Movie List for "french"

Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne’s virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuse Year 1966.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. Year 1953.

Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl. Year 2001.

A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field. Year 2001.

This film is one of the most magical to come out of Africa, hardly surprising since Madagascar is unlike anywhere else on earth. Raymond Rajaonarivelo follows his epic first film on the Malagasy liberation struggle, TABA TABA, with a Year 1996.

Set in the 1970s, it’s the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome. Year 2005.

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Year 1982.

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. Year 1967.

FELA KUTIis to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of black music, from funk to electronic, owe something to the irresistible groove of the Afrobeat sound that he created. Shot in Lagos at Year 1982.

An erratic young woman’s family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways. Year 1983.

A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister Year 1989.

A young man comes to the rescue of his girlfriend abducted by thieves and brought to Rio. An extravagant adventure ensues. Year 1964.

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man. Year 1967.

A cinematic triptych of three Tokyo-set stories. Year 2008.

Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul sed Year 1969.

Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L’atalante along with the captain’s first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy. Year 1934.