Prêtes à tout (2005)

Actors: Phil Holliday (actor), Tiffany Hopkins (actress), Philippe Visconti (actor), Anais Aphrodite (actress), Lili d'Ipanema (writer), Lili d'Ipanema (writer), Claire Delune (director), Arno Alyvan (composer), Mike (actor), Janet (actress),

Genres: Romance,

Mon père est ingénieur (2004)

Actors: Pascale Roberts (actress), Robert Guédiguian (director), Ariane Ascaride (actress), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (actor), Robert Guédiguian (writer), Robert Guédiguian (producer), Ariane Ascaride (actress), Patrick Bonnel (actor), Jacques Boudet (actor), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (actor), Patrick Sobelman (producer), Bernard Sasia (editor), Pierre Banderet (actor), Jean-Louis Milesi (writer), Gérard Meylan (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Une place parmi les vivants (2003)

Actors: Raoul Ruiz (writer), Jorge Arriagada (composer), Féodor Atkine (actor), Dan Condurache (actor), Raoul Ruiz (director), Valeria Sarmiento (editor), Christian Vadim (actor), Valérie Kaprisky (actress), Thierry Gibault (actor), Denis Karvil (producer), Denis Karvil (actor), Vlad Ivanov (actor), Razvan Popa (actor), Cécile Bois (actress), Julie Judd (actress),

Plot: Paris 1958. "Existentialist" crimes are being committed in the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris. Who is this serial killer who dares call himself a... poet? Could it be Joseph, whom everybody in Pigalle knows as Loulou ? That is at least what he accuses himself of. But who on earth could picture him as the monstrous killer ?...

Keywords: 1950s, art-exhibition, baguette, biographer, book-seller, champagne, crime-writer, cult-director, deal-with-the-devil, existentialism
Genres: Drama,

Lugares comunes (2002)

Actors: José Soriano (actor), Fernando Pardo (editor), Federico Luppi (actor), Mariela Besuievsky (producer), Mercedes Sampietro (actress), Gerardo Herrero (producer), Adolfo Aristarain (producer), Adolfo Aristarain (director), Adolfo Aristarain (writer), Arturo Puig (actor), Carmen Martínez Rebé (miscellaneous crew), Claudio Rissi (actor), Osvaldo Santoro (actor), Carlos Santamaría (actor), María Fiorentino (actress),

Plot: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: It's never too late to begin again.

Cassidi et Cassidi: Le démon de midi (1997)

Actors: Serge Franklin (composer), Jacques Serres (actor), Richard Guedj (actor), Patrick Catalifo (actor), Catherine Rouvel (actress), Bruno Raffaelli (actor), Élisabeth Bourgine (actress), Michel Voïta (actor), Joël Santoni (director), Bernard Spiegel (actor), Pascale Breugnot (producer), Cécile Auclert (actress), Eric Poulain (actor), Eva Zora (editor), Alexandre Thibault (actor),

Genres: ,

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Actors: Errol Flynn (actor), Jean Gabin (actor), Kirk Douglas (actor), Enzo Cannavale (actor), Ignazio Balsamo (actor), Mario Castellani (actor), John Barrymore (actor), Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Tano Cimarosa (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Vittorio De Sica (actor), Nicola Di Pinto (actor), Clark Gable (actor),

Plot: A famous film director remembers his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He returns home to his Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years and is reminded of his first love, Elena, who disappeared from his life before he left for Rome.

Keywords: 1940s, abandoned-theatre, accidental-fire, animal-cruelty, bicycle, blind-man, boy, breast-feeding, cefalù-italy, censorship
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies.

Quotes:

Alfredo: [after informed about the arrival of the new non-combustible film] Progress always comes late.

Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you're blinder than I am.::Salvatore: Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?::Alfredo: No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it's all me. Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.

Alfredo: Once upon a time, a king gave a feast. And there came the most beautiful princesses of the realm. Now, a soldier, who was standing guard, saw the king's daughter go by. She was the most beautiful one, and he immediately fell in love with her. But what could a poor soldier do when it came to the daughter of the king? Well, finally, one day, he managed to meet her, and he told her that he could no longer live without her. The princess was so impressed by his strong feelings that she said to the soldier: "If you can wait 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, then at the end of it, I shall be yours." Damn! The soldier immediately went there and waited one day. And two days. And ten. And then twenty. And every evening, the princess looked out of her window, but he never moved. During rain, during wind, during snow, he was always there. The bird shat on his head, and the bees stung him, but he didn't budge. After ninety nights, he had become all dried up, all white, and the tears streamed from his eyes. He couldn't hold them back. He no longer had the strength to sleep. All that time, the princess watched him. And on the 99th night, the soldier stood up, took his chair, and went away.::Salvatore: [later in the film, Toto gives Alfredo his interpretation]... In one more night, the princess would have been his. But she also could not possibly have kept her promise. And it would have been terrible. He would have died. This way, however, at least for 99 days, he was living under the illusion that she was there, waiting for him.

Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: Elena, perhaps in the future we could...::Elena Mendola - Adult, Director's cut only: No, Salvaotre, there is no future. There is only the past. Even last night's encounter was just a dream. A wonderful dream. When we were young, we never did it. Do you remember? Now that it has happened, I can't imagine a better ending.::Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: I'll never agree with you. Never.

[to Elena]::Alfredo: Out of the fire of love come ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.

Alfredo: Get out of here! Go back to Rome. You're young and the world is yours. I'm old. I don't want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you. Don't come back. Don't think about us. Don't look back. Don't write. Don't give in to nostalgia. Forget us all. If you do and you come back, don't come see me. I won't let you in my house. Understand?::Salvatore: Thank you. For everything you've done for me.::Alfredo: Whatever you end up doing, love it. The way you loved the projection booth when you were a little squirt.

[first lines]::Maria Di Vita - Older: [in Italian] [on the phone] Yes, Salvatore di Vita. You mean you don't know him, Miss? That's right, and I'm his mother. I've been calling from Sicily, all day long. I understand, he's not there.

Man In Cinema: I'll make mince meat out of you!

[last lines]::Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: Yes, of course. We'll talk later.

Alfredo: And the next time be careful how you talk. Not to take credit away from the Lord, but if I had created the world, in all modesty, certain things would have come out better. But unfortunately such was not the case.

Les onze mille verges (1975)

Actors: Sylvain Levignac (actor), Louis Navarre (actor), Michel Colombier (composer), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Michel Francini (actor), Pierre Frag (actor), Marion Game (actress), Yves-Marie Maurin (actor), Jacques Disses (actor), Piéral (actor), Jenny Arasse (actress), Renée Lichtig (editor), Nathalie Zeiger (actress), Bernadette Robert (actress), Laurence Imbert (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Lorsque l'enfant paraît (1956)

Actors: Jean Ozenne (actor), Amarande (actress), Yvonne Dany (actress), Paul Demange (actor), Robert de Nesle (producer), Suzy Prim (actress), Laure Paillette (actress), Gaby Morlay (actress), André Luguet (actor), Gaston Orbal (actor), Michel Boisrond (director), Gilbert Natot (editor), Jacques de Féraudy (actor), René Lefevre-Bel (actor), André Roussin (actor),

Genres: ,

Ce soir les jupons volent (1956)

Actors: Claire Maurier (actress), Bernard Dhéran (actor), Sophie Desmarets (actress), Alain Nobis (actor), Gaston Orbal (actor), Guy Bedos (actor), Luc Andrieux (actor), Robert Favart (actor), Robert Le Béal (actor), Eddie Constantine (actor), Paul Demange (actor), Raoul Billerey (actor), Philippe Nicaud (actor), Jean Chevrier (actor), Anne Vernon (actress),

Plot: At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...

Genres: ,

Les bas-fonds (1936)

Actors: Junie Astor (actress), Jany Holt (actress), Sylvain (actor), Camille Bert (actor), René Génin (actor), Vladimir Sokoloff (actor), Maurice Baquet (actor), Louis Jouvet (actor), Louis Jouvet (actor), Léon Larive (actor), Robert Le Vigan (actor), Jean Gabin (actor), Robert Ozanne (actor), André Gabriello (actor), Suzy Prim (actress),

Plot: The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent Critics of France (an organization and not a description.) The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend.

Keywords: actor, based-on-play, cheating-wife, cigarette-smoking, criminal, deceit, deception, despair, duplicity, foreign-language-adaptation
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Vassilissa Kostyleva: One day, everything will be ours. We'll go away together. To live the good life where no one knows us.::Wasska Pepel: Stop it.::Vassilissa Kostyleva: You don't love me anymore. Why not?