I Love European Films !!! (Vol. 03)
"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." - Jean Cocteau
"Hollywood has melted everyone's brains. In the old days you had one murder and that was enough for a story. Now you have to kill 300,000 people just to get the audience's attention" - Aki Kaurismaki
This list is NOT in any order of preference or ranking.
All these films have English subtitles.
"Hollywood has melted everyone's brains. In the old days you had one murder and that was enough for a story. Now you have to kill 300,000 people just to get the audience's attention" - Aki Kaurismaki
This list is NOT in any order of preference or ranking.
All these films have English subtitles.
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- DirectorGilles BourdosStarsMichel BouquetChrista ThéretVincent RottiersSet on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire MaurierA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #1 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierPatrick AuffayAntoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #2 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel.
Episode #2 was originally released as one segment of a collective film called Love At Twenty (1962), where this segment directed by Truffaut was just one of five segments, each by a different director, - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudClaude JadeDelphine SeyrigAfter being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #3 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudClaude JadeHiroko BerghauerAntoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #4 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudClaude JadeMarie-France PisierAntoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station...dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #5 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJeanne MoreauOskar WernerHenri SerreDecades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
A weird and innovative twist on the classic love triangle. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean DesaillyFrançoise DorléacNelly BenedettiPierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudKika MarkhamStacey TendeterAt the beginning of the 20th century, middle-class young Frenchman Claude Roc meets young Englishwoman Ann Brown in Paris. They become friends and she invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann, and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation with no contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris and has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCatherine DeneuveGérard DepardieuJean PoiretIn occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsGérard DepardieuFanny ArdantHenri GarcinTwo ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFanny ArdantJean-Louis TrintignantJean-Pierre KalfonAfter he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyMichèle MéritzAfter long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyJuliette MaynielA pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMadeleine RobinsonAntonella LualdiJean-Paul BelmondoA wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer (adaptation): Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsJean PoiretStéphane AudranMichel BouquetIn a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsPhilippe NoiretRobin RenucciBernadette LafontHired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man's country estate with the eccentric extended family.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertFrançois CluzetMarie TrintignantA housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsAndrew McCarthyNigel HaversBarbara De RossiExpatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMichel BouquetBrian CoxMaquisard AlfonsoThis movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media.dir: Claude Chabrol.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertSandrine BonnaireJacqueline BissetA newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsSandrine BonnaireJacques GamblinAntoine de CaunesIn a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertJacques DutroncAnna MouglalisIn Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Fandor.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsBenoît MagimelLaura SmetAurore ClémentA hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Fandor.com - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJane BirkinSergio CastellittoAndré MarconVittorio stops and helps Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. Later they meet again, and Vittorio discovers that Kate is part of a circus that she has just returned to after having been away for many years due to a tragedy that took place there and affected her profoundly.dir: Jacques Rivette.
writer: Jacques Rivette et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsVirginie VitryAnne DoatJacques Doniol-ValcrozeWhen an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.dir: Jacques Rivette.
writer: Jacques Rivette et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Luc GodardStéphane AudranAnna KarinaTwo young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying good-bye to Clara, Walter accompanies Charlotte into her house, although she doesn't want him to. Charlotte is hungry and cooks a steak. She asks Walter if he wants a piece of it. He says no, but she gives him a small piece anyway. He wants a kiss, and she says no. She starts to compare herself with Clara, who Walter agrees is more beautiful. In spite of this, Walter says he likes Charlotte much more, but she thinks he is lying. She notices that he is cold and shivering. She hugs him, he kisses her, and she starts kissing him. After leaving the house he accompanies her to the train.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsBetty SchneiderGiani EspositoFrançoise PrévostAnne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry. Philip warns Anne that the forces that killed Juan will soon do the same to Gerard. Gerard is trying to rehearse Shakespeare's "Pericles", although he has no financial backing. Anne takes a part in the play to help Gerard, and to try to discover why Juan died.dir: Jacques Rivette.
writer: Jacques Rivette et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsBarbet SchroederClaudine SoubrierMichèle GirardonA law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsCatherine SéePhilippe BeuzenChristian CharrièreThe friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsAntoine VitezAn examination of the lifestyles of female college students in 1966.dir: Eric Rohmer.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsPatrick BauchauHaydée PolitoffDaniel PommereulleA womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsBulle OgierJean-Pierre KalfonJosée DestoopDuring the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can't find a way to leave their personal problems at home. And life imitates fiction, creating a real tragedy for this couple when the man finds comfort with other women while the actress prefers to stay focused on her work, as if nothing is happening with her partner.dir: Jacques Rivette.
writer: Jacques Rivette et al.
available at YouTube.com-search:
"Jacques Rivette - L'amour Fou".
But be aware that it looks like the last few minutes of the film are missing. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianMarie-Christine BarraultA devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Claude BrialyAurora CornuBéatrice RomandOn lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsBernard VerleyZouzouFrançoise VerleyThough he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
under title: Love In The Afternoon. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsEdith CleverBruno GanzEdda SeippelA German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMaria SchneiderJoe DallesandroDanièle GégauffElizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.dir: Jacques Rivette.
writer: Jacques Rivette et al.
available at YouTube.com-search:
"Rivette : Merry Go Round (1981 - Eng / Gemany subs.) Dallesandro" - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsBulle OgierPascale OgierPierre ClémentiYoung unhinged female ex-con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to.dir: Jacques Rivette.
writer: Jacques Rivette et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJoëlle MiquelJessica FordeMr. HousseauTwo unlike girls are going to learn each other's world - lovely countryside and bustling Paris.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsCharlotte VéryFrédéric van den DriesscheMichel VolettiFive years after losing touch with a summer fling, a woman has difficulty choosing between her two suitors.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorÉric RohmerStarsMelvil PoupaudAmanda LangletGwenaëlle SimonAs a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.dir: Eric Rohmer.
writer: Eric Rohmer.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.dir: Larisa Shepitko.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu - DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsMayya BulgakovaSergey NikonenkoZhanna BolotovaA fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.dir: Larisa Shepitko.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu - DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBolotbek ShamshiyevNurmukhan ZhanturinKlara YusupzhanovaKemel, a young recent school graduate, travels into an isolated part of the steppes to work in a small communal farm camp.dir: Larisa Shepitko.
available at YouTube.com-search:
"Larisa Shepitko La Calura.
Eng subtitles are somewhat out of synch. - DirectorVera ChytilováStarsIvana KarbanováJitka CerhováMarie CeskováAfter realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?dir: Vera Chytlova.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorJirí MenzelStarsVáclav NeckárJosef SomrVlastimil BrodskýAn apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.dir: Jiri Menzel.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsYilmaz GüneyPervin ParErol TasIn order to keep his ailing son alive, an impoverished man agrees to sneak a herd of sheep across the border.dir: Lutfi Akad.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Turkish Film. - DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsJean-Louis TrintignantSylvie BréalZuzana KocúrikováOn the run from pursuing soldiers, a man hides in a small European town.screenplay: : Alain Robbe-Grillet.
dir: Alain Robbe-Grillet.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsFrançoise BrionJacques Doniol-ValcrozeGuido CelanoA sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.screenplay: : Alain Robbe-Grillet.
dir: Alain Robbe-Grillet.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsJean-Louis TrintignantMarie-France PisierChristian BarbierA movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.screenplay: : Alain Robbe-Grillet.
dir: Alain Robbe-Grillet.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorOlivier MarchalStarsDaniel AuteuilGérard DepardieuAndré Dussollier2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law.dir: Olivier Marchel.
lead actors: Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiBarbara DennekRita MaidenMonsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.dir: Jacques Tati.
screenplay: Jaxques Tati et al.
lead actor: Jacques Tati.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniAldo GiuffrèStories about three very different women and the men they attract.dir: Vittorio Di Sica.
lead actors: Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsVittorio De SicaVera BergmanCarla Del PoggioA teacher writes sample letters to a fictional Mr. Hartman with her students, but the recipient really exists.dir: Vittorio Di Sica.
lead actor: Vittorio Di Sica.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsRinaldo SmordoniFranco InterlenghiAnnielo MeleTwo shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.dir: Vittorio Di Sica.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsAgata KuleszaAgata TrzebuchowskaDawid OgrodnikA novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.dir Pawel Pawlikowski.
screenplay: Pawel Pawlikowski et al.
available at Fandor.com.
20 Stars !!! - DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsJeremy IronsEugene LipinskiJiri StanislavNowak (Irons), a Polish contractor, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak must manage the project and the men as they encounter the temptations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.dir: Jerzy Skolimowski.
screenplay: Jerzy Skolimowski.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorMalgorzata SzumowskaStarsJuliette BinocheAnaïs DemoustierJoanna KuligOn her latest assignment, a journalist for Elle immerses herself in a prostitution ring run by university students.dir: Malgorzata Szumowska.
screenplay: Malgorzata Szumowska.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorMarek GajczakStarsZbigniew KaletaBeata KozikowskaTomasz KarolakTwo couples are at an isolated lakeside cabin and the tragic psycho-sexual interaction between these four people leads one of them, Piotr, to commit an unspeakable act.dir: Marek Gajczak
screenplay: Marek Gajczak.
available at Fandor.com.
20 Stars !!! - DirectorMaciej SlesickiStarsBoguslaw LindaAgnieszka WlodarczykCezary PazuraLeon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. His duty is to take care of one of the Mafia leader's daughters. His problems begin when he falls in love with the 16-year-old girl.dir: Maciej Slesicki.
screenplay: Maciej Slesicki.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorJaroslaw SypniewskiJacek FilipiakMichal GazdaStarsPawel MalaszynskiRobert WieckiewiczMalgorzata ForemniakAn investigate crime reporter meets at a hotel for a taped interview with a big time gangster who has turned state's witness and says that he's started a new, legitimate life. What the gangster doesn't know is that a bomb that he planted to kill a fellow gangster accidentally killed the reporter's pregnant wife years ago, and the reporter isn't about to reveal this to the gangster until the time is right.aka The Crown Witness.
dir: Jaroslaw Sypniewski et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloCarlo VerdoneSabrina FerilliJep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.dir: Paulo Sorrentino.
screenplay: Paulo Sorrentino et al.
available at Fandor.com.
20 Stars !!! - DirectorPavel RuminovStarsMariya ShalayevaRoman ZenchukMariya Syomkina(Russian with English subtitles) Inna is a typical 30-something yuppy, who also happens to be a single mother. One day discovering that she has an Incurable illness, Inna sets on finding the right adoptive parents for her son.available at Fandor.com.
- DirectorAleksandra StrelyanayaStarsYana EsipovichOleg GarkushaElena KalininaThis story takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. We see it with the eyes of Natalia, young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We share her love, dedication to her masters, mystical experience, exile, betrayal and faith, which come one after another, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.dir: Alexandra Strelyanaya.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorAleksey GermanStarsLeonid YarmolnikAleksandr ChutkoYuriy TsuriloIn the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like planet.dir: Alexsai German.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantStefania SandrelliGastone MoschinA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.dir: Bernardo Bertolucci.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsFranco CittiFranca PasutSilvana CorsiniA pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorRobert BressonStarsFrançois LeterrierCharles Le ClaincheMaurice BeerblockA captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.dir: Robert Bresson.
screenplay (adaptation): Robert Bresson.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorRobert BressonStarsPaul BernardMaría CasaresElina LabourdetteA society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.dir: Robert Bresson.
screenplay (adaptation): Robert Bresson and Jean Cocteau.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorRobert BressonStarsAnne WiazemskyWalter GreenFrançois LafargeThe story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.dir: Robert Bresson.
screenplay: Robert Bresson.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniAldo PuglisiWealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.dir: Vittorio De Sica.
available at Fandor.com.
20 Stars !!! - DirectorVittorio De SicaFederico FelliniMario MonicelliStarsAnita EkbergSophia LorenRomy SchneiderInspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.This is a four segment anthology.
dirs.: Mario Monicelli (I), Federico Fellini (II),
Luchino Visconti (III), Vittorio De Sica (IV).
available at Fandor.com.
20 Stars !!! - DirectorAlessandro CaponeStarsIsabelle HuppertGreta ScacchiMélanie LaurentThe secrets and hidden pain of a woman recovering from a suicide attempt reveal themselves through a series of sessions with her psychiatrist.dir: Alessendro Capone.
Screenplay: Alessendro Capone et al.
actor: Isabelle Huppert.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorMario SoldatiStarsAlida ValliMassimo SeratoAda DondiniA woman of humble origins who marries a nobleman in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately, the unstoppable force of their love hits an immovable object: his grandmother.dir: Mario Soldati.
screenplay (adaptation): Mario Soldati et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorPietro GermiStarsPietro GermiLuisa Della NoceSylva KoscinaThe railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud of his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railroad man Ugo. Andrea is married to Sara, and his young son Sandro is very close to him; however, Andrea has issues with his unemployed son Marcello and with his pregnant daughter Giulia, whose boyfriend Renato Borghi was forced to marry her. After a suicide crosses the tracks of his train in a curve, Andrea feels deeply affected by the accident and almost collides with another train. The railroad company investigates the accident and steps Andrea down from his position. The domestic life of Andrea is also affected by his aggressive behavior and Marcello and Giulia leave home. Later Andrea also leaves home and starts to drink until the day Sandro visits him in a bar.aka Man Of Iron.
dir: Pietro Germi.
screenplay: Pietro Germi et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorEndre HulesStarsEndre HulesZsolt LászlóBea MelkviThere were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.dir: Endre Hules.
screenplay: Endre Hules.
lead actor: Endre Hules.
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20 Stars !!! - DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsKerry FoxAnamaria MarincaStephen DillaneHannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosnians. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.dir: Hans-Christian Schmid.
A VERY Convoluted, but easy to follow storyline that really kept me engaged in the film. A "must-see" for any crime/thriller fan.
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available at Fandor.com - DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsTotòNinetto DavoliFemi BenussiTotò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.dir: Pier Paolo Pasoloni.
available at Fandor.com - DirectorTony RichardsonStarsRita TushinghamDora BryanRobert StephensA pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.dir: Tony Richardson.
available for online streaming at FilmStruck.com - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid BergmanLiv UllmannLena NymanA devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.dir: Ingmar Bergman
lead actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullman.
20 Stars !!! 20 Stars !!! 20 Stars !!!
available for online streaming at FilmStruck.com - DirectorLasse HallströmStarsJuliette BinocheJohnny DeppJudi DenchA French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.dir: Lasse Hallstrom.
lead actors: Alfred Molina, Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp.
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