Love Me Strangely
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting…
Summer Hours
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.
Man on the Train
A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he…
The Milky Way
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from…
Judex
Georges Franju’s Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade’s lengthy serial of the same…
The Vicar of Dibley
Set against Paris’ oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer…
Holy Motors
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these…
Eyes Without a Face
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along…
The Lovers on the Bridge
Set against Paris’ oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer…
Casa de Lava
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted…
Bon voyage
Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu star in director Jean-Paul Rappenau’s amusing farce set on the eve of World War II, which follows the intersecting lives of four Parisians as they…
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
Two sisters, their households, and generally sophisticated lives.
Family for Rent
Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, reasonably introverted man. Wealthy however alone, he’s deeply bored and finally ends up concluding that what he wants is a household. Violette, a forty-year-old filled…
Things to Come
Nathalie teaches philosophy in a senior school in Paris. She’s enthusiastic about her occupation also especially appreciates passing on the joy of believing. Married with two kids, she divides her…