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This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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$6749
104 min
1974-09-10
Released
French
309
7.442
The Lady in Black, the Sister of the First Prefect
The Nurse
Mr. Foucault
Mrs. Foucault
Mr. Legendre
The Second Police Prefect
The Doctor
The Commissioner
The Innkeeper
The Policeman
The Professor
Mrs. Calmette
The Hatter
Father Gabriel
The First Police Prefect
The Lieutenant of the Dragoons
The Aunt
The Nephew
Mrs. Legendre
Edith Rosenblum
The Captain of the Dragons
The Professor's Wife
Françoise, the Legendre's Nurse
The Satyr
The Bartender at 'Georges'
The School Principal
The First Doctor
Le président du tribunal
The French Officer
The Acquitted Murderer
The Cemetery Guardian
The Hostess at the Social Reception
A Monk
Father Raphaël
The Foucauld Family Nanny
A Police Officer
A Monk
Charles
The Brigadier
The Maid of the Square
The Mother of the First Police Prefect
A Condemned Man (uncredited)
6.3
A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.
2000-03-25 | fr
3.6
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.
1994-01-19 | fr
6.0
A fed up food delivery worker chooses a split second act of rebellion - one that results in an awkward, spiraling dance between the classes of 21st century Sweden.
2025-03-20 | sv
7.8
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
1979-08-17 | en
7.0
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
2006-06-25 | fr
7.5
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
1991-12-12 | en
7.4
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
2006-06-29 | en
6.5
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
1995-05-05 | en
6.2
Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents — and several of her ex-boyfriends.
2007-02-09 | en
7.5
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
1939-11-23 | en
5.6
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in the city, she stays with her older sister, Martine, who in many ways is the exact opposite of Louise: she lives in a fashionable neighborhood, is cold to others, and has snobby friends, while Louise lives in a small town and is thoroughly unpretentious. Louise's apparent happiness -- and similarities to their mother -- gradually gets on Martine's nerves.
2004-11-21 | fr
7.5
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
1939-07-09 | fr
7.3
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
1980-07-02 | en
7.3
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
1953-07-14 | en
7.4
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
1973-10-17 | fr
7.8
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
1975-04-03 | en
6.9
Stefan and Kai run a thriving business: a home-grown cannabis trade disguised as a pizza delivery service. For now they just have to fight aphids.
2001-08-23 | de
7.0
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
1967-08-30 | fr
7.0
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
2002-03-06 | fr
6.1
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
1982-12-10 | en