Maurice Le Roux

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.

The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.

Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying good-bye to Clara, Walter accompanies Charlotte into her house, although she doesn't want him to. Charlotte is hungry and cooks a steak. She asks Walter if he wants a piece of it. He says no, but she gives him a small piece anyway. He wants a kiss, and she says no. She starts to compare herself with Clara, who Walter agrees is more beautiful. In spite of this, Walter says he likes Charlotte much more, but she thinks he is lying. She notices that he is cold and shivering. She hugs him, he kisses her, and she starts kissing him. After leaving the house he accompanies her to the train.

Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.

Rahim's older brother Mokhi refuses to take him to Kabul's big bouzkachi game. Rahim decides to go there on his own. Guided by the angel of death, Azrael, Rahim follows a difficult path to Kabul.

In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.

William Klein’s first film is an impressionistic study of late-fifties Broadway, an ominous city-symphony lit by bright flickering light. Orson Welles would delcare it "the first film I've seen in which colour was absolutely necessary".

南仏の片田舎、腕白盛りの５人の少年たちが揃って憧れるのは、美しい年上の娘ベルナデッド。木漏れ日の中を自転車で颯爽と往く彼女を、彼らは無心に追うが、ある日、恋人ジェラールと抱擁する彼女を見て嫉妬心を疼かせた。ジェラールは登山に行き、彼らはいたずらに絵葉書を彼女に送りつける...

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

ある朝、赤い風船が街灯に引っ掛かっているのを見つけた少年パスカル。街灯によじ登って風船を手に取った彼は、しっかり握ったまま風船と一緒に過ごすように。だが、しばらくすると、風船は手を離してもパスカルの行く先々についてくるようになる。そんなパスカルと風船を町のいたずらっ子たちが追うが……。＜1956年に発表され、その年のカンヌ国際映画祭でパルムドールを受賞したものの、日本では観る機会が限られていた伝説の名作。赤い風船と1人の少年が織り成す、ハートウォーミングでファンタスティックなドラマが展開する。監督は“シネ・ポエム”と呼ぶべき作品を生み出した、アルベール・ラモリス。シンプルなストーリーとわずかなセリフで構成されている、詩情豊かな作品世界が堪能できる。＞

On a farm ,a handsome man woos three attractive women and sows discord among them.

Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.

南仏カマルグの荒地に、野生馬の一群が生息していた。地元の牧童たちは群れのリーダー、“白いたてがみ”を何とかして捕らえようとするが、逃げられるばかり。そんなある日、漁師の少年フォルコが、ついに牧童たちに捕らわれた“白いたてがみ”の姿を目撃。フォルコは彼を牧童から守りたいと願うが……。＜1953年のカンヌ国際映画祭でグランプリに輝いたアルベール・ラモリス監督の名作。南フランスの荒地を舞台に、“白いたてがみ”と呼ばれる美しい荒馬と、彼と心を通わせ、次第に強いきずなで結ばれる少年の物語が展開する。歳月を経ても決して色あせることのない、アルベール監督の作品世界が感動的。シンプルなストーリーとナレーション、さらにはモノクロームの映像で構成された、まさに伝説の一作。＞