Movies Seen

Bar maid Belle (Violet Loraine) is in love with the owner of the inn where she works, a young and handsome member of the gentry, Archie (Edwin Styles). He's lost a lot of money on a race, and two acquaintances, Dick (Hartley Power) and Chester (Emlyn Williams), are about to get him to sign the inn over to them when Belle convinces co-worker Sam (Gordon Harker), who's in love with her, to buy it instead. When Archie won't marry her, she leaves the inn and becomes famous with her beautiful voice, singing, among other songs, "There's No Green Grass Round the Old North Pole" and "Let the Great, Big World Keep Turning." She marries Archie, they have a child, Archie dies during WWI, Belle loses her voice and for many years winters in warm climates whilst her daughter, Kitty (Aileen Marson), grows up in the care of Archie's aunt (Marie Lohr). Sam goes out to Nice and convinces Belle to return to sing at the inn, which has become a fancy road house. Sam has partnered with Dick and Chester, who Belle always suspected of being crooks. Dick and Chester and Lady Chettwinde (Anne Grey) bring trouble to the road house. Inspector Donovan (Stanley Holloway) and his partner Hugh (Romilly Lunge) help solve the problem and all ends happily.

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Having recently escaped the clutches of her ex-husband's sex cult, a beautiful model is stalked by a masked killer whose previous victims include the former occupants of her new apartment.

Nine Hollywood legendary actresses stuck in a retirement home take revenge on a sadistic studio head who once tortured them and made a fortune off them.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.

The vision of the seven deadly sins by seven French directors as follows: (1) Anger: In a gentle French town, several men find flies in their Sunday soups. They have arguments with their wives, that grows successively to the streets, country and world. (2) Gluttony: A family arrives late for the buffet of the funeral of the father of the patriarch. (3) Envy: The maid Rosette is envious of a movie star that is lodged in the hotel she works. Rosette seduces her lover and later she returns to the hotel as a client. 4) Lust: Two friends discuss the meaning of lust. One of them recalls that when he was a child, he misunderstood the meaning of lust with luxury. (5) Sloth: An aspirant actress asks for a ride to the actor Eddie Constantine with the clear intention to seduce him. They go to his apartment, but Eddie is so lazy that does not have sex with her to avoid having to dress again. (6) Pride: One unfaithful couple cheats each other. The businesswoman has a love affair with a man that asks her to travel to Paris with him and get married when she gets the divorce. Her husband is a salesman that cheats her with her friend Heloise. (7) Greed: Seven university students want to have sex with an expensive prostitute that charges 50,000 francs to spend a night with the client. They decide to make a lottery with 25 students giving 2,000 francs each. On the next morning, the prostitute asks the winner how he got money to be with her, and he tells about the lottery. She says that she will return his money but greed wins.

Follows a family man who meets women through lonely-hearts ads.

A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.

Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the Gatsby-like provincial manor presided over by his powerful tycoon father (Orson Welles). Welcomed by Welles' young wife (Marlene Jobert), Piccoli soon finds a nest of rats beneath the bourgeoisie voluptuousness -- a clan bound in a circle of illicit romance, blackmail, faked burglaries and, of course, murder.

Doctor Popaul doesn't trust beautiful women: he says he prefers "moral beauty". Among colleagues he makes a bet who manages to sleep with the most ugly woman during the next year - and wins. Shortly after he meets the plain Christine on vacation in Tunesia. She leaves him after their first night, but by chance they meet again in Bordeaux. He learns that her father is a wealthy doctor who's very pleased to meet him and encourages him to become his son in law. Just on the wedding Popaul meets Christine's beautiful sister, who has the bad fortune to always marry the dumbest guy around. But Popaul knows how to help her out...

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and takes him to a farm in the countryside. The French Minister gives a blank cheque to violent Chief of Police Goemond, who is assigned to destroy the kidnappers. Then the Minister makes him the scapegoat of the messy situation to protect the State.

A philandering husband convinces his wife to have affairs, believing she can't find a lover as interesting as he.

WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.

In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.

Inspector Lavardin investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved. She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was trying to abuse her.