Understanding Movies

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

The taxi driver Martin Bendix is questioned when the police is investigating the murder of 17-year-old Anni Larsson.

When a sudden storm traps a college student from California in the Miller's farmhouse basement, in the dead geographic center of America, with Irma, her husband Dallas and their brooding 30-year-old son Billy, their dark secrets are revealed. This taut, well-crafted drama is a star turn for Blythe Danner, leading us on an intriguing path of family dysfunction and hidden tragedies. The Millers are trying to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their only daughter. Irma's delusions about the tragedy are further complicated by the arrival of the suspicious California coed.

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.

Into the forest, a scarred man tries to solve the enigma of his father's disappearance when he takes refuge with a mysterious hunter who he believes is responsible for it- Though things are not what they seem.

Elisa, the daughter of an ordinary family, has been in prison for ten years for brutally murdering her sister. She believes she doesn’t remember what happened, but her fragmented memories begin to come into focus during meetings with the criminologist Alaoui, who is conducting a study on family homicides. The truth that emerges for Elisa is devastating—a pain that may mark the beginning of redemption.

Fleeing her abusive ex, Jess hires a fishing boat captain to take her across Lake Superior to a new life in Canada. When an accident leaves her washed up on shore, she’s taken in by a reclusive lighthouse keeper. As Jess is nursed back to health, she realizes she’s wandered into another trap altogether.

Catatonic. Nymphomaniac. Murderer. ASHCAN COPIES is an 80 minute gritty tale concerning the daily struggles of three psychologically disturbed, lower class people in a small town. When JASON kills GRACE as a symptom of coverting the town's top tramp TRACI his world of calculated killings and secretive necrophilia begins to unravel. After Traci entangles her adoring lover PETEY in a plot to kill her husband JEFF, she's left with only one ally to stave off Jason's psychotic lust, an anonymous CATATONIC that hasn't moved in ten years.

La partida

An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.

An unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he brings there.

The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

A burned out L.A. detective moves to Hawaii, where he stumbles upon a murder at a college sorority reunion.

During a small gathering, a smooth, seductive stranger is invited into a couple's house party and falls in love with the wife. Turns out the stranger is an escaped convict who demands that the wife leave the country with him and threatens to kill anyone who stands in his way.