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Ten Days Wonder 1971 Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor Michel Piccoli to the Gatsby like provincial manor presided over by his powerful tycoon father Orson Welles Welcomed

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others 1974 Three friends face mid life crises Paul is a writer whos blocked Francois has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money his wife grows distant, even hostile The charming Vincent, everyones favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and

The Game Is Over 1966 In Paris, Maxime visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renee Alexandre fathered him years ago in a prior marriage and he has come to stay with them after studying in England Renee tells Maxime that she married Alexandre when sh

Tykho Moon 1996 The McBee family has erected a government over a future colony, that looks like a run down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has be

Adieu Bonaparte 1985 A story during the French Occupation of Egypt 1797 1803, depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors

La prophetie des grenouilles 2003 Its a catastrophe A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible wh

Viva la vie 1984 The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room Even the movies trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space Like all my movies, this one is about a

Heartbeat 1968 Lucile, 25, is the beautiful mistress of Charles, a rich, good hearted businessman Being a kept woman suits her as she refuses to work She is grateful to Charles for that but she does not feel true love for him When she meets Antoine, a charming young man of her age, it is love at fir

Que les gros salaires levent le doigt 1982 The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top salary employees to spend a week end in his country house A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party and decides to take advantage of it

La faille 1975 This international collaboration has five unrelated titles in four languages, and includes filmmakers and stars from France, Germany, Italy and Greece It is set in the modern period in Greece, during that time known as the rule of the Colonels The story concerns the cat and mouse poli

La part du feu 1978 Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner He reacts calmly and even encourages their meetings, thinking that this is the only way to not lose them both

Dillinger e morto 1969 Back home, Glauco, an industrial designer, finds his wife in bed with a serious headache She has left him dinner but it is cold and Glauco decides to prepare himself a gourmet meal While looking for some kitchenware, he discovers a revolver wrapped in a newspaper dating from 1

Milou en mai (1990) Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde keeps turning up the volume of the radio for the latest news. A deceased sister's interest

Mauvais sang (1986) Marc (Michel Piccoli) recruits Alex (Denis Lavant), son of his former, now dead colleague. Alex is a card shark with a big dream to go out to the world and leave his own mark. His determination leads him to break up with his girl friend, Lise (Julie Deply). Alex initially refuses

The Things of Life (1970) Pierre, a successful engineer in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks.

Elsa la rose (1966) The story of a poet's (Louis Aragon) love for his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet.

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) Celestine, the chambermaid, has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people. The wife is frigid, her husband is always hunting (both animals and women) and her father is a shoe-fetishist. Joseph, the farm-labourer is a fascist a

Grandeur nature (1974) Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they both grow apart. Eventually Michel falls in love with the most unexpected "perfect wo

Spoiled Children (1977) A touching portrait of modern life, whether showing the human dimension of large issues, or deftly detailing the intimate reverberations of a casual love affair.

Passion (1982) On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called "Passion,"

La Grande Bouffe (1973) Four successful middle-aged men Marcello, a pilot; Michel, a television executive; Ugo, a chef; and, Philippe, a judge go to Philippe's villa to eat themselves to death. After the first night, Marcello insists that women should join them. Three prostitutes make it through a d

The Diary of an Innocent Boy (1968) Young innocent aristocrat Benjamin comes to live with his Countess aunt. Her lover teaches him the techniques of seduction and sends him to test them, first on the maids, then on the upper class Anne and finally on the countess herself.

The Assassination (1972) Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat posed by Sadiel, the ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French security services to help in capturing the political activist. A police informer, Darie

The Prodigal Daughter (1981) A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.

Le prix du danger (1983) In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

The Creatures (1966) A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.

Divertimento (1992) More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view.

Max and the Junkmen (1971) Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provi

Red Wedding (1973) Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's ...

The Woman in Blue (1973) Pierre, a young musician in Paris, briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down.

The Last Woman (1976) Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.

La passante du SansSouci (1982) Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has s

The Infernal Trio (1974) A cunning French legal adviser teams up with an unemployed German girl and her sister to commit murders in Marseille.

Mado (1976) Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to f

7 morts sur ordonnance (1975) Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means. Especially a well-known operating surgeon Pierre Losseray, which wants to operate again after a cardiac infarct and a longer recovery break. Night for nig

Passion in the Desert (1997) Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During comb

Marcel Spandice, a famous homosexual writer during the sixties in Paris, is trying to make a young Arab into the greatest tightrope walker in the world

Belle de Jour (1967) Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, workin

The Dust of Time (2008) A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of

Leonor (1975) Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But whe

Danger: Diabolik (1968) In psychedelic swinging 60s style, the dreaded thief (and killer) Diabolik wreaks havoc on a generic European country for his own financial gain and amusement. He shares an extravagant underground lair (and a giant bed of money) with his curvaceous, superficial girlfriend...w

The Phantom of Liberty (1974) This surrealist film consists of a series of only vaguely related episodes, most famously the dinner party scene in which people sit on lavatories round a dinner table, occasionally retiring to a small room to eat.

La belle noiseuse (1991) The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife in his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start working again on a painting called 'La Belle Noiseuse', whic

We Have a Pope (2011) At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. What is going on? Behind the thick walls of the Vatican p

Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue.