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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Frantic 1958 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
aka: Elevator to the Gallows
Elevator to the Scaffold
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Ivan Petrovich, Lino Ventura, Elga Andersen, Felix Marten, Charles Denner, Gerard Darrieu, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona
Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau) plots with her lover Julien (Maurice Ronet) to kill Florence's husband, Simon (Jean Wall), and make it look like a suicide. They proceed with their plan, but their "perfect crime" leads, instead, to their own doom.
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| 1. And God Created Woman (1956)
2. Forbidden Games (1952)
3. Frantic (1958)
aka: Elevator to the Gallows
aka: Elevator to the Scaffold
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