Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Helene Regnier’s husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son’s condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody.
La Rupture (1970) Read More
The Champagne Murders movie storyline. Taking a prostitute to a park after drinking, Paul Wagner is attacked by unknown assailants, who leave him with a serious head injury and strangle her.
The Champagne Murders (1967) Read More
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.
Landru (1963) Read More
Ophelia movie storyline. After the death of his father, the weirdo Yvan Lesurf believes his mother Claudia Lesurf and his uncle Adrien Lesurf have poisoned him since they got married to each other. Completely disturbed and insane, the cruel Yvan decides to make a film based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet to expose the wealthy Claudia and Adrien to their friends in their community. He also calls his sweetheart Lucie Ophélia in a tragedy foretold.
Ophelia (1963) Read More
Les Cousins movie storyline. Charles (Gérard Blain) is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s (Jean-Claude Brialy) flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man.
Les Cousins (1959) Read More
Le Beau Serge movie storyline. In France, François Baillou returns to his village to spend the winter as part of his treatment of tuberculosis. On the arrival, François sees his former best friend Serge and greets him, but Serge is drunk and does not recognize him.
Le Beau Serge (1959) Read More
Alice Carol (Sylvia Kristel) leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek help. She goes to a creepy manor and is welcomed by the owner, Henri Vergennes, and his butler, Colas. Alice is invited to spend the night in the house.
Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) Read More
Just Before Nightfall movie storyline. Charles Masson (Michel Bouquet), an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro.
Just Before Nightfall (1971) Read More
In Paris, while crossing a bridge over the Seine, the bored bisexual millionaire Frédérique meets a homeless young street painter called ‘Why’ and invites her to drink tea at her apartment. They have a love affair and Frédérique takes ‘Why’ to spend the winter at her house in Saint Tropez, where Frédérique’s other two friends of hers live.
Les Biches (1968) Read More
Les Bonnes Femmes tells the story of four attractive single Parisian women and their domestic and romantic encounters. Several of them work as saleswomen in an appliance store, one moonlights as an entertainer, and all are pursued by Parisian men both good and bad. Jane is pursued by men and portrayed as being more ditzy and happy go lucky.
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) Read More