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Films with: Signoret, Simone

Adua e le compagne Adua and her friends /
A wonderful example of Italian realism, this film tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. They pool their savings to open a trattoria, but find they cannot get a license. A prominent fixer with connections obtains the license for them, on the condition that they conduct their old business upstairs and pay him an exorbitant monthly fee.
DVD 9101
Armée des ombres Army of shadows /
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.
DVD 4799
Aveu The confession /
The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
DVD 11113
Casque d'or Golden Marie /
In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of the ladies, Marie, meets Manda, who is a carpenter by trade. Marie's man Roland is a jealous sort and does not like the idea of Marie and Manda becoming friendly, and Leca himself has his eye on Marie. What follows is a story of love, death, friendship and jealousy during the Belle Epoque.
DVD 3415
Diabolique
The sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school brutalizes his fragil wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, no body is found.
DVD 1769
Diaboliques The devils /
Horror classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
DVD 760
Grin without a cat Le fond de l'air est rouge /
Chris Marker's epic film essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. This sweeping, global contemplation of a defining decade's political history is divided into two parts, each part woven together to describe what Marker has called "scenes of the Third World War."
DVD 7907
Joli mai The lovely month of May /
"Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, Le Joli Mai documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war."--www.icarusfilms.com
DVD 10127
Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
DVD 7530
Madame Rosa
A retired prostitute runs a makeshift boarding house for the offspring of her friends and former associates. Based on the novel by Émile Afar.
DVD 12643
Room at the top
Laurence Harvey plays an opportunist who will stop at nothing to get to the top in the business world.
DVD 629