Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
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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 / 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 / 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 / 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 »
Les compères / The ComDads (1983) Francis Veber, Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth Read More »
Buffet froid (1979) Bertrand Blier
Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. Read More »
Maine-Ocean (1986) Jacques Rozier, Rosa-Maria Gomes, Abdel Kedadouche, Luis Rego
“Maine-Ocean” is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). Read More »