Carmen (2003)
2003A classic tale of forbidden passion between a young, naive soldier and a manipulative, spoken-for woman.
Archives: Movies
Lying in Wait (2001)
2001Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother’s estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith into a coma. When Keith comes out he is in a semi-vegetative state and must rely on Vera to look after him. Keith can’t move or speak but reveals to Babee that he […]
Curiosa (2019)
2019A 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 (1991)
1991In 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)
2006December 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 […]
Lovestruck: The Housemate (1993)
1993Juliette 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 […]
The House of Fantasies (1979) aka La maison des phantasmes
1979Monsieur Matthieu forces his young wife Clarisse into various sexual situations of his design.
Frank & Lola (2016)
2016A psychosexual noir love story, set in Las Vegas and Paris, about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and, ultimately, the search for redemption.
Year of the Jellyfish (1984) aka L’année des méduses
1984Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother’s lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
My Best Friend’s Wife (2001)
2001Two friends are about to learn that they are “Grownups.”