Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Fremaux, Jacques Becker. Famed director and screenwriter Bertrand Tavernier takes viewers through his favorite directors' best works. From the films that first inspired... more
Senegalese teenage cousins Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) left Dakar on an ambitious odyssey to reach Italy and make a better life. The grueling cross-desert trek through Libya... more
Emmanuelle Beart, Michael Piccoli. His talent unused for years, a once-famous painter is inspired by a young woman to return to his craft. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jacques... more
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles (Dany... more
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi. This powerful historical drama recounts the tale of the daughter of Queen Mother Catherine de Medici who has been forced to marry her... more
In early-'60s Paris, 13-year-old Anne Weber (Eléonore Klarwein) and her 15-year-old sister Frédérique (Odile Michel) had to navigate an academic year marked by indifferent teachers, first love,... 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
In the early '80s twilight of Argentine autocracy, privileged Buenos Aries school teacher Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez (Norma Aleandro) began to question the evasive half-explanations of her functionary... more
Between juggling night school and shifts at the KFC to help her struggling family, Taipei teenager Lin Yang (Lin Hsiao-yang) still had the fantasies provided by her favorite manga to retreat into.... 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
Padre Padrone: Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, this classic by the Taviani brothers is based on an autobiography by Gavino Ledda, The One That Got Away. Gavino is six when his... more
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes... more
Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Preboist. A touching story unfolds when an 8-year-old Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied France, is sent by his mom and dad to live with the Catholic parents of their... 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
Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet. A young woman is sent from Paris to the provinces to work as a chambermaid for an abusive mistress and a lascivious master, all while pining after the... more
As son of the prominent doctor, professor and humanitarian Héctor Abad Gómez (Javier Cámara), Héctor Abad Faciolince (Juan Pablo Urrego) knew a loving and indulged upbringing in the Medellín of the... more
Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Ettore Manni. A man falls asleep on a train and dreams he has found an all-female society, landing himself on the front lines of an all-out battle of the sexes.... 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
Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch, Claudia Cardinale. A beautiful young woman comes to the door of an elderly French couple as a refugee from war. The old man is a sculptor, and the young woman agrees to... more
One night, aging carny bumper car operator Felix (Philippe Torreton) had an unusual patron-the much younger Lola (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who rode over and over again alone. He developed a fixation... more
Beautiful if naive young Claire (Lou de Laage) caught the eye of all at her late father's Alpine hotel, a situation that her wicked and threatened stepmother Maud (Isabelle Huppert) sought to... more
Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere. Unconventional and sophisticated comedy about two men who try everything to satisfy an insatiable woman, only to lose her to a precocious 13-year-old boy. In French... more
For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp and they call for... 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
After her soul mate tragically dies, Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) struggles to rekindle her passion for life until she finds love and joy in the most unexpected of places... right in front of her eyes.