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- The Class [Entre Les Murs] **** (2008, Stars François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio) – Classic Movie Review 12,860
- George Washington Slept Here *** (1942, Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Percy Kilbride, Charles Coburn, Hattie McDaniel, William Tracy, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 12,859
- The Great Victor Herbert *** (1939, Walter Connolly, Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Susanna Foster, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 12,858
- Undertow [Contracorriente] **** (2009, Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo) – Classic Movie Review 12,857
- Problemista *** (2024, Tilda Swinton, Julio Torres, Ronald Peet, Kelly McCormack, Paul Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 12,856
- Alex Strangelove *** (2018, Daniel Doheny, Antonio Marziale, Madeline Weinstein) – Classic Movie Review 12,855
- Viharsarok [Land of Storms] *** (2014, András Sütö, Ádám Varga, Sebastian Urzendowsky) – Classic Movie Review 12,854
- The Normal Heart **** (2014, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 12,853
- Concrete Night [Betoniyö] *** (2013, Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen, Juhan Ulfsak) – Classic Movie Review 12,852
- The Snorkel *** (1958, Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John, Mandy Miller, William Franklyn, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 12,851
Evergreen **** (1934, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour) – Classic Movie Review 7056
Director Victor Saville’s delightul evergreen 1934 British musical – and there are so few to speak well of – is perhaps the vivacious and spirited Jessie Matthews’s finest hour in the movies, playing Harriet Green, […]
Coup de Torchon [Clean Slate] **** (1981, Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 7055
Co-writer/ director Bertrand Tavernier’s 1981 French crime drama stars Philippe Noiret, who gives an excellent in-depth performance as Lucien Cordier, a mild cop who commits revenge murders in 1930s French West Africa. Tavernier’s taut black-comedy […]
L’étoile du Nord **** (1982, Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon) – Classic Movie Review 7054
Director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1982 French crime drama film adaptation of Georges Simenon’s thriller novel The Tenant (Le Locataire) is highly agreeable. Simone Signoret stars in L’étoile du Nord as Madame Louise Baron, a Thirties Belgian landlady looking […]
Adieu Poulet [The French Detective] *** (1975, Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux) – Classic Movie Review 7053
Lino Ventura stars as the crafty French detective, Chief Inspector Verjeat, who clashes with pushy politician Pierre Lardatte (Victor Lanoux), in this impressive 1975 dubbed French murder thriller The French Detective, based on the novel […]
La Cage [The Trap] *** (1975, Lino Ventura, Ingrid Thulin, William Sabatier) – Classic Movie Review 7052
Lino Ventura and Ingrid Thulin star in the 1975 French psychological crime drama La Cage [The Trap]. Lino Ventura stars as Julien and Ingrid Thulin as Hélène in the entertaining, amusing and touching 1975 French […]
Le Train [The Last Train] **** (1973, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Anne Wiazemsky, Serge Marquand, Maurice Biraud) – Classic Movie Review 7051
With its sour undertow of wartime and doomed love, director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1973 French-Italian World War Two drama film Le Train [The Last Train] is a moving, credible evocation of romance in a time of […]
The Train **** (1964, Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, Albert Rémy, Charles Millot) – Classic Movie Review 7,050
The smart and exciting 1964 wartime action thriller The Train stars Burt Lancaster as a French Resistance leader trying to hijack the train-load of French art treasures a fanatical German Colonel (Paul Scofield) is sending […]
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- The Class [Entre Les Murs] **** (2008, Stars François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio) – Classic Movie Review 12,860
- George Washington Slept Here *** (1942, Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Percy Kilbride, Charles Coburn, Hattie McDaniel, William Tracy, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 12,859
- The Great Victor Herbert *** (1939, Walter Connolly, Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Susanna Foster, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 12,858
- Undertow [Contracorriente] **** (2009, Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo) – Classic Movie Review 12,857
- Problemista *** (2024, Tilda Swinton, Julio Torres, Ronald Peet, Kelly McCormack, Paul Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 12,856
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