Archives: Movies

Checkmate (1956) aka Le Coup du berger

1956
August 28, 2018 Cheating, Cheating Wife, Europe/World, Little to No Erotic Value, Shorts

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 […]

For a Woman

For a Woman (aka Pour une femme)

2013
August 4, 2018 Cheating, Cheating Wife, Europe/World

After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family secret, the young woman learns that her mother once succumbed to an amorous passion that was as intense as it was short-lived…

Five Day Lover (aka L’amant de cinq jours)

1961
July 23, 2018 Cheating, Cheating Wife, Europe/World

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 […]

How Much Do You Love Me? (aka Combien tu m’aimes?)

2005
July 16, 2018 Cheating, Cheating Wife, Europe/World, Prostitute Wife

After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out. François is a lonely man, with heart problems and Daniela stays with him for eight days. Then, she decides to come back to her man, the mobster Charly, but she misses François and returns to his place. But once […]

Amok

1934
May 1, 2018 Cheating, Cheating Wife, Europe/World, Little to No Erotic Value

Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness which turns innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day, he is called on by Helene Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover’s child before her husband returns from abroad. Even […]

That Most Important Thing: Love (aka L’important c’est d’aimer)

1975
April 28, 2018 Cheating, Cheating Wife, Europe/World

Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of ‘Richard III’ and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.