French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they ... See full summary »
Director:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars:
Jean Carmet,
Catherine Rouvel,
Jacques Spiesser
François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team's star, and is ordered off the field. The club's boss, who is also ... See full summary »
Director:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars:
Patrick Dewaere,
France Dougnac,
Dorothée Jemma
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Director:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars:
Jane March,
Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Frédérique Meininger
When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was ... See full summary »
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais (Fabrice Luchini), playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
Director:
Édouard Molinaro
Stars:
Fabrice Luchini,
Manuel Blanc,
Sandrine Kiberlain
Anthony Burgess created the primitive language for the early humans in this prehistoric adventure about a trio of warriors who travel the savanna, encountering sabre-toothed tigers, mammoths and cannibalistic tribes in search of a flame that would replace the fire their tribe has lost. Written by
Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
It took three years to get this movie financed, and a whole year to make. See more »
Goofs
In the first shot of the woolly mammoth opening its mouth, stubs of elephant tusks can be seen. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Title Card:
80,000 years ago, man's survival in a vast uncharted land depended on the possession of fire. / For those early humans, fire was an object of great mystery, since no one had mastered its creation. Fire had to be stolen from nature, it had to be kept alive - sheltered from wind and rain, guarded from rival tribes. / Fire was a symbol of power and a means of survival. The tribe who possessed fire, possessed life.
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This is an extremely overlooked film many people should learn about. First, it tells you a very complex story without a single line of dialog successfully.
Second, the story is universal: Every civilization on earth can pick up this film and understand it, because it goes to the most basic, primitive issues of a species (mainly, survival). Third, it makes the beginning of man interesting. Fourth, it reminds us we were once as savage as any other animal on earth.
Fifth, it's like no other movie you've seen before. That one I can guarantee you.
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This is an extremely overlooked film many people should learn about. First, it tells you a very complex story without a single line of dialog successfully.
Second, the story is universal: Every civilization on earth can pick up this film and understand it, because it goes to the most basic, primitive issues of a species (mainly, survival). Third, it makes the beginning of man interesting. Fourth, it reminds us we were once as savage as any other animal on earth.
Fifth, it's like no other movie you've seen before. That one I can guarantee you.