Forbidden Games 1952  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rene Clement
Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Lucien Hubert, Suzanne Courtal, Amedee, Laurence Badie, Jacques Marin, Pierre Merovee, Madeleine Barbulee, Denise Peronne, Louis Sainteve, Andre Wasley, Violette Monier, Fernande Roy
This psychological study of the effects of war on children revolves around a five-year-old French girl, Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), who witnesses the killing of her parents and pet dog by German soldiers during World War II. Eleven-year-old Michel Dolle (Georges Poujouly) brings Paulette to his family home, and the two children create a pet cemetery for animals killed in the war. They steal crosses from a nearby human cemetery to mark the animals' graves. Michel's parents are too busy with their own lives to notice what the children are doing in this story of how war causes children to find unique ways to deal with it. The film won an Honorary Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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Someone Behind the Door 1971  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicolas Gessner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Henri Garcin, Adriano Magestretti, Agathe Natanson, Viviane Everly, Andre Penvern, Denise Peronne, Isabelle Del Rio, Silvana Blasi, Yves Elliot, Carl Studer, Colin Mann
"The Stranger" (Charles Bronson) is an amnesiac who was found disoriented on a beach with the body of a dead woman. Laurence Jeffries (Anthony Perkins) is the doctor on duty when the Stranger is brought to the hospital, and he has a "different" method of treatment. Jeffries takes the Stranger home, hypnotizes him, and gives him instructions to kill Jeffries' wife Frances (Jill Ireland) and her lover Paul (Henri Garcin). The Stranger, in his hypnotized state, sets off to do the killings, but will Jeffries change the plans before both are killed?
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| 1. Forbidden Games (1952)
2. Someone Behind the Door (1971)
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