Top Results for “Frances Flaherty”
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Attack of the Robots

Sci-Fi · Cult · Comedy

Attack of the Robots (Cartes sur table) stars Eddie Constantine as a wise-cracking superspy investigating a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess (Fra…

La Chinoise

Drama · World Cinema

Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form …

Fantomas (Hunebelle)

Cult · Action & Adventure · World Cinema

Pierre Souvestre’s Fantômas was originally adapted for the screen by legendary filmmaker Louis Feuillade (Les vampires) in 1913. André Hunebelle (OSS 117: Mission for a Killer) introduced a revamped and modernized version of Fantômas to the 1960s OSS 117 and 007 audience.

Fantomas Unleashed

Cult · Action & Adventure · World Cinema

In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre. Journalist Fandor develops an inge…

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Cult · Action & Adventure · World Cinema

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply. Journalist Fandor and commissaire Juve are invited to Scotland by Lord McRashley (played by Jean-Roger Caussimon). Lord McRashley, one of Fantômas' potenti…

L'Immortelle

Cult · Erotic · Drama

L'MMORTELLE is a cinematic arabesque that teases the eye with visual delights yet sadistically confounds expectations. A Frenchman (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) traveling in Istanbul becomes entranced by a mysterious woman who seems to encourage his attentions but remains just beyond his reach. His erot…

Le Gai Savoir

Experimental · World Cinema

While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the m…

OSS 117 Is Unleashed

Thriller · Action & Adventure

An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.

OSS 117: Mission to Tokyo

Action & Adventure

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.

OSS 117: Double Agent

Action & Adventure

Agent OSS 117 infiltrates an organization that specializes in political assassinations, by assuming the identity of one of its top assassins.

OSS 117: Mission For a Killer

Action & Adventure

A wave of political crimes is washing over South America. Secret agent OSS 117 in charge of cleaning up the affair, is ambushed several times but manages to get rid of the killers on his trail. With a Brazilian woman, Anna Maria, he reaches the Amazon forest where he finds Natives growing a mysterio…

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok

Thriller · Action & Adventure

Agent OSS 117 is sent to Thailand to unravel the mysteries behind the man called Dr. Sinn.

The Rape of the Vampire

Cult · Avant Garde · Vampires

A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural.

Rocco and His Brothers

Crime · Drama · World Cinema

The tragedy of Luchino Visconti’s searing family drama is set in motion when brothers Rocco and Simone both fall in love with the mercurial Nadia. Presented by Martin Scorsese. 

The Sorrow and the Pity

Documentary · History · War

What did French people of do during WW II? Marcel Ophüls' Oscar-nominated documentary shattered the myth of an undivided and universally resistant France under the Vichy government.

The Specialists aka Gli Specialisti

Cult · Spaghetti Western · Adventure

Notorious gunfighter Hud Dixon arrives in Blackstone, a town where his brother was wrongfully accused of robbing a bank and lynched for it. As Hud seeks revenge, he starts to discover the truth behind the stolen loot.

Vice and Virtue

Cult · Drama · World Cinema

In Nazi occupied France, two sisters navigate very different courses. Juliette (Annie Girardot) is surrounded by the spoils of war, being the mistress of an SS colonel. Justine (Catherine Deneuve), whose husband is seized by fascists on their wedding day, is taken to a chateau in the country, where …

The Whip and The Body

Cult · Romance · Horror

Christopher Lee (Dracula: Prince of Darkness) stars as Kurt Menliff, the sadistic son of a wealthy Count, who returns to the family castle, much to the dismay of his family, their servants, and the beautiful woman with whom he shares a fondness for the lash (Daliah Lavi). When Kurt is found murdered…

Winter Wind

History · Drama · Historic Drama

In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar (played by the film’s French producer Jacques Charrier) escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia crossing the dense forests at that country's Northern border in an effort to seek refuge in Hunga…