Movies: Philippe Arthuys

  • 1960
    Le Trou

    Le Trou (1960)

    Le Trou

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    Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and frie...

    Le Trou
  • 1960
    Two Women

    Two Women (1960)

    Two Women

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    A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them....

    Two Women
  • 1959
    General Della Rovere

    General Della Rovere (1959)

    General Della Rovere

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    The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates....

    General Della Rovere
  • 1961
    Paris Belongs to Us

    Paris Belongs to Us (1961)

    Paris Belongs to Us

    6.51961HD

    A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger....

    Paris Belongs to Us
  • 1975
    Chronicle of the Year of Embers

    Chronicle of the Year of Embers (1975)

    Chronicle of the Year of Embers

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    A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow proces...

    Chronicle of the Year of Embers
  • 1961
    Viva l'Italia!

    Viva l'Italia! (1961)

    Viva l'Italia!

    6.61961HD

    The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he...

    Viva l'Italia!
  • 1963
    The Carabineers

    The Carabineers (1963)

    The Carabineers

    6.51963HD

    During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits....

    The Carabineers
  • 1969
    God Chose Paris

    God Chose Paris (1969)

    God Chose Paris

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    An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starti...

    God Chose Paris
  • 1995
    The Unloved

    The Unloved (1995)

    The Unloved

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    An idle teenager with a bad attitude kidnaps a neighbor's baby....

    The Unloved
  • 1967
    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures (1967)

    The Winds of the Aures

    6.41967HD

    Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swi...

    The Winds of the Aures
  • 1972
    The French Calvinists

    The French Calvinists (1972)

    The French Calvinists

    6.31972HD

    A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons....

    The French Calvinists
  • 1960
    Escape by Night

    Escape by Night (1960)

    Escape by Night

    6.91960HD

    In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major....

    Escape by Night
  • 1974
    Hassan Terro's Escape

    Hassan Terro's Escape (1974)

    Hassan Terro's Escape

    8.51974HD

    Directed by Mustapha Badie....

    Hassan Terro's Escape
  • 1959
    India: Matri Bhumi

    India: Matri Bhumi (1959)

    India: Matri Bhumi

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    Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage....

    India: Matri Bhumi
  • 1986
    Last Image

    Last Image (1986)

    Last Image

    01986HD

    Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ru...

    Last Image
  • 1982
    Sandstorm

    Sandstorm (1982)

    Sandstorm

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    Seen right through the sandstorms that rack the lives of a tribe living on a desert oasis, is a subtle and not-so-subtle mistreatment of the female members of the tribe - tribal chiefs have the right to be the first to deflower virgins, and single or...

    Sandstorm
  • 1973
    Rude journée pour la reine

    Rude journée pour la reine (1973)

    Rude journée pour la reine

    3.71973HD

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    Rude journée pour la reine
  • 1966
    The Good Lady

    The Good Lady (1966)

    The Good Lady

    01966HD

    A kind old lady is not all that she seems to be, and gets more than she bargained for when she rents out a room to a handsome young student....

    The Good Lady
  • 1979
    Noces de Sève

    Noces de Sève (1979)

    Noces de Sève

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    An anti-nuclear parable, the film tells the story of villagers who each year traditionally hold "sap weddings", thus paying homage to the forest. But a nuclear power plant must be built there. The film was presented in competition at the Thonon-les-B...

    Noces de Sève
  • 1965
    The Glass Cage

    The Glass Cage (1965)

    The Glass Cage

    01965HD

    A study of conscience set against the trial of Eichmann in Israel....

    The Glass Cage