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- The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
- Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from him, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns him that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. He responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can he, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?
- More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view.
- A part of Joan of Arc's life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin. It ends during Jeanne's first battle, at Orleans. Meanwhile, Jeanne is depicted more as a warrior than a saint (all cliches are avoided), with only her faith for strength.
- A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
- Adventures of three young women in a hot and lazy Paris in summer.
- A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants.
- Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
- Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.
- Vincent lives in a village. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father.
- King Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt.
- Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution.
- In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?
- Nicolas, the eldest son of a wealthy family, works far from his home environment as a window washer and dishwasher in a bistro. He does not notice at all the baseness of his new relationships.
- João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding world, however, does not comply with his decaying vision of lust and decay as a way of achieving his purpose.
- A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
- When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power.
- The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms.
- Nicolas, a Georgian filmmaker who wants nothing more than to express himself. He leaves his country for France.
- Vittorio 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.
- A young man enters a brothel and sees a staged narration of a Chinese folk tale concerning a female pirate.
- Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.
- Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
- A teenaged girl is executed for going against a king's wishes and honoring her brother's death.
- A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
- A brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in Kant's hometown, Konigsberg; it chronicles his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at the age of 80.
- Pomme and Pierre's constant bickering has turned their relationship into a comedy of manners that becomes farcical when Pomme decides to leave Pierre and live in the forest.
- Fontaine Leglou is an anesthesiologist in a psychiatric clinic. She loves her job and she loves Michel, her companion with whom she has lived for several years. So why, when he asks for her marriage, Fontaine does not know what to answer?
- Boris and Sandra meet and fall in love immediately and passionately. Their passion is so intense that it helps them fight their loves best enemy: dependency. Boris is drug-dependent, Sandra is Boris-dependent. Bound, addicted to one another, reclusive but alive, they try, by necessity, to live their love in a closed circuit. This experience leads them to discover that they each possess an unsuspected strength and humanity. uniFrance
- Massimo is a young actor who is a spellbinding livewire on stage. A theatre director is moved by his talent and wants to do a play about him, to turn him into a great role to be interpreted by Massimo himself. But the actor's father informs the director of his son's strange decision to renounce conventional language in everyday life, and offers a possible explanation: a disillusionment in love. The mother agrees to compose the script, perhaps to bring her son back to an equality characterised by a verbal language that is understandable to all.
- This movie is the sequel of Straub and Huillet's Dalla nube alla resistenza and like its prequel is inspired by Cesare Pavese's book Dialoghi con Leucò.
- A chance meeting with Aie,a waitress with a strange name, will drive a 50 years old neurotic man Robert crazy.
- Célimène,a 35 years old writer is troubled by Anaïs, a 17 years old girl.
- Jean-Marie Straub's first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her.
- It is late at night and a married couple has just returned home from a party, where they met a former school friend of the wife and a famous singer. The husband has been charmed by the seductive and elegant woman, and this makes him treat his wife, who has gone straight back to being a housewife, condescendingly. Talking about the evening, the husband praises the school friend's beauty and intelligence. This makes his wife reveal the advances she received from the singer and the compliments he paid her; the man may be affected, but made her feel she was still desirable. When she realises her husband is jealous, the wife decides to teach him a lesson. She puts on an elegant, flimsy dress he has never seen before and pretends to turn into the 'modern-day woman', emancipated and free that her husband so admires. Initially, he likes the change; but that is only the beginning. Soon the husband discovers that his wife's transformation goes a lot deeper. She is now a whimsical woman who wants to live a life of luxury, drink champagne and have an endless string of lovers. The husband will now dance with her perhaps for the last time. The noise wakes up their child, but the wife, uncharacteristically, treats the boy coldly, and the husband has no choice but to look after him himself. When, for some strange reason, the gasman rings the door at midnight, the wife claims she spent the money her husband gave her to pay the bill on clothes. If their gas is cut off, they will have to move into a hotel and get used to living a fashionable life of debts. The wife has started packing her bags when the telephone rings - it is the singer, inviting them out. The woman suggests they all go together, with her husband and school friend, to a night-club, so they can continue their lovely evening, making it clear that she is willing to change partners. Only when the husband, in despair, accuses her of ruining his happiness does the wife realise she has finally won, and o
- A group of men and women of all generations have been brought together in the course of their travels after World War II, when Italy regained its national unity. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the men and women who make up this community build a new rapport, both in their professional and daily lives. The group maintains a kind of diary.
- Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).
- Paul Markovic suffers from Stendhal syndrome. It is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his monstrous secret.
- Alice is a photographer mandated by the Ministry of the Environment to photograph sites in the Alpes de Haute Provence. She replaces a renowned photographer who was doing this work and mysteriously abandoned her mission.
- About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.
- The last song of the "Paradise" of the Divine Comedy of Dante. The film is preceded by Corneille-Brecht or Rome, the only object of my resentment, taken from Horace and Othon by Corneille and das Verhoer from Lukulus, a radio play by Brecht.
- Architect Luca (Roberto Citran) goes to the Jewish section of Venice to restore a house where reclusive novelist Elio (Omero Antonutti) lives. When Elio lets Luca read the manuscript of his current novel about a famous composer, Luca begins to imagine himself in the role of the composer.
- The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema's greatest artists.
- Born of North African parents, Mona lives in a council flat somewhere in France. Today, she must learn a scene from Molière's play "L'Ecole des Femmes" by heart and she looks for someone to read the lines opposite her.After being told off by her brother, she tries to persuade her Algerian mother who is cooking in the kitchen. The latter fist balks but winds up accepting...