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CAPSULE: NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (1980)

La nuit des traquées

DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin

FEATURING: Brigitte Lahaie, Vincent Gardère, Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau

PLOT: A beautiful woman is imprisoned in an unofficial asylum housed in a skyscraper with dozens of patients; because they all suffer from short-term amnesia and can only remember events from the last few minutes, no one knows why . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (1980)

LIST CANDIDATE: THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972)

DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel

FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel

PLOT: Six friends attempt to have dinner together, but repeatedly fail for increasingly bizarre reasons.

WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: A plot so simple it’s barely a plot at all starts out small . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972)

CAPSULE: THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977)

DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel

FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina

PLOT: A rich French businessman courts a beautiful young Spanish woman over the years, but although she sometimes professes to love him, she continually refuses to consummate the relationship.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Obscure Object is one of Buñuel’s best, . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977)

LIST CANDIDATE: AMELIE (2001)

Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain

DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

FEATURING: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Dominique Pinon, Rufus

PLOT: An introverted and imaginative Parisian girl devotes herself to secretly helping those around her, but is it only because she’s afraid to go after love herself?

WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: If Amélie makes . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: AMELIE (2001)

CAPSULE: SHEITAN (2006)

DIRECTED BY: Kim Chapiron

FEATURING: Olivier Barthelemy, Vincent Cassel, Roxane Mesquida

PLOT: Four young people agree to spend Christmas at the country home of a beautiful stranger they meet at a Paris club, but the oddball caretaker takes an intense and unhealthy interest in one of the crew.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SHEITAN (2006)

LIST CANDIDATE: HOLY MOTORS (2012)

DIRECTED BY: Leos Carax

FEATURING: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Michel Piccoli

PLOT: “Mr. Oscar” drives around Paris in a limo taking on nine “assignments” which require him to become an accordion player, a hitman, and fashion model-abducting leprechaun, among other personae.

WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: Holy Motors is . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: HOLY MOTORS (2012)

130. WEEKEND (1967)

“What a rotten film, all we meet are crazy people.”–Roland

DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard

FEATURING: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne

PLOT: Corrine and Roland are a married couple who are cheating on each other and who hope to inherit money from Corrine’s dying father. They set off on a weekend trip to travel to the father’s . . . → Read More: 130. WEEKEND (1967)

CAPSULE: HOUSE OF PLEASURES (2011)

Souvenirs de la Maison Close; AKA L’Apollonide; House of Tolerance

DIRECTED BY: Bertrand Bonello

FEATURING: Alice Barnole, Hafsia Herzi, Iliana Zabeth, Noémie Lvovsky, Xavier Beauvois

PLOT: This drama follows the travails of a group of prostitutes in a belle epoque bordello.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: House of Pleasures sports a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: HOUSE OF PLEASURES (2011)

CAPSULE: NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU [POUPOUPIDOU] (2011)

DIRECTED BY: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu

FEATURING: Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix

PLOT: In a snowbound French town, a crime novelist investigates the death of a local celebrity who believed herself to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Nobody Else but You flirts with weirdness, especially through some nods to “Twin Peaks,” . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU [POUPOUPIDOU] (2011)

LIST CANDIDATE: CHICKEN WITH PLUMS [POULET AUX PRUNES] (2011)

DIRECTED BY: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

FEATURING: Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Edouard Baer, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini

PLOT: A master musician loses the will to live after his prized violin is destroyed, and retires to his deathbed where his story is told through flashbacks mingled with fantasy sequences.

WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: CHICKEN WITH PLUMS [POULET AUX PRUNES] (2011)

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