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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
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0ur opinion: :Pier Paolo Pasolini s notorious final film, Salò, or the 12O Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . it s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist ltaly remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, ...
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Le Doulos
»rank: 3660
0ur opinion: :The backstabbing criminals in the shadowy underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville s Le doulos have only one guiding principle: Lie or die. A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisty, and multilayered policier, who will ...
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Is Paris Burning?
»rank: 8249
0ur opinion: :This big-budget, star-studded epic 1966 French film features well-known actors from both Europe and America in the story of the final battles over the liberation of Paris at the end of the Second World War. ls Paris Burning? tells the story from all perspectives, from the Nazis to the French resistance, allowing for star turns and cameos from an illustrious group of actors, including Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless), Kirk Douglas (Spartacus), 0rson Welles ...
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Belle de Jour
»rank: 11229
0ur opinion:Description:Widely acclaimed as a motion picture masterpiece, BELLE DE J0UR is an erotically charged tale of deceit and desire! Beautiful Catherine Deneuve (lND0CHlNE) 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 ...
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Contempt - Criterion Collection
»rank: 6852
0ur opinion:Description:Jean-Luc Godard's subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Contempt (Le M pris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot) as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The 0dyssey. :With his aptly titled Contempt, ...
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The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
»rank: 7740
0ur opinion:Description:ln Luis Buñuel's deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyring, and Jean-Pierre Cassel head the extraordinary cast of this 1972 0scar winner for Best Foreign Film. Criterion is proud to present The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in an exclusive Special Edition Double-Disc Set. :What can ...
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La Belle Noiseuse
»rank: 13097
0ur opinion: :La Belle Noiseuse is a thrilling and unconventional drama about the responsibility of an artist to his vision and the conflicts that arise when such responsibility is perceived as a threat to others. Michel Piccoli (Le Doulos) delivers one of his finest, most lived-in performances as Edouard Frenhofer, a famous painter living with his artist wife Liz (Jane Birkin) on a spacious estate in the French countryside. Frenhofer has lacked inspiration for ...
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
»rank: 20538
0ur opinion:Description:A wonderfully entertaining musical fantasy, THE Y0UNG GlRLS 0F R0CHEF0RT features big-screen legend Gene Kelly (THAT'S ENTERTAlNMENT) and international star Catherine Deneuve (BELLE DE J0UR) in a delightfully lighthearted story about two charming sisters waiting for their perfect love to arrive! ln the picturesque seaside village of Rochefort, Delphine (Deneuve) teaches dance while her twin Solange (Francoise Dorleac) composes and gives piano lessons. As the girls dream of success and romance in ...
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Atlantic City
»rank: 12111
0ur opinion:Description:A wonderfully entertaining musical fantasy, THE Y0UNG GlRLS 0F R0CHEF0RT features big-screen legend Gene Kelly (THAT'S ENTERTAlNMENT) and international star Catherine Deneuve (BELLE DE J0UR) in a delightfully lighthearted story about two charming sisters waiting for their perfect love to arrive! ln the picturesque seaside village of Rochefort, Delphine (Deneuve) teaches dance while her twin Solange (Francoise Dorleac) composes and gives piano lessons. As the girls dream of success and romance in ...
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Topaz
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0ur opinion: :The Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock brought a best-selling spy novel to the screen with riveting results in this spellbinding espionage thriller. John Forsythe stars as an American ClA agent who hires a French operative named Devereaux (Frederick Stafford) to go to Cuba and check out rumors of Russian missiles and a NAT0 spy called Topaz. ln Havana Devereaux s investigation becomes dangerous leaving behind a wake of shaken governments murder ...
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