Malaria

Malaria 1943

1

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing.

1943

Take It from the Top

Take It from the Top 1978

5.40

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...

1978

The Devil in the Box

The Devil in the Box 1977

4.50

Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.

1977

Julie pot-de-colle

Julie pot-de-colle 1977

4.40

Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.

1977

Fall Out

Fall Out 1996

3.70

This film is an adaptation of Jean Amila's novel Le Boucher des Hurlus. The story, set in the aftermath of the war, is about Michel, a young man orphaned in this manner. He lives with his mother until she collapses under the wave of vituperation from the women in her community, who consider her murdered husband to have been a traitor. When he is sent to an orphanage, he discovers that many of the children in it are there for the same reason he is. Michel decides to escape his captivity and kill the general who ordered his father's death. He and the other children like him are able to get away from the orphanage, in the course of their journeys, they tour the grim battlefields of the recent war. Together, they return to Paris, determined to exact their revenge.

1996

The Last Tasmanian

The Last Tasmanian 1978

6.30

The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.

1978

Emmenez-moi au Ritz

Emmenez-moi au Ritz 1977

1

The three ex-wives of a real estate developer join forces to get revenge on him.

1977

Bérénice

Bérénice 2000

6.00

An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Palestine).

2000

La P..... sentimentale

La P..... sentimentale 1958

10.00

A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".

1958

La Grâce

La Grâce 1979

8.00

Duperrier, a model of piety, justice and charity, wakes up one day with a halo over his head, to the great despair of his wife who fears the gossip of the neighborhood. He's obliged to do everything possible to lose this gift from heaven.

1979

The Apprentice Heel

The Apprentice Heel 1977

6.00

After a car accident in which his mother dies, Antoine Chapelote decides to change his life and become a con-artist. He meets a young girl Caroline who helps him with his scam.

1977

Little Marcel

Little Marcel 1976

1

A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms.

1976

Isabelle Is Afraid of Men

Isabelle Is Afraid of Men 1957

1

During a summer spent with her cousins, whose freedom and incessant flirting at first surprised her, young Isabelle met a charming playmate whom her mother and aunt, worried about this tender friendship, forbade her to see again. This doesn't stop Isabelle from meeting Yves and learning that friendship and love are not the same thing: the sweet little friend is left alone with his dreams and the memory of a too-pretty girlfriend.

1957

Illicit Motherhood

Illicit Motherhood 1953

1.50

A group of drifting youngsters train to commit petty thefts. A certain André puts them on the trail of a real hold-up. They might carry it out if a suicide attempt didn't stop them. A young woman throws herself into the river. They save her, comfort her, learn that she's pregnant. They surround her with their friendship. When André reappears and seizes Lucienne to throw her on the pavement, everyone unites to save her, and the kind-hearted Maurice offers to be the baby's loving father.

1953

A Woman for Me

A Woman for Me 1993

2.00

Daniel falls madly in love with Victoria. After seducing her, he learns that the young woman has a troubled past.

1993

Zone frontière

Zone frontière 1950

1

At the Belgian border, a group of young people engaged in various contraband traffic bother the customs officers.

1950