Christian Matras

Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a full orchestra. The star of the show is Carmen Soler (Trini Alonso) a celebrated singer, now way past her prime, who refuses to retire gracefully and defends her stardom ruthlessly. On her shadow lives and works Ana Marques (Sara Montiel) a younger singer who dreams of the big time and patiently waits for her break.

Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.

영화 는 전적으로 종교의 문제에 매달린 예외적이고도 전형적인 브뉘엘의 작품이다. 스페인의 성지 산티아고 데 콤포스텔라로 순례를 떠난 두 주인공의 여행기를 실험적인 피카레스크 구성으로 묘사하는 작품이다. 은하수란 별들의 길을 일컫기도 하지만, 파리에서 산티아고까지의 지난한 순례행로를 의미하는 말이기도 하다. 두 순례자는 6세기의 프리실리안을 비롯해, 17세기의 예수회, 18세기의 사드 후작에 이르기까지 서구 기독교의 온갖 교파와 윤리를 길 위에서 목도한다. 68년을 목도하며 이천년간 서구를 지배해 온 기독교를 헤집는 브뉘엘의 시선은 사드와 니체를 닮아 있다. 역시 장 끌로드 까리에르와 협력한 시나리오를 바탕으로 한 영화이다.

A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet denies the charges. Two other students come forward to reveal more of Doucet's misconduct – one confessing to be his mistress. Doucet faces trial and hard labor if convicted.

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.

In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.

Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. She leaves her small village but she goes to Madrid to work as a flamenco singer in a club

In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.

Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison she is released under parole and lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona where she meets Sandro "The Greek" and his partner lover Gloria. The couple is posing as entertainment promoters but they are really running a prostitution ring based in Beirut. They offer Isabel a two-year contract to perform in "night clubs" in the Near and Mideast even after they learn that she cannot travel abroad due to her legal status. Upon arrival in Beirut, Isabel and the other girls are sped away to a luxurious villa where they discover the real intentions of the pseudo-promoters. They are expected to sing and dance but also to engage in sexual activities with the rich clients that patronize the place. Isabel pretends to go along with the situation but she has a plan to get away

Los Pistoleros de Arizona known in the United States as Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace is a 1965 Spanish, Italian and West German Spaghetti Western film directed by Alfonso Balcázar.

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.

Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her only comforts are her fondness for Bernard's pine-tree forest, which was her primary reason for marrying him, and her love for her sister-in-law and Bernard's half-sister, Anne. The movie recounts in flashback the circumstances that led to her being charged with poisoning her husband.

Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.

18세기 프랑스 파리에서 소매치기로 활동하는 청년 도미니크는 훔친 재물을 일당의 두목인 말리쇼에게 대부분 상납해야 하는 현실에 회의를 느끼던 중, 군대에서는 의식주가 보장된다는 말에 솔깃해져 ‘카르투슈’라는 이름으로 자원입대한다. 그는 그곳에서 친구가 된 라토프, 라두쇠르와 의기투합하여 부대의 금화를 훔쳐 달아나지만 붙잡히고 만다. 그러나 재기를 발휘해 탈출에 성공하고 이때 알게 된 소매치기 아가씨 베뉘스와 연인이 된다. 소매치기 조직에 복귀한 카르투슈는 말리쇼와의 한판 대결을 통해 두목으로 추대되고 의적으로 활약하면서 주민들 사이에서 인기가 치솟는 한편, 치안당국으로부터 수배를 받는다. 그러던 중 파리 치안감독관 페뤼삭의 아내인 이자벨에게 반하게 된 그는 그녀의 마음을 사로잡고자 투르크 사절단을 습격해 빼앗은 다이아몬드를 그녀에게 선물하기도 한다. 그는 밀회를 갖기 위해 그녀에게 장소와 시간을 일러주나 약속 장소에 들이닥친 페뤼삭의 부하들에게 체포되고 만다. 잡혀가는 카르투슈를 그의 친구들과 베뉘스가 구출하는 데에 성공하지만 그 과정에서 베뉘스가 목숨을 잃는다. 그제야 자신이 진정으로 사랑했고 자신을 사랑해준 여인이 베뉘스였음을 깨달은 카르투슈는 이자벨을 찾아가 모욕을 주고는 베뉘스를 장신구로 치장한 뒤 화려한 마차에 태워 강물 속에 안장한다. 그리고 모험을 계속하기 위해 친구들과 다시 거리로 나선다. (EBS)

A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.

Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.

In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet.

Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?

1919년의 파리, 천재적 재능을 가졌으나 그림이 팔리지 않아 가난에 시달리는 젊은 화가 모딜리아니. 어느 날, 지인의 초청으로 학교에 간 모디는 그곳에서 아름다운 미술학도 잔느를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 잔느의 부모의 반대에 부딪힌 모디와 잔느는 동거를 시작하고, 두 사람의 사랑은 깊어간다. 하지만 여전히 그림은 팔리지 않고, 모디는 쇠약해지는데, 악덕 미술상 모렐은 모디가 죽기만을 기다린다.

In Nice, the wealthy widow Betty Farnwell falls for the charms of a handsome young man, Philippe Delaroche. Mrs Farnwell is so taken with Philippe that she persuades her bank to allow him to manage her financial affairs. Philippe, an unscrupulous opportunist, is not slow to turn the situation to his advantage and within no time he is married to his wealthy benefactor. Philippe has barely grown accustomed to wearing a wedding ring when he begins a romantic liaison with his wife’s attractive secretary, Eva. It soon transpires that Eva is even more ruthless than Philippe...

체코 작가 에곤 호스트후스키 원작 「심야의 환자」에서 소재를 얻은 국제 스파이전을 둘러싼 현대의 일면을 그린 작품.

In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.

Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.

프랑수아 트뤼포가 ‘진정한 작가’로 평가했던 거장 막스 오퓔스의 마지막 영화. 시네마 스코프와 풍부한 색감의 테크니컬러 등 당시로서는 매우 혁신적인 스타일을 선보인, 영화사적으로 상당히 주요한 작품이다. 19세기 사교계를 풍미했던 롤라가 서커스단의 주인공으로 등장해 플래시 백을 통해 자신의 과거를 들려주는 형식의 이 영화는 당시 제작사의 횡포로 다양한 버전의 판본이 존재하면서 정당한 평가를 받지 못했다.

Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.

20세기 초의 파리. 부유한 장군의 부인인 루이즈는 사치스런 생활을 누리다가 생긴 빚을 갚기 위해 남편이 결혼식 날 선물한 귀걸이를 보석상에 판다. 그리고 남편에게는 오페라를 보는 동안 잊어버렸다고 둘러대는데... 사랑의 휘발성 혹은 유동성이란 문제에 관한 한 막스 오퓔스가 영화사상 최고의 영화적 사색가들 가운데 하나임을 입증하는 영화. 구조와 시공간에 대한 오퓔스의 완벽한 통제력이 보는 이로 하여금 놀라울 정도의 지적, 정서적 정점에 오르게 만든다.

프랑스 루이 15세 시대, 7년 전쟁 당시. 못 말리는 바람둥이 팡팡(제라르 필립 분)은 자신이 유혹한 한 여자와 어쩔 수 없이 결혼할 수밖에 없는 처지에 놓이게 된다. 결혼식장에 끌려가던 팡팡은 아들린(지나 롤로브리지다 분)을 만나게 되는데, 이 보헤미안 여인(사실은 지원군 징집 하사관의 딸)은 팡팡에게 점을 봐주면서, 앞으로 군에서 명예를 얻을 것이고 왕의 딸과 결혼할 것이라고 예언한다. 이러한 말에 매료된 팡팡은 억지로 결혼하는 것을 피하기 위해 당장 군에 자원한다. 그리고 병사에 도착하기 전, 루이 15세의 딸 앙리에트와 왕의 애첩 퐁파두르 후작부인을 강도들의 손에서 구해준다. 퐁파두르 부인은 감사의 뜻으로 다이아몬드로 된 튤립을 선사하고, 그 이후 팡팡은 "팡팡 라 튤립"이라고 불리게 된다. 운명적으로 자신이 왕의 딸과 결혼할 것이라고 믿는 팡팡은 앙리에트에게 접근하기 위해 왕궁으로 몰래 들어갔다가 체포되어 사형선고를 받는다. 팡팡을 사랑하고 있던 아들린이 왕을 찾아가 사면을 받아낸다. 그러나 그녀가 왕의 너그러운 행동에 대해 "감사하기"를 거부했기 때문에, 왕은 부하들에게 그녀를 납치해오라고 명령한다. 이러한 사실을 알게 된 팡팡은 아들린을 구하기 위해 달려간다. 왕의 부하들과 팡팡 사이에 쫓고 쫓기는 추격이 계속된다. 이 와중에 팡팡은 한창 벌어지고 있던 전투 현장에 휩쓸려 들어가고, 혈기와 대담성 덕택에 적군을 패배시킨다. 왕은 이러한 공훈을 세운 팡팡을 대위로 임명하고, 아들린을 양녀로 삼는다. 이렇게 해서 팡팡은 왕의 딸이 된 아들린과 결혼을 하게 된다.

모파상의 원작을 가지고 쾌락에 관한 3가지 이야기를 옴니버스 영화로 만들어냈다. 제 1화 "가면"은 '쾌락과 젊음'에 대한 이야기로, 나이를 속이기 위해 가면을 쓴 채 무도회장에 들러 여성들에게 구애하는 한 남자의 이야기를 다룬다. 제 2화 "텔리에 부인의 집"은 '쾌락과 순수'에 대한 이야기로, 조카의 성찬식에 참여하기 위해 창녀들과 함께 시골로 가는 텔리에 부인에 관한 것이다. 제 3화인 "모델"은 '쾌락과 죽음'에 대한 이야기로, 자신의 모델과 사랑에 빠졌다가 그녀를 버리려 하는 화가의 이야기를 들려준다. 쾌락과 행복의 관계를 탐구하는 3개의 흥미로운 에피소드들로 이뤄진 "쾌락"은 시각적 테크닉을 구사하는 데 있어서 막스 오퓔스가 얼마나 사치스러워질 수 있는가를 보여주는 영화로 꼽힌다.

Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on a romance of his own and they have a meeting.

영국의 10대 소녀 올리비아는 부유층 자녀들을 가르치는 파 리 외곽의 작은 사립학교에 다니게 된다. 재학생들은 교장인 줄리와 교사 카라가 각각 맡고 있는 두 개의 기숙사에 나눠 생활하고 있다. 병약해 보이지만 수완이 보통이 아닌 카라는 줄리에게 병적일 정도로 집착을 보인다. 올리비아는 줄리와 사랑에 빠지고 만다. 이 둘의 관계를 알게 된 카라는 질투심 에 불타오른다.

1900년의 빈. 이야기꾼의 해설에 의해 윤무처럼 돌아가는 가지각색 사랑의 모습이 묘사된다. 매춘부 리오카디는 젊은 군인 프란츠를 사랑하고 있다. 그녀는 그를 억지로 유혹하려고 하지만, 프란츠는 가련한 하녀 마리를 속여 순결을 빼앗는다. 하녀의 젊은 주인 알프레드는 바람둥이 소설가로 먼저 그녀를 상대로 연애방법을 시험해 본 후 상류층 유부녀 엠마를 유혹하는데 성공한다. 아르투르 슈니츨러의 희곡을 영화화.

Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.

Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of his life. The trouble is that the lady bestows her favors to two different lovers : wealthy married man Chardeuil and good-looking but listless young Antonio. He now considers his duty to make Lili recover her dignity.

"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.

She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso. These two solitary beings, totally different, meet by chance on a liner and gradually realize that they complement each other harmoniously.

1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man, Edmond Gonin, recognizes him. It was Jean-Jacques Sauvage, whom he had ousted in a "radical" way with a young heiress. Only Savage is not dead, and here he is on the scene of his first love.

Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.

A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite song. Suspicions lead to a chase through a nocturnal Paris, ending in a disused theater where the assassin has lured his final victim.

During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pension fund, several families claim him as their missing son. Gaston is introduced to the Renaud family by the Duchess Dupont-Dufort and her lawyer. The Renaud family attempt to revive Gaston's memory with stories of his past, but he is apalled by some of the things he hears and dislikes the man he is supposed to be.

Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce decides to heal him of his madness and with this in mind she invites him for a working holiday on her farm. Instead, she falls in love with the cherub. At a time, her young lover grows so jealous of her that he attempts suicide. The mature actress then understands that their love story is going nowhere. She will remain alone while François will forget her.

Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and Thérèse Cadifon each carry out their own investigation.

A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas.

Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...

As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.

정비공 출신이지만 장교로 진급한 마레샬 중위와 직업 장교인 볼디외 대위가 탄 비행기가 독일군 라펜슈타인 사령관에 의해 격추당한다. 볼디외와 같은 귀족계급인 라펜슈타인은 마레샬과 볼디외를 수용소에 보내기 전, 정중하게 식사에 초대한다. 수용소에 입소한 두 프랑스 군인들은 배우, 교수, 토지 측량기사 등 다양한 출신의 수감자들과 곧 친해진다. 특히 부유한 은행가의 아들인 로젠탈 덕분에 이들은 그에게 배달되어온 물품과 음식들로 초라하지 않은 수용소 생활을 영위한다.

Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.

A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?

The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.