 Belle de jour 1967  R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page, Pierre Clementi, Francisco Rabal, Francoise Fabian, Maria Latour, Georges Marchal, Macha Meril, Muni, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Francois Maistre
Young Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a Parisian housewife who is bored with her husband Pierre (Jean Sorel). After a gang rapes her, Severine takes a job as a prostitute in a house of ill repute working only in the afternoons and returning home to the unsuspecting Pierre at night. But, is Severine's double life a reality, or is it only a sexual daydream?
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Casablanca Express 1989  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Sergio Martino
Cast: Jason Connery, Francesco Quinn, Donald Pleasence, Luisa Maneri, Augusto Poderosi, Horst Schon, Jean Sorel, Jinny Steffan, Guilia Urso, Marina Viro, John Evans, Glenn Ford
During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill takes a train to Casablanca for a meeting with U.S. President Roosevelt and Soviet head Stalin. Nazis get wind of the trip and plot to hijack the train and take Churchill prisoner. Not exactly a classic.
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La Ronde 1964  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Circle of Love
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Jane Fonda, Maurice Ronet, Jean Sorel, Catherine Spaak, Francine Berge, Anna Karina, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernard Noel, Marie Dubois, Anne-Marie Coffinet, Dani, Claude Giraud, Alice Cocea, Denise Benoit
This story takes place in Paris just before World War I begins. On the day Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated, a soldier, Georges (Claude Giraud), lusts after and ends up in the bedrooms of a full circle of women–beginning with a prostitute (Marie Dubois), then Rose (Anna Karina), and finally housewife Sophie (Jane Fonda) before ending the circle with the prostitute.
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Malastrana 1971  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Short Night of the Glass Dolls
Director: Aldo Lado
Cast: Jean Sorel, Ingrid Thulin, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach, Fabijan Sovagovic, Jose Quaglio, Piero Vida, Daniele Dublino, Sven Lasta, Luciano Catenacci, Relja Basic, Michaela Martin
This low-budget Italian flick is another in the long line of horror/thrillers popular in the 1970s. Gregory (Jean Sorel) appears to be dead on his arrival at the hospital, even though his body temperature is still normal. He is duly declared dead and sent for an autopsy. But Gregory is indeed alive, though paralyzed, and as he awaits the autopsy he tries to figure out what happened to place him here. Good, creepy film.
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 Millions 1991 R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Carlo Vanzina
Cast: Billy Zane, Carol Alt, Lauren Hutton, Alexandra Paul, Jean Sorel, Donald Pleasence, Catherine Hickland, Roberto Bisacco, John Stockwell, Ben Hammer, Michael Lombard, Florinda Bolkan
Maurizio (Billy Zane), one of the heirs to the family fortune, will stop at nothing to control that fortune. But, he must deal with others who also want control.
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Schizoid 1971 R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Thriller
aka: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti, Alberto de Mendoza, George Rigaud, Penny Brown, Leo Genn, Mike Kennedy, Ely Galleani, Anita Strindberg, Franco Balducci
Carol (Florinda Bolkan), the daughter of an important English politician, has recurring nightmares of killing a neighbor libertine during all-night LSD orgies. When the neighbor is found dead, Carol is the prime suspect. Were those really dreams? This and many other questions are answered in one of Fulci's better films, which has many twists, turns, and red herrings.
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| 1. Belle de jour (1967)
2. Casablanca Express (1989)
3. La Ronde (1964)
aka: Circle of Love
4. Malastrana (1971)
aka: Short Night of the Glass Dolls
5. Millions (1991)
6. Schizoid (1971)
aka: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
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