Curiosa

Curiosa (2019)

2019

A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier Paris 1895; Pierre is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. He and his poet friend Henri are both madly in love with Marie, the cheeky daughter of their mentor, Franco-Cuban poet José-Maria de Heredia. Although she loves Pierre, obeying her father she marries Henri to […]

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary (1991)

1991

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner (Rodolphe Boulanger) and a law student (Leon Dupuis), and runs up ruinous debts. This film version closely follows Flaubert’s novel and includes most of the famous scenes, such as the wedding, the ball, the agricultural fair, the operation on the clubfoot, and […]

La tempête (2006)

2006

December 1999, France is experiencing one of the biggest storms in its history. Like many others, Julia and her husband Christopher will pay the price. The couple left New York to spend the Christmas holidays with friends in France. On their way, a fallen tree trunk on the road causes an accident. Christopher is hurt. Julia, in evening dress, must find help. But the place is deserted. After several hours of walking, she will finally […]

Tarot (1973) aka The Magician/Autopsy

1973

A beautiful young woman marries a blind old man for his money. She carries on an affair with her husband’s valet, but soon finds herself in the middle of a murder-for-money plot involving the household servants. A young American tourist (Sue Lyon) thinks she’s hit the jackpot when a handsome Spaniard offers her money for sex. It turns out though he’s procuring her for his blind, elderly employer (Fernando Rey). Embarrassed, she has sex with […]

Los perros

Los Perros (2017)

2017

Mariana, from Chilean upper class with nothing really to occupy her days besides signing the potentially shady business documents her father keeps funneling to her, takes up riding lessons. Neglected by her husband and despised by both her father and husband, she feels a strange attraction towards her older riding instructor, Juan. But when she learns that “Colonel” Juan is under investigation for Pinochet-era human rights violations, her attraction flares into fascination, and she determines […]

Lovestruck: The Housemate (1993)

1993

Juliette and Paul, married for three years move into their dream house, a beautiful villa away from the city, but they soon realize that the rent is too high for the two of them alone so they decide to rent out their spare room to a young woman named Nathalie who is none other than Paul’s ex-mistress he abandoned and she is thirsty for revenge. She intends to make him regret not having kept his […]

La bonne (1986) aka The Corruption

1986

Beautiful Anna, a lawyer’s wife, feels abandoned by her husband, Giacomo. They live with his sick mother and she doesn’t like this. She badly wants to have a child, but she is infertile. She is very shy and introverted. Their maid, Angela is the opposite, and Anna grows closer to her. She convinces Anna to try increasingly daring erotic games and gradually the two women begin a relationship which allows the wife to lose her […]

I'm Not Him

I Am Not Him (2013)

2013

He works in a kitchen in Istanbul. She is working with him. Her husband goes to jail. Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors about her husband having been sentenced to many years in jail, Nihat reluctantly accepts Ayşe’s invitation to dinner […]