Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons Frederic daydreams about other women but has no intention of taking any action. One day Chloe who had been a mistress of an old friend begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends irregularly in the afternoons till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic causing him a moral dilemma.
Based on Emily Bronte's classic 19th-century novel Wuthering Heights this beautiful sensual film tells the story of the tormented love affair between two childhood sweethearts Catherine a headstrong young woman and Roc a fiery young gypsy. The groundbreaking French director Jacques Rivette sets one of literature's greatest love stories in the French countryside of the 1930s.
When asked which of his own films was his favourite Jean Rollin would name Lips of Blood,which tells the tale of a young man haunted by a photograph of an old castle near a beach,whose name and whereabouts he can never remember, and a women in white whom he sees again and again. Eventually, he follows the woman in white to a cemetary where he unwittingly frees several female vampires who threaten to cause mayhem on the streets of Paris. Extras: Stills gallery including many from Rollin s private collection, Original trailer, Salvation trailers, interview with Jean Rollin by Dr Patricia MacCormack, Jean Rollin documentary Vampires and Virgins.
The camera keeps returning to the barbed wire fences that corral the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. A symbol of barbarism: a constant reminder of what humans are capable of. Past and present, private and political, Philippe Mora mixes these realms in his documentary just as he did in German Sons. The journey to the place of horror, where humanity exposed it's most inhuman face. Director, Philippe Mora blends his pop-art cinema and traditional documentary-making with Eric Clapton's haunting score which has been especially composed for this new fi lm which has received rave reviews on the festival circuit.
Michele a 20 year old model meets Francois a jewish veterinarian. She decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something if not in someone.
This comedy concerns an inventor (Robert Dhery) of a boat who is fired by his violent irascible boss when the project is completed. The boat christened Le Petit Baigneur is wanted by the Boss (
Coup De Torchon stars Philippe Noiret as Lucien Cordier an ieffectual local constable. The townsfolk and his adulterous wife alike view him with contempt - however he realises that he can use his position to gain revenge and vengeance on those who don't respect him!
Une Femme Mariee (Masters Of Cinema)
Escape Before It Rips You Apart. A terrifying new chapter in The Mangler legacy! What was designed to provide maximum security to Royal Collegiate College suddenly sets out to kill and destroy everyone in its path. Now virtual reality means virtual death!
Ca Commence Aujourdhui (aka. It All Starts Today) stars Philippe Torreton as Daniel a schoolmaster of a nursery in a small French town. The local economy which depended entirely on coal production has been mired in a depression ever since the mines were closed. When their parents fall into utter discouragement or even poverty because of prolonged unemployment the children suffer the consequences. Daniel is confronted daily with difficult situations and he feels responsible to deal with them although they are outside the scope of his responsibilities. This is a frustrating task: politicians are concerned with tightening their budgets bureaucrats in the intricate web of French social and educational services with their prerogatives utility companies with getting their bills paid; teachers social workers and policemen are overwhelmed. Daniel's relations with his parents but also with Valeria his fiance and her son are not entirely smooth either. He nevertheless soldiers on doing his best to educate the children of a severely disrupted society.
Running away 12-years-old Céline hides in a red truck. She meets Peter a Scottish truck driver in his forties. Along the roads the stops and the encounters Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood with lightness and trust. She wants to see it all to discover it all. Peter becomes the friend of her dreams. He offers this wounded child a chance to finally have a normal life.
Historical drama of how Napolean fought his last and most important battle against his English imprisoners on the island of Saint Helena.
Cramped terror and blood-soaked suspense awaits four life prisoners finding a diary of black magic spells offering freedom. For uttering the breakout incantation confines them to an even more hellish limbo where their vanity is further tested by an evil presence granting each a solitary wish...
Marco Ferreri's greatest international success La Grande Bouffe scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni Ugo Tognazzi Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food call girls and a hefty lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collaps
La Femme de l'aviateur was the first in Eric Rohmer's celebrated Comedies and Proverbs series. Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivire). However his nightshift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day he sees her leaving home with her ex Christian (Mathieu Carrire) who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may hav
Long out-of-circulation and unavailable on home-video, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 masterpiece Une femme marie, fragments d'un film tourn en 1964 en noir et blanc [A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White] has, until now, represented the ostensibly 'missing' key work from the first, zeitgeist-defining phase of JLG's filmography. The feature which bridges the gap between Bande part and Alphaville, Une femme marie is, nevertheless, a galaxy, or gallery, unto itself — a lucid, complex, profoundly funny series of portraits, etched with Godardian acids, of the wife that represents either a singular case, or a universal example, of ''a''/''the'' married woman, and the men in her orbit. Macha Mril (later of Pialat's Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, and Varda's Sans toit ni loi) plays Charlotte — the title character. She's married to aviator Pierre (Philippe Leroy, of Becker's Le Trou). She sleeps with thespian Robert (Bernard Nol). She talks intelligence with renowned critic-filmmaker Roger Leenhardt, and takes part in a fashion-shoot at a public pool. The fragments of the film's subtitle are chapters, episodes, vignettes, tableaux; Une femme marie is a pile of magazines made into a film, and a film turned into a magazine — the table of contents reading: Alfred Hitchcock. Jean Racine. La Peau douce. A Peruvian serum. Nuit et brouillard. The Eloquence bra. The quartets of Beethoven. Madame Cline. Fantmas. Robert Bresson. A Volkswagen making a right turn. — A film shot in 1964, and in black and white. Special Edition including: Newly restored 1080p/24fps transfer of the film in its original 1.37:1 aspect ratio New and improved subtitle transmitions The original 3 1/2 minute trailer from the film 80 page booklet
Julien Vercel an estate agent is suspected of murdering his wife's lover. All clues point to him especially when his wife is also found dead. As Vercel is hidden in his office Barbara Becker his secretary investigates these suspicious murders. With her help the true identity of the killer is uncovered.
In Les Noces Rouges Claude Chabrol extends his usual stinging examination of the French bourgeoisie family into the exaggerated realm of the tragi-comic all the while maintaining his signature elements of psychological terror and thrilling yet detached suspense. Based on an actual French murder case Les Noces Rouges is the story of two lovers each stuck in loveless marriages. Lucienne (Stephane Audran) is married to the frigid and obtuse Paul who is the semi-corrupt mayor of their small town. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is Paul's deputy mayor and is married to a chronically ill and lifeless wife. An illicit affair of exaggerated passion explodes between Pierre and Lucienne and for a while their passion is enough for them. However when Pierre's wife mysteriously dies and Lucienne's husband discovers her infidelity the plot switches from its seemingly sleepy bourgeois tale of marital troubles and delves into the film noir stylings that could be compared to The Postman Always Rings Twice. The political duplicitousness enacted by Paul and Pierre behind closed doors in the small town's government offices is mirrored and magnified in the fractured narrative of the deranged and depraved transaction between the three players in this tale of love and lust gone sour.
The Salieri opera peformed at the 1988 Schwetzinger Festspiele. 'Tarare' tells the story of the Spirit Of Nature who creates new people in an attempt to cleanse the human race. The results bring love and jealousy. Sung in French.
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