8 Women

Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch

Persepolis

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami

A Few Days with Me

After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggli

The Hidden Side of Persepolis

This 2007 behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of PERSEPOLIS features interviews with codirec

Bluebeard

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi

A Room in Town

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-c

Lackered Box

The story gets under way at a weekend house party where a scientist is murdered and his secret paper

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexu

The Earrings of Madame de...

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her

Bethsabée

Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bet

Ladies Man

Sentimental events of a rich industrialist which turn to the criminal case.

Napoleon

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. T

Le Plaisir

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep

Tomorrow's Another Day

A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.

Towards Zero

Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seem

The Rage of Paris

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try

Mayerling

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage t

Service Entrance

Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

It was the world's largest, most beautiful and fastest cruise ship. Built in Saint Nazaire in 1932,

The Truth About Bebe Donge

François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten

Scene of the Crime

In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that

With All Hands

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

The Sunday of Life

After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin s

Twisted Mistress

Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals,

Le Coup de grâce

During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given

Divine

Olivier, a young man, falls in love with Marion Renoir, theatre and screen star, to the despair of h

The Slump Is Over

A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review un

If Paris Were Told to Us

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its found

Coquecigrole

La Ronde

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets a

Honeymoon Trip

The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honey

Bad Seed

A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thi

The Affair of the Poisons

Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set ey

Le Secret d'une nuit

A very nice young man, Sylvain Renaud is "surrounded" by two bad guys who want to drag him into some

L'Or dans la rue

A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is u

Sunday Encounter

Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five ye

The Image Book

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, tele

The Skirt Chaser

A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing an

The Night Affair

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicte

The Lions Are Loose

A young woman leaves her hometown and husband to explore Paris, where she becomes entangled in a riv

Lovers of Paris

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the bell

Marie-Octobre

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Hele

Nouvelle chance

How do you bring together such different people as Odette Saint-Gilles, an aging, forgotten actress

Life Together

The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on

5 Fingers

During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans whil

I've Been Waiting So Long

A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mot

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more

The Man in the Buick

Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is i

Le Rouge et le Noir

It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career a

Keep an Eye on Amelia

A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, e

Rich, Young and Pretty

A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for he

Katia

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic g

The Bonnadieu House

Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle

The World of Jacques Demy

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq

The Young Girls Turn 25

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacqu

Castles in Spain

When the seductive Frenchwoman Geneviève Dupré, secretary to a Spanish businessman, travels to Madri

All for love

Louise of Habsburg-Lorraine, young and beautiful wife of the Crown Prince of Saxony, manifests democ

Headstrong

Based on a popular novel with the English title Devil in the Flesh by Alexandre Jardin, this little

La Maison de campagne

What to do, and what not to do, when one is building or renovating a house.

The Greengage Summer

Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in Franc

24 Hours in a Woman's Life

Alice, a widowed Frenchwoman, goes on a vacation to Italy. Upon her return, she relates the particul

The Queen's Lover

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Quee

Beating Heart

Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador

Crime Does Not Pay

A man walks into a movie theater in Paris and starts watching a film—the same one we're watching, co

Birds in Peru

A nymphomaniac young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a seasid

Abused Confidence

Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famo

Adorable Creatures

Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two chil

One Step to Eternity

Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper invites four women to a housewarm

Seventh Heaven

"Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner w

The Lonely Woman

Teresa hopes that her social climbing ambitions will be fulfilled by her young son, Jacy. When he le

Friends of the family

Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostl

The Wages of Sin

Bourgeois melodrama about the family of a wealthy businessman in La Rochelle, who dismisses the marr

Murder at 45 R.P.M.

Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. W

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love bot

Alexander the Great

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops for

Her First Affair

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a

The Green Domino

After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love w

What a Funny Kid!

Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.

At the Top of the Stairs

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was

Trouble Among Widows

When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pha

Keiko and Yves Get Married

The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi.

Be Careful Ladies

Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to

Volga in Flames

Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decide

Why Paris?

Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at

The Virgin Bride

Jacqueline Vignol, a flighty young woman, marries a womanizing widower, Albert Letournel, out of spi

Whims

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a d

Taras Bulba

In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in lov

Eyes of Love

During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother,

J'aime toutes les femmes

Jean Morena, famous operatic tenor, is determined to change his engagements for some freedom after t

Ne coupez pas mes arbres

L'or du duc

A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their t

Return at Dawn

Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty you

Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with

The Prom

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice p

Un mauvais garçon

Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own wa

Inspector of the Red Cars

Bernard, Sleeper Coach conductor and automobile inventor, is confused to be the racing car company p

Les Bras de la nuit

Police inspector, Landais is caught in a tough situation. Daniele has murdered her husband, yet afte

Epiphany Sunday

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the

The Wedding Cake

The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the rec

Coup de soleil

Valentine Matignon is a renowned perfumer, "nose". She has had a relationship for 15 years with Géra

Folie douce

L'Intoxe

Oscar et la dame Rose

Club de femmes

Young women search for love whilst living in a cheap Parisian boardinghouse that does not allow men.

Happy Go Lucky

After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a disti

Port Arthur

French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German,

Meet Miss Mozart

This French musical comedy was based on the stage play Mademoiselle Mozart, written by Yvan Noe, who

My Heart Is Calling You

Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform

Goodbye Darling

Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who

Dédé

Dédé is a young wealthy man who buys a shoe store, owned by his friend Robert, in order to receive m

On purge bébé

Dream Castle

A film actress falls for an extra on her set, he turns out to be a prince.

Jean de la Lune

Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as

Danielle Darrieux : Il est poli d'être gai !

Danielle Darrieux - icon and actress of the century: as a 16-year-old, the French actress perfectly

Panurge

Panurge, a poor laundress, breathes in the smell of fish glue all day long but grows a meager flower

Holy Year

Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.

Good Lord Without Confession

Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another ma

C'est toi, c'est tout

"It's You, That's All" tells the story of a young woman who has locked herself away in the worst kin

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange

Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last on

Les Mamies

When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from

La Mort en sautoir

Lusitanian Illusion

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rur

George et Margaret

In a quiet corner of the English countryside, lives the Smith family. Their quietude is disturbed by

1940: Taking over French Cinema

Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alf

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6

Fernand Gravey and Danielle Darrieux arrive in Hollywood; the Ritz Brothers achieve immortality, lea

The Truth About Danielle Darrieux

Director and Danielle Darrieux specialist Clara Laurent, author of the book Danielle Darrieux, une f