time concert pianist who gained fame as Edouard Saroyan but has since changed his name to Charlie Kohler and plays Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ann Colette, Gérard Blain
Synopsis: Pictura is a feature-length collection of several short-subject documentary celebrations of great artists and their work. The film consists of six separate "episodes," many of these representing a collaboration between Luciano Emmer and another director. "The Lost Paradise," co-directed by Enrico Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Manolete
Synopsis: The 76-minute quasi-documentary Bullfight tends to preach to the converted, but contains much of value for non-aficionados. Great pains are taken to place the history of bullfighting in context with the history of Spain and the temperament of the Spanish people. The film concludes with footage of Read More
Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Gabriel, Jane Marken [Jeanne]
Synopsis: The Ways of Love grew from an unfinished film: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, of which 46 minutes had been completed before funds ran out. In this French/Italian compendium, Country is combined with Marcel Pagnol's 1933 short subject Jofroi and Roberto Rosselini's 1948 character study The Miracle Read More
Actors: Anna Magnani
Synopsis: Both controversial and compelling, this is the story of a naive peasant girl who becomes pregnant after being seduced by a shepherd and believes that she is carrying a specially blessed child. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Georges Darnoux, Paul Temps
Synopsis: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country is a short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French countryside. While the men go off to fish, the mother (Jeanne Marken) has a harmless flirtation with a rural Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Marguerite Pierry
Actors: Andre Bauge, Leon Bary, Saturnin Fabre
Synopsis: Originally released as La Route est Belle, this French-produced comedy drama serves as a showcase for the talents of Paris Opera baritone Andre Bauge. The star plays Tony Landrin, a poor provincial youth who finds fame and fortune on the opera stage. His efforts to mingle with High Society are Read More
Actors: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Braunberger, Jean Renoir
Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean Renoir would later remark that he directed the sensual dance fantasy Charleston because he'd "just discovered American jazz." He also had some stock footage left over from his previous silent success Nana, and decided it would be provident to fashion a new film from these Read More
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