Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret. A French theater company hiding a Jewish theater manager under the Nazi occupation of Paris decides to continue putting on shows against all odds and... more
One of Jean Rollins least-seen and most underrated works, The Night of the Hunted (La Nuit des traques) finds the director moving away from his trademark tales of vampirism to explore a nightmarish,... more
Mondo Macabro presents DEATH SQUAD - One of the sleaziest and most violent crime films ever made in France. |One of the sleaziest and most violent crime films ever made in France, DEATH SQUAD gained... more
When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets the tempestuous Betty (Beatrice Dalle in a magnetic breakout performance) in a sunbaked French beach town, it's the beginning of... more
This unique and distinctive filmmaker transformed cinema with prolific results in this 8-part documentary series which examines the art form over the course of 10 years revealing its magic beginning... more
This intensely personal film from Louis Malle (THE LOVERS, MY DINNER WITH ANDRI) tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At... more
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth*Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must... more
His girlfriend Mary (Sophie Marceau) held captive by rival crooks, bank robber Micky (Tchéky Karyo) heads to Paris in an effort to liberate her. Micky's trip is complicated when the dimwitted Léon... more
With her father having to stay in Paris, promiscuous teenager Chris (Valérie Kaprisky) was determined to find pleasure on a Saint-Tropez holiday with her mother Claude (Caroline Cellier). She set her... more
Gerard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda's powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist... more
Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye. When a 16th-century French peasant returns to his wife after years away at war, he has a much improved personality, leading everyone to think he is an imposter.... more
Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant. The original cast of the evocative and hugely successful Academy Award®-winning film is reassembled here to rekindle the lyrical Claude Lelouch love story it... more
In postwar Lyon, former internee Lena Korski (Isabelle Huppert) had made a life and family with Michel (Guy Marchand), the compassionate Vichy guard who'd freed and fled with her. As she develops a... more
Gripping, erotic French thriller stars Michel Blanc as a reclusive tailor whose only human "contact" comes from his nightly peeping sessions on beautiful neighbor Sandrine Bonnaire. At first shocked,... 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
After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly... more
After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly... more
Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Dominique Pinon, Anny Romand. A music lover bootlegs the tape of a star opera singer and then gets it mixed up with an incriminating tape that could... more
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert Hossein, Jean Desailly. After being betrayed and jailed by his own government, a top French secret agent rebels against his former employers and hunts them down in a... more
Aspiring actresses Anna (Fejria Deliba), Lucia (Inês de Medeiros), Claude (Laurence Côte), and Joyce (Bernadette Giraud) shared a rental house outside Paris as they studied under a demanding teacher... 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
Donissan, a mediocre seminarian, haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission, mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners. Until the day the abbot meets... more
With his raw style of filmmaking, Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema, and the scorching + nos amours is one of his greatest achievements. In a revelatory film debut,... more