Cinematography: Néstor Almendros

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Françoise Fabian · Marie-Christine Barrault · Antoine Vitez

Synopsis 3rd entry in the series "Six Moral Tales" by Eric Rohmer. The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond he notices at mass. Vidal, an old school friend, invites...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Bernard Verley · Zouzou · Françoise Verley · Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis The last of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Hubert Deschamps · Monique Mélinand · Philippe Léotard · Nathalie Baye

Synopsis When cancer strikes the mother of the family, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that,...

Direction Andrew Solt

Cast John Lennon · Yoko Ono · Paul McCartney · George Harrison

Synopsis This "biography" evolves around the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken by Lennon of his life. The archive footage is transformed into a fascinating life story of one of the most complex and fascinating men of the...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Cargol · François Truffaut · Françoise Seigner · Jean Dasté

Synopsis A movingly austere recreation of the true story of a young boy returned to 19th-Century society after growing up in the wild.

Direction Jean Eustache

Cast Martin Loeb · Ingrid Caven · Jacqueline Dufranne · Dionys Mascolo

Synopsis A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the south of...

Direction Terrence Malick

Cast Richard Gere · Brooke Adams · Sam Shepard · Linda Manz

Synopsis In Days of Heaven (1978), a young couple, Bill and Abby, flee Chicago after Bill commits a crime. Posing as siblings, they find work on a wealthy farmer's Texas estate during harvest season. The farmer, lonely and ailing, becomes enamored...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Charles Denner · Brigitte Fossey · Nelly Borgeaud · Geneviève Fontanel

Synopsis Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5," seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40ish and somewhat square, no woman in the town of Montpelier seems capable of resisting...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Béatrice Romand · Aurora Cornu · Laurence de Monaghan

Synopsis The 5th of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, a romanian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's...

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Meryl Streep · Kevin Kline · Peter MacNicol · Rita Karin

Synopsis The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNicol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend,...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Amanda Langlet · Arielle Dombasle · Pascal Greggory · Feodor Atkine

Synopsis The 3rd of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Pauline is the teen-aged cousin of the seemingly more worldly and sensible Marion. Both girls become entwined in amorous escapades while vacationing at the beach. It gradually develops that Marion...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Hiroko Berghauer · Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis The fourth film in François Truffaut's quasi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle finds the idealistic child-man (played by Truffaut's alter ego and French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud) married to his sweetheart Christine (Claude Jade) and still plugging away at odd jobs....

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Patrick Bauchau · Haydee Politoff · Daniel Pommereulle · Alain Juffroy

Synopsis 4th entry in the series "Six Moral Tales" by Eric Rohmer. Left to his own devices when his fiancée goes to London, Adrien decides to spend his vacation experimenting with monastic life in the peace and quiet of a large...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Meryl Streep · Jane Alexander · JoBeth Williams

Synopsis Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) follows Ted Kramer, a work-obsessed advertising executive, whose life is upended when his wife, Joanna, unexpectedly leaves him to find herself, leaving their young son, Billy, in his care. Initially struggling to balance his career and...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Jean Poiret · Andrea Ferréol

Synopsis Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Stecey Tenderer · Kika Markham · Sylvia Marriott

Synopsis In Paris of the early 1900s, a young French dandy, Claude Roc, strikes up a friendship with a young English woman, Anne Brown. The latter invites Claude to stay with her and her sister, Muriel, at their house in Wales....

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Bruce Robinson · Sylvia Marriott · Joseph Blatchley

Synopsis The Story of Adele H. is a haunting film based on a true story about desire, devotion... and madness. Oscar-nominated Isabelle Adjani stars in this lush portrait of a woman whose obsessive passion sets the stage for one of the...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Fanny Ardant · Philippe Laudenbach · Caroline Silhol

Synopsis Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Claude Jade · Dorithée

Synopsis Truffaut's hero, Antoine Doinel (Leaud) is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast François Truffaut · Nathalie Baye · Jean Dasté · Jean-Pierre Moulin

Synopsis Adapted from two Heny James short stories. A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne (Truffaut) is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When...