Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
La Pointe Courte
Overview
A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.
Director and cast
More films
The Swimming Pool (1969)
Drama · Thriller · 16+
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certa...
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- Director
- Jacques Deray
- Cast
- Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet
Luna (2018)
Drama · Romance · N/A
A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Cast
- Laëtitia Clément, Rod Paradot, Lyna Khoudri
One Fine Morning (2022)
Drama · Romance · R
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Cast
- Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud
My First Time (2012)
Drama · Romance · N/A
Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six months, they will live a love against which nothing can be, the true, th...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Pierre Kubel
- Cast
- Esther Comar, Martin Cannavo, Vincent Perez
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Drama · Romance · N/A
Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost h...
- Runtime
- 2h
- Director
- Alain Resnais
- Cast
- Sabine Azéma, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi
Snow (1963)
Documentary · N/A
Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music. Tough-as-boots workers struggling to keep the line clear are ...
- Runtime
- 8m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Rail (1967)
Documentary · N/A
"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss. There was a facing-up to the increasing need for a big modernisation drive. Full and speedy electrification, or the wider promotion of diesel-power on remaining lines, became a matter of to...
- Runtime
- 14m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Locomotion (1975)
Documentary · N/A
Collage film about the history of trains set to music.
- Runtime
- 16m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Shell Spirit (1963)
N/A
Directed by Geoffrey Jones.
- Runtime
- 2m
- Director
- Geoffrey Jones
Comments
Talk about the film with other members