Cinematography: Pierre-William Glenn

Direction Chris Marker

Plot French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin...

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Plot Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Françoise Fabian · Bernadette Lafont · Michael Lonsdale · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Plot A story about two Parisian theater groups preparing Aeschylus plays and two eccentric loners, a middle-class deaf-mute (Jean-Pierre Laud) and a working-class flirt (Juliet Berto), who stumble upon evidence of...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Jacqueline Bisset · Nathalie Baye · Alexandra Stewart

Plot A film company at work. Actors arrive and depart; liaisons develop. Julie, the beautiful but possibly unstable lead, is recovering from a breakdown, aided by an older physician, her new...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Renato Salvatori · Jacques Weber · O.E. Hasse

Plot Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Georges Desmouceaux · Jean-François Stévenin · Philippe Goldmann · Chantal Mercier

Plot Small Change is an episodic comedy drama composed of several sequences that explore childhood in director François Truffaut's signature humanistic style. Filmed in Thiers in South Central France, each vignette...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Myriam Boyer · Marie Trintignant · Bernard Blier

Plot Frank is a small time salesman in a Paris industrial suburb who supplements his meager earnings by stealing from his boss, Staplin. The latter has Frank tossed in jail, whereupon...

Direction Peter Emmanuel Goldman

Cast Pierre Clémenti · Katinka Bo · Pierre Besançon · Judith Malina

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Sabine Haudepin · Philippe Marlaud · Annick Alane · Michel Caron

Plot In this grim slice-of-life film, the dead-end future of a number of young French teenagers living in a northern mining town is closely examined. Some lapse into debauchery, others enter...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Galabru

Plot Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber,...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Romy Schneider · Harvey Keitel · Harry Dean Stanton · Max von Sydow

Plot Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Michel Galabru · Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Claude Brialy

Plot A judge has to decide whether a murderer is guilty or insane.

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Jean Rochefort · Jacques Denis · Yves Afonso

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi

Plot A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Jean Rochefort · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Christine Pascal

Plot France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as...

Direction Euzhan Palcy

Cast Donald Sutherland · Marlon Brando · Susan Sarandon · Janet Suzman

Plot Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardeners son is brutally beaten...

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Laurence Olivier · Diane Lane · Thelonious Bernard · Arthur Hill

Plot A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his story...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Gérard Depardieu · Guy Marchand · Humbert Balsan

Plot Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Stéphane Audran

Plot 1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Carole Laure · Marie Dubois · Jean-François Balmer

Plot After many years of managing a trucking concern for his lover Dominique (Marie Dubois), Savin (Yves Montand) is planning to leave her for the girl who is bearing his child....