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Holiday for Henrietta 1952 After the rejection of their latest and preposterous scenario, two script writers get back to basics to prepare a new movie The new scenario centers on Henriette, a pretty, lively Parisian, and how she spends the 14th of July in Paris with her fiance We follow the tribulat

Le coup de sirocco 1979 The pieds noir black feet were Algerians of French heritage who were forced to return to France in 1962, when Algeria became independent In the first part of this film, adapted from a novel by Daniel Saint Hamon, the Narbonis run a little grocery in Algeria and keep their nos

Vacances portugaises 1963 Francoise and her husband Jean Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about himself

Reproduction interdite 1957 When the end of your career is seen as worthless,the things that came before can sometimes be retrospectively tarnished by association Such is Gilles Grangier One often forgets that during the fifties,he made interesting works much was perfectly acceptable,some highly com

Eternel conflit 1948 Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of his life The trouble is that the

Mille milliards de dollars 1982 A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries The journalists obj

Justice Is Done (1950) A trial of a mercy killing.

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959) Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this..

Three Men to Kill (1980) A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order t

The Day of the Jackal (1973) It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hir