This fairly standard crime thriller Yves Allégret has an exceptional cast, including
Edwige Feuillère and Jean Servais. A young Alain Delon distinguishes himself
in his first film role... [More...]
By the time he came to make Paris
brûle-t-il?, René Clément was one of the most
highly regarded film directors in France. Two of his films had
won Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category... [More...]
This polished political thriller earned critical acclaim for director Yves Boisset and
stands as one of his best films, in spite of its complex plot and ambiguous political
context... [More...]
Having worked successfully with Jean-Paul Belmondo on L’Heritier (1973), the journalist-director
Philippe Labro was keen to work with Belmondo again and proposed a hard-edged crime thriller
initially entitled "Les... [More...]
Having appeared in four of Claude Sautet’s previous films, mainly in significant
supporting roles, Austrian-born actress Romy Schneider takes centre stage in Une
histoire simple... [More...]
This film is almost the antidote to the conventional spy thriller movie. It is not
quite a spoof, but its intentionally confusing plot developments (none of which are fully
explained) and truly bizarre characters makes... [More...]
The term "reality TV" hadn’t even been coined when this film was
released in the early 1980s, yet what it shows is a vision of the
future that has all but become our present reality... [More...]
French film director Bertrand Blier is no stranger to controversy, and in Tenue de
soirée he frames possibly his most explicit and shocking view of the devastating
power of human sexuality... [More...]
With his first three full-length films (Sitcom, Les Amants criminels and
Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes), François Ozon has earned a reputation
as the enfant terrible of French cinema in the late... [More...]
