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Directed by: David Hamilton
Stars: Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas
Summer 1939 in the Provence, France: Julien has a crush on his cousin Julia, who lives together with his family in their small hotel. Unfortunately she ignores him, because she’s several years older. Then the hotel guest Charles enters the competition, a slimy twenty-something who lusts for the…
Directed by: Jesús Franco
Stars: Christopher Lee, Ramon Estevez, Mark Hamill, Carole Keeper, Teresa Gimpera, Antonio Mayans
In World War II Germany, two young men, one, an ardent Nazi, and the other, a secret anti-Nazi, are in love with the same woman, the daughter of a wealthy banker. The two join the Army, and the young woman becomes a nightclub singer. Eventually she joins the…
Directed by: Roger Avary
Stars: Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Martin Raymond
Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he's up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There's only one problem:…
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Stars: Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Lisa Blok-Linson
A young French woman, separated from her lover, tries to find a lodging in L.A. for herself and her son. This has to be one of the most underrated film in the history of cinema and for sure among the best films to come out of the 80s.…
Directed by: Nouchka van Brakel
Stars: Monique van de Ven, Maria Schneider, Marijke Merckens
Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband, thinking Eve is depressed, sends her on a holiday to France with her girlfriend Sonja. In the…
Directed by: Claude Mulot
Stars: Francis Lemonnier, Patrick Penn, Anne Libert
Benoît is a coward and a voyeur, who gets his kicks from watching other couples make out. He cajoles his two new companions to attempt what he has never dared do: rob the safe in his father’s factory, seduce his stepmother to blackmail her for money and finally…
Directed by: Claude Faraldo
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Marilù Tolo
This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When Themroc rebels against the dull conformity of his life with flamboyant anarchistic splendor, the whole world quickly goes howling mad. His day starts, as usual, when his mother more-or-less drags him out of bed and kicks…
Directed by: Jesús Franco
Linda Vargas picks up Ortiz in a bar where she works in a lesbian show with Maria Toledano. She seduces him, phones the police and kills herself. Ortiz is held on suspicion of her murder. Ortiz’s wife, Rosa, visits a friend of Linda’s, the Countess Anna de Monterey…
Directed by: Paul Vecchiali
Stars: Hélène Surgère, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Myriam Mézières
Françoise is very appreciated in the prominent Parisian political circles and has a serious chance of becoming a minister. The only snag is a filthy blackmail with regard to her son, Andrew who once got caught up in shady porn movies as an actor. She decides to ask…
Directed by: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand
Although deeply in love with her boyfriend – and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him – a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a…
Directed by: José Bénazéraf
Stars: Willy Braque, Yves Duffaut, Annie Josse
A beautiful heiress is kidnapped and held hostage until her wealthy father comes up with a ransom. The heiress develops an attraction to one of her kidnappers, but another member of the gang tries to attack her, leading to a deadly triangle. This low-budget exercise in pure absurd…
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel
Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film…
Directed by: Jean-François Davy
This is a documentary on the 70's French porn industry that I was fortunate enough to see with English subtitles (and it actually does matter here). There are generally two kinds of porn documentaries--those that actually take an insightful look behind the scenes, and those that are just…
Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer
A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her “train” her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support…
Directed by: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Stars: Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot, Michael Lonsdale
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scisors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have…
Directed by: Jesús Franco (as Clifford Brown)
Stars: Wal Davis, Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Lina Romay, Montserrat Prous, Chantal Broquet, Kali Hansa
In medieval France, traveler Pygar tells he-man Karzan of his recent journey to a place called Antigua, and of its entire community of Amazons promising undreamed of sexual satisfaction to any man who comes upon them. More importantly, Pygar tells of a fortune in gold. Karzan/Maciste, is persuaded…
Directed by: Jesus Franco
A missionary and his wife are killed by natives when they accidentally discover their golden temple, but his daughter is spared and is raised by the tribe. Fifteen years later, she seeks vengeance for her parents’ murders and joins an expedition searching for the same golden temple.
Directed by: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicée Alvina, Sylvia Kristel
When Carolina (Anicee Alvina), the daughter of wealthy banker Georges de Saxe (Philippe Noiret), is reported kidnapped, it is upsetting to him even though he knows it isn’t true. The kidnappers have taken the wrong person. The banker hires Frantz (Jean-Louis Trintignant) a disheveled, seedy detective to find…
Directed by: Georges Friedland
Stars: Marianne Rémont, Jean-Pierre Delamour, Paul Muller
Annie, a beautiful young woman, lives in St-Tropez, France. On a trip to the seaside resort, American writer Mark Redley meets the girl and is enchanted. He writes books on female behavior and freedom. He invites her to accompany him on a trip to Rio de Janeiro. Annie…
Directed by: Serge Gainsbourg
Stars: Francis Huster, Barbara Sukowa, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Novel-based crime drama about naive Timar, who goes to Gabon, French Equatorial Africa in the 1950s with dreams of making fortune. He’s seduced by Adele, a shady owner of a local hotel, Libreville, who uses him to commit murder.
