, 1h45 Directed byJean-François Stévenin, Alain Cavalier OriginFrance GenresDrama, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance ActorsCatherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Roger Van Hool, Irène Tunc, Jacques Sereys, Amidou Rating63% A woman and a poor artist begin an affair and eventually move in together, but the woman cannot get used to his life, his working-class existence. She leaves her lover to return to her relationship with a man of means. Ostensibly, she is rejecting her lover because she feels stifled by his position in society. But the class differences are metaphor for the quality of the love, with a woman deciding to be with a man who loves her for who she is rather than as an object of affection, merely the focus of a selfish love. She wants to be with the one who doesn't ask her to change.
, 1h30 Directed byAndré Delvaux OriginFrance GenresDrama, War, Musical ActorsAnna Karina, Bulle Ogier, Roger Van Hool, Mathieu Carrière, Luce Garcia-Ville, Boby Lapointe Rating72% Jacques, a composer serving as a fighter pilot during the First World War, asks his friend Julien, a Luxembourger working as a music journalist in Paris, to meet him at Bray behind the front lines. His family’s country house is there, looked after by a solitary housekeeper. Jacques has not arrived when Julien turns up and is let in by the beautiful but largely silent woman. While she prepares him dinner, he reflects on the ups and downs of his life in Paris before the war with the charming rich Jacques and his vivacious girl friend Odile. After showing him to a bedroom, the servant spends the night with him. In the morning, he rushes off to the railway station but does not board the Paris train. Something, we do not know what, impels him to stay.
, 1h31 Directed byClaude Santelli OriginFrance GenresDrama, Historical ActorsIsabelle Huppert, Francine Bergé, Jean-Marc Bory, Roger Van Hool, Christian Bouillette, Teddy Bilis Rating62% Blanche fut violée dans son adolescence à l’âge de quatorze ans par un domestique, un vacher prénommé Baptiste. Sa famille, soucieuse de dissimuler la honte que ce scandale a jetée sur sa réputation, enferme la jeune fille dans son manoir, pensant que quatre murs suffisent à faire taire les quolibets. Un jour, Blanche, que tout le pays surnomme « Madame Baptiste », tente de se suicider, rongée par le douloureux souvenir qu’elle porte en elle. Un homme la sauve et celui-ci, charmé par celle qui lui doit maintenant la vie, la demande en mariage, bravant ainsi les barrières morales campées par l’opinion publique. La vie semble désormais heureuse pour Blanche, mais un jour, au comice agricole, l'insulte repart : « Madame Baptiste ! »…
, 1h28 Directed byAldo Lado OriginFrance GenresDrama ThemesFilms set in Africa, Films about sexuality ActorsFiona Gélin, Yves Collignon Rating48% Léa (Gélin) is married to engineer Alfredo (Enzo De Caro) who works at oil wells in the Maghreb. She visits her husband and finds that their marriage is deteriorating. She seeks relief in the exoticism the country offers and she is soon attracted to a local thug nicknamed Le Serpent (Yves Collignon) she meets in the kasbah. However, her relationship with him starts to become increasingly exploitative.
GenresDrama ActorsMonique van de Ven, Roger Van Hool, John Kraaijkamp, Sr. Rating64% A young woman, Iris, runs away to the big city on her eighteenth birthday. She moves in with an architect and decides to become a veterinarian. With an inheritance she buys an existing clinic in a backwoods town where Iris is leered at by the men, scorned by the women. Cruel jokes and gossip eventually lead to violence.A local thug breaks in her house while she is out. When she returns home late night, he attacks her, drag her to the wooden stairs, ties her hands, stretch her legs wide apart and ties to the railing of stairs and rapes her brutally.