In 1930, following their short film triumph UN CHIEN ANDALOU, Bunuel and Dali created an hour long avant-garde tour de force that's both an aesthetic avalanche of boldness and a withering attack on a... more
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A weekend shooting party at an upper-class French estate is the setting for director Jean Renoir's witty, acerbic look at the jaded and amoral lifestyles of the aristocracy in the days before World... more
Albert Prejean, Pola Illery, Edmond T. Greville. Legendary director Rene Clair's famed classic about two Parisian street performers and the powerful love they share. In French with English subtitles.... more
Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant. A depressed painter becomes hopelessly obsessed with a prostitute who, to anyone else's eyes, is obviously playing him for a fool. Directed by Jean... more
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor. This famous comedy/drama contrasting affaires d'amour of aristocrats and servants during a weekend outing in the country, is thought by many critics to be the best movie... more
Fanfare d'amour follows Jean Rameau (Fernand Gravey) and Pierre Dupont (Julien Carette), two out-of-work musicians in search of stable employment who eventually set their sights on the female-led... more
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor. This famous comedy/drama contrasting affaires d'amour of aristocrats and servants during a weekend outing in the country, is thought by many critics to be the best movie... more
Having holed up in a seedy Paris boardinghouse, frustrated young lovers Renée (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) botch their suicide pact-and pimp resident Edmond (Louis Jouvet) advises... more
From French director Rene Clair, a satire on the age of automation. Two friends working on a prison assembly line execute a daring escape. Years later, their paths cross again when one has become a... more
After well-to-do bookseller Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval) rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine, his family adopts the bum and dedicates itself to reforming him.
The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning to the Provencal countryside he knew intimately, Pagnol draws a... more
The spirits of those who die at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve are condemned to drive the Death Cart for an entire year. This horse-drawn cart is what takes human souls to meet their maker,... more
In 1934, Jean Renoir stepped off the soundstage and headed to the South of France, where he captured vivid human drama amid the bucolic splendor and everyday social rituals of the countryside. Based... more
Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle. The son of a wealthy Parisian doctor is cut off from the family money, and falls in with a gang of car thieves after tracking down his newly-sold... 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
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
Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Michel Simon. Jean, an army deserter, decides finally to turn his life around after somone shows him an act of kindess and also one of revenge in this screen adaptation of... more
A musical comedy from director Rene Clair. A pair of penniless artists win a fortune in a lottery only to discover that the ticket was left in an old jacket inadvertently given away to a beggar. In... 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
A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads. Nearby lays a villa, a broken down garage & gas station, and a house next to it. A one-eyed... more
Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty. The assistant to a jeweler is lured into a half-baked robbery scheme by two seductive young women. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Maurice Lehmann.... more