Jane Birkin

Andrzej Seweryn

Jean-Louis Trintignant

La femme de ma vie

La femme de ma vie (1986)

Isabelle Huppert

Michael Lonsdale

Olga Georges-Picot

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 have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, sliding progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.—Artemis-9

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)

Michèle Mercier

This is the second in the Angélique series. Picking up where the previous adventure ended, Angélique joins her childhood friend Nicolas and his band of bandits. But when tragedy hits, the beautiful and ever resourceful Angélique finds a way to move on. She rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman by running her own restaurant, and becomes entangled in politics. But where will her heart lead her next...?—L. Hamre

Merveilleuse Angélique

Merveilleuse Angélique (1965)

Catherine Spaak

Vittorio Gassman

Bruno Cortona and Roberto Mariani meet by chance as Roberto helps Bruno one day while everything is closed in Rome for the holiday weekend. The two men could not be more different. Thirty-six year old Bruno is extroverted, a man who seizes opportunities as they arise, is an excitement seeker, has never really grown up, but is a person to whom many are drawn because of his exuberance and masculine good looks. Law student Roberto is introverted, controlled and so unsure of himself that he doesn't really know why he chose law as a career and is afraid not only to let the girl who lives across the way from him, Valeria, know that he likes her, but even to speak to her. He even has a photograph of her in his wallet that he took clandestinely. Roberto reluctantly gets caught up in the whirlwind of Bruno's last minute change in plans for the holidays as the two head off together in Bruno's Lancia Aurelia sports car, their joy ride which will be largely at Bruno's whim. That reluctance is because Roberto would rather stay at home to study for an exam a few weeks away. Roberto tries to ditch Bruno at every stop, he however afraid to tell Bruno the truth that he'd rather not be with him. But as their time together progresses, they each learn a little more about the other, with Roberto in particular beginning to understand how stultified his life has been. The question becomes whether Roberto and Bruno can find that good balance in their lives because of their time with the other.—Huggo

Il Sorpasso

Il Sorpasso (1962)

Anouk Aimée

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their children's boarding school. Slowly the widower and widow reveal themselves to each other, with each revelation hidden by a misperception. They become closer and closer, until she reveals that she can't have a lover because her husband's memory is still far too strong. Much of the film is told wordlessly in actions or through hearing each person's thoughts.—John Vogel

A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman (1966)

Charlotte Rampling

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 movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.

Long Live Life

Long Live Life (1984)

Mathieu Kassovitz

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.

See How They Fall

See How They Fall (1994)

Alain Delon

Claudine Auger

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal, Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. For three years, Buisson manages to hide from detective Borniche by repeatedly killing his informants. When he's finally caught with help from the little criminal, Paul, Buisson will have committed more than 100 robberies and killed 30 people.

Flic Story

Flic Story (1975)

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.

A Self-Made Hero

A Self-Made Hero (1996)

Juliette Binoche

Lambert Wilson

Anne Wiazemsky

A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous dismay, she's willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot's friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won't take him as a lover; instead, her energy goes into a production of "Romeo and Juliet" directed by a detached, intense man who becomes her father figure. Quentin's ghost taunts her, Paulot wants to end all contact, and the director plans to return to London. The art of the theater may be her only refuge.

Rendez-vous

Rendez-vous (1985)

Monica Bellucci

An old man is having memories of a former lover who is still alive. Images of their affair showing them young combine with dreams and poetry

The Best Years of a Life

The Best Years of a Life (2019)

Yves Montand

Simone Signoret

Jacques Perrin

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one. The last two must solve the case themselves before they become the next victims.

The Sleeping Car Murder

The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)

Claudia Cardinale

Judith Godrèche

Fanny Ardant

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. His eldest daughter, Dino, lives with Paul, a playwright: theirs is a passionate relationship dogged by the dissatisfactions of daily life. Another daughter Sidonie comes into adulthood in love with Jude, both are musicians, except that she has a phobia about performing in public. After Jeanne throws Edouard out, the film jumps ahead seven years to pick up the resolution of these three relationships, brought to a crisis by Edouard's sudden illness. Can Sidonie play in public, can Paul and Dino live together, will mama and papa reconcile?

L'été prochain

L'été prochain (1985)

Stéphane Audran

A former journalist,Daniel has become an esteemed writer ;however,his last books met mixed critical reception.He settles in Lourciez ,on the riviera in a friend's apartment.A neighbor tells him that a crime was committed in the building a few weeks ago.Daniel investigates:it seems that murderers do away with old ladies to appropriate their valuable properties .And the mayor of the town might be behind these very bad things.

Boulevard des assassins

Boulevard des assassins (1982)

Michel Bouquet

When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani's for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's daughter, and he discovers that also Bruno, Juliette's brother, died that same night in a car accident...

Défense de savoir

Défense de savoir (1973)

Sylvia Kristel

When Carolina, the daughter of wealthy banker Georges de Saxe, is reported kidnapped, it is upsetting to him even though he knows it isn't true. The kidnappers have taken the wrong person. The banker hires Frantz a dishevelled, seedy detective to find his daughter and hide her safely away. She soon finds herself in a fantasy-land whorehouse, where all kinds of extreme perversions are routinely practised. There, a near-double of her father whips and then seduces her. Eventually, she and the private eye escape or leave, having extorted the kidnapping money from the girl's father.

Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire (1975)

In southern France, in a quaint little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people--the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed.

Malevil

Malevil (1981)

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed. —Anonymous

Deep Water

Deep Water (1981)

Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad though. Indeed their leader, Julius, whose brother was killed by Schmidt, a merciless S.S., believes, without being absolutely certain, that Fromm and Schmidt are the same man. The team, whose other members are Georges, the son of a deportee liquidated by Schmidt craving for action, Raphaël, a mercenary type, Nils, the photographer and Romain, watch Fromm's every move until Julius, convinced at last that the quiet German is their man, gives the green light for the operation. They manage to lure the former Nazi to an old house but Schmidt/Fromm won't let himself be captured so easily... —Guy Bellinger

A Man to Kill

A Man to Kill (1967)

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Romy Schneider

Everything is about to change in the uneventful life of Nicolas Mallet--a discreet, introverted bank clerk who is as meek as a lamb--when he decides to follow the bold advice of his old school friend, Claude Fabre. From now on, Nicolas must throw off his shackling inhibitions and act out his most intimate desires. Now, there is no turning back, and unstoppable Nicolas is bent on seducing as many women as possible to grease his path to success. However, nothing lasts forever. Must all good things come to an end? —Nick Riganas

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