Marina Vlady

The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413. (imdb)

Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. (imdb)

In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson and the actress playing her... (imdb)

Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi (Troisi) and ushurette Chantale (Vlady)... (imdb)

In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. The film alternates between their vibrant rehearsals and their circumscribed lives in low-rent apartments, underemployed, fitfully communicating with families back home, trying to make do with what they hope are only temporary arrangements in a foreign land. (imdb)

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray near the famed Bermuda Triangle, and mysterious things start happening. (imdb)

Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant (imdb)

An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. (imdb)

Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just how his brave colleagues report on Latin American revolutions: from a lounge chair next to the pool of a luxury hotel, or from cabanas along the beach. He is briefly hired back to run the station but gets fired yet again when he airs an exposé of phony name-brand products. (Allmovie)

A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies. (imdb)

Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with her womanly charms. But when she falls for an older man, a 40-year old lawyer, her reputation as a liar precedes her and she cannot convince him that he really does love him...

The meeting between two clandestine homosexuals, an Iranian and a single woman.

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means. Especially a well-known operating surgeon Pierre Losseray, which wants to operate again after a cardiac infarct and a longer recovery break. Night for night he is terrorized by the old Brézé with calls, being accused by him of the murder of patients, threatens with measures of the physician chamber. (imdb)

While Cretans are fighting to liiberate themselves from Turkey, military men gather at Madame Rosa's bordello and play spying and political games. (90lepta.com)

By the early 1960s, the OAS is desperate to stop de Gaulle's freeing of Algeria. A small group, mostly from the military, steal weapons and rob a bank to prepare for a raid on Tulle prison to set General Challe free and spark civil war. OAS members within the police try to help their cause. The government appoints a mission director, Paraux, to track them down; he must work with the police, led by Lelong. The head of the secret OAS operation is Clavet, a decorated general. (imdb)

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, and tries to convert her to "civilization". (imdb)

Comedy: a lawyer is at grips with his contesting son. In the end, he is a conte stator himself, and sends his son to work in his place, giving himself up to a l ife of "dolce far niente".

A middle aged Italian accompanies a colleague to America, and tries to marry an American woman so that he can stay there. (bfi)

A burlesque of Moliere's "Le Malade Imaginaire". (bfi)

This film has many similarities to De Santis' own Riso amaro, but it is in color, and the splendor of the Italian countryside is wonderful to behold, as are the charms of Marina Vlady and Marcello Mastroianni in the central parts. (KG)

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade. (imdb)

One dark night, in the deserted streets of Nice... An American car slowly drives past Victor Menda, then slowly pulls up... A come on from the mysterious blonde at the wheel and Victor finds himself kissing her and making love with the gorgeous creature... But as soon as the embrace is over the mantis-like beauty rejects him and, under the threat of a gun, makes him leave the car... Worse, she tries - and nearly manages - to kill him by running over him. (imdb)

The film describes the sexual awakening and adventures of teen-aged Roger during the time of the outbreak of WWI. (imdb)

Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version by Bernard Bleier. Raskolnikov believes himself above such bourgeois concepts as morality and conscience, which leads to his murder of a hateful old woman. A perceptive police inspector (Jean Gabin) wears down Raskolnikov's sociopathic tendencies, until the student--who has a conscience after all--breaks down and confesses. (allmovie.com)

Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid at the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, in this virtuoso exercise of camera motion and sound editing by Miklós Jancsó. (mubi.com)

A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico (Lino Ventura) and Vincenzo (Bernard Fresson) take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else (Marina Vlady) and Carrel (Magali Noel) who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men.

Princess of Cleves is married with a rich and old prince but she loves secretly a lord younger, more beautiful and also very popular. (imdb)

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic event in the life of a little girl and the musings of a schizophrenic woman. Also involved is an enigmatic spouse who prepares a surprise for a burglar. (Sandra Brennan, Rovi)

Gina is the dedicated nurse of Paul Dupré, a wealthy industrialist who has been treated for heart problems. Dupré dies brutally during an injection made by Gina, and immediately his wife Catherine accuses Gina. (imdb)

A deserter who has lost all hope meets with a little girl in a ruined city. (imdb)

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay. (themoviedb.org)

In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, with the townspeople, become engaged in an effort to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam.