Jean-Luc Godard dissects the structure of society, movies, love and revolution. He asks compelling questions: Can love survive a relationship? Read More »
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Im Going Home (2001) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Comedy, Drama
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Read More »
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, César Silvagni, Biography, History
1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Read More »
Joan at the Stake (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli, Biography, Drama, History, Musical
The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy. Read More »
Female Agents (2008) Jean-Paul Salomé, Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Drama, War
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Read More »
The Golden Age (1930) Luis Buñuel, Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Comedy, Drama
A party of dignitaries arrive on the shore of an island to pay homage to some dead heroes but are outraged to see a couple making love on the beach. Read More »
I Spit on Your Grave (1959) Michel Gast, Christian Marquand, Antonella Lualdi, Fernand Ledoux, Crime, Drama, Romance
In the American south, light-skinned Afro-American Joe Grant leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his 18-year-old brother Sonny is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Read More »
A Private Affair (2002) Guillaume Nicloux, Thierry Lhermitte, Marion Cotillard, Samuel Le Bihan, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
It’s been six months since Rachel Siprien disappeared. At the request of Rachel’s mother, private detective François takes over the investigation. Read More »
My Case (1986) Manoel de Oliveira, Bulle Ogier, Luís Miguel Cintra, Axel Bogousslavsky, Drama, Fantasy
Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film Read More »
L.627 (1992) Bertrand Tavernier, Avec Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Philippe Torreton, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police inspector more because he loves it than because it’s his job, Lucien Marquet, 35, nicknamed Lulu, spends his nights and days sniffing out clues that might lead to solving cases. Read More »