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
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
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
Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset. A young woman falls for her psychoanalyst despite advice not to get involved. But when the two move in together, her lover reveals himself to be... 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
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
Includes: The Gang (1977) In post-war France, volatile thief Robert (Alain Delon) surrounded himself with similarly disaffected ex-Resistance fighters and formed a crew that terrorized the banks of... 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
On a rural Southern France road during a bitter winter, the car of the wealthy Evelyne Ducat (Valeri Bruni Tedeschi) was discovered abandoned. Who knows what happened? Sullen farmer Michel Farange... 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
Jean-Paul Belmondo. "That Man from Rio" (1964/112 min.) is a comic send-up of the James Bond film genre, that sends Belmondo through Paris, Rio and the Amazon jungle in search of treasure. "Up to His... 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
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, 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.
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