And when you add in glamorous movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Alain Delon back in the 1960s or Tom Cruise andAudrey Tautoutoday, what you get is visually stunning. Paris is one of the stars, and so beautiful you can’t look away from it. The list of great movies set in Paris is...
The film is set in the fictional European kingdom of Genovia, where Mia discovers that she must marry within thirty days to claim her right to the throne. This premise sets the stage for a series of comedic and romantic escapades, as Mia navigates the complexities of royal traditions, ...
The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during WWI, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. The film is a very loose adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. The film stars Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles...
If you can get past the fact that Eva Green and Louis Garrel’s characters are twins, then you’re ready for the ménage a trois romp that is Bernardo Bertolucci’s NC-17 film set during 1968 May revolution in Paris. Michael Pitt is the third member of this triangle, and trust us whe...
Though the steaminess was somewhat dialed down in The Twilight Saga, the complex romance of the series is very similar to that of 365 Days. Set in a small Pacific Northwest town, the series sees teenage Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) caught in a love triangle between vampire Edward Cullen (...
Released in 2021 and set in the late ’60s, this Netflix original biographical film tells the story of Parisian brothel owner Madame Claude (Karole Rocher), whose knowledge places her in a position of power over underworld figures and French government officials. But when a rich young woman na...
Tarantino’s next three films took an irreverent approach to history.Inglourious Basterds(2009), set duringWorld War II, follows a group of Jewish American soldiers trained to kill Nazis in German-occupied France.Django Unchained(2012), set in theantebellumAmerican South, tells the lively tale of...
Certainly, at the time it marked a departure for Leigh into more mythical, less domestic territory, and in retrospect marked a new maturity in his filmmaking. Set in a seedy, strip-lit London populated almost exclusively by predators and prey, this is the one film in which Leigh drops the...
The premise could set up a tacky 1990s courtroom drama or erotic thriller: A woman’s husband falls from a balcony and dies while she was in the house. Did she do it? Anatomy of a Fall is not one of those movies, but it’s not not one of those movies either. Justine Triet’s ...
Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she ...