Director: Patrice Chéreau (1994)
A classic tale of intrigue and forbidden love, La Reine Margot is the powerful hit universally acclaimed by critics! Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot (Isabelle Adjani) soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It is then that she realizes that [...]
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1975)
Caracas, Venezuela. Nelly (Catherine Deneuve) runs away from Vittorio, just after they got engaged. As Vittorio pursues her, she asks a stranger to help her. This stranger is Martin, a French middle-aged man played by Yves Montand. He helps her to escape, drives her to the airport and gives her a plane [...]
Director: Gérard Oury (1966)
An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis de Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation [...]
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)
In the squalid, impoverished South American town of Las Piedras, desperate men and women from all over the world scrape out a living and dream of escape, under the watchful eye of the ruling Southern Oil Company. When a well explodes 300 miles away, the American company conscripts four of these unfortunates [...]