One of the most powerful of the family portraits by Yasujiro Ozu (TOKYO STORY), LATE SPRING tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu... 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
Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Doris Dowling. This epic film from director Giuseppe De Santis recounts a most intriguing tale involving robbery, love and murder. A voluptuous rice field worker in... more
The sublime adaptation by Jean Cocteau (Orpheus) of MME. Leprince de Beaumonts fairy-tale masterpiece in which the true love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast is a... 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-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
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
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
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
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
Sybilie Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg. One of the first feature films about the infamous tragedy of the H.M.S. Titanic, lost in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage... more
In the near-generation since his wife left him, once-prominent lawyer Hector Loursat (Raimu) descended into the bottle, and became an absentee father to his now-rambunctious daughter Nicole (Juliette... more
In a French village, doctor Rémy Germain (Pierre Fresnay) found himself the primary target of an unknown person disseminating libelous letters across town. As distrust and paranoia-fueled violence... 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
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
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
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
In the red light district of St. Pauli, retired, musically inclined sailor Hannes (Hans Albers)entertained in the streets and clubs, looking to help support his late brother's willful girlfriend... more
Raimu, Aime Clariond, Rene Bergeron. The shy, poor porter of a Paris cabaret becomes obsessed by a criminal investigation after discovering a murder victim dead in their car. Now being tailed by the... more