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.
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Landru movie storyline. During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where he kills them and burns their bodies.
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The Bride Wore Black movie storyline. As the film opens, Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) tries to throw herself out of an upstairs window, but is stopped by her mother (Luce Fabiole). Julie is dressed in black and is obviously grief-stricken. In the next scene, she is more composed, telling her mother she is going on a long trip, and counting out five piles of money.
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The Man Who Loved Women movie storyline. Montpellier: December 1976. At the funeral of Bertrand Morane, Genevieve (Brigitte Fossey) observes the other mourners, all women once involved with him. The following is told in flashback.
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And Now My Love movie synopsis. Russian ballet dancer Tatiana (Rita Poelvoorde) loses a competition to become her school’s #1 ballerina, but marries Boris Itovich (Jorge Donn). The war blights their lives, but their son Sergei (Donn) eventually becomes a top dancer himself.
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Z movie storyline. Yves Montand, a liberal politician, is assassinated in the demonstration. After the murder, the only thing that the state and army officials have done is to remove the evidence.
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