Steeped in sadomasochism and lushly photographed in the vivid hues for which the director is known, Mario Bava's The Whip and the Body is a Gothic thriller that far surpasses the AIP Edgar Allan Poe... more
Seven years after the first fully manned mission to the moon ends in disaster, a second spaceflight is successfully launched. When a strong solar flare causes the spacecraft to malfunction, an... more
Paris in the 1930s - a playground for industrial heirs and debonair architects, but the City of Lights does not shine evenly for all. Struggling actress Madeleine (Nadia Terezkiewicz) and her best... more
When he falls for the beautiful wife of the jailed boss of the Nishida gang, things start to spiral out of control for detective Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari, Graveyard of Honour). In a world where the... more
René Dary, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura. An aging gangster retires to live with his girlfriend after a big score, but when his former partner accidentally gives him away, it's back to a... more
Raquel Welch, Jeanne Moreau, Anna Karina. Six French directors put together six different sketches and short films about "the oldest profession," prostitution. From a Neanderthal lady of the night to... more
Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel. A tyrannical schoolmaster is murdered by his long-suffering wife and his mistress. When his body disappears, they are confronted by evidence of his... more
When Beatrice (Estella Blain) decides to spend an evening with a group of wealthy playboys, her working class fiance, Pierre (Robert Hossein), follows her and exposes a gang of organized criminals.... more
Stylish thriller starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a Frenchman deep in gambling debts who takes a job to knock off a mobster in Los Angeles. When he gets to town, however, a hit is taken out on his... more
Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero that he... more
Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor entirely his own, Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of a... more
Take a '50s Hollywood sci-fi plot, mix in pointed commentary on feminism and '80s politics in Poland, and you get this tale about two scientists whose suspended-animation experiment is halted by... more
Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy. François Truffaut wrote and directed this suspenseful story of a woman who comes after the four men who accidentally murdered her husband on their... more
Two young convent girls become friends and decide to spend the summer together. However, their innocent bicycle rides and walks in the country soon develop a much more sinister side. Influenced by... more
Three-disc set includes: Loving Couples (1964)At the outbreak of World War I, three pregnant women from vastly different backgrounds wait to deliver their babies in a Stockholm hospital. While... more
Having holed up in a seedy Paris boardinghouse, frustrated young lovers Renée (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) botch their suicide pact-and pimp resident Edmond (Louis Jouvet) advises... more
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora... more
Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Philipe. Set in chic 1950s Paris with a classic jazz score by Thelonious Monk, this tale of love, sex and betrayal is tres French. A scandalous married couple help one another... more
Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina. Director Jean-Luc Godard's futuristic thriller set in Paris about a spy sent to destroy the supercomputer mastermind that runs a city called Alphaville. In French with... more
Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the... more
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
Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. Lorre made his powerful screen debut as a child murderer hunted by the authorities and the underworld. Bonus features include audio commentary by German film scholars... more
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow. Ingmar Bergman's fascinating story of a medieval knight who enters into a chess game with Death. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. In Swedish with English subtitles.... more
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