Two men share a vacation villa in St. Tropez with a young nymphette, and desperately they debate on how to resist her charms.

With: Patrick Bauchau, Haydée Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle.

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Romance begins busting out all over in Rochefort. A fair is being organized, giving the town an air of excitement and effervescence. Twin sisters Delphine, a dance teacher, and Solange, a pianist and a composer, dream of making it big in the world of music. The sisters, like many in Rochefort, including a dashing American pianist, are looking for love, without realizing that their ideal partners are right before their eyes.

With: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac.

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Widely acclaimed as a motion picture masterpiece, Belle de jour is an erotically charged tale of deceit and desire! Beautiful Catherine Deneuve (Indochine) stars as Severine, a perfect young housewife … who leads a shocking double life. What her loving husband Pierre doesn’t know is that by day she’s a high-priced prostitute! But when the dangerous obsession of a customer forces her terrible secrets out into the open, Pierre must decide whether to reject her for what she has done … or accept her for who she is! Now available on video for the first time, the stunning erotic intrigue of Belle de jour will both captivate and entertain!

With: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli.

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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology—maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï defines cool.

With: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon.

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In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal, a wellborn orphan, is cheated out of his inheritance by an unscrupulous uncle and then forced to stand by helplessly while his cousin Charlotte, with whom he is in love, is forced by her uncle to become engaged to another man. He reduces Charlotte’s fiancé to the status of a pauper by stealing the fiancé’s family jewels, thereby causing his uncle to break the engagement. Inspired by his first taste of crime, Georges goes to Brussels and meets the Abbot Lamargelle, an underworld priest who becomes his mentor. Before long, Georges has risen to the top of his profession. By utilizing his appeal to women to gain entrance into the homes of the privileged, he quickly amasses a considerable fortune. When the rise of anarchy in France stirs police retaliation, he flees to England. There he is reunited with Charlotte, who has been disinherited by her debauched uncle. Upon learning that the old man is dying, Georges exacts the perfect revenge by destroying the uncle’s will and forging a new one in Charlotte’s favor. With Charlotte’s fortune added to his own, Georges no longer has any need to go on stealing. But it is too late to stop; thievery has become a way of life for him.

With. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois.

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Louis de Funès is playing a big industrialist named Bertrand Barnier who discovers over the course of a single day that his daughter is pregnant, he has been robbed by an employee, and various other calamities have befallen his household and his business.

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Jacques Tati’s spectacular cinematic art reached its peak in the gargantuan achievement of this film, PLAYTIME. Marking the third appearance of Tati’s Mr. Magoo-like character, Mr. Hulot, PLAYTIME takes as its subject modern technology and its sometimes disastrous and always hilarious effects on the people living within it. As in most Tati films, a minimal plot (the parallel paths of Hulot and a group of American tourists), is held together by a seamless ballet of visual, aural, and conceptual gags. Tati constructed an enormous set, Tativille, rendering a high modern contemporary Paris decked in chrome, mirrors, and glass within which the surreal slapstick of PLAYTIME unfolds. Filmed in 70mm Technicolor, with sound recorded on a seven-channel stereo, the film approaches the city from a bird’s eye perspective showing the complex yet abstract machinations of people and their technologies, with each character linked to the other and the whole ensemble dependant on the giant grid of the modern city. Objects, people, and sounds vie for the viewer’s attention and all exert equal fascination and comedic power in the circus of Tati’s modern life. From the airport to the high rise to the nightclub, Hulot weaves in and out of view, leaving a trail of bumped heads, offended sensibilities and curious glances in his wake.

With: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden.

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