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Quantum Love AKA Une rencontre (2014) Lisa Azuelos, Sophie Marceau, François Cluzet
A family man’s encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination. Read More »
Black Dossier AKA Le dossier noir (1955) André Cayatte, Antoine Balpêtré, Bernard Blier, Jean-Marc Bory
Jacques Arnaud arrives in a small town somewhere in the province. Read More »
Ridicule (1996) Patrice Leconte, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant
In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue. Read More »
My Uncle Benjamin AKA Mon oncle Benjamin (1969) Édouard Molinaro, Jacques Brel, Claude Jade, Bernard Alane
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper’s beautiful daughter Read More »
Three Sinners AKA Meurtres (1950) Richard Pottier, Fernandel, Mireille Perrey, Jacques Varennes
Noel Annequin is the black sheep of a social-climbing bourgeois family who married Read More »
Eden and After AKA L’éden et après (1970) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Read More »
Four Flights to Love AKA Paradis perdu (1940) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
Bonnot’s Gang AKA La bande à Bonnot (1968) Philippe Fourastié, Jacques Brel, Bruno Cremer, Annie Girardot
A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. Read More »
The Bar at the Crossing AKA Le bar de la fourche (1972) Alain Levent, Jacques Brel, Rosy Varte, Malka Ribowska
In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. Read More »
My Father Is an Engineer AKA Mon père est ingénieur (2004) Robert Guédiguian, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition. Read More »
The Woman with Red Boots AKA La femme aux bottes rouges (1974) Juan Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Adalberto Maria Merli
After a chance meeting with avant garde writer Francoise, an elderly millionaire starts to manipulate her life Read More »
Pause (2014) Mathieu Urfer, Baptiste Gilliéron, Julia Faure, André Wilms
Helped by his old friend Fernand, Sami tries to make Julie realise that she is the love of his life. Read More »
Shoah: Four Sisters AKA Les quatre soeurs (2018) Claude Lanzmann, Paula Biren, Ruth Elias
Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust. Read More »
The Punishment AKA La punition (1962) Jean Rouch, Nadine Ballot, Jean-Claude Darnal, Modeste Landry
Nadine, an eighteen-year-old high school student in her final year, arrives late for the philosophy lesson. Read More »