Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Elevator to the Gallows movie storyline. A businessman (Julien Tavernier, played by Maurice Ronet), in love with his boss’s wife (Florence Carala, played by Jeanne Moreau), plans a murder to look like suicide. This involves using a grappling hook and rope to enable him to climb up a floor without using the elevator. So far, so good.
Elevator to the Gallows (1958) Read More
Atlantic City is a place where people go to realize their dreams, the promise of the future manifested by the demolition of the old crumbling buildings to be replaced by new hotels and casinos.
Atlantic City (1980) Read More
A Very Private Affair movie storyline. Brigitte Bardot, the French actress / bombshell of the 1960s, stars in this semi-biographical film of her life. Eighteen-year-old Jill enjoys a comfortable upper-class existence with her widowed mother in Switzerland and develops a crush on Fabio, a friend’s husband. She heads off to Paris to become a model and dancer.
A Very Private Affair (1962) Read More
Black Moon movie storyline. Lily (Cathryn Harrison) is attempting to seek refuge amidst an apparent gender-based civil war in which men and women are systematically killing one another. On a rural road, she encounters men executing women by firing squad, and flees with her car into the woods, following an overgrown road. There, she encounters a flock of sheep gathered around their shepherd, who has hanged himself from a tree.
Black Moon (1975) Read More
Les Amants storyline. Jeanne Tournier lives in a manor with servants in the countryside of Dijon with her husband Henri Tournier and their daughter Catherine.
Les Amants (1958) Read More
Le Souffle au Cœur movie storyline. Dijon, 1954. France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, or the so-called “dirty” war, and the open-minded fifteen-year-old son of a wealthy gynaecologist, Laurent, enjoys a normal life.
Le Souffle au Cœur (1971) Read More
Pretty Baby movie storyline. In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitué of the whorehouse.
Pretty Baby (1978) Read More