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Kanopy
86
8.0
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76
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4.3
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86
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The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
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Kanopy
85
7.7
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73
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74
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4.0
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98
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88
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93
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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Kanopy
83
7.5
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68
/158/
73
/284/
4.2
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100
/28/
82
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La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/13535/
79
/500/
76
/642/
4.3
/107598/
98
/45/
85
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The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.6
/52921/
74
/1023/
73
/990/
4.0
/130851/
95
/60/
85
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Belle de Jour (1967)
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.3
/4784/
68
/79/
71
/100/
3.9
/6664/
100
/21/
85
/39/

French Cancan (1955)
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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Kanopy
82
7.7
/13056/
75
/234/
73
/296/
3.9
/18773/
96
/27/
90
/150/

Le Doulos (1962)
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
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Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/18369/
73
/300/
74
/316/
4.0
/24765/
85
/26/
91
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
poster
80
7.3
/2916/
72
/48/
70
/151/
3.7
/3752/
88
/8/
86
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974)
Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
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Kanopy
80
7.3
/19521/
67
/339/
67
/292/
3.7
/16017/
100
/37/
78
/202/
85
/15/

Atlantic City (1980)
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Kanopy
77
7.4
/38710/
72
/724/
70
/930/
3.8
/105205/
92
/65/
85
/718/

Contempt (1963)
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
poster
77
7.3
/4202/
69
/81/
72
/187/
3.7
/7628/
100
/9/
83
/17/

Cesar and Rosalie (1972)
A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsider her choice. Ultimately, one man's actions force a resolution to her dilemma.
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Fandor
77
7.0
/51033/
70
/1476/
69
/1226/
3.9
/96371/
91
/185/
71
/707/
85
/35/
cc age 17+

Holy Motors (2012)
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
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Criterion Channel
76
7.2
/3612/
74
/57/
68
/93/
3.7
/2798/
100
/6/
76
/18/

May Fools (1990)
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
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75
7.2
/2705/
63
/23/
64
/45/
3.7
/2639/
79
/1/

The War Is Over (1966)
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
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Kanopy
74
6.8
/1991/
61
/27/
67
/44/
3.7
/1493/
96
/55/
68
/17/
88
/21/

I’m Going Home (2001)
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
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Hoopla
75
72
7.2
/10017/
70
/233/
71
/273/
3.9
/30738/
85
/13/
81
/97/
74
/5/

Mauvais Sang (1986)
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
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Kanopy
76
70
7.4
/10345/
72
/154/
70
/219/
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/10436/
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82
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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
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Kanopy
70
6.5
/1759/
69
/28/
66
/60/
3.6
/2403/
85
/34/
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/10/
69
/16/

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
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Amazon Prime Video
76
69
7.3
/8507/
66
/101/
70
/177/
3.7
/8248/
95
/19/
83
/125/

The Milky Way (1969)
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
poster
67
7.0
/15884/
66
/390/
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/536/
3.6
/21618/
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/15/
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La Grande Bouffe (1973)
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
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Kanopy
67
6.7
/15272/
67
/416/
67
/585/
3.5
/17317/
66
/82/
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We Have a Pope (2011)
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
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Kanopy
66
6.5
/7893/
65
/205/
64
/241/
3.6
/13205/
65
/23/
71
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Danger: Diabolik (1968)
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
poster
66
6.5
/1506/
53
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51
/25/
3.8
/1459/
70
/64/
52
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The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she was the Duchess of Langeais, and he her most persistent suitor.
poster
73
66
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67
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/150/
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/11485/
100
/6/
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/133/

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
poster
66
7.4
/179/
64
/5/
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/5/
3.6
/432/
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/205/
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/4166/
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/41/
cc age 16+

The Dinosaur and the Baby (1967)
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)
poster
76
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7.4
/6254/
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/118/
70
/258/
3.8
/13234/
92
/35/

The Things of Life (1970)
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
poster
65
6.6
/1005/
60
/10/
64
/59/
3.4
/680/
75
/5/

Mado (1976)
A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.
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70
63
6.8
/5539/
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/3461/
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/8/
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/42/

Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
poster
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6.1
/1856/
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3.3
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/31/
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/24/
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/15/

Little Lili (2003)
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
poster
60
6.3
/963/
56
/13/
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/12/
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/34/

Passion in the Desert (1997)
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
poster
60
6.4
/751/
61
/9/
59
/35/
3.3
/415/

The Diary of an Innocent Boy (1968)
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
poster
58
6.2
/1008/
47
/18/
52
/25/
3.2
/601/

The Infernal Trio (1974)
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...
poster
58
6.2
/20874/
63
/481/
60
/405/
3.0
/14872/
68
/31/
36
/260/
61
/10/
cc age 13+

Topaz (1969)
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
58
6.9
/3050/
67
/66/
71
/140/
3.8
/5343/
75
/12/
69
/31/

Dillinger Is Dead (1969)
A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.
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Kanopy
73
54
6.8
/1082/
61
/38/
71
/28/
3.7
/12209/
91
/22/
78
/11/

It's Not Me (2024)
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.
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Plex
69
54
6.7
/2819/
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/50/
64
/76/
3.4
/3321/
92
/13/
57
/25/

Death in the Garden (1956)
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
poster
52
5.8
/692/
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/7/
49
/15/
3.2
/252/
38
/7/

The Game Is Over (1966)
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
poster
64
51
6.2
/3049/
71
/60/
57
/61/
3.6
/5142/
63
/8/
62
/36/

Godard's Passion (1982)
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
poster
75
48
7.1
/973/
62
/19/
67
/43/
3.8
/1267/
100

Shock Troops (1967)
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
poster
Kanopy
72
48
7.3
/3412/
69
/68/
71
/132/
3.7
/4578/
73
/8/

Max and the Junkmen (1971)
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
poster
63
45
6.4
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/38/
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3.4
/1164/
60
/5/
69

The Last Woman (1976)
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
poster
69
45
6.9
/2258/
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/64/
3.5
/1976/
88
/8/
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/7/

Wedding in Blood (1973)
In a small French town, the mayor discovers his wife is cheating on him, a betrayal that eventually leads to murder.
poster
70
44
6.9
/1847/
70
/31/
65
/52/
3.5
/1624/
77
/26/

Themroc (1973)
Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
43
7.0
/602/
65
/16/
71
/23/
3.8
/3116/
76
/4/

The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
43
7.5
/2044/
74
/86/
73
/53/
4.0
/17468/
60
/1/

Hello Cubans (1963)
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.
poster
72
42
7.2
/2560/
68
/60/
69
/93/
3.7
/2942/
79
/2/

The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
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. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
poster
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42
6.5
/2187/
60
/32/
63
/45/
3.7
/2341/
47
/21/

The Dust of Time (2008)
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.


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