Mouchette
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Kébadian, Robert Bresson
Actors: Jean Vimenet, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Liliane Princet, Marie Cardinal, Marie Susini, Marine Trichet, Nadine Nortier, Paul Hébert, Raymonde Chabrun, Suzanne Huguenin
A Ship to India
Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven…
Another Dawn
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping…
He Walked by Night
Roy Morgan is a burglar who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. After Morgan kills a police officer, Sergeants Brennan…
Rabbit-Proof Fence
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
South of Algiers
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
The Strawberry Statement
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed…
Slightly Scarlet
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to “reform” politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol “Solly” Caspar, sees…
Four in the Afternoon
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.