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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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.
Five longtime partners in a Paris gambling dive saw a retirement opportunity come up-and it involved pooling their cash resources for a massive narcotics buy. It sounded sweet until one of them got... more
Looking to chronicle the lives of the working poor, journalist Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) sought employment as a cleaning woman-and, like most of the region's most desperate, ferried across... more
In the wintry rural hinterlands near the eastern border, the body of a young woman is found in the snow. For the investigating magistrate (Alain Delon), the immediate focus is on the farm family from... 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
Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset. When a French diplomat disappears from the U.N., two journalists are secretly on the case. As they dig deeper into the diplomat's life, they come across some... more
Paralyzed in the wake of a stroke, 85-year-old André Bernheim (André Dussollier) chose to go out on his own terms-and to that end, he pleaded the help of his semi-estranged daughter Emmanuèle (Sophie... more
For all the apparent paternal, velvet-glove stewardship of his family-owned precision industrial scale factory, Julio Blanco (Javier Bardem) was far from above taking frequent advantage of his... 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
Fast-moving and darkly comic tale of two likable hoods (Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere) who go on a sex-and-violence filled excursion across the French countryside. Along the way, the pair... more
Erotic and provocative French drama stars Fanny Ardant as Catherine, a doctor who learns of her husband Bernard's (Gérard Depardieu) infidelity and seeks to learn more about his behavior by hiring... more