Movie List for "french"

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. Year 1982.

N/A Year 1998.

Based on Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu King which was considered as a precursor to the Theatre of the Absurd, the film tells the story of Ubu who seizes the throne of Poland after having massacred the King Wenceslas. Year 1979.

A single man on a desert island. A cabin, a desolate beach. Robinson regularly sees, during hallucinations, a woman and a man motionless and dumb. Year 1968.

Philippe Morin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteri… Year 1955.

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores. Year 1973.

N/A Year 1959.

As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team’s escape. Year 1981.

Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man’s country estate with the eccentric extended family. Year 1987.

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to be… Year 1973.

The lives of a motherless boy, who is just starting to get interested in women, and his physically abused friend, who lives in poverty, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges of a number of child… Year 1976.

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same. Year 1997.

After he learns that a heart attack may be imminent, Pierre Francois, an old psychiatrist, becomes physically attracted to Odile, a sensuous young woman. Odile later uses their relationship to fulfill an exhibitionist fantasy. Year 1994.

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collecti… Year 1994.

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary. Year 1970.

“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cart… Year 1962.