Priceless (2006), And God Created Woman (1956), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Scream of Fear (1961), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), The Young in Heart (1938), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Hors de prix (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best French Riviera movies.
Storyline: A luxury-loving golddigger (Audrey Tautou) tutors a lovestruck bartender (Gad Elmaleh) in the art of fleecing a wealthy lover.
Plot Keywords: gold digger, older man, wealthy man, bartender, widow, older woman, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A scantily clad beauty (Brigitte Bardot) teases her husband (Jean-Louis Trintignant), his brother and a Riviera millionaire (Curd Jürgens).
Plot Keywords: lover, teenager, rousing, intense, french riviera, sexual obsession, marriage proposal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wealthy native Brit Lawrence Jamieson, living in Beaumont-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, earns most of his money through big cons on wealthy unsuspecting women. With the help of his associates, corrupt Police Inspector Andre, who provides him most of his intel, and his butler Arthur, he pulls scams such as pretending to be a foreign deposed Prince who needs money to finance a secret war to liberate his people. Beaumont-sur-Mer, and thus his world, is invaded by brash American Freddy Benson, another con man whose targets are also wealthy unsuspecting women. Lawrence believes Freddy is the Jackal, a con man whose true identity is unknown, but who is known to be working his way through Europe. While Lawrence works on thousands of dollars per scam, Freddy works only on tens or if he is lucky hundreds of dollars. Lawrence's efforts to get Freddy out of his territory are unsuccessful, so when Freddy figures out that Lawrence is a con man like he is, he decides to blackmail Lawrence to work ...
Plot Keywords: con artist, police officer, heiress, wealthy woman, madcap, charming, mediterranean coast ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Penny Applebee's parents were divorced when she was quite young and she grew up with her mother. After her mother's death, the wheelchair-bound Penny has accepted her father's invitation to live with him. She arrives only to learn that her father is away though her stepmother - who she is meeting for the first time - proves to be quite welcoming. On her first night however, she sees a light in the summerhouse and upon investigation, sees her father sitting there, apparently dead. Others can find nothing there and tell her she must have imagined it. She later sees his body in library and then again in the pool. She comes to believe that her stepmother and her father's friend, Doctor Pierre Gerard, are plotting to drive her insane. She gets a sympathetic ear from Bob, the chauffeur, who feels there has to be some rational explanation for what has been happening.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: daughter, stepmother, father, doctor, chauffeur, paraplegic, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to "tame" him.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: millionaire, young woman, father, marquis, best friend, husband, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss Fortune. The elderly lady is very wealthy and very lonely. As a reward for saving her life after the train derails, Miss Fortune invites the Carletons to come live with her. The family hopes that by winning her affection, they can eventually be named sole beneficiaries in her will. But will a change of heart soften their mercenary feelings before that time comes?—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: father, mother, son, daughter, elderly person, lawyer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer Kirk Edwards scouted her at a shabby nightclub where she worked as a flamenco dancer. He convinces her to take a chance on acting and her first film is a huge hit. PR man Oscar Muldoon remembers when Maria was in court supporting her father who was accused of murdering her mother. It was Maria's testimony that got him off and she was a bigger star than ever. Alberto Bravano, one of the richest men in South America, sets his sights on Maria and she goes off with him - as much to make Edwards angry as anything - but he treats her badly. When she meets Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini they fall deeply in love. They are married but theirs is not to be a happy life.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: dancer, director, producer, tycoon, press agent, count, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Biarritz with her elderly provider to celebrate her birthday, Irene slips down to the hotel bar when he falls asleep on her. She mistakes barman Jean for a well-healed guest and he encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. A year later the same thing happens but this time her lover finds out and disowns her. Now knowing Jean is indeed a barman of little means doesn't stop her from continuing to live in style until his money is gone. He soon finds himself in Irene's business with older and worldly-wise Madeleine, and though Irene also takes up with a new paramour the two of them keep in increasingly close touch.
Plot Keywords: gold digger, older man, wealthy man, bartender, widow, older woman, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives the lush life with her rich playboy father Raymond, a widower. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa for a visit and gets more and more comfortable there, Cecile is afraid that her lifestyle will be altered, and sets out to make sure that it isn't.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: adulterer, playboy, party girl, mistress, widower, daughter, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry's incendiary documentary, based on the best-selling book by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason, offers a glimpse at the genesis of these partisan vendettas and explores the myths and truths behind the nearly ten year campaign to systematically destroy the political legacy of the Clintons.
Plot Keywords: old friend, wife, novelist, police officer, murderer, tense, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former soldier on holiday in the French Riviera recalls his time in France during WWII, and his love for a French peasant woman.
Plot Keywords: ex-soldier, orphan, prostitute, captain, love interest, officer, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs. Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to the strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with the help of a gold-digging French baron. Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not so easy...—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: ghost, husband, wife, baron, dog, banker, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand--two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft--identical twins Albert and Bertram.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: thief, junkie, informant, prostitute, computer programmer, twin, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: screenwriter, producer, assistant, singer, gangster, police detective, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The President of France's daughter falls for her fathers attaché and asks to be his mistress. Instead he marries her and flies off on their honeymoon. On the honeymoon she meets the prince who makes friends with her. This leads to a scandalous trip to Nice. Did something go wrong? They both come back with a cold. Is it from swimming or an assignation? The husband is jealous. What's the truth?—stephen scialli
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, suitor, prince, father, amusing, playful, sultry ...
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