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Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud), The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) sensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut's own[...]
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Huit ans après leur mariage, Antoine et Christine se quittent en bons termes et toujours liés par leur fils Alphonse. Devenu romancier, Antoine profite de son célibat pour retrouver Colette, son premier amour mais il fait aussi la rencontre de S[...]
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This masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville about the French Resistance went unreleased in the United States for thirty-seven years, until its triumphant theatrical debut in 2006. Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Melville’s most persona[...]vidéo
En 1957, l'affrontement sanglant entre les paras du colonel Matthieu et les troupes du FLN dans la casbah d'Alger. Cette oeuvre, la première à raconter la guerre d'Algérie du point de vue du FLN, ait connu en 1966 une sortie française mouvementé[...]vidéo
Of the hallowed group of Cahiers du cinema critics turned filmmakers who transformed French film history, Claude Chabrol was the first to direct his own feature. His absorbing landmark debut, Le beau Serge, follows a successful yet sickly young [...]
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Based on the classic Emile Zola novel. Jean Renoir's La Bête humaine was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes - and earned star Jean Gabin a permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen. Part poetic realism, part noir, t[...]
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Jacques Becker lovingly evokes the belle epoque Parisian demimonde in this classic tale of doomed romance. When gangster’s moll Marie (Simone Signoret) falls for reformed criminal Manda (Serge Reggiani), their passion incites an underworld rival[...]
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Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom. As the unlikely trio plots a heist against impossible od he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing paths with a notor[...]vidéo
Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut’s gripping, humanist character study. Against all odds—a Jewish theater manager in hid[...]vidéo
Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled in an awkward flirtation with his new employer (played by actor-director's real-life wife, Jacqueline Delubac), who is involved with a stuffy po[...]
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In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Among the legendary French filmmaker's finesst [...]
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Dans une institution destinée à l'éducation des jeunes garçons, Christina et Nicole, respectivement épouse et maîtresse du directeur Michel Delasalle, s'associent afin d'assassiner l'homme qu’elles ont fini par haïr. Mais quelques jours après le[...]
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The astounding success of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure sha[...]
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The backstabbing criminals in the shadowy underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos have only one guiding principle: "Lie or die". A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for sq[...]
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Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise, the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert re[...]
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Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau's immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole Stépha[...]
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Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque’s devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV’s army to avoid a forc[...]
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Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of[...]
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When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La Haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically[...]
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In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly old bohemian who shines shoes for a living in the French harbor city of Le Ha[...]
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Universally acclaimed by critics, the multiple award-winning Summer Hours is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas's most personal film to date. Three siblings, , played by Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Rénier,[...]
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En août 1957, à Hiroshima. Dans la pénombre d'une chambre, un couple nu, enlacé. Elle, une jeune actrice francaise d'une trentaine d'années venue pour jouer dans un film sur la paix. Lui, un architecte japonais. C'est l'histoire de leur impossib[...]
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One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn't seem more different - yet they're the twin pillars of one of the most daring and uncompromising caree[...]vidéo
François Truffaut's breathlessly paced three-way romance is cinema's most provocative, exuberant portrait of the unpredictability of love. Spanning twenty-five years, the film dissects the relationship between the beautiful, free-spirited Cather[...]vidéo
Anaïs, douze ans, se trouve complexée par son poids. Tapie dans l'ombre ou laissée pour compte, elle souffre intérieurement.C'est l'été, la mer, les vacances en famille, l'apprentissage du premier amour. Cet apprentissage, Anaïs le fait en obser[...]vidéo
Claude Jutra's evocative portrait of a boy's coming-of-age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time. Delicate, naturalistic, and tinged with a striking mix of nost[...]
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Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented he abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) cont[...]
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Jean Cocteau's update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows[...]
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The notorious Pépé le moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers, Pépé [...]vidéo
A sparkling four-way affair overflowing with dialogue that showcases writer-director Sacha Guitry’s wit, Quadrille stars Guitry as a magazine editor whose longtime girlfriend—to whom he plans to finally propose—is uncontrollably drawn to a hands[...]vidéo
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him fr[...]
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. Although the original negative was destroyed during World Wa[...]
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After making such American noir classics as The Naked City and Brute Force, blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious heist in the City o[...]
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In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tes[...]
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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology—maverick d[...]
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In René Clair's irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. This witty exploration of love and human foibles, told primarily through song, capture[...]
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Even among cinema's legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Lik[...]
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The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman’s experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue Is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as[...]
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A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras’s Z was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and remains among the most vital dispatches from that hallowed era of filmmaking. This Academy Award winner—[...]
