with Michèle MORGAN, Viviane ROMANCE, Isa MIRANDA, Françoise ROSAY, NOËL-NOËL, Gérard PHILIPE, Henri VIDAL, Frank VILLARD, Andrée DEBAR, Jean DEBUCOURT, Jacqueline PLESSIS, Paolo STOPPA, Orfeo TAMBURI

Synopsis : A fairgrounds where a game-master illustrates the seven deadly sins for the onlookers. Several of the greatest filmmakers of the time, including Yves Allegret, Claude Autant Lara and Roberto Rossellini, directed the seven short stories in this film.

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the seventh heaven (Le septième ciel)

A movie by Raymond BERNARD

Comedy

1957

with Danielle DARRIEUX, NOËL-NOËL, Paul MEURISSE, Alberto SORDI, Gérard OURY

Synopsis : Brigitte de Lédouville is the widow and heiress of a brewer. She seduces, swindles and does away with close to a dozen gangsters to finance her many charities. However, when Mr. Villa slated to become the twelfth 'benefactor' shows up, he turns the tables on her and Brigitte finds herself paying for having meted out Divine Justice, in very strange coin.

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the seventh target (La 7ème cible)

A movie by Claude PINOTEAU

Crime

1984

With Lino VENTURA, Léa MASSARI, Jean POIRET, Elisabeth BOURGINE, Béatrice AGENIN, Jean-Pierre BACRI, Robert HOFFMANN, Eric DESMARETZ, Roger PLANCHON, Karol ZUBER, Lina VOLONGHI, Annick ALANE, Sylvie ORCIER, Jean-Jacques MOREAU, Francis LEMAIRE

Synopsis : One stormy night, Bastien Grimaldy is assaulted by three young hood, who beat him up but do not steal anything. Then he starts getting threatening anonymous phone calls; is victim of a car accident and blackmail; and is asked for a million dollar ransom. Bastien files charges in the hopes of putting an end to the nightmare, but the police are wary of him. So he decides to investigate on his own and trace the blackmailer.

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the silence of the sea (Le silence de la mer)

A movie by Jean-Pierre MELVILLE

Drama

1948

with Howard VERNON, Nicole STEPHANE, Jean-Marie ROBAIN, Ami AARÔE, Georges PATRIX, Denis SADIER

Synopsis : In a French village during the Occupation, an old man and his niece are forced to take in a German officer. The man is thoughtful, well-read and in favor of a rapprochement between the two countries. But his every attempt at conversation is thwarted by his hosts' stubborn silence. During a leave in Paris, the officer realizes what Nazi Germany is really planning. Sick at heart, he volunteers for the Russian front. As he leaves the village, the young woman breaks her silence for a word of farewell.

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the silent one (Le silencieux)

A movie by Claude PINOTEAU

Crime

1973

with Lino VENTURA, Léa MASSARI, Suzanne FLON, Léo GENN, Robert HARDY, Pierre-Michel LE CONTE, Bernard DHÉRAN, Lucienne LEGRAND

Synopsis : For the whole world, Clément Tibère, the physicist died in 1954. His wife remarried as she didn't know that he had been captured by Russian spies and forced to work for them. Twenty years later, the English counter-espionage kidnaps him and he is, once again, manipulated and asked to reveal the true identity of two Russian agents. When he is freed, he is forced to flee the vengeance of the Soviets, who painstakingly track him all the way to the French mountains.

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the sisters bronte (Les soeurs Brontë)

A movie by André TÉCHINÉ

Drama

1979

With Isabelle ADJANI, Marie-France PISIER, Isabelle HUPPERT, Pascal GREGGORY, Patrick MAGEE, Hélène SURGERE, Roland BERTIN, Alice SAPRITCH, Xavier DEPRAZ, Adrian BRINE, Julian CURRY, Renée GODDARD, Jean SOREL, Roland BARTHES

Synopsis : In the nineteenth century, Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brönte live in a dreary presbytery in Yorkshire, under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor. They write their first works that quickly become successful books. Their brother, Branwell, a gifted painter, has a complicated relationship with his sisters ; he ends his days an addict and alcoholic.

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the slap (La gifle)

A movie by Claude PINOTEAU

Comedy

1974

with Lino VENTURA, Annie GIRARDOT, Isabelle ADJANI, Francis PERRIN, Jacques SPIESSER, Michel AUMONT, Xavier GÉLIN, Robert HARDY, Nathalie BAYE, Nicole COURCEL, Georges WILSON

Synopsis : Since his separation with his wife, Jean, a professor in his forties, lives alone with Isabelle, his eighteen year old. The intense passionate young woman is at odds with everything: work, boys, relatives and money. She even gets the better of her father in their shouting bouts. Then one day, he slaps her; and that unforgettable slap triggers off a family comedy brimming with unexpected developments. Louis Delluc Award, 1974.