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Country: France
Genre: Suspense
Director: Henri Verneuil
Year: 1969
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Here is a movie with hardly any action. Nobody so much as raises their voice. And yet it’s nail bitingly suspenseful.
All of the elements of The Sicilian Clan with the exception of the music score (more on that in a minute) work together, but the success […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream/ Suspense
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri
Year: 2002
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Something I like about French thrillers: more often than not, they don’t feel the need to spell everything out for you.
We meet Louis (Pascal Greggory), while he is reclining in his backyard in Strausberg, Germany, watching a creepy nature documentary on wasps and tarantulas. […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As surely everyone but the dullest bulb knows by now, the 1% of the richest people in the world have bought the world’s governments and use them to further solidify their power and wealth.
Part of the strategy of the wealthy is to influence education so […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1980
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WORTH A LOOK
I must have Occupy Wall Street on the brain. I am once again reminded that the phenomenon of rich and powerful people protecting their own perceived interests at the expense of everyone else is as old as civilization itself.
Three Men To Destroy, based on a novel […]
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Country: France
Genre: Horror/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Year: 2008
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WORTH A LOOK
Vinyan has two major themes.
One is the horror of being in an entirely alien culture, where you don’t understand the language, much less the cultural cues that would help you tell is someone is being sincere, helpful or murderous.
The […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Point Blank AKA A Bout Portant is a thriller about absolutely nothing. By that I mean that there’s no sociopolitical or psychological subtext whatsoever. What you see is what you get.
That said, Point Blank is almost perfectly realized. Director Fred Cavayé […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Marina de Van
Year: 2009
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WORTH A LOOK
Don’t Look Back AKA Ne te retourne pas doesn’t really add up to much after it’s over, but it doesn’t feel that way while it’s happening.
Really, the movie is a star vehicle: a trio consisting of Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, and special effects/makeup.
Let me explain. […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In their movies, one of the things Europeans and especially the French do as naturally as breathing is matter of factness, the tossed off detail. Americans usually suck at this. They often succumb to the temptation to pump up moments until they cease to […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Romance
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Anthony Zimmer proceeds from a classic Hitchcockian premise.
The title character launders money for the Russian mob through an ingenious scheme involving phony lawsuits with companies based in countries that are financial havens, like Bermuda. The police figure out his game but Zimmer eludes them […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Writer/director Mabrouk El Mechri had a genius idea — make a Jean Claude Van Damme movie in which the main character is a version of the actor himself. In El Mechri’s conception, Van Damme is all but washed up as an action star […]
