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Free Men 2011 Paris, occupied France, 1942 Younes, an uneducated Algerian immigrant, ekes out a very modest living on the black market When the police catches him they set him free provided he infiltrates the Paris Mosque and spies on the rector Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit is indeed suspected not only of

Gebo and the Shadow 2012 Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son

Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does

Eréndira (1983) While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal m

Of Gods and Men (2010) In 1996, in Algeria, eight French monks of The Monastery Notre-Dame de l'Atlas of Tibhirine have a simple life serving the poor community that was raised around the monastery. During the Algerian Civil War, they are threatened by terrorists but they decide to stay in the count

India Song (1975) Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet, Laos. There she met her second husband who took her away and for 17 years they lived in vari

Caravan to Vaccares (1974) American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.