Killing Cars 1986  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Blitz
Director: Michael Verhoeven
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, Agnes Soral, Daniel Gelin, Stefan Meinke, Bernhard Wicki, Peter Matic, William Conrad, Osman Ragheb, Axel Scholz
After inventing an electric/chemical car, Ralph Korda (Jurgen Prochnow) encounters corporate managers as well as oil men who employ strong-arm tactics against him that add to the intrigue as he tries to get his car into production.
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La Ronde 1950  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Max Ophuls
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gelin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gerard Philipe, Robert Vattier
Set in Vienna during the early 1900s, this story is narrated by Anton Walbrook who introduces a series of affairs in which a new character is involved with a character from the last scene. Beginning with young soldier Franz (Serge Reggiani) falling into the arms of prostitute Leocadie (Simone Signoret) who then has a short liaison with Alfred (Daniel Gelin), but he leaves her when he seduces housewife Emma Breitkopf (Danielle Darrieux). And on it goes until the seductions go full circle, and Franz is back with Leocadie.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 PG, 120 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Daniel Gelin, Alan Mowbray, Hillary Brooke, Carolyn Jones, Richard Wattis, Christopher Olsen
A doctor (James Stewart) and his wife (Doris Day) are visiting Morocco with their young son (Christopher Olsen) when the doctor witnesses a murder and overhears an assassination plot. In order to keep the doctor quiet, the perpetrators kidnap his son. The suspense is vintage Hitchcock as the frightened parents go to any extreme to find their son. Doris Day sings "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)," which won an Oscar. Previously made in 1934 by Hitchcock 1934.
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Murmur of the Heart 1971 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Lea Massari, Benoit Ferreux, Daniel Gelin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen, Fabien Ferreux, Marc Winocourt, Micheline Bona, Henri Poirier
The incestuous affair involving a precocious 15 year old (Benoit Ferreux) and his mother (Lea Massari) is treated sensibly and with humor in this good coming-of-age film.
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 Napoleon 1955  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sacha Guitry
Cast: Orson Welles, Maria Schell, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gelin, Danielle Darrieux, Sacha Guitry, Dany Robin, Jean Gabin, Cosetta Greco, Yves Montand, Roger Pigaut, Micheline Presle
Writer/director Sacha Guitry costars as Tallyrand who tells his friends about Napoleon Bonaparte's life. The story covers Napoleon's (Raymond Pellegrin) life from his campaigns in Italy to the Battle of Waterloo and, finally, his imprisonment and death on St. Helena.
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Plucking the Daisy 1956 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Please Mr. Balzac
Mam'selle Striptease
Director: Marc Allegret
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Daniel Gelin, Robert Hirsch, Jacques Dumesnil, Darry Cowl, Nadine Tallier, Luciana Paluzzi, Jacques Bouillaud, Georges Chamarat, Jacques Fervil
Young Agnes (Brigitte Bardot) writes a scandalous book, and daddy finds out–so she is shipped to a convent school. She "escapes" from the train and heads to Paris where she stays with her brother and, when in need of money, she decides to make the men go crazy by winning a striptease contest. Mainly a vehicle for showing off Bardot, but it is still a fun-filled Paris romp.
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 The Testament of Orpheus 1960  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Le Testament d'Orphee
Director: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean Marais, Francoise Christophe, Maria Casares, Francois Perier, Yul Brynner, Daniel Gelin, Brigitte Bardot
This is filmmaker, poet, painter, and sculptor Jean Cocteau's farewell, as he brings back memories of his films, stars, and friends. Cocteau plays a dying poet (Cocteau was actually dying) who is after immortality. Beautifully photographed and full of Cocteau's inventive scenes.
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| 1. Killing Cars (1986)
aka: Blitz
2. La Ronde (1950)
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
4. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
5. Napoleon (1955)
6. Plucking the Daisy (1956)
aka: Please Mr. Balzac
aka: Mam'selle Striptease
7. The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
aka: Le Testament d'Orphee
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