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The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) Jean Grémillon, Paul Fromet, Geymond Vital, Genica Athanasiou
Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany Read More »
Beauties at War (2008) Benoît Poelvoorde, Olivia Bonamy, Jacques Mathou, Patrice Leconte
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot. Read More »
The Dreamlife of Angels (1998) Erick Zonca, Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin
In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Read More »
Little Jerusalem (2005) Karin Albou, Fanny Valette, Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini
The Tunisian-French Laura is a young woman that lives with her Orthodox Jewish family in the Jewish community in the suburbs of Paris. Read More »
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2009) Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary. Read More »
The Pied Piper (1972) Jacques Demy, Keith Buckley, Patsy Puttnam, Arthur Hewlett
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Read More »
Exiles (2004) Tony Gatlif, Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem
Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Read More »
Zouzou (1934) Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey
As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
The Art of Breaking Up (2005) Michel Deville, Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Dominique Blanc
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. Read More »
Peek-a-boo (1954) Jean Loubignac, Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Raymond Bussières
A small-town policeman is informed that “naked women” are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Read More »
Lola Montès (1955) Max Ophüls, Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook
The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès, a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction Read More »
La Ronde (1950) Max Ophüls, Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. Read More »
The Raven (1943) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town Read More »
Car Cemetery (1983) Fernando Arrabal, Alain Bashung, Juliet Berto, Micha Bayard
Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal’s outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. Read More »