The Burned Barns
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Guy de Maupassant
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
The North Star
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod…
Madame Rosa
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she’s a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the…
The Widow Couderc
The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
The Cat
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His…
The Confession
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he’s being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Army of Shadows
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge…
The Sea Gull
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
Games
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
Ship of Fools
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship’s Dr. Schumann, who falls…
The Sleeping Car Murder
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth….
Term of Trial
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the…
Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner’s daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
The Witches of Salem
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John’s wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear…
Death in the Garden
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
Diabolique
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo — his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become…
Thérèse Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they’ve gotten away with murder after Thérèse’s weakling husband “falls” from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer’s demands and…
La Ronde
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a…
Gunman in the Streets
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
The Cheat
The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.
Against the Wind
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who…