Paltiel Kossover leaves his home country Russia because of the Jewish persecutions. From Berlin to Paris, he will discover politics, poetry, love before coming back to his native land.
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90m
Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
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82m
Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights...
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A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child.
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130m
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In the Monkey Island, populated by men and frog women, spies covet sacred frogs.
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36m
L'empreinte des géants
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141m
L'enfant secret
Jean-Baptiste, a filmmaker, and Elie, an actress, fall in love. To fight their unhappiness, they cling to their children: Jean-Baptiste to his film and Elie to her young son.
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92m
Mon coeur est rouge
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A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.
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105m
La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu
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A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.
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85m
George qui?
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The film depitcs the life of the French author George Sand.
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110m
Le train
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Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
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95m
Le retour d'Afrique
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An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is inspired by a poet and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director.
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108m
Tout va bien
Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
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95m
Le grand départ
This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes...
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71m
Raphaël ou le débauché
1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.
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100m
Vladimir et Rosa
Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and the defendants become a microcosms of the French Revolution.
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103m
Lotte in Italia
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
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62m
Le vent d'est
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A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.
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95m
Il seme dell'uomo
A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.
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113m
Porcile
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A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.
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99m
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After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned picture, the old Arden to allow the latter's wife, Alice to live with her lover Mosbie.
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89m
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
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93m
La bande à Bonnot
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
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110m
Teorema
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A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
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105m
Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count (Jean-Clause Brialy), and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.
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95m
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A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.
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105m
La Chinoise
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A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
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96m
Au hasard Balthazar
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The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.