Edith and Marcel

1983

French

5.9

♡ 4

29%

Claude Lelouch Director

Carlo Nell as

Carl Studer as

Patrick Dewaere as Marcel Cerdan / Tirs d'essai

Beata Tyszkiewicz as Margot's Mother

This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.

Sophie's Ways

1971

French

6.2

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

painting

Moshé Mizrahi Director

Bernadette Lafont as Céline

Micha Bayard as Juana - la bonne espagnole

Carl Studer as L'Américain

Virginie Thévenet as Stéphanie

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

The Trial

1962

English

7.6

♡ 21

84%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

Orson Welles Director

Anthony Perkins as Josef K.

Carl Studer as Man in Leather

Michael Lonsdale as Priest

Max Haufler as Uncle Max

The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.

Someone Behind the Door

1971

English

5.8

♡ 4

23%

Nicolas Gessner Director

Carl Studer as Fisherman

Jill Ireland as Frances Jeffries

Anthony Perkins as Laurence Jeffries

Charles Bronson as The Stranger

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Two Men in Manhattan

1959

French

6.6

♡ 9

57%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Jean Lara as Aubert

Alexandra Stewart as Bit

Billy Beck as Le partenaire de Judith Nelson sur scène

Carl Studer as Le sergent de police au snack

Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

Charlie and His Two Chicks

6.0

Joël Séria Director

Carl Studer as

Jean-Yves Liévaux as

Anne Libert as (as Ann Libert)

Mary Cress as (as Mary Crees)

Charlie, a forty-something looking for a job, meets two twenty-something girls, Ghislaine and Josiane, who are similarly unemployed. All three decide to take to the road selling oilcloth to pay their way. The harmony reigns within the group until the arrival of Tony, a seller of miniature cathedrals.

Joy House

1964

French

7.0

♡ 4

33%

René Clément Director

Sorrell Booke as Harry

Carl Studer as Loftus

Alain Delon as Marc

Jane Fonda as Melinda

A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women.

Le Doulos

1962

French

7.7

♡ 21

96%

jazz singer or musician

Thriller

weasel

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Carl Studer as Kern

Jean Desailly as Le commissaire Clain

Serge Reggiani as Maurice Faugel

Michel Piccoli as Nuttheccio

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?