Simone Signoret

After the war, a young social climber juggles his affections toward the daughter of a local industrial magnate and an older married woman.

British intelligence officer is sent to investigate an anonymous letter sent to the foreign secretary accusing a key officer of communist affiliation. When the officer commits suicide, the investigator suspects murder and presses his inquiry. The culprit is finally exposed in a surprise climax.

A "first rate documentary" (NY Post) and "a memoir of a lost kingdom" (Village Voice), HENRI LANGLOIS: PHANTOM OF THE CINEMATHEQUE celebrates the man who cultivated cinema's future by protecting its past. Langlois, in the words of grateful acolyte Jean-Luc Godard, "produced a way of seeing films" that inspired two generations of filmmakers and changed the medium itself.

A "first rate documentary" (NY Post) and "a memoir of a lost kingdom" (Village Voice), HENRI LANGLOIS: PHANTOM OF THE CINEMATHEQUE celebrates the man who cultivated cinema's future by protecting its past. Langlois, in the words of grateful acolyte Jean-Luc Godard, "produced a way of seeing films" that inspired two generations of filmmakers and changed the medium itself.

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930's represent society at large in that era.

A brilliant cast brings playwright Anton Chekhov's masterpiece of the capricious power of passion to the screen. The story is set during two gatherings, two years apart, on the same Russian country estate and among six lovers, most of whom are not loved in return. Those who are hard-shelled and worldly shrug off romantic disappointment. Those who are not, cannot...and tragedy ensues. With direction by Sidney Lumet (Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict) and the talents of James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner, Denholm Elliott and more lights of film and stage, The Sea Gull resonates with profound emotion.

Set during two gatherings, two years apart, on the same Russian country estate and among six lovers, most of whom are not loved in return. Those who are hard-shelled and worldly shrug off romantic disappointment. Those who are not, cannot, and tragedy ensues. With direction by Sidney Lumet and the talents of James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner, and Denholm Elliott.

A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.

A British intelligence officer is sent to investigate an anonymous letter sent to the foreign secretary accusing a key officer of communist affiliation. When the officer commits suicide, the investigator suspects murder and presses his inquiry. The culprit is finally exposed in a surprise climax.

As he's observing other voyagers aboard a German passenger freighter bound for Bremerhaven in 1933, a puckish dwarf named Glocken (Michael Dunn) warns that it is "a ship of fools," whose passengers are all deeply involved with one folly or another. As Virginia divorcee Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh) vainly flees middle age, the drug-dependent Spanish noblewoman, La Condesa (Simone Signoret) and the ship's doctor, Schumann (Oskar Werner) are falling in love. Unmarried young Americans Jenny and David (Elizabeth Ashley and George Segal) risk staying in separate cabins to see if they have a life beyond sex, while the Jewish Lowenthal (Heinz Ruehmann) is returning to Germany, a country which he still strongly believes in despite "extremists" like his cabin-mate, Rieber (Jose Ferrer), an anti-Semitic publisher. With a wife at home, Rieber is carrying on a shipboard romance with the Brunhildean Lizzi Spockenkieker (Barbara Luna). A baseball player who's past his prime, Bill Denny (Lee Marvin) is pursuing one of the Spanish dancers, while Elsa (Olga Fabian), a young Swiss girl, awaits only a spark to incite her to rebellion against her puritanical parents. One by one, their problems unfold during the voyage. Yet, upon disembarking, each goes their own way, leaving the bemused Glocken behind.

As he's observing other voyagers aboard a German passenger freighter bound for Bremerhaven in 1933, a puckish dwarf named Glocken (Michael Dunn) warns that it is "a ship of fools," whose passengers are all deeply involved with one folly or another. As Virginia divorcee Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh) vainly flees middle age, the drug-dependent Spanish noblewoman, La Condesa (Simone Signoret) and the ship's doctor, Schumann (Oskar Werner) are falling in love. Unmarried young Americans Jenny and David (Elizabeth Ashley and George Segal) risk staying in separate cabins to see if they have a life beyond sex, while the Jewish Lowenthal (Heinz Ruehmann) is returning to Germany, a country which he still strongly believes in despite "extremists" like his cabin-mate, Rieber (Jose Ferrer), an anti-Semitic publisher. With a wife at home, Rieber is carrying on a shipboard romance with the Brunhildean Lizzi Spockenkieker (Barbara Luna). A baseball player who's past his prime, Bill Denny (Lee Marvin) is pursuing one of the Spanish dancers, while Elsa (Olga Fabian), a young Swiss girl, awaits only a spark to incite her to rebellion against her puritanical parents. One by one, their problems unfold during the voyage. Yet, upon disembarking, each goes their own way, leaving the bemused Glocken behind.

SHIP OF FOOLS is set on a German ocean liner, during the Nazi regime of the 1930's. In the high class section are several well-to-do people, while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work in Cuba. The ship is a hot bed of disillusionment, prejudice and delusions of grandeur.