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A Girl Cut in Two

Gabrielle Deneige is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior, and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor. An unspoken past between the two men heightens tensions, and though she's initially certain of her love for one them, the see-saw demands and whims of both men keep confusing - and darkening - matters. Before long she's encountering emotional and societal forces well beyond her ...

NR

6.4

2007 Comedy 115 min Play

6.3

Comedy of Power

Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing.

NR

6.3

2006 Drama 110 min Play

6.5

The Bridesmaid

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

NR

6.5

2004 Drama 111 min Play

6.2

The Flower of Evil

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.

NR

6.2

2003 Drama 104 min Play

6.2

Nightcap

Mika is the wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume whilst in hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne harbors a suspicion that she may be Andre's daughter. Andre undertakes to continue her piano tuition, but, on entering the Polonski family, Jeanne begins to ...

NR

6.2

2000 Crime 99 min Play

5.9

The Color of Lies

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a ...

NR

5.9

1999 Crime 113 min Play

7.2

La Cérémonie

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

NR

7.2

1995 Drama 111 min Play

6.6

Torment

An irritable and stressed-out hotel manager begins to develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity.

NR

6.6

1994 Crime 100 min Play

6.6

Betty

When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel lodgings, extends friendship and care, and listens to her story. Laure's lover, Mario, the proprietor of the bar where Betty and Laure met, is first a friend, then Betty's next conquest.

NR

6.6

1992 Drama 103 min Play

4.6

The King of Ads

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

NR

4.6

1991 Documentary 91 min Play

7.4

Story of Women

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover ...

NR

7.4

1988 Drama 108 min Play

7

Masques

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur--or is he?

NR

7

1987 Crime 100 min Play

6.3

Inspector Lavardin

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.

NR

6.3

1986 Crime 100 min Play

6.2

Chicken with Vinegar

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

NR

6.2

1985 Comedy 110 min Play

4.3

The Blood of Others

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

NR

4.3

1984 Drama 135 min Play

6.2

The Hatter’s Ghost

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).

NR

6.2

1982 Crime 120 min Play

5.9

Blood Relatives

A Montreal police inspector (Donald Sutherland) cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.

NR

5.9

1978 Crime 100 min Play

6.8

Violette

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

NR

6.8

1978 Crime 124 min Play

6.8

Alice or the Last Escapade

One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.

NR

6.8

1977 Drama 93 min Play

4.3

The Twist

Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.

Innocents with Dirty Hands

Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door? Nothing is what it seems in this highly acclaimed taut thriller.

R

6.3

1975 Crime 121 min Play

6.3

Wedding in Blood

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 husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to ...

NR

6.3

1973 Crime 95 min Play

5.2

Scoundrel in White

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.

NR

5.2

1972 Comedy 95 min Play

6.6

Just Before Nightfall

A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.

NR

6.6

1971 Crime 100 min Play