Showing posts with label paris france. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paris france. Show all posts
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) Trailer
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
MURDER! MYSTERY! MANHUNT! in the gayest city in the world!
The Man on the Eiffel Tower is a 1950 American mystery film directed by Burgess Meredith and starring Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Meredith, and Robert Hutton. It is based on the 1931 novel La Tête d'un homme (A Man's Head) by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his detective Jules Maigret.
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Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is an impoverished Parisian medical student who overhears Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) saying that he wished somebody would murder his wealthy aunt so that he could collect the inheritance. Radek decides to kill the old lady and her maid but is surprised by an incredibly short-sighted burglar, Heurtin (Burgess Meredith). When Heurtin stumbles over the dead body he unwittingly incriminates himself and becomes the focal point of the police investigation. Inspector Maigret (Charles Laughton) has to solve one of his most infamous cases as he pursues the murderer across the rooftops and streets of Paris. As the two protagonists play a deadly game of cat and mouse, Maigret confronts his suspect in a stunning climax on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Labels:
1940's,
1949,
Burgess Meredith,
Charles Laughton,
eiffel tower paris,
Franchot Tone,
Harry Brown,
Irving Allen,
maigret,
Mystery,
paris france,
remake,
The Man on the Eiffel Tower,
Thriller
June 21, 2015
Samba (2014) Trailer
Samba
Samba is a 2014 French comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano.
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Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Labels:
2010's,
2014,
betrayal,
Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Comedy,
Delphine Coulin,
Drama,
Eric Toledano,
immigrant,
legal aid,
moustache,
Muriel Coulin,
Olivier Nakache,
Omar Sy,
paris france,
samba,
Tahar Rahim
April 27, 2015
Dobermann (1997) Trailer
Dobermann
Dobermann (1997) is a French film directed by Jan Kounen starring Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci.
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Doberman - the famous break movie of Vincent Cassel. The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.
Labels:
1990's,
1997,
Action,
Crime,
Dobermann,
Jan Kounen,
Joël Houssin,
male frontal nudity,
male rear nudity,
Monica Bellucci,
paris france,
police shootout,
Tchéky Karyo,
Thriller,
Vincent Cassel,
violence
March 04, 2015
One Swallow Brought Spring (2001) Trailer
Une hirondelle a fait le printemps
The sleeper hit that has already charmed more than 2 million French moviegoers.
Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (English: One Swallow Brought Spring) is a 2001 French film directed by Christian Carion. The film is also known in English as The Girl From Paris.
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Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) gets tired of her life as an IT instructor in Paris and decides to leave her work and dedicate her life to agriculture. She first goes to college where she earns her BTS in two years, undertaking internships along the way. She then wishes to buy an isolated farm in the Vercors from an old farmer called Adrien (Michel Serrault) who wishes to retire. The trials and tribulations of a young woman in a harsh lifestyle then follow.*Wikipedia*
Labels:
2000's,
2001,
Christian Carion,
Comedy,
computer,
countryside,
Drama,
Eric Assous,
farm,
french countryside,
Jean-Paul Roussillon,
Mathilde Seigner,
Michel Serrault,
One Swallow Brought Spring,
paris france
December 14, 2014
The Accidental Tourist (1988) Trailer
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis.
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After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a strange outgoing woman, who seems to bring him back down to earth. After starting a relationship with the outgoing woman, Macon's wife seems to think that their marriage is still worth a try. Macon is then forced to deal many decisions Written by Justin Sharp <rainman88@earthlink.net>
Labels:
1980's,
1988,
Anne Tyler,
Drama,
Frank Galati,
Geena Davis,
Kathleen Turner,
Lawrence Kasdan,
paris france,
Romance,
The Accidental Tourist,
travel,
travel guide,
travel writer,
washing machine,
William Hurt
November 09, 2014
Moulin Rouge (1928)
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray and Jean Bradin.
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Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928.
Written by Anonymous
A Song to Remember (1945) Trailer
A Song to Remember
A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a fictionalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Labels:
1940's,
1945,
A Song to Remember,
Biography,
Charles Vidor,
composer,
Cornel Wilde,
Drama,
Ernst Marischka,
Merle Oberon,
Music,
paris france,
Paul Muni,
pianist,
poland,
Sidney Buchman,
writer
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