Frantz (2016)
Drama | History | War
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Starring: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Marie Gruber, Cyrielle Clair, Alice De Lencquesaing, Ernst Stötzner
Director: François Ozon
La belle captive / The Beautiful Prisoner (1983)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
Starring: Cyrielle Clair, Arielle Dombasle, Daniel Emilfork, François Chaumette, Michel Auclair
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Le professionnel / The Professional (1981)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After the daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country with the official visit.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Cyrielle Clair, Marie-Christine Descouard, Elisabeth Margoni
Director: Georges Lautner
