Nightcap 2000  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Robin, Mathieu Simonet, Lydia Andrei, Veronique Alain, Isolde Barth
Mika (Isabelle Huppert) has inherited her family's chocolate company at the same time she and her concert-pianist husband, Andre (Jacques Dutronc), are making a new try at marriage. Then, 18-year-old Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), an aspiring concert artist herself, stirs up the scene with questions of whether or not she is Andre's daughter.
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Place Vendome 1998 R, 117 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Nicole Garcia
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson, Francois Berleand, Dragan Nikolic, Otto Tausig, Laszlo Szabo, Philippe Clevenot
Catherine Deneuve won the award for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Marianne, an alcoholic at a crossroads in her life. She has become widowed and, now, attempts to pull her financial life together with seven magnificent diamonds her husband had hidden in a secret compartment.
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Tricheurs 1984  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Tricksters
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Jacques Dutronc, Bulle Ogier, Leandro Vale, Kurt Raab, Steve Baes, Virgilio Teixeira, Roger Serbib, Ladislaus Perreira, To-Ze Martinho, Claus-Dieter Reents, Karl Wallenstein
Elric (Jacques Dutronc) spends his time losing money at the roulette table. He is totally addicted. When he meets Suzie (Bulle Ogier), who is wearing a shirt with his lucky number 7 on it, he talks her into being his good-luck charm at the tables. Before long, she also becomes addicted. Enter Jorg (Kurt Raab) who has a scheme to cheat at the casinos and who talks Elric into working with him in his scam. The money starts to roll in, and, after Jorg is caught, Elric continues the scheme with Suzie. He hopes to build a chateau and quit gambling. But can he do it?
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| 1. Nightcap (2000)
2. Place Vendome (1998)
3. Tricheurs (1984)
aka: Tricksters
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