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Director Just Jaeckin’s 1974 French X-movie sex drama Emmanuelle is soft-focus, soft-core porn, with Sylvia Kristel propelled to stardom finding a surprise enormous international hit as Emmanuelle, an embassy official’s beautiful young model wife, filling […]
Marlene Dietrich, finally separated by her Paramount Pictures studio from her Svengali director Josef Von Sternberg after a string of hits, fares only modestly with the highly respected director Rouben Mamoulian in the 1933 love […]
Director Frank Perry’s 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife stars Richard Benjamin as the greedy, egotistical, abusive lawyer Jonathan Balser, who repels his put-upon housewife Tina (Carrie Snodgress), who has a fling with big-headed writer […]
Director Anatole Litvak’s original 1936 black and white movie Mayerling is the memorable French hit film based on Claude Anet’s novel of the fateful love of the 19th-century married Hapsburg heir, Archduke Rudolf, for the […]
Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s 1986 Ruthless People is a hugely entertaining black comedy starring Danny DeVito as Sam Stone, a horrible hubby scheming to bump off his strident wife Barbara (Bette […]
Director James L Brooks’s extraordinarily successful 1983 Terms of Endearment scooped up Five Oscars, including Best Picture (James L Brooks), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Shirley MacLaine), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Nicholson), Best […]
Director Alain Resnais’s arty 1974 film Stavisky looks great and there is good playing all round from a strong cast, with the stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Charles Boyer well used. But it is more successful […]