The Prize of Peril

The Prize of Peril 1983

6.40

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

1983

A Room in Town

A Room in Town 1982

6.46

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

1982

Ladies' Choice

Ladies' Choice 1982

6.00

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?

1982

Long Live Life

Long Live Life 1984

5.92

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.

1984

Dog Day

Dog Day 1984

5.20

A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

1984

The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard 1984

4.70

Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.

1984

Vive les femmes !

Vive les femmes ! 1984

4.10

The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.

1984

Cap Canaille

Cap Canaille 1983

3.90

Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.

1983

Invitation to Travel

Invitation to Travel 1982

5.00

After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road.

1982

Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!

Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! 1982

6.00

In this film that sends up the foibles of filmmaking, a standard crew of actors, stage-hands, director, writers, producers, and others are gathered for the filming of a 45-second automobile commercial. Each role embodies an archetype (the harried director who has a deadline to meet, the Scrooge production manager who has a budget to meet, and the writers who are above these mundane concerns), and these personalities drive the working actors over the edge until they decide to lock them up and do their own thing -- happiness can be just around the corner if you are in the driver's seat. Hopefully, the actors will be able to bow out before the police catch on to the situation.

1982

Grand Guignol

Grand Guignol 1987

3.50

Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbid fantasies. It is true that Baptiste has a rather unstable troupe that rehearses horror plays in a dance hall. Sarah comes out of the wings for life, but it turns out to be as incongruous and phantasmagorical as her husband's plays. This is why she returns to him. "The real grand guignol is life. The other is the farce."

1987