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
When Beatrice (Estella Blain) decides to spend an evening with a group of wealthy playboys, her working class fiance, Pierre (Robert Hossein), follows her and exposes a gang of organized criminals.... 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
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
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
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff. Director Alain Resnais' critically acclaimed classic about one lover's claim that he already had consummated their relationship one year earlier.... 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
The live-action screen bow for Belgian comics' intrepid boy reporter came in "Tintin and the Golden Fleece," as Tintin (Jean-Pierre Talbot) and Capt. Haddock (Georges Wilson) journey to Istanbul,... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Juliet Berto, Jena-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Luc Godard. Two communist revolutionaries spend a night trapped inside a television studio discussing the ways the establishment use language and speaking to... 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
Abel Gance's long-lost doomsday thriller is seen here in a truncated "roadshow" version that played American theaters in 1934. The story focuses on an astronomer who discovers that a comet heading... more
Her marriage to an abusive thug ended by widowhood, Evelyn Morin (Edwige Feuillère) now had to dance in a sleazy nightclub in order to provide for her young son. A chance encounter with long-ago... more
Surreal direction from Bertrand Blier highlights this anarchic and darkly comic thriller starring Gérard Depardieu as Alphonse Tram, a young man who finds himself drawn into an absurd series of... more
The Milky Way (1969) is a deliciously surreal comedy from the master Luis Buñuel (Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie). Inspired by the picaresque Spanish novels of the sixteenth... more
Death in the Garden (1956) is one of Luis Buñuel's (Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) most underrated films, a delirious descent into the heart of darkness. A revolt has erupted... more
Jean Luc-Godard s First Name: Carmen (1983) is a radical reinvention of Bizet s opera, updating the story of sexual obsession with bank robbery and kidnapping. Godard himself appears as doddering... 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