Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Director Jean-Luc Godard turns his attention toward “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola” in this romantic dramedy. At its heart is the Parisian love affair between a wayward idealist (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and rising pop star (Chantal Goya). In addition to its unique sense of self-awareness, the film provides a candid snapshot of 1960s youth culture.
Masculin Feminin (1966) Read More
Cellist Gaspard is living in a big house in the country with his son and three nieces. He likes being quiet. One day, his modest car bumps into a Rolls-Royce, driven by Felicia, a young, beautiful, wealthy and temperamental woman. And she knows it. She is very angry at him because he seems not to be under her charm. She decides to seduce him, but Gaspard did not feel like letting his life being invaded by such a woman.
The Bear and the Doll (1970) Read More
Le Mépris is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the 1954 Italian novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia.
Le Mépris (1963) Read More
Act of Love movie storyline. Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) arrives by bus at Villefranche, a small town in the French Riviera. Although briefly sidetracked by a fellow American tourist who thinks they have met, Bob goes directly to the Hotel Belle Rive and requests a specific room.
Act of Love (1953) 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
In Case of Adversity movie storyline. A petty criminal aged 22, the attractive Yvette is caught after robbing a watchmaker’s shop with a toy pistol and felling his old wife. To defend her, she asks for André Gobillot, a leading member of the Paris bar.
In Case of Adversity (1958) Read More
In 1880 in New Mexico, frontier adventurer Bosky Fulton (Stephen Boyd) and his men lead a hunting party of European aristocrats and their servants, along with a retired American politician and his wife, into Apache territory. When a French countess, Irina Lazaar (Brigitte Bardot), wanders off, she is attacked by Apache warriors on horseback.
Shalako (1968) Read More
La Vérité storyline. Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, explanations for why idle and fickle girl killed the talented conductor.
La Vérité (1960) Read More
Dear Brigitte storyline. Robert Leaf is an American college professor whose precocious son Erasmus is a mathematical prodigy. It is discovered that Erasmus is infatuated with Brigitte Bardot.
Dear Brigitte (1965) Read More