Top 50 French films - 1913-2013

 

Short films not included.

1913 Fantomas - In the Shadow of the Guillotine
1913 Fantomas - The Murderous Corpse
1916 Les Vampires - The Bloody Wedding
1919 J'accuse
1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 L'argent
1930 The Golden Age
1932 Blood of a Poet
1935 Toni
1937 Grand Illusion
1939 The Rules of the Game
1946 Beauty and the Beast
1949 At the Grand Balcony
1949 Manon
1950 Orpheus
1953 Mr Hulot's Vacation
1953 The Wages of Fear
1955 Les diaboliques
1956 The Mystery of Picasso
1958 My Uncle
1958 Elevator to the Gallows
1959 400 Blows
1959 Hiroshima mon amour
1960 Purple Noon
1960 Breathless
1960 Shoot the Pianist
1960 Eyes without a Face
1967 Belle de jour
1967 Playtime
1968 Spirits of the Dead
1968 Je t'aime, je t'aime
1971 Devil's Nightmare
1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1973 Fantastic Planet
1974 The Phantom of Liberty
1976 The Tenant
1978 Grapes of Death
1981 The Professional
1981 Quest for Fire
1981 Possession
1982 The Living Dead Girl
1986 The Name of the Rose
1988 Frantic
1988 The Bear
1995 City of Lost Children
1999 The Ninth Gate
2003 Swimming Pool
2003 High Tension
2005 Cache
2013 Venus in Fur

Ignited ad Libitum

From Symphony of the Anodyne War, out July 1, 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q2KNMGbqzI

Reign in Blood and Horrified - 40 years

Driven to Insanity

Music and lyrics by Repulsion.
Originally recorded by Repulsion 1986 / released by Necrosis 1989.

Postmortem

Music and lyrics by Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King.
Def Jam / Geffen 1986.

These Youtube exclusive cover versions are part of an upcoming EP.

https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com/

Fornax Ferrea is back with a war album

 

Golgotha alla Marcia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvY45szxDNg

Symphony of the Anodyne War is the fourth Fornax Ferrea album and the 46th by Rinta-Perälä. It does not contain any orchestral instruments.

Out July 1, 2026.
https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com

Written and recorded between December 2024 and May 2026.

"A truth’s prosperity is like a jest’s; it lies in the ear of him that hears it."
— Samuel Butler

Joukkoteurastus - Massacre

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2026.
Drawing 451.

No One Rules the World

The second Thalasstorm album and my 45th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXsuEJjXwgU

https://thalasstorm.bandcamp.com/

Written between 2003 and 2026. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, February-April 2026.

Ilmiselvä - Obvious

  

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2026.
Drawing 450.

Thalasstorm - Never Surrender to the Barons

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Fyq1m1-Ts

"No One Rules the World", out May 1, 2026.
https://thalasstorm.bandcamp.com

The Divine Punishment 40th Anniversary

Diamanda Galas is the greatest experimental vocalist, an artist and a composer who has always defied convenient categories.

In 1986 The Divine Punishment subverted all the commercial formulas in the music world and ensured its place in the dark music hall of fame. This is the real stuff.

2022 Remaster playlist

Stormbound Throne

 

Stormbound Throne

From Thalasstorm's "No One Rules the World", out May 1, 2026.

New symphonic heavy metal track

 

Imperator's Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7aNBBB5y14

This song is a new version of a demo from 2003.

No One Rules the World is the second Thalasstorm album and it fortifies the union of heavy metal and classical even more than the debut.

Album will be out May 1, 2026.

https://thalasstorm.bandcamp.com

Tyhjiöstä - Out of a Vacuum

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2026.
Drawing 449.

Exaltite Ruins

1. Touched by the Flaming Arctic
2. Entomb the Uncreative
3. Rib Wing Totem
4. Gilded Insanity
5. Intravenous Hypnosis
6. Voice of the Slashed and Burned
7. Enter the Lightning Pulse Field
8. Redivivogram
9. Sculptor Connecting Worlds
10. Revelations of Doom (Hellhammer cover)

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqVio7xdRE

The Sandman

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KgRmtlxK8

E.T.A. Hoffmann 250 years.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/

Revelations of Doom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Zie63dIi0
Exclusive Hellhammer cover.

Music and lyrics by Thomas Fischer and Martin Ain (Prowling Death 1983, Noise / Maldoror 1990.)

Exaltite Ruins, out February 1, 2026.
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/