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Diary of a Chambermaid 1964

7.4 /10

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Mar 04, 1964

Director: Director: Luis Buuel,

Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Gret, Michel Piccoli, Franoise Lugagne, Jean Ozenne,

The Tenant 1976

7.6 /10

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Run Time: 126 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: May 26, 1976

Director: Director: Roman Polanski,

Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters,

Diabolique 1996

5.4 /10

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Mar 22, 1996

Director: Director: Jeremiah S Chechik,

Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray,

The Infernal Trio 1974

6.3 /10

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...

Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: May 22, 1974

Director: Director: Francis Girod,

Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Mascha Gonska, Philippe Brizard, Jean Rigaux,

Beau Pere 1981

7 /10

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

Run Time: 123 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Sep 15, 1981

Director: Director: Bertrand Blier,

Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Genevive Mnich, Maurice Risch,

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 2015

5.5 /10

She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...

Run Time: 93 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Aug 05, 2015

Director: Director: Joann Sfar,

Stars: Freya Mavor, Stacy Martin, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, Thierry Hancisse,

Black Sabbath 1963

7 /10

Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.

Run Time: 92 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Aug 17, 1963

Director: Director: Mario Bava,

Stars: Boris Karloff, Susy Andersen, Mark Damon, Michle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi,

France 2021

5.9 /10

A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.

Run Time: 133 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Aug 25, 2021

Director: Director: Bruno Dumont,

Stars: La Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Emanuele Arioli, Juliane Khler,

Trap for Cinderella 2013

5.6 /10

A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.

Run Time: 100 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Jul 12, 2013

Director: Director: Iain Softley,

Stars: Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra Roach, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour, Aneurin Barnard,

A Very Long Engagement 2004

7.6 /10

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

Run Time: 133 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Oct 26, 2004

Director: Director: JeanPierre Jeunet,

Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, Andr Dussollier,