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- At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
- The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
- The story of a young geisha who falls madly in love with an american captain that travels all around the world collecting hearts.
- the film covers the last few days of fragile Chopin's professional life.
- A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.
- The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- In 1988, the Figaro magazine asked to a few famous directors a series of short movies, to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The thematic : The French seen by - The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary.
- A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels.
- The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The recording was actually made two years before the filming with the participation of the Washington Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich) and several opera stars (the part of Marina is sung by Galina Vishnevskaya). Zulawski made the film just as we would be watching the theatrical performance. Then we are going through the sets and, finally, we notice the film crew. The director deliberately filled the picture with a plenty of anachronisms making the implications on the Soviet history and the other dictatorships of the 20th century.
- Four brothers converge around an ailing father.
- Historical drownings in the Seine are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and 'documentary' asides.
- French man in Florida, Dodo has a purpose in life : Don't work. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is one of them, and a gypsy's bride, who suddenly disappears, changing Dodo's life.
- Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on.This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation.He has fallen in love with with Odette.
- Miss Lotte has her residence in a big hangar near a port. She seems to be having nice time with five clients but the arrival of a policeman disturbs their lives.
- Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.
- A young resistance fighter tries to deal with the harsh reality of post-war Poland, where Communists have come to power.
- This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, because of that, she is likely to lose her husband. That is why, when their neighbor dies, she asks Trofim to take in Ganka, his orphaned thirteen-year-old daughter. Trofim agrees and their new life begins...
- Paris, 1910. On Christmas Eve, a young woman knocks on her neighbor's door to borrow some lamp oil. A touching romance is ignited even as the young woman becomes very sick.
- "Waati" is the story of Nandi, a black child from South Africa, in the still triumphant days of apartheid.
- La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone.
- Paris, October 1948. Nino and Donald, two cinema lovers, meet during a screening in the suburbs. They quickly become great friends. Both dream of a successful career in the 7th art, and they vow to help each other to get there. They are not out of the woods.
- An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man with a penchant for growing sunflowers and an unhappy neighbor girl with emotional problems. Love blossoms for the unlikely couple who somehow realize their liaison is doomed to failure.
- An adaption of Claudio Monteverdis opera.
- Raissa, Henriette and Theresa have completed several years of their long prison sentences. On their first 24 hours vacation the traffic employees are on strike. So the three meet and spend the time together. They talk about memories, their offences and fears. They become friends.
- Jacques asks a public writer to write for him love letters intended to a beautiful stranger.
- Prof Amedeo is irritated by a dream full of naked women including his mother, wife and daughter. Awake, he is enervated by his elderly mother, and he becomes really uneasy when his daughter Gloria openly asks him to teach her how to kiss.
- Filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon follows Yehudi Menuhin, who is back in the USSR after 17 years of absence, during three weeks of rehearsals, concerts and meetings with the audience. This extraordinary experience is told in this 3-part program.
- Born in London, Nicolas Rivenq began his vocal studies in Paris with Jacqueline Bonnordot, then at the Ecole d'Art Lyrique de l'Opéra de Paris with Michel Sénéchal. He also attended the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and La Sorbonne.
- This program can best be described as a journey across Baroque Europe in the company of Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the leading personalities of the world of organ music, Marie-Claire Alain.
- Ruggero Raimondi, wrapped in black leather, rushes on his backfiring motorcycle in the rue de Rivoli, throwing the aria of Champagne by Don Giovanni.
- Based, in part, on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi's last work for the stage - and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito.
- Slim is a the ranch foreman, almost deaf. One morning, he and two cowhands see something come down a distant hill. They grab him, tie him up, and go through his suitcase, finally figuring out that he's a Frenchman. They let him loose, and, along with an Indian who's been tracking him for ten days, celebrate with beer and, at nightfall, an outdoor dinner served by some local gals. A trio of women sing between scenes. The next morning, it's time for breakfast.
- 1988– 26m6.2 (1.4K)TV EpisodeLittle seen short film by David Lynch is set on a ranch in the turn-of-the-20th Century Wild West, USA and is a collision of cultures.