
Based on Molière’s play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Read More »
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Dark at Noon / L’oeil qui ment (1992) Raúl Ruiz, John Hurt

After his father’s death, a Parisian medical researcher returns to a region of Portugal to deal with part of the family legacy Read More »
Marius et Jeannette (1997) Robert Guédiguian

Marius is the keeper of an abandonned cement works staying high above the quarter of l’Estaque in Marseilles. Read More »
Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978) Bertrand Blier

Solange is depressed: she’s stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Read More »
Chaos (2001) Coline Serreau, Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot

One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into the lives of a bourgeois, modern-but-conventional couple. Read More »
There’s Always a Price Tag / Retour de manivelle (1957)

An unemployed Frenchman who saves the life of a rich man is hired as a chauffeur by the grateful man Read More »
The Crisis (1992) Coline Serreau, Vincent Lindon

When Victor finds out one morning that his wife had left him and that she had forgotten Read More »
Napoléon (1955) Sacha Guitry, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Napoléon Bonaparte’s life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand Read More »
Noroît / Northwest Wind (1976) Jacques Rivette

After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Read More »
Once More / Encore (1988) Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Louis Rolland

A man decides to leave his wife and finds his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. Read More »