Cast: Laszlo Szabo

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Anna Karina · Dirk Sanders · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis Pierrot Goes Wild (1965) follows Ferdinand, a disillusioned man who escapes his bourgeois life with Marianne, his former lover. They embark on a spontaneous, chaotic journey across France, seeking freedom and passion. Their adventure spirals into a whirlwind of crime,...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Marianne Denicourt · André Marcon · Laurence Côte · Anna Karina

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Gabriele Ferzetti · Michel Vitold

Synopsis Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. Will be shown the mental tortures during the investigations and...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Pascale Ogier · Tchéky Karyo · Fabrice Luchini · Virginie Thévenet

Synopsis The 4th of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Trainee designer Louise lives with her boyfriend, Rémi, in the outskirts of Paris. Whilst Rémi wants to get married, Louise is reluctant to let go of her freedom, and so...

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Maurice Garrel · Christine Boisson · Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters, and although he does not know it, the woman he...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Michel Subor · Anna Karina · Henri-Jacques Huet · Paul Beauvais

Synopsis During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when...

Direction Márta Mészáros

Cast Kati Kovács · Teri Horváth · Ádám Szirtes · Gábor Agárdi

Synopsis A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle sexual and economic exploitation inherent...

Direction Arnaud Desplechin

Cast Summer Phoenix · Fabrice Desplechin · Ian Holm · Emmanuelle Devos

Synopsis In the late 19th Century, Esther Kahn (Summer Phoenix) and her immigrant Jewish family settle in the East End of London. Whilst the rest of her family occupy themselves with their business, making clothes in a dreary workshop, Esther dreams...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Jane Birkin · Geraldine Chaplin · André Dussollier · Isabelle Linnartz

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Eddie Constantine · Anna Karina · Akim Tamiroff · Valérie Boisgel

Synopsis Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

Direction Márta Mészáros

Cast Flora Kadar · Gyöngyvér Vigh · Istvan Szoke · Janos Boross

Synopsis Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage schoolgirl Anna, abandoned by her parents at the age of six. Anna...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Mireille Darc · Jean Yanne · Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Juliet Berto

Synopsis The master of the French New Wave indicts consumerism and elaborates on his personal vision of Hell with this raucous, biting satire. A nasty, scheming bourgeois Parisian couple embarks on a journey through the countryside to her father's house, where...

Direction Olivier Assayas

Cast Virginie Ledoyen · Cyprien Fouquet · Laszlo Szabo · Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Synopsis Christine and Gilles are 16-year-old lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Michel Piccoli · Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film...

Direction Otar Iosseliani

Cast Katja Rupé · Alix de Montaigu · François Michel · Jean-Pierre Beauviala

Synopsis Director Otar Iosseliani hit the nail on the head when describing Favorites of the Moon as "an abstract comedy." Indeed, if ten different people who saw the film were asked to describe the plot, there would be ten different answers....

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Madeleine Robinson · Antonella Lualdi · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis The Marcoux family lives in a country home, supported by their vineyard. Father Henri possesses a roving eye, and spends more time with their attractive neighbor, Léda, than his family. His wife, Thérèse, simmers with jealousy and seizes upon the...

Direction Arnaud Desplechin

Cast Emmanuel Salinger · Thibault de Montalembert · Jean-Louis Richard · Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis Mathias, whose dead father was a diplomat in Germany, decides to study the forensic medicine in Paris. In the train, he has some troubles with the border police, and is insulted and threatened by a strange man, who disappeared quickly....

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Laszlo Szabo · Marianne Faithfull

Synopsis A journalist, Paula Nelson, arrives in Atlantic City, France, at an unknown point in the near future, to look for her missing ex-boyfriend Richard Politzer. Her enquiries soon reveal that he is dead, murdered by an unknown assassin. Suspecting that...

Direction Nicole García

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean-Pierre Bacri · Emmanuelle Seigner · Jacques Dutronc

Direction Claude Chabrol · Jean-Luc Godard · Ugo Gregoretti · Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Mie Hama · Jan Teulings · Gabriella Giorgelli · Guido Guiseppone

Synopsis Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).