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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I sat down to watch Story of Women with the expectation that it would be a drama, but I was in for a rude and welcome surprise.
Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) must somehow care for two children in Nazi-occupied France while […]
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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 […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If you ever want to see the ultimate example of Gallic cool, check out Alain Delon in Flic Story.
In the late 40s, career criminal Emile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) escaped from custody and began a killing spree, blowing away snitches and anyone else who got in his […]
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Country: France
Genre: Art/ Drama
Director: Amos Gitai
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Please understand. I don’t think One Day You’ll Understand is a bad film necessarily. It’s just that this is a website devoted to Trash Cinema, and One Day You’ll Understand has neither the energy or intent of the movies that I gravitate to. And it […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The biggest strength of Un Flic is it’s willingness to take it’s time, to develop atmosphere and suspense, to dwell on procedural details. Unfortunately, writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville allows this leisurely pace to extend to even the most boring scenes, in which nothing much of note occurs, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Olivier Assayas
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Every once in a while, a movie surprises you with how good it is. I knew that Maggie Cheung, who stars in Clean, was an excellent actress, but Nick Nolte hasn’t given a decent performance in a long time. I was expecting another […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Comedy /Mainstream
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I should start by observing that L.627 is being marketed as a crime thriller, which it is certainly not. It is a police procedural, with the focus being on procedure.
“Lulu” Marguet (Didier Bezace) is a cop on the narcotics squad. He is more serious about […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When we first meet Thomas (Romain Duris), we come to the conclusion pretty quickly that he’s a complete scumbag. He works in the real estate business, buying up rental properties, driving out the tenants by means of emptying bags of rats and roaches into their apartment […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: José Giovanni
Year: 1975
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The first shot of The Gypsy (Le Gitan) gives you hope that what you are about to watch will turn out to be special. It’s a long tracking shot from a beautiful white sand beach that eventually ends up at the trash […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Géla Babluani
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
For a flick about a gambling ring where the outcomes are decided via mass Russian roulette, 13 Tzameti doesn’t have a lot of juice to it.
That’s because there is very little context. It’s all very well to force people into a situation where they have to […]