'Round Midnight (
1986) | IMDb:
7.4
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Starring:
Dexter Gordon
,
François Cluzet
,
Gabrielle Haker
,
Christine Pascal
,
Pierre Trabaud
,
Frédérique Meininger
Don Giovanni (
1979) | IMDb:
7.6
Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last chance to repent for his multitudinious improprieties. He will not change his ways So, he is sucked down into hell by evil spirits. High drama, hysterical comedy, magnificent music!
Starring:
Ruggero Raimondi
,
José van Dam
,
Kiri Te Kanawa
,
Edda Moser
,
Teresa Berganza
,
Kenneth Riegel
French Connection II (
1975) | IMDb:
6.7
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Starring:
Gene Hackman
,
Fernando Rey
,
Bernard Fresson
,
Philippe Léotard
,
Ed Lauter
,
Charles Millot