My Lover, My Son (1970)
My Lover, My Son (1970) Francesca Anderson, the rich wife of an older millionaire, can't cope with the death of her lover, who is the father of her only son, James. As her son is somehow part of her dead lover, she falls in love with him and tries to seduce him, but he has a girlfriend named Julie.
The Swimming Pool (1969)
The Swimming Pool (1969) Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the gro
Sissi (1955)
Sissi (1955) The young Emperor Franz Joseph is on his way to his summer residence at Ischl, where his birthday will be celebrated with a big party. His mother, Archduchess Sophie, has decided that he shall marry her niece Princess Helene of Bayern, and that the engagement shall be proclaimed at the
The Infernal Trio (1974)
The Infernal Trio (1974) A cunning French legal adviser teams up with an unemployed German girl and her sister to commit murders in Marseille.
Love at the Top (1974)
Love at the Top (1974) A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn't known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sl
The Old Gun (1975)
The Old Gun 1975 In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter to the back country village where Julien has an old castle One week later, Julien decided to meet
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Un amour de pluie (1974) Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted ...
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
Limportant cest daimer (1975) Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart
Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)
Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976) On August 4, 1936, General Metaxas declared martial law in Greece. A union leader using the name Boutros is sought in Athens by Primoukis, a ruthless police leader. Boutros narrowly escapes and, early the next morning, jumps through the window of Marchese Margot Santo
Mädchen in Uniform (1958)
Mädchen in Uniform (1958) After the death of her parents young girl Manuela von Meinhardis is sent to a boarding school where Prussian drill rules the education. Desperately seeking love and warmth in Manuela's heart special emotions for the only human lady teacher, Fraeulein von Bernburg, start gr
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) The young Empress Sissi is staying at the Gödölle Palace in Hungary with her little daughter and some court people. Here she can be herself, liberated from all the strict court rules in Austria. She spends her days with Count Andrassy, riding in the wo
Triple Cross (1966)
Triple Cross (1966) Loosely based on a true story, Christopher Plummer plays British bank robber Eddie Chapman who finds himself caught between the warring parties in WW2, the British and the Germans. working as a spy for both sides he tries to play the 3rd reich and the British against each other.
Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
Sissi: The Young Empress (1956) Through her Hungarian teacher the young Empress Sissi is enchanted by Hungary, a country she has never visited, but feels an affinity with. The Council of Ministers wants to punish some Hungarian rebels, but Emperor Franz Joseph gives all the rebels amnesty, including
Whats New Pussycat (1965)
Whats New Pussycat (1965) Michael James, a notorious womanizer, desperately wants to be faithful to his fianc�e Carole, but runs into serious problems since every woman he meets seems to fall in love with him. His psychoanalyst Dr. Fassbender can't help him either since he's busy courting one o
The Cardinal (1963)
The Cardinal (1963) Stephen Fermoyle has grown up in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century knowing that his destiny lies with the Catholic priesthood. Finally finishing his studies in Rome, he returns to America full of certitude and ambition to one day join the College of Cardinals. But his r
The Things of Life (1970)
The Things of Life (1970) Pierre, a successful engineer in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks.
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966) Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent murder in a small town along the way. What begins as a vacation ends as a meditation on t
La passante du SansSouci (1982)
La passante du SansSouci (1982) Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has s
Death Watch (1980)
Death Watch (1980) Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch"...
Boccaccio 70 (1962)
Boccaccio 70 (1962) Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency
Ludwig (1973)
Ludwig (1973) Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandonned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip
Otley (1969)
Otley (1969) Gerald Otley, a petty thief and garbage rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town, and finds that he is wanted by the police for murder. And that is only the ...
Qui? (1970)
Qui? (1970) Marina and her boyfriend have an argument while on a trip in France. While driving with the car among the cliffs, he starts speeding and the car falls into the sea. Marina can jump out of the car, but her boyfriend seems to be drowned. She gets to know his brother and he falls in love wi
A Simple Story (1978)
A Simple Story (1978) A simple story about simple people. A 38 old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges). Their daily life and of their friends, who have the same typical problems.
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jackson. Jackson befriends a young communist and gets an invitatio
Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Good Neighbor Sam (1964) Sam Bissel is a wholesome family man with a loving wife, Min, and two loving daughters. They lead a happy suburban life. The only part of Sam's life that he is not happy about is his job as a lowly cog in the art department of the advertising firm of Burke & Hare. Sam's prof
Cesar Rosalie (1972)
Cesar Rosalie 1972 Rosalie is amicably divorced, dividing her time between her mothers house, with her siblings and small daughter, and Cesars Hes self made, a scrap iron king, outgoing, amiable, in love with her Enter David, an artist and Rosalies flame before her marriage In a quiet, brooding way,
Fantasma damore (1981)
Fantasma damore (1981) Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
Henri Georges Clouzots Inferno (2009)
Henri Georges Clouzots Inferno 2009 Henri Georges Clouzots unfinished masterpiece, Lenfer 1964, is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary
Womanlight (1979)
Womanlight 1979 Reciprocal consolation The background of two middle aged people Michel and Lydia is gradually unfolded Michels wife is incurably ill They had agreed that she would take her life on this day All telephone cables were cut and Michel should leave France for months But he goes forth and
An Angel on Wheels (1959)
An Angel on Wheels (1959) A female guardian angel tries to convince Pierre not to marry his rich but mean fiance, but rather fall in love with a stewardess who is secretly in love with him.
Le combat dans lîle (1962)
Le combat dans lîle (1962) The son of a French industrialist, Clément is a right wing extremist who belongs to a secret militant right wing organization that uses whatever means necessary, including violence, to achieve its goals. His wife Anne, a former German actress who gave up her career to be