Toshiro Mifune. A Japanese detective descends into a criminal underworld to find his missing gun—and the killer who's been using it. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. In Japanese with English subtitles.... more
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell. Many critics consider this Oscar-winning classic to be one of the greatest films ever made. Told with non-professional actors, this simple human... more
Jean-Louis Barrault, Arletty, Pierre Brasseur. Possibly the most revered and beloved of all French films, exploring the loves and ambitions of a group of actors. Directed by Marcel Carn. In French... more
Jean Marais, Josette Day. Jean Cocteau's hauntingly beautiful, visually dazzling masterpiece returns from the 1940s to reincarnate the surrealistic and magical spin he so eloquently placed on the... more
In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, ToshirC4 Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small- time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office... more
A work of poetry and dark humor, LES VISITEURS DU SOIR is a lyrical medieval fantasy from the great French director Marcel Carni (CHILDREN OF PARADISE). Two strangers (CHILDREN OF PARADISE's Arletty... more
Simply put, this is a brilliant, beautiful-to-look-at fantasy of the highest order. You will be enchanted with the dreamlike quality of this film. It's like watching a sublime painting that's come to... more
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young... more
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray. When a 22-year-old son confesses his love for the young and beautiful Madeline, his parents are both very upset…but for different reasons. His mother's... more
Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively... more
Isa Pola, Luciano De Ambrosis. The tragic disintegration of a family is seen through the eyes of a four-year-old boy in this superb early neo-realist drama. Directed and cowritten by Vittorio De... more
This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and... more
Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly. As Hitler's reign comes to an end, a group of Nazi soldiers and supporters flee France to South America in a submarine and abduct a French doctor to... more
Maria Cesares, Paul Bernard. A vengeful spurned woman sets up her former lover with another woman hiding a dangerous past. Also knows as Ladies of the Park. 1945/b&w/85 min/NR.
When classy, calculating widow Blanche Ferrand (Marlene Dietrich) came to town, common contractor Martin Roumagnac (Jean Gabin) was immediately smitten-and began ruinously lavishing her with gifts.... more
Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier. This classic film noir is set in the dancehalls and crime corridors of 1940s Paris. A jealous husband does not take it well when his wife, a fabulous... more
Josephine Baker, Lucien Baroux, Micheline Presle, Jean Tissier. The underage children of two neighboring French families fall madly in love but are forbade to marry by their parents. While their... more
In a bizarre blending of art and politics, the 1912 Titanic disaster was turned by German filmmakers-working under the watchful eye of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels-into a drama filled... more
Georg Wilhelm Pabst's masterfully rendered, hard-to-find biopic of the revolutionary 16th-century Swiss physician and philosopher-crafted under the Third Reich's wary auspices-casts Werner Krauss in... more
Cantinflas returns in one of the funniest films of his career, as he stars as a down-on-his-luck man whose girlfriend gets him a job as a bellboy at a ritzy hotel. As he hobnobs with the wealthy and... more
Made under the auspices of Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels to mark the 25th anniversary of Germany's UFA studio, this lavish, effects-filled fantasy stars Hans Albers as the baron whose... more