Cinematography: Bruno de Keyzer

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Dexter Gordon · François Cluzet · Lonette McKee · Christine Pascal

Synopsis A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician inspired by a number of famed jazz figures, including Bud...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Sabine Azéma · Pascale Vignal · Maurice Barrier

Synopsis January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Louis Ducreux · Sabine Azéma · Michel Aumont · Geneviève Mnich

Synopsis In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she...

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Patricia Reyes Spíndola · Alberto Estrella · Blanca Guerra · Ana Ofelia Murguía

Synopsis La Reina de la noche is the "imaginary biography" of Mexican popular singer Lucha Reyes. Filmed entirely in sequence-shots, the story concentrates in the singer's stormy relationship with her mother (the madam of a brothel). While Lucha's career is successful,...

Direction John Roberts

Cast Gregg Fitzgerald · Gerard Kearney · Darragh Naughton · Brendan McNamara

Synopsis The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups...

Direction Christine Edzard

Cast Derek Jacobi · Joan Greenwood · Max Wall · Patricia Hayes

Synopsis Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy Dorrit and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors'...

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Jason Robards · Christien Anholt · Samuel West · Françoise Fabian

Synopsis American lawyer Henry Strauss (Robards) is preparing to return to Germany for the first time since he left in 1933 following Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He is seeking to renew an "enchanting friendship" of his youth with aristocrat Konradin...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Julie Delpy · Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu · Nils Tavernier · Monique Chaumette

Direction Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Cast Donal McCann · Saskia Reeves · Ciarán Hinds · Patrick Malahide

Synopsis At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast John Malkovich · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Marianne Sägebrecht · Gottfried John

Synopsis From Volker Schlöndorff, the esteemed director of The Legend Of Rita, The Tin Drum, Swann In Love, and Death Of A Salesman, comes The Ogre, a startling view on fascism and its peculiar appeal. With his extraordinary eye for haunting...

Direction James Lapine

Cast Judy Davis · Hugh Grant · Mandy Patinkin · Bernadette Peters

Synopsis In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Direction George Sluizer

Cast John Hurt · Rosana Pastor · Alice Krige · Armin Mueller-Stahl

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Burt Young · Guillaume Canet · Nick Sandow · Monica Trombetta

Synopsis Daniel (Guillaume Canet) repairs brass instruments for a living, and when he journeys to New York to work on some French horns for Paul (Tony Lo Bianco), a business friend, he brings with him a scrap of paper bearing the...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Christine Brücher · Nathalie Krebs · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet · Olivier Loustau

Synopsis France, 1562. The wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants rage against a backdrop of intrigue and shifting alliances. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, and Henri de Guise, one of the kingdom's most intrepid heroes, are in love,...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Tommy Lee Jones · John Goodman · Peter Sarsgaard · Ned Beatty

Synopsis While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders by a serial killer, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster "Baby Feet" Balboni...

Direction Mark Peploe

Cast Willem Dafoe · Irène Jacob · Sam Neill · Rufus Sewell

Synopsis Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in...

Direction Gerry Stembridge

Cast Stuart Townsend · Kate Hudson · Frances O'Connor · Charlotte Bradley

Synopsis A waitress meets personable, attractive Adam and they soon become lovers, then get engaged. Wasting no time, Adam starts an affair with her bookish sister, who knows about the first relationship. Their (none-too-happily) married third sister knows about both these...

Direction Florence Quentin

Cast Catherine Jacob · Michèle Laroque · Garance Clavel · Isabelle Candelier

Synopsis A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome lover back.

Direction Claire Devers

Cast Philippe Noiret · Christopher Lambert · Jean-Pierre Marielle · Christophe Odent

Direction Jeannot Szwarc

Cast George C. Scott · Val Kilmer · Rebecca De Mornay · Ian McShane

Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe's classic 1841 detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue was adapted for television by David Epstein. Two women--a mother and a daughter--are brutally killed in their tiny Paris apartment. There are no eyewitnesses, and the earwitnesses are...