Cinematography: Étienne Becker

Direction Chris Marker · Pierre Lhomme

Cast Chris Marker · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret

Synopsis Documentary about Paris and the attitudes of Parisians at the height of the Algerian crisis.

Direction Armand Matellart · Valérie Mayoux · Jacqueline Meppiel

Cast Med Hondo · François Périer

Synopsis This film, made with Chris Marker's collaboration, was one of the first to acknowledge what had happened with Chile's Popular Unity government from its triumph in democratic elections in September of 1970 until the coup d' etat that took place...

Direction Louis Malle

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Bulle Ogier · Jean-Pierre Kalfon · André S. Labarthe · Josée Destoop

Synopsis Sébastien is directing a theatrical production of Jean Racine’s version of the Greek tragedy Andromaque, in which he also plays the lead role of Pyrrhus. During rehearsals, which take place in front of a film crew, Sébastien’s relationship with Claire,...

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Nadine Ballot · Gilles Quéant · Barbet Schroeder

Synopsis In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thoughts after meeting an intriguing stranger.

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · François Périer · Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia (Stefania...

Direction Jose Giovanni

Cast Lino Ventura · Marlène Jobert · Michel Constantin · Paul Crauchet

Synopsis Police inspector Léonetti, a tough, efficient policeman, has been sent to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas. The duo are soon assigned a very difficult mission: to find...

Direction Robert Enrico

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Marlène Jobert · Philippe Noiret · Jean-François Adam

Synopsis A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or...

Direction Louis Malle

Synopsis With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate...

Direction Jean Becker

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Alain Souchon · François Cluzet · Suzanne Flon

Synopsis In spring 1976, a beautiful young woman (Isabelle Adjani) settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother and physically handicapped father and soon becomes the subject of wild speculation because of her aloofness and...

Direction Louis Malle

Synopsis Louis Malle film the comments of the people he meets at Place de la république, in Paris.

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 Robert Enrico

Cast Philippe Noiret · Romy Schneider · Jean Bouise · Madeleine Ozeray

Synopsis Old Gun (Le Vieux Fusil) stars Philippe Noiret as an ageing, embittered French physician. During the occupation, Noiret loses his wife and daughter to Nazi bullets. He vows to personally kill every one of the Germans responsible (along with a...

Direction Conrad Rooks

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Conrad Rooks · William S. Burroughs

Synopsis Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.

Direction Francis Veber

Cast Pierre Richard · Michel Bouquet · Fabrice Greco · Jacques François

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Gérard Depardieu · Serge Gainsbourg

Synopsis A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times.

Direction Alain Jessua

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Victor Lanoux · Nicole Calfan · Pierre Vernier

Synopsis After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

Direction Jean Becker

Cast Vanessa Paradis · Gérard Depardieu · Clotilde Courau · Sekkou Sall

Synopsis Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel...

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Marcello Mastroianni · Michel Piccoli · Philippe Noiret

Synopsis A surreal and bizarre satire on America`s treatment of the Indians and the idolisation of their heroes. A very different view of the legend of the Wild West.

Direction Iradj Azimi

Cast Laurent Terzieff · Dominique Sanda · Jean Dasté · Catherine Gauvreau