Club of Women

Club of Women 1956

4.30

A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Complications ensue when a huge corporation announces plans to raze the building and erect a factory. Amazingly, the ladies are saved by the very company that wants to evict them.

1956

Fortunate

Fortunate 1960

7.50

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.

1960

The Cat

The Cat 1971

7.40

Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.

1971

Ludwig

Ludwig 1973

7.40

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

1973

Last Year at Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad 1961

7.46

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

1961

The Baron of the Locks

The Baron of the Locks 1960

6.30

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.

1960

La Parisienne

La Parisienne 1957

5.60

The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.

1957

The Grand Manoeuvre

The Grand Manoeuvre 1955

6.00

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

1955

Macédoine

Macédoine 1971

1

The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.

1971

Without Apparent Motive

Without Apparent Motive 1971

5.85

A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.

1971

The Old Guard

The Old Guard 1960

6.30

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

1960

The Inheritor

The Inheritor 1973

6.33

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

1973

A Full Day's Work

A Full Day's Work 1973

6.53

A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.

1973

Two English Girls

Two English Girls 1971

6.90

In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.

1971

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case 1959

6.93

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.

1959

Princess of Cleves

Princess of Cleves 1961

5.70

When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.

1961

Les Culottes rouges

Les Culottes rouges 1962

6.50

Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.

1962

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? 1961

6.90

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he was found supplying classified information to the Russians.

1961