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No Man’s Woman4.7 (3)
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead–among them a rich husband she wouldn’t divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.
Checkmate (1956) aka Le Coup du berger5 (1)
Claire (Virginie Vitry) is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Claude (Jean-Claude Brialy). As this 28-minute trifle opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Jean (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) at his apartment; after some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro indians used […]
Madame Freedom3 (2)
A professor’s wife, O Seon-yeong (Kim Jeung-rim), starts working at a boutique shop. She meets Choe Yun-ju (No Gyung-hui) and goes to a dance party. She happens to like Sin Chun-ho (Lee Min), so she learns dancing from the next-door neighbor. Meanwhile, professor Jang (Park Am) is attracted to his student (Yang Mi-hui), who works as a typist. But he does not want to ruin his family while waiting for his wife to come home. […]
Crazed Fruit (1956)4 (1)
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young married woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking. Bored rich kids. Natsuhisa, 20, constantly teases his brother Haruji, 16, about girls. They arrive by train for a summer at the beach; at the station, Haruji spots a young woman and can think of nothing else for the next few days. When they cross paths again – she’s Eri – Haru invites her […]
…And God Created Woman (1956)0 (0)
In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other. Juliette Hardy is a sexual dynamite and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn’t dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.
Baby Doll (1956)3.5 (2)
A offspring bride holds her husband at bay while flirting with a sexy Italian farmer.
Thunder Among the Leaves (aka El trueno entre las hojas)4 (3)
The young wife of a rich, aging landowner falls for one of her husband’s disgruntled laborers.
The Seventh Sin (1957)1 (2)
A woman married because of social pressure and cheated because of love.
Madame Freedom 24 (1)
Despite her apology, Oh Seon-young, the professor’s wife from Madame Freedom again strays. This time the family is ruined through her scandal. She must take a job at a coffee shop to help pay off their debt and has an affair with the shop-owner. By charging for answers to tests, she is involved in helping college students cheat on their exams, which causes her husband to lose his teaching position.
Back to the Wall4 (1)
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit, Gloria desperately seeks a way out.
The Lovers (aka Les amants)4 (3)
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
Odd Obsession (1959) aka Kagi2.5 (2)
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter’s lover to his wife. An aging antique specialist in Kyoto, Japan is losing virility but finds himself excited when he deliberately makes his daughter’s boyfriend attracted to his younger beautiful wife. Things begin to spiral as his health declines and the plotted becomes the plotting.
La Vérité (1960)0 (0)
Dominique Marceau is on trial for the mu..er of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ambitious conductor freshly graduated from the conservatory. Was it passion, vengeance, desperation, an accident? The acquaintances of Gilbert testify, as well as Dominique’s former lovers, and her sister, Annie, the studious violin player engaged to Gilbert. The evidence they give progressively paints a more finely-shaded picture […]
The Night (aka La Notte)0 (0)
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Five Day Lover (aka L’amant de cinq jours)0 (0)
During Madeleine’s fashion show Claire meets Antoine and becomes his mistress. Due to the fact that she’s married (to a wealthy man) she only spends a few days a week with him. Antoine is also rich, and often taken to meetings by his chauffeur, Marius. However things are more complicated: Antoine is Madeleine lover (Claire’s best friend) while George, Claire’s husband is quite rich and has a modest job. Everything works perfectly until Madeleine discovers […]
Five Day Lover (1961)0 (0)
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine’s apartment, five afternoons a week, come to a halt when their partners learn the truth.
Fire Line (1961)0 (0)
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss’s girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they mu..er the previous boss but things […]
El rufián (1961)1.5 (2)
A psychiatrist is able to make out with his colleague’s pretty young wife, but it’s her personal driver who is able to go all the way to the bedroom with her.
A Wife Confesses3.2 (5)
Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband’s approval, and this complicates the trial.
Divorce Italian Style (1961)0 (0)
A guy tricks his wife into having an affair so that he can marry his beautiful cousin.