Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Le Train movie storyline. In May 1940 a packed train takes refugees from a French village near the Belgian border fleeing advancing German forces. The passengers include Julien, a short-sighted radio repairer, his daughter and pregnant wife. The women are assigned to a carriage for women at the front while he has to scramble into a cattle truck at the rear. There he becomes entranced by a mysterious and beautiful young woman travelling alone.
Le Train (1973) Read More
Le Voyou movie storyline. Simon (Jean-Louis Trintignant), known as “the Swiss”, a gangster escaped from prison takes refuge in a cinema, where in order to escape the police gaze, he forces a spectator named Janine (Danièle Delorme) to kiss him; she agrees to host him, at first with reluctance, then with pleasure.
Le Voyou (1970) Read More
That Night in Varennes movie storyline. On 20 June 1791 the king and queen of France (Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette) tried to escape from Revolutionary Paris to join monarchist allies outside France, but were arrested in the town of Varennes. The incident inflamed popular distrust and hatred against the monarchy.
That Night in Varennes (1982) Read More
La Terrazza movie storyline. Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing.
La Terrazza (1980) 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
The Easy Life movie storyline. Bruno Cortona and Roberto Mariani meet by chance as Roberto helps Bruno one day while everything is closed in Rome for the holiday weekend. The two men could not be more different.
The Easy Life (1962) Read More
In Turin in the winter of 1862, the unmarried Giorgio Bacchetti, a good-looking cavalry captain with a distinguished combat record, is involved in a passionate affair with Clara, a sweet and beautiful married woman. Their meetings end when he is transferred to an isolated outpost on the frontier.
Passion of Love (1981) Read More
A Man and a Woman movie storyline. Jean-Louis Duroc and Anne Gauthier meet when they drop off their respective adolescent children, Antoine and Françoise, at their Deauville boarding school.
A Man and a Woman (1966) Read More
The Conformist opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist.
The Conformist (1970) Read More
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.
Z (1969) Read More