Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi, Tony Kendall. A sexually sadistic son returns to his father's castle to reclaim his former lover, who's now married to his brother and is his father's mistress. But when... more
Helmut Wildt, Robert Neidhardt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy. In this hard-boiled, Cold War noir, conflict bubbles close to the surface between a small German town and a US military base as the... more
Raquel Welch, Jeanne Moreau, Anna Karina. Six French directors put together six different sketches and short films about "the oldest profession," prostitution. From a Neanderthal lady of the night to... more
A haunting exploration of love, loss and grief, director François Ozon's acclaimed drama features Charlotte Rampling as English-born teacher Marie Drillon, whose French husband vanishes while... more
Simone Signoret, Samy Ben Youb. Academy Award® Winner for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa follows the life of a French Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and now resides in Paris. She ruffles... more
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe. A soldier-turned-officer in turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia finds his long and respected career threatened by scandal. In Hungarian... more
Widowed Lyons watchmaker Michel Descombes (Philippe Noiret) had made a respected and quiet life for himself and his teenage son Bernard (Sylvain Rougerie). It would stunningly unwind when Bernard was... more
Renate Muller, Hermann Thimig. In this electric musical romance, an aspiring young actress who can't find meaningful work teams up with a down-on-his-luck thespian and dresses in drag to find success... more
In 18th-century France, scandalous family circumstances forced young Suzanne Simonin (Anna Karina) into unhappily entering the life of a nun. Her misery with the spartan existence didn't go unnoticed... more
Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani. Nominated for two Academy Awards®, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actress, this lushly passionate drama etches a vivid portrait of the obsessive romance... more
Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Philipe. Set in chic 1950s Paris with a classic jazz score by Thelonious Monk, this tale of love, sex and betrayal is tres French. A scandalous married couple help one another... more
This tender, bittersweet romance from director Claude Sautet stars Emmanuelle Béart as Nelly, a beautiful, unhappily married young woman hired by middle-aged French businessman Pierre Arnaud (Michel... more
The final film of Henri-Georges Clouzot's (Diabolique, The Wages of Fear) brilliant career, La Prisonnière (1968) is a sensuously colorful film of voyeuristic sexual obsession. It maps a love... more
Sergio Assisi, Gabriella Pession, Nicole Grimaudo. King Ferdinando and Carolina, daughter of the Empress of Austria, fall madly in love and lust in 18th century Naples. Turning away from their ruling... more
After her mother is killed in an auto accident, a 4-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with the reality of her death, a struggle that becomes harder when her father sends the child away to live... more
Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot. Famed inspector Jules Maigret is up against a ticking clock. In Paris, a woman-killing madman increases his tally of murders every night, and the sense... more
Catherine Deneuve, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein. Two sisters struggle to survive after they are captured by the Nazis in occupied France during WWII. But their methods of survival take totally... more
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini, Man on Fire, Quantum of Solace) his livelihood in Lina Wertmuller's (Swept Away) dark... more
In the 17th century, reclusive composer Jean de Saint-Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle) turned away the young Marin Marais (Guillaume Depardieu), who'd come seeking an apprenticeship. The old man's... more
Peter Andorai, Ildikó Bánsági. Towards the end of WWII, two Hungarian resistance fighters must pose as husband and wife to avoid detection and begin to fall in love. In Hungarian with English... more
Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla, Hertha Thiele. In this historic film for queer cinema, an introverted girl falls for her sympathetic teacher at a very strict boarding school. Directed by... more
The game is afoot when two unemployed sleuths dress themselves up as Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective and Dr. Watson in order to gain some publicity. When the pair stumbles upon an actual... more
Pierre Renoir, Lisa Delamare, Louis Jouvet. From the master director of Rules of the Game comes this rediscovered historical epic that views the French revolution from the perspective of the King,... more
Camille (Emmanuelle Béart) is a beautiful concert violinist involved in an affair with the married Maxime (André Dussollier). She finds herself drawn into an unexpected love triangle, however, when... more