Author Archive: Retro

In this ironic French tale of tragedy and love, Laurent (Yves Montand), a world-weary ex-convict and prison-reform writer is coming back to the dreary town his old prison is in. To someone whose life is so imbued with violence, everything he sees seems like a threat. Indeed, the town appears to be populated solely by thugs and elderly people. The banked fires of his passion are awakened when he sees a perfectly normal looking professional woman (Katherine Ross) coming down the street. Soon afterward, his sense of danger fails him, for he is brutally beaten in a men’s restroom by a martial-artist nun. When he is taken for medical treatment, he discovers that the lovely woman he saw earlier is to be his doctor.

In Segovia at the beginning of the thirties the hoarder widower and Marcos must be prudent but has relations with the sterile prostitute Mercedes every week.

Depicting a train filled with young women drafted for the pleasure of the SS during World War II. The film is also known by several alternative titles, including “Love Train for SS” and “Captive Women 5: Mistresses of the 3rd Reich.”

Father & son are shipwrecked and floating on a piece of debris. The father reflects on his life.

World War I,: German soldier meets girld in an occupied Belgian village and despite war they fall in love.

Young Danish boy, who inherits his father’s love of horses, kidnaps spirited Lippizan stallion before the school can return the animal to the dealer to be slaughtered.

US Department of Defense security film, giving dramatised account of a defence contractor trapped into passing classified information to the Soviet Union.

French crime drama about gangsters.