Cinematography: Jean Rabier

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Corinne Marchand · Antoine Bourseiller · Dorothée Blanck · Loye Payen

Synopsis Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Anne Vernon · Nino Castelnuovo · Ellen Farner

Synopsis Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Jean-Claude Drouot · Marie-France Boyer · Claire Drouot · Olivier Drouot

Synopsis Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets Emilie, they fall in love and become lovers. He still...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Yanne · Michel Duchaussoy · Caroline Cellier · Maurice Pialat

Synopsis When his son is killed in a hit and run incident, Charles vows to bring the driver to justice. Having met Paul, whom he thinks to be responsible for the death, Charles infiltrates his family and plans his revenge...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Stéphane Audran · Michel Bouquet · Maurice Ronet · Michel Duchaussoy

Synopsis Charles Desvallées has good reasons to believe that his wife is cheating on him and hires a P.D. in order to prove himself right. Once he knows the lover is writer Victor Pégala, he drives to his apartment, calmly presents...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Henri Attal · Stéphane Audran · Michel Bouquet · Jean Carmet

Synopsis Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · François Cluzet · Marie Trintignant · Nils Tavernier

Synopsis During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat. She is Marie Latour. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from the front, too weak to hold a job. Marie discovers...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Yanne · Stéphane Audran · Antonio Passalia · William Guérault

Synopsis Very little happens, and all of the sordid criminal events take place off screen in Claude Chabrol's exquisitely detached and austerely abstract murder mystery set in the Perigord region of central France. At the center of the intrigue is Chabrol's...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jacques Charrier · Stéphane Audran · Walther Reyer · Erika Tweer

Synopsis André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer. Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for his part, has not... failed. The successful Andreas is married...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Mann · Paul Guers · Henri Nassiet

Synopsis Demy’s second feature centres upon a relationship forged between compulsive gamblers over the roulette tables of Nice and Monte Carlo. Moreau’s ravishing divorcée draws the eye of younger thrillseeker Jean (Claude Mann) – but love duly proves as changeable as...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Gérard Blain · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michèle Méritz · Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis François comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn't changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend Serge who has become a drunkard. François now tries to...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Michel Serrault · Charles Aznavour · Aurore Clément · François Cluzet

Synopsis In a small provincial French town, there has been a series of murders of middle-aged women. An Armenian immigrant tailor suspects that the murderer is a highly respectable citizen in the city who owns a hat store right in front...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Stéphane Audran · Michel Piccoli · Claude Piéplu · Clotilde Joano

Direction Éric Rohmer · Claude Chabrol · Jean-Luc Godard · Jean Douchet

Cast Jean-Pierre Andréani · Stéphane Audran · Nadine Ballot · Claude Chabrol

Synopsis This collection features six major French New Wave directors working at the top of their collective game to create a beautiful record of Paris in the ’60s. Each filmmaker took a different neighborhood and composed a short film about it—the...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Philippe Noiret · Robin Renucci · Bernadette Lafont · Monique Chaumette

Synopsis Christian Legagneur (Philippe Noiret) is a fabulously successful gameshow host who makes his living presenting softhearted fantasies for aged couples. He engages a writer, Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci), to commemorate his illustrious career in book form and they retire to...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Seberg · Maurice Ronet · Daniel Gélin · Jacques Perrin

Synopsis 1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone.

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Roberto Rossellini · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Ugo Gregoretti

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Bruce Balaban · Maria Pia Schiaffino · Jean-Marc Bory

Synopsis This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean Poiret · Stéphane Audran · Michel Bouquet · Jean Topart

Synopsis When a small town begins losing its citizenry in a series of grisly murders, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied son (Lucas Belvaux) and his cruel mother (Stephane Audran)...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Stéphane Audran · Jean Carmet · Jean-François Garreaud

Synopsis In 1930s Paris, seemingly innocent 18-year-old Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) spends her nights seducing older men. When her current lover needs money, the troubled Violette plots to murder her dispassionate middle-class parents (Stéphane Audran & Jean Carmet) to help him...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jacqueline Sassard · Stéphane Audran · Nane Germon

Synopsis Bored, wealthy Parisian socialite Frédérique picks up young sidewalk artist Why, brings her home, offers her a nice hot bath and coffee, and seduces her. Then Why follows Frédérique to the latter's Saint-Tropez villa, where they alter their sensuous encounters...