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The Butcher

  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.

Bad Girls

  On the Pont des Arts in Paris, a rich and beautiful woman, Frédérique, picks up a penniless female street artist called Why. Frédérique seduces Why and takes her to Read More

Beauty and the Beast

  The plot of the film revolves around Belle’s father who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from the Beast’s garden. Belle offers to go back to the Read More

The Blood of a Poet

  A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking. The artist tries to wipe Read More

Bed and Board

  Antoine and Christine have gotten married and are living in a pleasant apartment that her parents have found for them. In it she gives violin lessons, while he works Read More

Black Hanky-Panky

  Michel le Gorgues is a by-the-book government employee in charge of Building Safety & Sanitation at the Paris “Prefecture”. Because he has deemed as unsanitary and dangerous a tenement Read More

The Barbarian Invasions

  In this belated sequel to ‘The Decline of the American Empire’, 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends Read More

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

  Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and Read More

Babette’s Feast

  In a remote 19th-century Danish village, two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: Read More

Le chemin de l’honneur

  Georges Imbert is a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion who has served with distinction for five years. Now, to his surprise, he finds his services are no longer Read More