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The Sea Gull 1968 Aging actress Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate On one occasion, she brings along Boris Trigorin, a successful novelist Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Trig

Against the Wind 1948 Philip Elliot, a refugee Belgian priest, reports to a secret school in London for spies and saboteurs behind German lines After training, he and two others parachute into Belgium to help destroy a records office This mission leads to German capture of an important resistance le

Letoile du Nord 1982 Aimless Frenchman Edouard Binet has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium En route, he meets Sylvie Baron He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends Their friendship es

Maneges 1949 After spending all his money to fulfill the smallest wish of his wife Dora, Robert is still madly in love with her Now she is in agony, and her mother comes She will reveal to Robert how he has been fooled Flashbacks show the story through Roberts or his mother in laws eyes Through some

The Adultress 1953 Therese has a boring life She married her cousin Camille, a sickly haberdasher fully dominated by his mother, who lives with them She dreams about passion One day truck driver Laurent drives into her life, and of course they fall in love But of course they will be pursued by fate

Ladolescente 1979 In the summer of 1939, 13 year old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon Although rumors of war reach the countryside, its an idyllic place, and Maries parents are constantly making love Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herse

La ronde (1950) An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woma

Laveu (1970) Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. We are shown the mental tortures during the investigation and how a faithful top-ranking civil ser

Madame Rosa (1977) Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she a

La veuve Couderc (1971) Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is enjoying being in control of the farm. And then she hires the handsome stranger who help

Le Chat (1971) Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clem

I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980) A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in ...

The Crucible (1957) Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass fro

The Deadly Affair (1967) After Charles Dobbs, a security officer, has a friendly chat with Samuel Fennan from the Foreign Office, the man commits suicide. An anonymous typed letter had been received accusing Fennan of being a Communist during his days at Oxford and their chat while walking in the pa

Police Python 357 (1976) An inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. When she is murdered by his boss, all proof is against him.

Ship of Fools (1965) 1933: An ocean liner belonging to a second-rate German company is making a twenty-six day voyage from Veracruz, Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany. Along the way it will stop in Cuba to pick up a large group of Spanish farm laborers who are being shipped home and who will be housed

Games (1967) A bored art-collecting Manhattan couple invite an interesting aging cosmetics saleswoman to enliven their dull lives by directing sex and death "games." Featuring a corpse encased in plaster and displayed in the living room as art, and a twist ending.

Death in the Garden (1956) Chark, an adventurer comes to small village in the near of a gold digger's camp. He is arrested by the local police, who accuse him of having comitted a bank robbery in a neighoured town. The police also confiscate the gold mine for the state, due to this the gold diggers

Diabolique (1955) The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slow

Room at the Top (1959) The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much