Movie List for "france"

Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne’s virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuse Year 1966.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. Year 1953.

The director documents his failure to make a film connecting the Mafia in Sicily and Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Year 2014.

Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl. Year 2001.

This film is one of the most magical to come out of Africa, hardly surprising since Madagascar is unlike anywhere else on earth. Raymond Rajaonarivelo follows his epic first film on the Malagasy liberation struggle, TABA TABA, with a Year 1996.

Set in the 1970s, it’s the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome. Year 2005.

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Year 1982.

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. Year 1967.

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families who decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships. Year 1950.

A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife’s murder, big business, and corporate corruption. Year 2005.

FELA KUTIis to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of black music, from funk to electronic, owe something to the irresistible groove of the Afrobeat sound that he created. Shot in Lagos at Year 1982.

Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate. Year 2004.

An ambulance chaser/carancho falls for an ER/ambulance doctor, he meets one night “at work” in Buenos Aires. Year 2010.

Desperate to support her family and earn enough money to get her husband out of jail, a woman with an unusual crying style becomes a professional mourner. Year 2002.

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single an Year 2000.

In the summer of 1943 Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left Milan to escape the bombings and retreated to their country villa, where they host two of Andrea’s contemporaries, cousin Carlo, son of a fascist hierarch who fled to Switz Year 1955.