Cinema releases by week

, 1h58
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Erotic thriller films, Chase films
Actors Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Akosua Busia, Kabir Bedi, Eric Pohlmann, Beverly Johnson
Rating54%
Ashanti is an action adventure film, set against the background of modern day slave trading, with a man who determinedly takes on a perilous journey in order to find his beautiful wife, who has been kidnapped by brutal slave traders. David and Anansa Linderby (Caine and Johnson respectively) are doctors with the World Health Organization. On a medical mission carrying out an inoculation programme, they visit a West African village. While David takes photographs of tribal dancers, Anansa goes swimming alone. She is attacked and abducted by slave traders led by Suleiman (Peter Ustinov), who mistake her for an Ashanti tribeswoman. The police can do nothing to find her and David has almost given up hope when he hears rumours that Anansa has been kidnapped by Sulieman to be sold to Arab Prince Hassan (Omar Sharif). The African authorities deny that the slave trade even exists. So David must find help in a shadowy world where the rescuers of slaves are just as ruthless as the traders themselves. As David tracks her across Africa and the Sahara desert, he is helped by a member of the Anti-Slavery League (Rex Harrison), a mercenary helicopter pilot (William Holden), and Malik (Kabir Bedi) a tribesman who is seeking revenge on Suleiman.

, 1h47
Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Marie Laforêt, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Julie Jézéquel
Rating64%
Stanislas Borowitz is a divisional commissioner from the IGPN (Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale) who uses particularly expeditious methods to counteract the "ripoux" (French term for "corrupt cops"). Sent to Nice to struggle against the Mafia and enquire on a murder of a notoriously corrupt commissioner, he changes his identity into a thug named Antonio Cerruti to trigger a gang war between the two biggest local sponsors, Théodore Musard ("l'Auvergnat") and Achille Volfoni ("le Corse"), and discovers a police organization with the mafia of the town. But the corrupt police inspectors Rey and Massard, on the pay of Volfini, absolutely want to harm him.

, 1h40
Directed by Luigi Zampa
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ursula Andress, Laura Antonelli, Sylvia Kristel, Monica Vitti, Orazio Orlando, Michele Placido
Rating45%
Dans le sixième épisode « Méfiez-vous de ces deux là », un voleur et sa complice Maria (Monica Vitti), dérobent le collier d’une princesse. Angelo (Michele Placido), son garde du corps profite de l’inconsistance des voleurs pour reprendre à son tour possession des biens et s’enfuir. Maria, exploite alors à fond ses atouts féminins pour reprendre la parure. Elle se déguise en nonne puis, déterminée à récupérer le collier, elle saute dans un train dans lequel elle retrouve Angelo.

, 1h36
Directed by Ruggero Deodato, Claude d'Anna
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors James Franciscus, Mimsy Farmer, Venantino Venantini, Edmund Purdom, Dennis Hopper, Van Johnson
Rating55%
Concorde Test Flight 820 is sabotaged which forces the plane to crash land in the ocean off coast of Martinique in the Antillies of the Caribbean. The only survivor is a Jean Beneyton (Mimsy Farmer), a French hostess on the flight. Two fishermen find her, but then are soon killed off by a group of suited corporate agents who ride out in a speedboat, because they were witnesses to the crash.

, 1h52
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Paul Dooley, Titos Vandis, Henry Gibson, Belita Moreno, Dennis Franz, Dimitra Arliss
Rating58%
An older man, played by Paul Dooley, tries romancing a younger woman, played by Marta Heflin. She is part of a travelling band of bohemian musicians who perform gigs in outdoor arenas around the country. He joins them on the road and tries to fit into their communal lifestyle. The film features multiple musical numbers.

, 1h31
Directed by Emmanuel Clot, François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dorothée, Dani, Daniel Mesguich
Rating69%
In the previous Antoine Doinel film, Bed and Board, the marriage between Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade) had survived Antoine's infidelity.

, 1h56
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin Austria
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about families, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Alan Hale Jr.
Rating53%
Le roi Louis XIV a à son insu un frère jumeau, Philippe, mais quand il est dit, il verrouille immédiatement son frère à la Bastille. Le roi veut augmenter sa popularité et met en scène un assassinat contre lui-même où Philippe est habillé comme roi Louis. Mais Philippe parvient à échapper à l'assassinat et tout le monde le croit le vrai roi ...