Music [nf]

1975

PG

Plot: This filmed version of the popular (1800 performances!) off-Broadway musical by Eric Blau and Mort Schumann incorporates 26 songs written by Belgian-entertainer Jacques Brel. Three actors--Elly Stone, ...

Drama

1961

NR

Plot: Jacques Demys auspicious debut -- a musical without music set in the port city of Nantes -- stars Anouk Aimée as the title character, a cabaret singer awaiting the return of Michel (Jacques Hardin), he ...

Drama

1986

PG

Plot: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farm ...

Drama

1996

R

Plot: Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker (Ashley Judd) a ...

Drama

1957

Plot: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorkys play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own countrys Edo Period--which, like Gorkys 19th-century settin ...

History [nf]

1995

NR

Plot: The meteoric rise and tragic fall of actress Jean Seberg is dissected in this fascinatingly complex psuedo-documentary that features actress Mary Beth Hurt playing Seberg as she examines her life. Alon ...