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- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsFrançoise ChristophePierre CressoyGino CerviA young architect is about to marry a man she barely knows. Determined to find her happiness, she embarks on a series of liaisons.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsDanielle DarrieuxJean DesaillyVictor GuyauOnce a lowly chambermaid, Amelie Pochet now revels as the pampered mistress of a military man named Etienne.
- DirectorPierre ChenalStarsNicole MaureyMaurice RonetInda LedesmaThe love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his wife, a wealthy and unbalanced forty.
- DirectorCarmelo BeneStarsCarmelo BeneLuciana CanteSergio Di GiulioA meditation on Art through the elements of the most famous tragedy.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsAnna MagnaniRossano BrazziGeraldine BrooksWhile awaiting Production Code seal approval in the USA this Italian-made production went through three American distributors in three years; first Motion Picture Sales Corporation that passed it off to Eagle Lion and finally to United Artists when they acquired Eagle Lion properties. Anna Magnani, a prostitute, is banished from Naples and returns to her home, a volcanic island off of southern Italy. There, she is accepted only by her younger sister and younger brother, and takes whatever job she can to get by. Rossano Brazzi, a diver by trade but a procurer for a prostitution ring---the white slave trade in those days---sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister who has fallen in love with him. Anna sleeps with Brazzi to convince the sister he is bad news but the sister thinks otherwise. Later, on Brazzi's boat, Anna is pumping air to him while he is on an underwater dive and she resorts to the only course she has left to save her sister. She stops pumping. Feeling guilt and remorse she then climbs the island volcano as it begins erupting.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsBulle OgierDominique SandaMathieu CarrièreEach night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other.
- DirectorFrancesco LaudadioStarsMonica BellucciGiulio ScarpatiPaolo Busiri Vici D'ArceviaAn incredibly beautiful young woman loses her husband and in order to pay off his debts, she decided to set-up a raffle in which she is the prize.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJacques VilleretMichel ConstantinIn 1943 in Tunisia, a unit of the French Foreign Legion fights the Germans over possession of a bank treasure in gold bars.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsBibi AnderssonPer OscarssonJarl KulleJacob returns home to Sweden after four years in Paris. Charlotte, his sister, plans to marry Baron Alsmeden, which arouses Jacob's jealousy. He flirts with Ebba to take revenge on his sister. Old suppressed feelings awaken between them.
- DirectorJoseph AnthonyStarsDavid NivenLea MassariBen GazzaraAn Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major Whitfield has to prevent a cache of hidden weapons from falling into the hands of renegade troops.
- DirectorPhilippe de BrocaStarsClaude RichSalomé StéveninRose ThiéryIn Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, Philippine. On her eighth birthday, Armand picks her up from her repressive boarding school and takes her to Fernand's to celebrate. Father and son quarrel, and Armand leaves, only to be arrested and shot for violating curfew. In grief, the curmudgeonly Fernand does not tell Philippine, but invents a life for Armand as a captain of the Resistance. Fernand takes her from school to live with him and his sensible wife. Along the way, Philippine finds out the truth and Fernand discovers courage.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsHisashi IgawaSumie SasakiSen YanoA man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsJacques PerrinBruno CremerPierre FabreIn Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Wehrmacht.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsBette DavisHorst BuchholzCatherine SpaakThe son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsMarcello SpadaLina GennariCarlo PetrangeliA story about the comic adventures of a group of summertime travelers.
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsCaroline CartierDanièle CroisyFrançoise GuéganA patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.
- DirectorJacques BralStarsChristine BoissonAndré DussollierGérard LanvinJazz musician Leo and his writer friend Bony get acquainted with a woman taxi driver called Cora.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJames FranciscusKarl MaldenCatherine SpaakTwo journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.
- DirectorSilvio AmadioStarsGloria GuidaNino CastelnuovoAnita SandersGardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsGina LollobrigidaVittorio GassmanRobert AldaRome, 1905. Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques". Sergei finds Lina back in the French capital and, as a play and game, makes her his mistress. When she understands the truth Lina runs away with tenor Silvani. Mad with jealousy, Doria kills Silvani and the young singer who thinks Sergei is responsible for Silvani's death, decides to devote her life to her career. Going from success to success, Lina arrives one day in Saint Petersburg where she is to sing before the Tsar. There she meets Sergei again...
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsEdvin AdolphsonUlla JacobssonJohn ElfströmAfter graduation, a Swedish youth goes to live with his uncle in the countryside and immediately takes a liking to a local girl.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsFaye DunawayFrank LangellaBarbara ParkinsJill's husband has been distant and troubled since they moved to Paris. He is pressured at work to engage in illegal activities but he refuses. Soon after, when their children disappear while in Jill's care, her mental health is questioned.
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsCharles DullinMarcelle Charles DullinGeymond VitalMaldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
- DirectorPeter Del MonteStarsLaurent MaletCorinne ReynaudMario AdorfYoung lovers ask, "What would you do if I died?" In this case, the young lovers are twins, Nina and Lucien, brother and sister. He answers, "I'll make you live again." Then, in an accident, Nina dies. She's been a rocker on the rise, taking Lucien out of a stable where he worked and bringing him into the music business. He seals her body in the case of a bass fiddle, straps it to the top of his car, and travels across France. He picks up a hitchhiker, helps a Turk he bumps into on the road, visits his birthplace and a boyhood friend, and reaches a seaport. Along the way, he listens to Nina's music, pastes up her posters, and remembers. How will he make her live again?
- DirectorJan TroellStarsIngvar CarlssonTage ErlanderRollo MayWhen the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
- DirectorBernard-RolandStarsPhilippe ClayJuliette MaynielSami FreyA young and hapless Antwerp thief (Sami Frey), working for a gang led by leather-clad Philippe Clay, quarrels with his boss and accidentally kills him in a fight. Enlisting his sister and her boyfriend's help, he tries to get rid of the body in the local harbor, attracting the attention of a night watchman who seeks to profit from the situation via blackmail.
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsPierre RichardJacques VilleretMaurice RischJean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.
- DirectorPaul VecchialiStarsMarianne BaslerJean SorelPierre CossoRosa la Rose is a Parisian hooker who works in Les Halles area. Her pimp is an understanding guy and she leads an uneventful life. One day she meets Julien, a young worker and falls in love with him. She is torn now between her new found love and her "professional conscience"...
- DirectorJean-Claude BrisseauStarsIsabelle PascoMaría Luisa GarcíaDanièle LebrunAt 22, Céline receives several shocks: her father dies and she learns she was adopted; she rejects her inheritance, so her fiancé jilts her. She's suicidal. A nurse sees her weeping in public and takes her home. Her mother hires the nurse, Geneviève, to care for Céline; Geneviève imposes the same work and meditation regime she herself used to recover from similar depression two years before. The film plays out the resulting dynamics: Céline has mystical success in meditation, and neighbor children discover she has healing powers. Yet life remains painful. Meanwhile, the friendship is now the center of Geneviève's life. When Céline leaves, Geneviève must cope anew with loss.
- DirectorJacques DevalStarsDanielle DarrieuxJosette DayValentine TessierA hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsAmedeo NazzariOsvaldo ValentiClara CalamaiThis is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano . The story is set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de'Medici recounts the rivalry between Gianneto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Ginerva and Gianneto's thirst for revenge over a "cruel joke" played on him by Neri and his brother Gabreillo. The joke ultimately takes Neri to murder Ginerva and by mistake his brother. The opera ends with Neri descent into madness.
- DirectorJuan Luis BuñuelStarsFrançoise FabianJean-Marc BoryJean-Pierre DarrasA married couple purchases an abandoned house in the countryside. Soon they witness strange apparitions and events. Their son and their prepubescent daughter are haunted by a poltergeist.
- DirectorAndrzej MunkStarsKazimierz OpalinskiZygmunt MaciejewskiZygmunt ZintelIn 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur; at least one on the inquiry panel agrees. Zapora, the young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man - stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. The signalman at the crossing where Orzechowski died also testifies. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené CrestéÉdouard MathéLouis LeubasMovie serial "Vendemiaire" depicts a registering nationalist and regionalism concerns about the effects of the First World War.
- DirectorGeorges PerecStarsMarcel CuvelierHe was eleven and two months old. He had just run away from home.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsEmmy LynnArmand TallierAnthony GildèsSad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.
- DirectorÅke FalckStarsJarl KulleChristina SchollinEdvin AdolphsonA wedding without love. The bridegroom is the owner of the greatest butcher enterprise in the town. He is also a womaniser who boasts about knowing what kinds of pants numerous girls wear. The bride is unusually beautiful. Her mother instructs her never to refuse her husband and never to argue against his side-affairs. The boy she really loves and who loves her would never do as a breadwinner. The bride's family believes that he is working far away. Her father has not taken a full bath for many years, and the bride needs much diplomacy to make him do so on the wedding day. To obtain money for the feast the bride had sold an old cow to the slaughterhouse. - Liquor is more prominent during the feast than happiness. Eventually the loving and beloved boy is found in the barn, where he had hanged himself. And the father feels deep sorrow when he discovers that the cow has gone, saying that he himself is also ready for the slaughterhouse. Finally everyone is asleep, quite a few of them because they have drunk too much. The father is sleeping in the empty crib of the cow. Only the bride is awake and lying alone, having got a foretaste of what kind of a marriage she can expect.
- DirectorClaude FaraldoJean-David LefebvreStarsMarie DuboisJulian NegulescoPaul CrauchetExperiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
- DirectorAnne Claire PoirierStarsJean BesréMuriel DutilJacques GodinFriendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his room, unannounced, rolls the voluble Victor Laprade, who draws out Philippe over the next few months. Victor gives Philippe the gift of experiencing the moment. In return, the well-heeled Philippe organizes field trips to dinner and to a botanical garden, and, unknown to Victor, becomes the man's benefactor when Victor's children get stingy. The openly-gay Victor also pushes Philippe to acknowledge feelings he's always kept suppressed.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsChiaretta GelliArmando FalconiDina GalliA precocious girl tries to prevent the marriage of her older sister to a womanizer and stirs up trouble in the boarding school she is sent to.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsFrançoise ArnoulJeanne BoitelGilbert BokanowskiA witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. Among others you will meet King Charles VII making Agnès Sorel his mistress; you will witness the creation of printing spurred on by King Louis XI; share the life in the Louvres Palace at the time of King François Ier; spend the last night before St Bartholomew's massacre; be horrified by the murder of Henri III by a fanatical monk, watch the abjuration of protestantism by King Henri IV; try to resolve the Man in the Iron Mask enigma; take part in the storming of the Bastille, be present at the execution of King Louis XVI and at the trial of Queen Marie-Antoinette; participate in the Paris Commune, take sides in the Dreyfus affair.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniWalter MatthauStefania SandrelliDuring an exorcism, father Maurice meets a little devil named Giuditta, who refuses to return to hell and decides to discover the world.
- DirectorAugusto TrettiStarsMassimo CampostriniFerruccio MaligaGiovani MorettoThe film describes in a surreal way the dynamics of the acquisition of power in the various historical periods.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsMaurice ChevalierPierre RenoirMarie DéaAfter one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer.
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsPascale BussièresMarcia PilotePierre F. FauteuxTwo teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsMagali NoëlGeorges RivièreDanik PatissonA young beautiful teacher is transfered to a remote island's school, where her colleague (also the principal of the school) falls in love with her. This banned love provokes the jealousy of the principal's wife and makes her seek revenge.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsÉric RohmerFrançoise MartinelliJean-Claude BrialyIn this adaptation of Tolstoy's argument for sexual abstinence, a man recounts the events that led to the killing of his wife.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoStarsAlberto SordiMargarita LozanoDaniele VargasHilarious comedy about the world of football fans. Alberto Sordi is known in Italy, not only for his many comical and dramatic film roles, but also for playing parts that reflected the new realities of Italian society. In 1970 the football industry was nothing new, but a comedy film about it definitely was. Alberto Sordi plays Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian who inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field. Gradually his initial reservations about football erode away to be replaced by an almost fanatical devotion to "his" football club, to the point that he abandons his family, friends, and hometown. He also becomes involved with other pleasures of life, like loving the beautiful female cook ,eating his heart out from the local culinary pleasures, and--best of all--hanging out with the football players during their training retreats.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsJuliette GrécoLiselotte PulverJean-Marc BoryFrançois is a vet surgeon on the Noirmoutier island. He is married to Catherine. One day, he is called by a mysterious attractive woman, Myriam, whose leopard is sick. They become lovers. But Myriam lived in Africa for years and she seems to have maleficent powers. Besides, she is a jealous possessive woman who wants to keep François for herself alone. She owns a strange statuette which might cast a spell on someone who's on the way, François's wife for instance. And Catherine falls suddenly seriously ill.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsHippolyte GirardotRafik Ali AhmadHussein SbeityA French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsGérard LanvinMichel PiccoliMarie-France PisierIn 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.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsMonica VittiPierre ClémentiPeter PasettiA journalist is preparing a story on extremist youth and falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to commit a political assassination.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsCatherine KleinDominique PerrierSerge GermanyIn this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the bright lights of Paris. When she falls for Nora, Muriel enters a journey of heartbreak and discovery.
- DirectorCarmine AmorosoStarsEnrico Lo VersoVincent CasselMonica BellucciPasquale is a policeman in Roma. During a roundup he meets Desideria. He/she is a transsexual, living together with other two trans , Gaia and Gioia. But overall Desideria is an old friend of Pasquale, they already been attending the same schools. Desideria immediately fall in love for Pasquale. But the policeman has a fiancé, Nellina, even if too far so they meet rarely. That's why Pasquale could change idea about Desideria.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsCurd JürgensElisabeth MüllerAlbert LievenThis appeal for the abolition of the death penalty centers on a woman , who has been sentenced to capital punishment for killing her faithless husband.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelGino CerviPapoufIn Paris, scoundrel mates Paolo and Antoine Venturen hope to get rich quick by asking ransom fro rich Mr. Jumelin's preteen son Eric. Masquerading as Indians, the scamp's favorite game, does the trick. They soon learn such bratty rascal is more trouble then he's worth. The boy's a P.I. instead of paying, and it gets worse.
- DirectorAnna KarinaStarsAnna KarinaMichel LancelotMonique MorelliThe turbulent love affair between a fuddy duddy history teacher and a free spirited hippie girl leads to drug abuse and domestic violence.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsMarie GillainOlivier SitrukBruno PutzuluThree teenagers plan to steal the necessary funds to open their dream shop in the US, but things get messy.
- DirectorGiuseppe Patroni GriffiStarsFlorinda BolkanTony MusanteJean-Louis TrintignantA liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party.
- DirectorJacques DoillonStarsJane BirkinMaruschka DetmersPhilippe LéotardWith the help of a couple of her oddball friends, a woman takes her former lesbian lover to a hotel to convince her that their affair shouldn't end. After much shouting and some sex, things complicate when the lover's husband shows up.
- DirectorRaymond DepardonStarsSandrine BonnaireDobi KoréFadi TahaA Frenchwoman is taken hostage by an African tribe for months - can she escape ?
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsJohnny DorelliPhilippe LeroyRodolfo BigottiAround the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is not very well-seen by the church and his only "friend" is the dry, humorless Ignatius De Loyola. But Neris real counterpart is the devil himself, working in endless incarnations in Neris direct neighborhood, trying to seduce his kids. His newest kid is the young thief Cirifischio, making a lot of problems. When Cirifischio has an argument with a young boy of a local aristocrat, the boy turns out to be a girl, the young Leonetta, some kind of a sex slave for her owner. Neri adopts her too, and the young people fall in love. 15 Years later, the devil is back and leads Cirifiscio onto a murder. Now lawless, the thief must flee Neri and leave Leonetta back. Neri does the best he can to save the thief's life, but does he have a chance against the fate? Neri has to fight the death sin of vanity itself, from an unexpected side.
- DirectorLeonard HirschfieldStarsIrene PapasUmberto OrsiniTakis EmmanuelArtist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past and her present.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsAstrid VillaumeGunnar LauringRandi MichelsenIn this visual masterpiece and first Oscar nominated Danish film, young teacher Eva arriving in Greenland, surprising her fiancée in the arms of a woman. Seeking refuge, she meets a man also carrying a broken heart in the scenic landscape.
- DirectorFrans ZwartjesStarsGanci GeraedtsJosée RuiterAn experimental, streamlined treatment of the Greek tragedy material.
- DirectorPaul GarbagniStarsVictor SjöströmAnna NorrieGeorg af KlerckerLittle Gerta, when her mother dies. is brought to her father, Carl Von Seydling, a government official, who deserted his wife and child a few years before. Councilor Van Seydling found the child's presence in his household to be cumbersome and for that reason turned her over to one Sarah Anderson, a nurse. Although Van Seydling did not know it, the Anderson woman was a notorious fagin. She promptly sold Gerta to a beggar, who taught her to beg and to steal. One of her begging trips brings Gerta to the attention of a young man named Alm Stoddard, He becomes interested in the pretty child and upon learning her story is horrified. The police are notified. They arrest her supposed father, but Sarah Anderson escapes. Little Gerta is adopted by Alm's mother and grows to be a beautiful young woman. Alm falls in love with her, but Gerta has lost her heart to the dashing Lieutenant Wiles. Through Alm's efforts the character of this man is shown to Gerta, and thus she is warned in time. Lieutenant Wiles challenges Alm to a duel and in the encounter Alm is wounded slightly. Gerta, frightened by the trouble she has caused, disappears, leaving a note begging the Stoddards to forgive her seeming ingratitude. Some years later a grand opera star, Mlle. Hauser, has taken the public by storm. Among her admirers is Alm Stoddard, although he is too fainthearted to write to her or tell her that he knows her to be little Gerta. She, from behind the footlights, has recognized him but, fearing he has not forgiven her, makes no sign of recognition. Another man, in constant attendance at the opera, is Councilor Van Seydling, who has long since believed his daughter dead. By a strange coincidence Sarah Anderson is employed as Gerta's maid. She has not reformed any and when she steals Mlle, Hauser's handbag she extracts a picture of a very little girl. Looking at the picture Sarah suddenly realizes that Mlle. Hauser is none other than little Gerta. That evening the audience is assembled when a fire breaks out. In the panic that follows Alm is the only one who remembers Gerta. At the risk of his life he brings the unconscious girl out of danger. At the corner drug store Sarah Anderson, mortally injured, is dying. She bares the story of her life and among the listeners is Councilor Von Seydling. The memory of his misdeeds strikes terror to his heart. Van Seydling hurries out and, finding his daughter in the arms of Alm, begs her to forgive him. The girl is mystified, but a little explaining clears the situation. Following custom, Alm asks her father for her hand. Von Seydling asks Gerta to decide and she, clinging to Alm, smiles her contentment.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsDanielle DarrieuxLeo GennErno CrisaAdaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic risqué novel about an aristocratic wife who has a passionate affair with her gamekeeper.
- DirectorSuzanne SchiffmanStarsTchéky KaryoChristine BoissonJean CarmetA Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsWadeck StanczakAnn-Gisel GlassLucas BelvauxA group of young musicians led by the charismatic frontman Yvan are on the verge of a breakthrough in the European underground rock scene. However, their future is sent spiraling out of control after a robbery gone wrong.
- DirectorGian Luigi PolidoroStarsAlberto SordiGunilla Elm-TornkvistAnne-Charlotte SjöbergSordi gives a deep and touching comic performance as an Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm. The movie depicts the clash between his fantasies about sex in Sweden with the reality of what he finds.
- DirectorGiuseppe AmatoStarsLinda DarnellVittorio De SicaPeppino De FilippoRenata and Carlo covet the same apartment in Rome. They quarrel at first, but Carlo finds an original way out: what if they married and shared the place? Renata agrees, on one condition: she should be allowed to keep trying to find the man of her dreams. For a while suitors follow each other, each time ridiculed by Carlo. Things get harder with Dino, a more serious rival. After dallying with the charming young man, Renata winds up realizing that it is Carlo she really loves.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsGilles MaheuRoger LebelCorrado MastropasquaMarcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess...