Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Read More »
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The Good Time Girls (1960) Claude Chabrol, Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran
Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane try to find fulfillment and love in their lives. Read More »
Phantom India (1969) Louis Malle, Thomas Frederick Howard, Ambu
A very personal labour and a densely informative account of its subject. Read More »
Calcutta (1969) Louis Malle
With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta Read More »
Around a Small Mountain (2009) Jacques Rivette, Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon
Kate (Jane Birkin) is driving along a winding mountain road when her car stalls. Read More »
The Wing and the Thigh (1976) Claude Zidi, Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and the publisher of a famous restaurant guide Read More »
Duchess Of Langeais (2007) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. Read More »
The Wedding Ring (1970) Christian de Chalonge, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Carrière, Isabelle Sadoyan
A vet meets a mysterious woman through a dating agency and moves into her large apartment. Read More »
US Go Home (1994) Claire Denis, Alice Houri, Jessica Tharaud, Grégoire Colin
The 1960’s: Martine lives with her mother in a Parisian suburb near an American military base. Read More »
The Dogs (1979) Alain Jessua, Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence. Read More »
The Eternal Return (1943) Jean Delannoy, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »
Les filles du Golden Saloon (1975) Gilbert Roussel, Sandra Julien, Evelyne Scott, Roger Darton
Richard le Noir, disguised as a woman, helps free the local girls of the California town of Harriba Lannana, from enslavement at a local brothel called the Golden Saloon. Read More »
The Good and the Bad (1976) Claude Lelouch, Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey
The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks. Read More »
The Vanishing Corporal (1962) Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Read More »
Just Before Nightfall (1971) Claude Chabrol, Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet
Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Read More »