Véra Belmont Movies
Survivre avec les loups
2007
Véra Belmont's World War II-era, French-language drama Survivre avec les loups dramatizes the incredible true story of a 7-year-old Jewish girl from Brussels named...
Chok Dee
2005
Based on the real life of star Dida Diafat, Chok Dee: The Kickboxer relates the tale of how Diafat learned his remarkable fighting skills. While imprisoned, Diafat...
Marquise
1997
A glorious dancer and a beautiful actress, Marquise (originally known as mademoiselle Du Parc) won the hearts of some of mid-17th-century France's brightest lights, including...
Farinelli
R 1994
The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's greatest castrato, a...
Milena
1991
Though featuring a down-beat ending, this true tale of a Czech journalist who gives her life helping the oppressed during the years prior to WWII is an inspirational one. Milen...
Eminent Domain
PG13 1991
Polish bureaucrat Jozef Burski (Donald Sutherland) all but loses his reason for living when he is "downsized" by his government. Reduced to non-person status, Burski reaches...
La Vie Est Belle
1987
Kourou (Papa Wemba) is a poor country boy who travels to the city in this romantic musical comedy. He falls in love with Kabibi (Krubwa Bibi), but her mother arranges her...
Rouge Baiser
1985
Red Kiss is set in the politically supercharged Paris of 1952. 15-year-old French girl Charlotte Valandrey, the daughter of radicals, is severely beaten by the constabulary...
Bayan Ko
1984
This movie is an interweaving of several true events into a coherent story line which was intended to point out the inherent corruption in the government of the Philippines at all...
Les Mots Pour Le Dire
1983
Based on an autobiographical novel by Marie Cardinal, this well-acted psychological drama details the tormented relationship between Marie (Nicole Garcia) and her mother,...
La Jument Vapeur
R 1982
Dirty Dishes is a Bunuel study in alienation, but look again: that's Joyce Bunuel, not Luis, so Dirty Dishes is more user-friendly. French housewife Carol Laure...
Legitime Violence
1982
A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery gone wrong. They were never vindicated since the police...
Quest for Fire
R 1981
Quest for Fire takes place some 80,000 years in the past. A primitive homo sapiens tribe huddles around a natural fire source for comfort and survival. When that source...
Tendres Cousines
R 1980
Photographer-turned-director David Hamilton's favorite subjects-incest and voyeurism-are again given a workout in Cousins in Love. The largely female cast (many of whom seem...
La Guerre des Polices
1979
Fush (Claude Brasseur) and Ballestrat (Claude Rich) are the rival police detectives who head different departments trying to capture a notorious gangster in this crime...
Prisonniers de Mao
1979
Jean Pasqualini was the child of a Corsican Frenchman and a Chinese mother, living in China. When the communist regime tightened its controls over Chinese society in 1957,...
L'Enfance Nue
1967
In this children's drama, a 10-year old boy becomes deeply troubled after his mother abandons him and he must go through a series of foster families. He finally finds one and...
Tant Qu' On A La Sante
1966
Pierre Etaix directed and starred in this comedy that offers an offbeat look at seemingly normal situations. A physician finds himself even more stressed and sickly than his...