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5.4

♡ 2

Gianni Proia Director

Reg Lewis as Bodybuilder on stage

George Sanders as Narrator Pelé

Pelé as Self

Michel Simon as Self

A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.

The Woman in the Fifth

2011

5.3

♡ 4

59%

Pawel Pawlikowski Director

Doug Rand as American Writer 1

Kristin Scott Thomas as Margit

Anne Benoît as Teacher

Ethan Hawke as Tom Ricks

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

From Paris with Love

2010

central intelligence agency (cia)

♡ 111

37%

Pierre Morel Director

Richard Durden as Ambassador Bennington

John Travolta as Charlie Wax

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as James Reese

Kelly Preston as Woman on Eiffel tower

James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.

Magnet of Doom

1963

6.5

♡ 8

new orleans, louisiana

new york city

paris, france

river

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Stefania Sandrelli as Angie, Hitch-Hiker

Todd Martin as Jeff

Michèle Mercier as Lou

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel Maudet

Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950

7.4

♡ 3

74%

80%

Adventure

based on play or musical

Michael Gordon Director

Edgar Barrier as Cardinal

Elena Verdugo as Orange Girl

Lloyd Corrigan as Ragueneau

Don Beddoe as The Meddler

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.

Angel

1937

7.2

♡ 9

Ernst Lubitsch Director

Melvyn Douglas as Anthony Halton

Dennie Moore as Emma MacGillicuddy Wilton

Suzanne Kaaren as Girl Who Gambles

Marlene Dietrich as Lady Maria Barker

While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.

The Crossing of Paris

1956

7.3

♡ 8

smuggling (contraband)

suitcase

War

Claude Autant-Lara Director

Louis de Funès as Jambier, l'épicier

Harald Wolff as Le commandant allemand

Hubert Noël as Le gigolo arrêté

Jacques Marin as Le patron du restaurant Saint Martin

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Savage Messiah

1972

6.9

♡ 6

55%

78%

artist

Ken Russell Director

Harry Fielder as Angry Man in Crowd

Helen Mirren as Gosh Boyle

Ken Russell as Passenger Getting Off Train

Dorothy Tutin as Sophie Brzeska

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.

Her Man

1930

6.5

♡ 4

Tay Garnett Director

George Chandler as Barfly

Ruth Hiatt as Dance Hall Girl

Frank Hagney as Henchman Hank

Edgar Dearing as Marine

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

Don't Touch the Loot

1954

7.7

♡ 8

liberation of hostage

noir

paris, france

ransom

Jacques Becker Director

Lino Ventura as Angelo Fraiser

Marilyn Buferd as Betty

Jeanne Moreau as Josy

Dominique Davray as Une prostituée

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.

April in Paris

1952

5.9

♡ 7

44%

David Butler Director

Doris Day as Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson

George Givot as François

Nestor Paiva as Ship Captain

John Alvin as Tracy

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

Quiet Days in Clichy

1970

Danish

5.1

♡ 8

38%

Jens Jørgen Thorsen Director

Maj Wechselmann as

Jens Jørgen Thorsen as

Olaf Ussing as Father

Lisbet Lundquist as Jeanne

Joey is a struggling writer with no money. His roommate Carl is a charming stud with a taste for young girls. Together, these two insatiable dreamers will laugh, love and screw their way through a decadent Paris paved with wanton women, wild orgies and outrageous erotic adventures.

Paris Blues

1961

6.7

♡ 15

71%

Martin Ritt Director

Joanne Woodward as Lillian Corning

Paul Newman as Ram Bowen

André Luguet as René Bernard

Louis Armstrong as Wild Man Moore

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.

The Night Eats the World

2018

6.0

♡ 44

87%

53%

Dominique Rocher Director

Jérôme Gaspard as Doublure Sam

Anders Danielsen Lie as Sam

Golshifteh Farahani as Sarah

Yves Heck as Voix homme répondeur

After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a terrifying reality: the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris.

Treasure Island

7.0

Guillaume Brac Director

A summer on an island of leisure in the Paris region. Land of Adventures, dredge and transgression for some, place of refuge and escape for the other. Its pay range to its hidden nooks, the exploration of a Kingdom of childhood, in resonance with the bustle of the world.

Desire

1936

donostia-san sebastian, spain

7.1

♡ 7

100%

Frank Borzage Director

George MacQuarrie as Clerk With Gun

Alan Mowbray as Dr. Maurice Pauquet

Armand Kaliz as Jewelry Clerk

William Frawley as Mr. Gibson

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

The Invisible Ray

1936

6.5

♡ 9

63%

Lambert Hillyer Director

Hans Schumm as Clinic Valet

Etta McDaniel as Diane's Safari Attendant

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Felix Benet

Edwards Davis as Scientist

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

Madeline

1998

6.0

♡ 15

67%

43%

based on children's book

Daisy von Scherler Mayer Director

Ben Daniels as Leopold the Tutor

Hatty Jones as Madeline

Frances McDormand as Miss Clavel

George Harris as Mr. Liberian Ambassador

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

2017

6.0

♡ 11

39%

37%

19th century

Edouard Deluc Director

Samuel Jouy as Emile Schuffenecker

Scali Delpeyrat as Hector, le marchand d'art

Ian McCamy as Le violiniste

Vincent Cassel as Paul Gauguin

In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.

The Happy Prince

2018