Après l’enfermement au harem, une Algérienne illettrée prend sa revanche en s’inventant une identité d’écrivain. Sous le nom d'Elissa Rhaïs, elle devient la coqueluche du tout-Paris littéraire de l’entre-deux-guerres en quête de fantasmes orientaux.
, 1h35 Directed byJuan Antonio Bardem GenresDrama ActorsCorinne Marchand, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Antonio Casas, Rafael Bardem, Pilar Gómez Ferrer Rating71% A French variety company travels across Spain coming back to France. The bus stops by a damage in a small village lost in Castile, named Medina del Zarzal. The vedette star Jacqueline (Corinne Marchand) is sick and she has to remain in the hospital where she is operated upon. The doctor (Antonio Casas) falls in love with her. She represents the freedom, the foreign country, the forbidden. Her presence in the village is a revolution for all the people: students, priests, rich men... The doctor's wife, Julia (Julia Gutiérrez Caba), has to fight with the love proposition made by the local French language teacher (Jean Pierre Cassel), the only person in town who can speak to the foreigner.
, 2h4 Directed byClaude Chabrol OriginFrance GenresDrama, Thriller, Crime ActorsStéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Annie Cordy, Jean Carmet Rating71% Hélène Régnier's (Audran) mentally ill husband Charles (Drouot) injures their son Michel in a violent rage. Charles is then forced to move back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who use Hélène as a scapegoat for their son's mental state and decide to take over custody of Michel by any means necessary. While the boy is recovering in a local hospital, Hélène moves to a boarding house nearby. The Régniers hire Paul Thomas (Cassel), an impoverished family acquaintance, to find out something about Hélène which would help them in their custody battle. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia (Rouvel), plots to ruin Hélène's reputation and then possibly kill her.
, 1h40 Directed byJean-Louis Bertuccelli OriginFrance GenresDrama, Romance ThemesMedical-themed films, Films about cancer ActorsAnnie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer, Isabelle Huppert, William Coryn, Suzanne Flon Rating60% Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenaged daughter Elisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.
, 1h52 Directed byTed Kotcheff, Bernard Cohn OriginUSA GenresThriller, Comedy ThemesCooking films, Serial killer films ActorsGeorge Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort Rating63% Natasha O'Brien (Jacqueline Bisset) is a celebrated pastry chef invited to London to assist in preparing a state dinner for the Queen, organized by culinary critic Maximillian "Max" Vandeveer (Robert Morley). Natasha's ex-husband, Robby (George Segal) is a fast food entrepreneur ("the Taco King") serving the "everyman" consumer while she caters to the affluent. Max is the "calamitously fat" grand gourmand publisher of a gourmet magazine Epicurious and is patron of several famous European chefs, each renowned for a signature dish.
Directed byAlberto Lattuada, Nino Manfredi OriginItalie GenresComedy, Romance ThemesFilms about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films ActorsNino Manfredi, Eleonora Giorgi, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Georges Wilson, Carlo Bagno, Gino Cavalieri Rating62% Sandro (Nino Manfredi) et Laura (Eleonora Giorgi) sont mariés depuis 16 ans. Laura a hérité d'une librairie d'ouvrages anciens et d'art dans Venise. Leur couple est en crise et ils sont souvent au bord de la rupture. En pleine biennale de Venise, Sandro quitte le domicile conjugal. Il est recueilli par Zanetto (Georges Wilson), un marginal homosexuel autour duquel s'agglutinent artistes et marginaux. Dans le grenier, il découvre une photo très grand format d'une femme couchée, nue, de dos, qu'il trouve ressemblante à Laura. Voulant en avoir le cœur net, il revient chez lui en pleine nuit, découvre sa femme qui dort nue dans le lit et reste dubitatif. Il se met ensuite à enquêter sur cette fameuse photo, une quête qui lui fera parcourir tout Venise.