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Beauties of World Cinema

Florence GuérinAdele ExarchopoulosDéborah RévyOrnella MutiMarina PierroNastassja KinskiPaz VegaNoémie MerlantEmmanuelle SeignerSylvia KristelMaria ValverdeValérie Kaprisky

Art of Love (1983)

Ovid teaches Rome how to seduce, but Marina Pierro proves that love lessons become dangerous once jealous husbands, loose servants and free-range lust join the class. In Augustan Rome, the celebrated poet Ovid lectures an eager crowd on his Ars Amatoria, treating seduction as something halfway between philosophy, military strategy and a dirty weekend. His most attentive pupil is Cornelius, a handsome young man who fixes his sights on Claudia, the voluptuous wife of the tribune Macarius. Claudia...

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Dressage (1986)

Two wicked governesses, one leering baron and a pair of respectable families ripe for ruin: class warfare was never so keen to remove its stockings. Set in France around the turn of the 1930s, Dressage follows Nathalie, the illegitimate daughter of wealthy financier Leroy-Murville, who has grown up scorned while her father’s legitimate child, 17-year-old Sophie, enjoys the privileges denied to her. At one of Baron Plessis du Regard’s cheerfully depraved parties, Nathalie announces a revenge...

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L’ennui (1998)

A bored philosopher meets a young model who is easy to bed, impossible to read and perfectly equipped to turn his clever mind into jealous mush. Martin is a middle-aged philosophy lecturer adrift after the collapse of his marriage, prowling Paris in his car and pretending that detachment is the same thing as freedom. One night he notices CĂ©cilia, a placid young artist’s model, with the much older painter Meyers. Curiosity leads Martin to the painter’s studio, but when he returns, Meyers has...

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

A forbidden portrait becomes a two-hour seduction by glances, brushstrokes and bad timing—French romance served rare, smoky and quietly devastating. In Brittany in 1770, Marianne, a young painter played by NoĂ©mie Merlant, arrives at an isolated estate to paint HĂ©loĂŻse, the aristocratic daughter of a countess. The finished portrait will be sent to HĂ©loĂŻse’s prospective husband in Milan, and if he likes the merchandise, so to speak, marriage follows. There is one snag: HĂ©loĂŻse refuses to pose...

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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2017)

A shy dreamer comes home to SĂšte and finds summer already undressed: hot beaches, tangled affairs, pounding dance floors and OphĂ©lie Bau stealing every frame. Amin has abandoned medicine in Paris to pursue photography and screenwriting, but back in his family’s Tunisian restaurant he keeps that decision quiet and slips naturally into his old role: the gentle observer watching everyone else grab life by the hips. Almost immediately he discovers that his best friend OphĂ©lie is sleeping with his...

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A Real Young Girl (1976)

Catherine Breillat's banned 1976 debut: a bored teen's summer of sticky, unfiltered sexual self-discovery in the French pines — beautiful, filthy, and deeply uncomfortable. Alice Bonnard, 14, comes home from boarding school to the Landes forest for the summer of 1963, and tells us straight off in voiceover that she hates it here because she's bored out of her skull. With nothing to do, her adolescent itch fixes on Jim, a surly young worker at her father's sawmill, and what follows is an...

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A L’aventure (2008)

A bored French beauty quits the job, dumps the routine and goes hunting for the ultimate orgasm—only to discover that pleasure can open some very strange doors. Sandrine has the respectable career, the steady boyfriend and the tidy adult life she is supposed to want, yet she feels trapped in a schedule that has even made sex predictable. A chance conversation with an eccentric former physics teacher on a park bench nudges her toward rebellion. With enough money to take a sabbatical, she quits...

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En moi (2016)

A blocked filmmaker wanders the Paris Opera, where every door opens onto another fantasy—and Lara Stone proves far harder to understand than to undress. Yvan Attal plays a director arriving at the Palais Garnier to shoot his next film, only to discover that the grand machinery of cinema cannot manufacture the one thing he lacks: inspiration. Nervous, lonely and terrified of failure, he drifts away from his waiting crew and into the building’s corridors, rehearsal rooms and hidden corners. Each...

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Curiosa (2019)

A poet’s daughter marries money, beds the man she loves, and turns his camera into a weapon of seduction in this wickedly stylish Belle Époque affair. Marie de Heredia is clever, beautiful and born into a celebrated literary family that has prestige to spare but very little cash. Two poets circle her: Henri de RĂ©gnier, wealthy, respectable and painfully earnest, and his friend Pierre LouĂżs, a handsome traveller, libertine and collector of erotic photographs. Marie loves Pierre, but when...

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Noce Blanche (1989)

A philosophy teacher tries to rescue a brilliant teenage dropout and discovers, rather too late, that he is the one being dragged into deep water. François Hainaut is a weary, middle-aged philosophy teacher whose quiet marriage has settled into comfortable routine. Mathilde Tessier, seventeen, is the pupil who rarely bothers turning up: pale, insolent, fiercely intelligent and apparently living without adult supervision. After finding her collapsed at a bus stop, François drives her home...

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Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

A blue-haired art student walks into Adùle’s life, and first love becomes a three-hour feast of desire, class friction and bruising heartbreak. Adùle is a shy Lille schoolgirl doing what everyone expects: reading novels, gossiping with friends and half-heartedly dating Thomas, a handsome boy who leaves her cold. Then she passes Emma in the street—a slightly older art student with cropped blue hair—and one exchanged glance knocks her carefully ordinary life sideways. Adùle follows that desire...

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Down by Love (2016)

A respectable prison governor risks wife, child and career for Adùle Exarchopoulos—proof that some locks are easier to pick than a middle-aged man’s common sense. Jean Firmino is an able, outwardly decent governor of a women’s prison: married, settled, approaching forty and trusted to keep order without behaving like a tin-pot tyrant. Then Anna Amari arrives awaiting trial, angry, withdrawn and clearly carrying enough emotional baggage to fill an entire cell block. Her crime is deliberately...

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Venus in Fur (2013)

One late actress, one smug director and one stormy Paris night turn a simple audition into a wickedly funny duel of sex, power and surrender. Thomas is alone in a shabby Paris theatre after a miserable day auditioning actresses for his adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s notorious 1870 tale of desire and submission. He is tired, arrogant and already on the phone telling his fiancĂ©e that no modern woman has the intelligence, breeding or sensual authority to play his heroine. Then Vanda...

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Year of the Jellyfish (1984)

Saint-Tropez, topless temptation and one dangerously bruised ego: ValĂ©rie Kaprisky turns a rich girl’s summer holiday into a sun-baked game of sexual revenge. Eighteen-year-old Chris is spending the season in Saint-Tropez with her elegant mother, Claude, while Dad remains safely occupied in Paris. Beautiful, bored and thoroughly spoiled, Chris treats the Riviera as her private hunting ground. She sunbathes topless, cruises discos and casinos, collects disposable lovers and pokes at other...

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Love, Math and Sex (1997)

A teenage maths prodigy tries to solve poverty, desire and a much older lover with the same cool logic—then discovers the heart is lousy at equations. Sabine is fifteen, frighteningly bright and already carrying more adult responsibility than the adults around her. Her cash-strapped home in Lille is such a mess that she earns money doing classmates’ mathematics homework and helps keep the household afloat, retreating into numbers because numbers, unlike parents and feelings, obey rules. Then...

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Q Desire (2011)

A Smouldering Erotic French Film with Two of the Most Gorgeous French Beauties. Cécile is a Total Slut & Alice is a Shy Conservative girl... Q (2011), also known as Desire (2011), is a french film set in France, in a time of country wide economic crisis, when people are losing jobs and there's anxiety everywhere, Cécile (played by the Drop Dead Delicious Déborah Révy) becomes a Total Slut, wanting to fuck everything that moves in pants or skirts, apparently as a coping mechanism to deal...

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