I Love European Films !!! (Vol. 03)
"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." - Jean Cocteau
"Hollywood has melted everyone's brains. In the old days you had one murder and that was enough for a story. Now you have to kill 300,000 people just to get the audience's attention" - Aki Kaurismaki
This list is NOT in any order of preference or ranking.
All these films have English subtitles.
"Hollywood has melted everyone's brains. In the old days you had one murder and that was enough for a story. Now you have to kill 300,000 people just to get the audience's attention" - Aki Kaurismaki
This list is NOT in any order of preference or ranking.
All these films have English subtitles.
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- DirectorGilles BourdosStarsMichel BouquetChrista ThéretVincent RottiersSet on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire MaurierA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #1 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierPatrick AuffayAntoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #2 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel.
Episode #2 was originally released as one segment of a collective film called Love At Twenty (1962), where this segment directed by Truffaut was just one of five segments, each by a different director, - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudClaude JadeDelphine SeyrigAfter being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #3 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudClaude JadeHiroko BerghauerAntoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #4 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudClaude JadeMarie-France PisierAntoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station...dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
Episode #5 in Framcois Truffaut's 5 part saga re: Antoine Doniel - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJeanne MoreauOskar WernerHenri SerreDecades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu.
A weird and innovative twist on the classic love triangle. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean DesaillyFrançoise DorléacNelly BenedettiPierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudKika MarkhamStacey TendeterAt the beginning of the 20th century, middle-class young Frenchman Claude Roc meets young Englishwoman Ann Brown in Paris. They become friends and she invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann, and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation with no contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris and has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCatherine DeneuveGérard DepardieuJean PoiretIn occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsGérard DepardieuFanny ArdantHenri GarcinTwo ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFanny ArdantJean-Louis TrintignantJean-Pierre KalfonAfter he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.dir: Francois Truffaut.
writer: Francois Truffaut, et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyMichèle MéritzAfter long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyJuliette MaynielA pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Criterion.com/Hulu. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMadeleine RobinsonAntonella LualdiJean-Paul BelmondoA wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer (adaptation): Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsJean PoiretStéphane AudranMichel BouquetIn a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsPhilippe NoiretRobin RenucciBernadette LafontHired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man's country estate with the eccentric extended family.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertFrançois CluzetMarie TrintignantA housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsAndrew McCarthyNigel HaversBarbara De RossiExpatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMichel BouquetBrian CoxMaquisard AlfonsoThis movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media.dir: Claude Chabrol.
available at Fandor.com. - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertSandrine BonnaireJacqueline BissetA newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsSandrine BonnaireJacques GamblinAntoine de CaunesIn a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Hulu.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertJacques DutroncAnna MouglalisIn Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Fandor.com - DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsBenoît MagimelLaura SmetAurore ClémentA hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.dir: Claude Chabrol.
writer: (adaptation) Claude Chabrol et al.
available at Fandor.com - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJane BirkinSergio CastellittoAndré MarconVittorio stops and helps Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. Later they meet again, and Vittorio discovers that Kate is part of a circus that she has just returned to after having been away for many years due to a tragedy that took place there and affected her profoundly.dir: Jacques Rivette.
writer: Jacques Rivette et al.
available at Fandor.com.