Sylvie – MRQE

Forbidden Fruit

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In France, successful physician Charles Pelligrin (Fernandel) moves to the country and settles down with his wife, Armande (Claude Nollier), their children, and his mother. Despite the true happiness of his family life, Charles is surprised when a casual meeting with a vibrant young woman, Martine (Françoise Arnoul), stirs him into an eventual torrid affair. Unaware of Martine’s calculated ambitions, Charles is also oblivious that his wife and his mother have discovered his illicit romance.

L’idiot

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.

Le Père Goriot

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.

Cronaca familiare

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother’s keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

Le Miroir à deux faces

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife’s beauty.

Thérèse Raquin

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse (Simone Signoret) and Laurent (Raf Vallone) think they’ve gotten away with murder after Thérèse’s weakling husband “falls” from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer’s demands and the mute accusations of Thérèse’s mother-in-law (French stage and screen diva Sylvie, in a scene stealing performance), it’s only a matter of time before the law, their passion or blind chance trips them up.

Don Camillo

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his “People’s House”; the priest wants his “Garden City” for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Sous le ciel de Paris

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.

Dieu a besoin des hommes

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The inhabitants of a Scottish island in the 19th century follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.

Pour une nuit d’amour

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.