Night Crawlers (2009)

Actors: Gabriel Horn (producer), Gabriel Horn (actor), Douglas Edward (composer), Benjamin Wilbanks (writer), Benjamin Wilbanks (editor), Benjamin Wilbanks (director), Benjamin Wilbanks (producer), Ron Gonzalez (producer), Mathew Greer (actor), Eryn Brooke (actress), Joel S. Greco (actor), Sam Crutsinger (editor), Joel Ferrell (actor), Rachel Grow (miscellaneous crew), Joel Ferrell (costume designer),

Genres: Comedy,

Choses secrètes (2002)

Actors: Bruno SX (actor), Roger Miremont (actor), Jean-Claude Brisseau (writer), Jean-Claude Brisseau (producer), Jean-Claude Brisseau (actor), Jean-Claude Brisseau (director), María Luisa García (editor), María Luisa García (actress), María Luisa García (costume designer), Sabrina Seyvecou (actress), Olivier Guigues (miscellaneous crew), Dorothée Picard (actress), Blandine Bury (actress), Fabrice Deville (actor), Patricia Candido Trinca (actress),

Plot: Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure. Both find positions in the office of a large bank, where bored, under-stimulated, prey are easy pickings. After making their way though several layers of executives at the bank, with destructive, and lucrative, results, they approach Christophe, scion to the bank director. What they don't know is that Christophe is a manipulative voyeur, whose last two lovers set themselves on fire when he rejected them. A connoisseur of high-class orgies, Christophe is only interested in new talent to satisfy the appetites of all whom he controls. In Christophe, the girls have found an opponent who knows all their wiles, and will challenge their simple under-class friendship with levels of jealousy and ecstasy that they have never experienced before. Will they survive?

Keywords: adultery, affair, alimony, bar, bare-breasts, bartender, black-panties, blackmail, blood, bra
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,
Taglines: The delectably twisted fable centers on two penniless but shapely young women who set out to better their social station by manipulating men.

Quotes:

Sandrine: What do you feel dancing naked with all those people watching?::Nathalie: Nothing.::Sandrine: But you excite them.::Nathalie: Usually it's routine.::Sandrine: Usually?::Nathalie: On stage once, I came the hardest I ever had.::Sandrine: Even with a guy?::Nathalie: That night I came the hardest I ever had.::Sandrine: Why?::Nathalie: Because people were watching.::Sandrine: Men were watching?::Nathalie: People were watching. It really got me off and I came. It's happened several times.::Sandrine: So that's it?::Nathalie: What?::Sandrine: What makes you so exciting. Did it happen tonight?::Nathalie: No such luck. [Sandrine laughs with convulsive delight] Did what I say shock you?::Sandrine: No. I'm a little jealous. Ii figure I'd never dare.::Nathalie: Never dare what? Show yourself naked? Get off by exciting them? Or just get off?::Sandrine: All that together. And I'm not pretty enough.::Nathalie: All us girls say that. I was afraid, too.

Nathalie: What's stopping you?::Sandrine: You're nuts, I'd never dare.::Nathalie: Are you drunk?::Sandrine: No. [giggle] No, I feel fine.::Nathalie: Then let's play a little game.::Sandrine: What game.::Nathalie: Daring. Daring to cross that forbidden think line that your friends will never cross. That will get you off.::Sandrine: [narrating] I wanted to get out of there fast. [to Nathalie] No.::Nathalie: Sit down. I won't jump you. First it has to happen in your head. Okay. Now close your eyes and let me guide you. The rest will come naturally. Go to the bed.

Nathalie: [guiding Sandrine in a game of 'Dare'] Close your eyes. Let yourself go. Every time you hesitate, make that little effort to keep going. Dare yourself to feel good. Stroke your body slowly. Try to explore it without shame. Run your hands over your body. Find the spots where you feel the most pleasure.

Sandrine: [narrating as we watch Nathalie and her walk through the streets of Paris, eating and drinking at a cafe, while wearing only heels and long coats] It felt funny being naked under our coats in the unsuspecting crowd. Funny, but really pleasant. So we kept it up. I had begun to dare. It gave me a sense of superiority over people I'd pass on the street.

Nathalie: Next chapter: Men, a user's manual. First pick a good one. But don't fall all over him. Play the good, innocent little girl. Let him play protector.::Sandrine: We can all do that. Guys just want to get laid and move on.::Nathalie: That's why you don't fuck 'em. At least not just like that. Without letting on, study them, get them talking. Discover their weak spots and passions: money, cars, I dunno... success, work. When you find out, you flatter them. Then, once you've chosen your man, you yield to him. Never on the first date. He'll think you're easy. Don't wait too long, either. After 3 or 4 dinners, then give him the works. Give him pleasure, make him think only he can make you climax, play the happy, docile woman, but not for too long. Soon in bed, you stop faking. Not seeing you climax will get him all worked up. Then without warning, drop him and start fooling around. Overtly. One night stands. If possible, with another woman. It'll humiliate him, drive him nuts. He'll come crawling back.::Sandrine: It works every time?::Nathalie: Just about. That's the mystery of human nature... we want what resists or escapes us.::Sandrine: Who taught you that?::Nathalie: Life. My mother. But she and I were poor. I also read a lot. I had schooling like you. It didn't keep us from enduing in the same strip club. We women lack confidence and daring. Someone always has to be behind us, egging us on. We're a bit like the working class. My mother said they'd stay that way for one reason: they didn't dare move up. "Dare!" That's what she'd always say. She knew about human nature.::Sandrine: Meanwhile, no guy ever made me come.::Nathalie: I know. And that's just fine!::Sandrine: If you say so.::Nathalie: You'll soon understand. What'd you do with your guy?::Sandrine: I faked it.::Nathalie: Why?::Sandrine: I wanted to make him happy.::Nathalie: No, you felt guilty, thinking it was your fault. You were wrong. Lesson 3: femmes fatales are usually narcissists or lesbians. They're frigid with men. They come when they want to, which isn't often. It's their strength. With famous courtesans...::Sandrine: Want to make me a call girl?::Nathalie: No, I'm teaching you about life. Now, with famous courtesans each guy wanted to succeed where others had failed. Pride will make a man spend a fortune to be seen with them. Frigidity helps with men. Sex enslaves you. The slave must be the other. Now you can come on your own, you're free. Get it?::Sandrine: What about love?::Nathalie: Our Enemy Number One. The real risk. In war, if you stop to think, you die. If we fall in love, we're done for. Has your life been such a thrill until now? Be realistic: no one'll help you change your life. True love can wait. Now show me how you fake it.

Christophe: I am the death of all and the birth of all. Word and memory, fortitude and mercy, and the silence of secret things.

Les enfants du siècle (1999)

Actors: Edith Perret (actress), Isabelle Carré (actress), Benoît Magimel (actor), Patrick Chesnais (actor), Juliette Binoche (actress), Sylvie Herbert (actress), Denis Podalydès (actor), Michel Robin (actor), Stefano Dionisi (actor), Olivier Claverie (actor), Robin Renucci (actor), Philippe Morier-Genoud (actor), Jean-Claude de Goros (actor), Karin Viard (actress), Ludivine Sagnier (actress),

Plot: The only thing more outrageous than French novelist George Sand's torrid love affair with the decadent author Alfred de Musset and her affinity for wearing men's clothing, was the content of her writing. Though Sand (otherwise known as the Baroness Dudevant) smoked cigars and cross-dressed, it was the boldness of her writing on issues such as the abstinence of marriage and women's frigidity that most contributed to the scandalous reputation she earned in French literary circles. When she met Alfred de Musset, the most gifted poet of his generation, the two quickly became a public cause celebrity while their work would go on to become some of the finest examples of 19th century romanticism.

Keywords: 1820s, 1830s, 19th-century, absinthe, actor, actress, adultery, age-difference, alfred-de-musset, anti-marriage
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Love, betrayal, passion and pride. When passion and pride collide. A passion too great to control.

Quotes:

George Sand: Love does exist, it's not an illusion. One merely has to recognise it, and be humble before it.

Alfred de Musset: You imitate passion, but you feel nothing.

Alfred de Musset: We were born into a world in ruins, with no glory or wars to die for. Despair was our only religion.

Deadly Pursuits (1996)

Actors: Richard Belzer (actor), Reginald VelJohnson (actor), Alex Van (actor), John Frizzell (composer), Frank Konigsberg (producer), Ed Grady (actor), Tori Spelling (actress), Patrick Muldoon (actor), Tammy Arnold (actress), Robert C. Treveiler (actor), Lou Criscuolo (actor), Ralph Wilcox (actor), Joanne Pankow (actress), I. Karl Golden (miscellaneous crew), Jeffrey Pillars (actor),

Genres: Drama, Thriller,

Les fleurs du mal (1991)

Actors: Antoine Duléry (actor), António da Cunha Telles (producer), Paulo Matos (actor), Sofia Sá da Bandeira (actress), Jacqueline Thiédot (editor), Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat (actor), Yan Brian (actor), Claude Aufaure (actor), Jean-Marie Lemaire (actor), Annick Christiaens (actress), Charles Baudelaire (writer), Jean-Pierre Rawson (director), Jean-Pierre Rawson (writer), Patrice-Flora Praxo (actress), Gabriela Cerqueira (producer),

Genres: ,

La vie fantastique des figures peintes (1981)

Actors: Alain Mottet (actor), Raymond Bussières (actor), Jean-Yves Gautier (actor), Gabriel Gobin (actor), Jean Négroni (actor), Yves Brainville (actor), Victor Garrivier (actor), Denise Gence (actress), Serge Martina (actor), Pierre Hatet (actor), Jenny Arasse (actress), Jean Nehr (actor), Françoise Morhange (actress), Claude Robin (actor), Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud (writer),

Genres: ,

Saint-Just ou La force des choses (1975)

Actors: Henri Guégan (actor), Henri Czarniak (actor), Pierre Vaneck (actor), Henri Marteau (actor), Fred Personne (actor), Jean-Marie Robain (actor), Mario Luraschi (actor), Maurice Vallier (actor), André Dumas (actor), Jacques Lalande (actor), Guy Marly (actor), Raymond Jourdan (actor), Gérard Hérold (actor), Pierre Cardinal (director), Roger Muni (actor),

Genres: ,

Satan's School for Girls (1973)

Actors: Aaron Spelling (producer), Cheryl Ladd (actress), David Lowell Rich (director), Laurence Rosenthal (composer), Leonard Goldberg (producer), Bill Quinn (actor), Bing Russell (actor), Lloyd Bochner (actor), Kate Jackson (actress), Roy Thinnes (actor), Frank Marth (actor), Pamela Franklin (actress), Arthur A. Ross (writer), Doris DeHerdt (miscellaneous crew), Jo Van Fleet (actress),

Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery,
Taglines: A Perfect 666

The Big Cube (1969)

Actors: Tito Davison (writer), Edmundo Báez (writer), Lindsley Parsons (producer), Richard Egan (actor), Lana Turner (actress), Alma Muriel (actress), Augusto Benedico (actor), Víctor Junco (actor), Dan O'Herlihy (actor), Carlos Riquelme (actor), George Chakiris (actor), Carlos East (actor), Norma Herrera (actress), Rogelio Guerra (actor), Travilla (costume designer),

Plot: Renowned stage actress Adriana Roman, the muse of playwright Frederick Lansdale, is retiring to marry tycoon, Charles Winthrop. The marriage does not sit well with Charles' daughter, Lisa Winthrop, who dislikes her new stepmother if only because she is the other woman for her father's affections. However, on her father's urging, Lisa tries to get to know Adriana, to who she slowly warms. Meanwhile, Lisa attracts the attention of Johnny Allen, a womanizing, fortune hunting medical student who uses the school lab to produce and sell acid among the hip, mod crowd he hangs around. He romances naive Lisa who falls under his spell. After an incident with Charles, Johnny, sensing an opportunity to abscond with at least some of the Winthrop fortune by using Lisa's mistrust of Adriana, manipulates Lisa into trying to make Adriana go crazy, in large part through the lacing of her sedatives with acid. Adriana begins to hallucinate that Lisa and Johnny are trying to kill her, which is what they want her to believe through the hallucinations. In reality, Johnny is trying to kill her, of which Lisa is unaware. As Adriana tries to explain what she is going through to among others Frederick, he, who has always loved her himself, eventually believes that all is not that it appears on the surface. With new information at hand, Frederick, using the tools of his trade, tries to help Adriana through her troubled mental state.

Keywords: accident, acid, actress, band, beach, convertible, cult, cult-film, dancing, detective
Genres: Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Poor daddy. Bibi was just shedding her inhibitions. So he threw the gang out. He never should have done it. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never. Poor mama. She stood in the way of the $3,000,000 inheritance. So they spiked her medicine with the big cube. Poor, poor mama. Johnny was a medical student who did it all with his chemistry set. And the things he did weren't very nice... weren't very nice... weren't very nice... weren't very nice. Such nice kids. They wouldn't hurt a fly. Only people... people... people... people... A Psychedelic Freak-Out!

Quotes:

Johnny Allen: [Putting his arm around her] Do you know you really turn me on?::Girl sketching model: [Disinterested] Since when?::Johnny Allen: Since now. I belong to 'The Now Generation.'

A Gata (1964)

Actors: Geraldo Vietri (director), Lima Duarte (actor), Geórgia Gomide (actress), Eduardo Abbas (actor), Ivani Ribeiro (writer), Marcos Plonka (actor), Elísio de Albuquerque (actor), Norah Fontes (actress), Altair Lima (actor), Xisto Guzzi (actor), Néa Simões (actress), Vida Alves (actress), Manuel Muñoz Rico (miscellaneous crew), Rita Cléos (actress), Dalmo Ferreira (actor),

Genres: ,