Madame Claude (1977)

Storyline :  Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...

Stars :  Françoise Fabian, Murray Head, Dayle Haddon, Klaus Kinski, Maurice Ronet, Robert Webber, Marc Michel, Pascal Greggory

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The Quiet (2005)

Storyline :  Popular cheerleader Nina Deer's  world is turned upside down when her parents  adopt a recently orphaned deaf girl, Dot . But in this suburban home, things are not what they seem. Dot's arrival puts a crack in Nina's idyllic social life and the dark secrets her family harbors soon become exposed. Nina's friends, including the handsome Connor , develop an odd fascination with the newcomer and confide in her their darkest secrets. Dot quietly shoulders the burdens of those around her, simultaneously hiding her own secrets as well.

Stars :  Elisha Cuthbert, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Camilla Belle, Shawn Ashmore, Katy Mixon, David Gallagher, Shannon Woodward, Myrna Cabello, Michelle Brew

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Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (1972)

Storyline :  Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of six outwardly respectable upper-middle class members of society and their repeatedly thwarted attempts to have a meal together - the interruptions becoming more and more surreal as the film progresses.

Stars :  Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic, Maria Gabriella Maione, Claude Piéplu, Muni, François Maistre, Pierre Maguelon, Maxence Mailfort

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Le souffle au coeur (1971)

Storyline :  This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There's enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.

Stars : Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen, Marc Winocourt, Henri Poirier, Micheline Bona, Liliane Sorval

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One Deadly Summer (1983)

Storyline :  Oozing sensuality, the seductively alluring, Eliane Wieck, arrives with her demure German mother and her disabled father in a rural southern French town, in a frilled dress and with a small suitcase in her hand. Pin-Pon, a car mechanic and volunteer firefighter, instantly falls for the charms of the mysterious newcomer--and before long--they get married. However, was it love at first sight for Eliane, too? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's old and dust-covered mechanical piano in the barn? It seems that the stage is set; but, what drives the cryptic young woman? Is it hungry curiosity or is it something far more sinister?

Stars :  Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, François Cluzet, Suzanne Flon, Maria Machado, Manuel Gelin, Jenny Cleve, Michel Galabru, Roger Carel, Maïwenn Le Besco

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