
When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
Listen to the Voices (2024) Kouté vwa

13-year-old Melrick’s summer with grandma Nicole unearths her late drummer son Lucas’s story. Amid family grief and a friend’s revenge, Melrick finds his own path to forgiveness. Read More »
Young Girls of Good Families (1963)

A young kleptomaniac girl befriends a rich heiress whom she admires and goes with her to Saint-Tropez. Read More »
Perverse Adolescence (1974)

Mirella, a sultry math teacher, falls in love with a student, Alain. But her bourgeois upbringing comes in the way of this fantasy love Read More »
Va, Toto! (2017) Pierre Creton

An experiment in essayistic storytelling in which a baby boar, Toto, is rescued and brought up by Madeleine, an elegant old lady living in rural Normandy. Read More »
Agent trouble (1987) Jean-Pierre Mocky

Amanda investigates her nephew Victorien’s murder after he witnessed a government cover-up involving toxic gas deaths of 50 tourists. Read More »
1001 Nights (1990) Philippe de Broca

Zany subversion of the 1001 Nights myth that skips all of the stories and simply focuses on the lovely Scheherazade’s escape from the lustful king with the help of a magic lamp and a time traveling astrologist. Read More »
Duelle (1976) Twilight (A Quarantine)

The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris. Read More »
No Time for Ecstasy (1961)

A young man Michel, of Ukrainian origin, after fleeing the Red Army, he commits to Perpignan in the International Brigades fighting Franco. Read More »
The Second Act (2024) Le deuxième acte

Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father. But David isn’t attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. Read More »