 Le Professionnel 1981  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: The Professional
Director: Georges Lautner
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Robert Hossein, Michel Beaune, Cyrielle Claire, Jean-Louis Richard, Sidiki Bakaba, Marie-Christine Descouard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Pierre Vernier
Secret Agent Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is on a mission to kill an African president. But, due to a change in leadership at home, he is jailed. Escaping jail, Joss now heads home to finish the job when the African president, now an ally, visits Paris. Will the new regime be able to stop him? An entertaining action/thriller.
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Life Is a Bed of Roses 1983  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Jean-Louis Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Robert Manuel, Martine Kelly, Samson Fainsilber
The possibility of a perfect world is examined in this fable, which uses a World War II "Temple of Happiness" from that era and compares its purpose with a present-day conference on education. The findings are that utopia does not seem to be the answer to society's problems.
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The Vanishing 1988  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: George Sluizer
Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette LeSache, Tania Latarjet, Lucille Glenn, Roger Souza, Caroline Apperre, Pierre Forget
A Dutch couple on their way to a vacation spot stop at a gas station for gas and refreshments. During the stop the wife disappears, and the remainder of this tense drama deals with the husband's multi-year search and relationship with the chilling abductor. Director Sluizer also directed an American remake.
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| 1. Le Professionnel (1981)
aka: The Professional
2. Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
3. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
4. The Vanishing (1988)
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