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Natalia  Movies

Posted by at Feb. 12, 2024
Natalia

Natalia (1989)
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
Drama 

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies  Movies

Posted by at May 23, 2021
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
Crime  Action  Adventure  Comedy 

Nathalie Granger  Movies

Posted by at May 6, 2024
Nathalie Granger

Nathalie Granger (1973)
With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen doing yard work, talking about their families and receiving the occasional visitor. The brightest spot in the day is when a washing machine salesman comes to call.
Drama 

Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here  Movies

Posted by at Jan. 18, 2022
Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here (2012)
Wish You Were Here, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favorite Pink Floyd album. On release it went straight to Number One in both the UK and the US and topped the charts in many other countries around the world. This program tells the story of the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover burning man Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs construction.
Documentary  Music 

The Great Game  Movies

Posted by at Dec. 13, 2022
The Great Game

The Great Game (1934)
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.
Drama 

The Ceremony  Movies

Posted by at March 19, 2025
The Ceremony

The Ceremony (2015)
In an extravagant house in Paris, people gather for sexual ceremonies in luxurious environments. The 83-year-old author, Catherine Robbe-Grillet is the brains and heart behind the erotic role playing. She is the dominatrix who controls what goes on and her partner, who is 31 years her junior, has promised to submit to her smallest command. Lina Mannheimer portrays a puzzling, intellectual and deeply fascinating woman who, accompanied by her husband Alain Robbe-Grillet, has dedicated herself to investigating sex both in life and in literature. The sadomasochistic ceremonies are presented with an intense presence and cinematic focus in this beautiful and thought-provoking debut film about desire, power and silk scarves.
Documentary 

The Lovers  Movies

Posted by at July 14, 2021
The Lovers

The Lovers (1958)
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
Romance  Drama 

The Lion Has Seven Heads  Movies

Posted by at March 2, 2023
The Lion Has Seven Heads

The Lion Has Seven Heads (1970)
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.
Drama  History 

The Immortal One  Movies

Posted by at Feb. 26, 2021
The Immortal One

The Immortal One (1963)
A melancholy man meets a stunning, mysterious woman while he is traveling, and discovers she may or may not be involved in a prostitution ring. She disappears after their relationship lasts a few days, and though he searches for her, those around him pretend not to know who he is speaking of.
Drama 

The Cousins  Movies

Posted by at Feb. 2, 2022
The Cousins

The Cousins (1959)
Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.
Drama