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The Amusements of Private Life (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I divertimenti della vita privata
director: Cristina Comencini actor: Delphine Forest / Christophe Malavoy …
other title: I divertimenti della vita privata / Les Amusements de la vie privée
Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meets "The Dangerous Liaisons" and it tells the story of two women, Mathilde Seurat, the actress and Julie Renard, the aristocratic wife and a mother (Delphine Forest plays both) with the same face who came from the different parts of society and at one point exchanged their identities and their lives. The movie also features Giancarlo Giannini and great Vittorio Gassman.
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Secret World (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
La Promesse
director: Robert Freeman actor: Jacqueline Bisset / Jean-François Vlerick …
other title: La ragazza inglese / Ein Sommer in Frankreich …
Wendy is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is their 20-year-old son and a 12-year-old nephew whose parents were killed in an automobile accident. The father and son both try to seduce the attractive guest. The young boy retreats into his own world and dreams of being taken back to Britain by Wendy in this romantic drama. The mother spends her time bleaching her hair and is seemingly uninterested in anything that goes on with her family at the beachfront villa. Meanwhile, Wendy and the younger boy develop a fondness for each other, while his aunt and uncle fail to understand his needs.
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A Taste for Women (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Aimez-vous les femmes ?
director: Jean Léon actor: Sophie Daumier / Guy Bedos …
other title: Aimez-vous les femmes ? / Jungfrau reich garniert …
A writer discovers a link between a vegetarian restaurant and a series of mysterious deaths.
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
Manon des sources
director: Claude Berri actor: Yves Montand / Daniel Auteuil …
other title: Manon delle sorgenti / Manon og kilden …
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
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Identification of a Woman (1982)
Identificazione di una donna
director: Michelangelo Antonioni actor: Tomas Milian / Daniela Silverio …
other title: Identificazione di una donna / Identificação de uma Mulher …
Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.
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Jean de Florette (1986)
Jean de Florette
director: Claude Berri actor: Yves Montand / Gérard Depardieu …
other title: Kilden i Provence / Jean Florette …
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
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What? (1972) IMDb TMDB
Che?
director: Roman Polanski actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Sydne Rome …
other title: Che? / Was? …
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
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Favourites of the Moon (1985)
Les favoris de la lune
director: Otar Iosseliani actor: Katja Rupé / Alix de Montaigu …
other title: I favoriti della luna / Os Favoritos da Lua …
A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in Paris.
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Quest for Fire (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
La Guerre du feu
director: Jean-Jacques Annaud actor: Everett McGill / Ron Perlman …
other title: La guerra del fuoco / Kampen om Ilden …
In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.
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Tess (1979)
Tess
★ 6.4 (9 ratings) director: Romek actor: Nastassja Kinski / Peter Firth …
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
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The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) IMDb TMDB Douban
The Fearless Vampire Killers
director: Roman Polanski actor: Jack MacGowran / Roman Polanski …
other title: Per favore, non mordermi sul collo! / Vampyrernes nat …
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
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The Lover (1992)
L'Amant
★ 7.9 (7 ratings) director: Jean-Jacques Annaud actor: Jane March / Tony Leung Ka-fai …
other title: L'amante / Elskeren …
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
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Repulsion (1965)
Repulsion
★ 7.0 (9 ratings) director: Romek actor: Catherine Deneuve / Ian Hendry …
other title: Repulsione / Chok …
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
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The Name of the Rose (1986)
The Name of the Rose
★ 7.3 (9 ratings) director: Jean-Jacques Annaud actor: Sean Connery / F. Murray Abraham …
other title: Il nome della rosa / Rosens Navn …
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.