Screenplay: James Hadley Chase

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Henri Vidal · Mylène Demongeot · Isa Miranda · Jean-Loup Philippe

Plot Betty Farnwell, a rich widow living in Nice, decides to marry Philippe, a good-looking but self-interested man. No sooner has he got married than he meets bewitching young Eve, Betty's...

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Kim Darby · Scott Wilson · Tony Musante · Robert Lansing

Plot Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her.

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Robert Hossein · Jean Sorel · Catherine Rouvel · Georges Wilson

Plot Daniel Boisett (Robert Hossein) and his friend Paul Genest (Jean Sorel) are disturbed by the home owner during an attempted safe-cracking. In the ensuing mêlée, Paul accidentally kills the home...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Pierre Mocky · Marie Valera · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Plot Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he’s still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Stanley Baker · Virna Lisi · Giorgio Albertazzi

Plot Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast George Brent · Marguerite Chapman · Raymond Huntley · Peter Reynolds

Plot The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in...

Direction Jacques Deray

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Geraldine Chaplin · Sophie Daumier · Analía Gadé

Plot Francis and his sister Monique are a pair of swindlers operating in the French Riviera. Tired of their present situation, they decide to pull off one last job that will...

Direction St. John Legh Clowes

Cast Jack La Rue · Hugh McDermott · Linden Travers · Walter Crisham

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Woody Harrelson · Elisabeth Shue · Gina Gershon · Rolf Hoppe

Plot A good guy tries to go bad... but can't. After spending two years in prison for refusing to testify about the corruption in his hometown of Palmetto, Harry Barber is...

Direction Patrice Chéreau

Cast Charlotte Rampling · Bruno Cremer · Edwige Feuillère · Simone Signoret

Plot A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight...

Direction Benoît Jacquot

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Gaspard Ulliel · Julia Roy · Richard Berry

Plot When an elderly writer dies in his bathtub one night, only a single person knows the secret existence of his last manuscript: Bertrand, a young man who is also accidental...

Direction Clare Peploe

Cast Bridget Fonda · Russell Crowe · Jim Broadbent · D.W. Moffett

Plot Set in the 1950s, Rough Magic tells the story of what happens when a pretty apprentice magician goes to Mexico to escape her fiancé, a wealthy politician, and to find...

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Hildegard Knef · Götz · Richard Münch · Heinz Reicke

Plot The nephew of a murdered millionaire decides to track down his uncle's killer. He faces many life-threatening dangers as he tries to break into the inner circle of the sinister...

Direction Bernard Borderie

Cast Antonella Lualdi · Félix Marten · Aimé Clariond · Folco Lulli

Plot The unfortunate journalist Fred falls in love with the young wife of an older business tycoon. Fred's involvement with her involves him in both blackmail and murder.

Direction Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast Horst Buchholz · Ann Wedgeworth · Chip Taylor · Louise Caire Clark

Plot The new manager of a bank in the small New England town of Pittsville sees an opportunity to make a killing when he seduces Kit, an influential woman in the...

Direction Maurice Labro

Cast Marina Vlady · Robert Hossein · Philippe Clay · Scilla Gabel

Direction Manfred R. Köhler

Cast Heinz Drache · Elga Andersen · Ralf Wolter · Sabine Sesselmann

Plot Released in the U.S. as "A Coffin From Hong Kong", this was one of a whole series of relatively low budget German noir/espionage/thriller type films made in the early to...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Fernandel · Jacques Duby · Jean Rigaux · Judith Magre

Plot In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrived after a crime. Perceived by some people leaving the...

Direction Rene Gainville

Cast Anne Vernon · Jess Hahn · François Gabriel · Geneviève Grad

Plot Jay Delanay, the son of a wealthy American film producer showing a film at the Cannes Film Festival, suffers from psychotic disturbances. From his hotel room he spots through his...

Direction Jürgen Roland

Cast Lang Jeffries · Francesca Tu · Werner Peters · Daniel Emilfork

Plot Mark Jason, a teacher working in Vietnam, finds a large stash of diamonds in his house. He kills the policeman watching him and attempts to flee to Hong Kong with...