Cinematography: Bernard Lutic

Direction Jacques Perrin · Michel Debats · Jacques Cluzaud

Synopsis The cameras of Jacques Perrin fly with migratory birds: geese, storks, cranes. The film begins with spring in North America and the migration to the Arctic; the flight is a community event for each species. Once in the Arctic, it's...

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Bruno Cremer · Emmanuelle Debever · María Luisa García · Albert Pigot

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Philippe Marlaud · Marie Rivière · Anne-Laure Meury · Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis The first of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. François, a young student working nights as a postman, is in love with a slightly older woman, Anne. One day, he sees Anne's former lover, a pilot named Christian, leaving...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Emmanuelle Chaulet · Sophie Renoir · Anne-Laure Meury · Eric Viellard

Synopsis In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow...

Direction Marion Hänsel

Cast Stephen Rea · Ling Chu · Adrian Brine · Maka Kotto

Synopsis The film tells the story of a strange friendship between an adult, already on the return of his path of life, and a Chinese girl who just begins her path. Nikos is the radio operator of a merchant ship and...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Béatrice Romand · André Dussollier · Arielle Dombasle · Huguette Faget

Synopsis The 2nd in Rohmer's six-part series of 'Comedies & Proverbs' tells the cautionary tale of Sabine, a 25 year old arts student, who is having an affair with a married man, Simon. When she realises that he will never leave...

Direction Raoul Peck

Cast Eriq Ebouaney · Alex Descas · Théophile Moussa Sowié · Maka Kotto

Synopsis The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders...

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Miou-Miou · Isabelle Huppert · Guy Marchand · Jean-Pierre Bacri

Synopsis In 1942, a young Jewish woman, Léna, marries a French soldier, Michel, to avoid being deported to Germany. Meanwhile, another young woman, Madeleine gets married to an artist, Raymond, who is subsequently killed by a Resistance sniper. During the Liberation,...

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Michel Piccoli · Evelyne Bouix · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in...

Direction Marleen Gorris

Cast John Turturro · Emily Watson · Stuart Wilson · Geraldine James

Direction Pierre Schoendoerffer

Cast Donald Pleasence · Patrick Catalifo · Jean-François Balmer · Ludmila Mikael

Synopsis An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the French forces and France's eventual...

Direction Yves Angelo

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Fanny Ardant · Fabrice Luchini · André Dussollier

Synopsis Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Jean-Hugues Anglade · Marie Trintignant

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Colin Firth · Irène Jacob · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · Rosemary Harris

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Al Pacino · Dexter Fletcher · Nastassja Kinski · Donald Sutherland

Synopsis New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Jacques Dutronc · Patrick Bruel · Vernon Dobtcheff · Mathilda May

Synopsis A cop (Patrick Bruel) who has been sent to investigate the corruption in a small French town, encounters a mysterious rival (Jacques Dutronc), who is trying on his own to investigate the murder of his father.

Direction Luc Béraud

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Clio Goldsmith · Jeanne Moreau · Guy Marchand

Synopsis In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool...

Direction Fred Fougea

Cast Robert Cavanah · Tabu · Nathalie Auffret · Khalid Tyabji

Direction Marion Hänsel

Cast John Lynch · Jonny Phillips · Serge-Henri Valcke · Oscar Petersen

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Michael York · Oliver Reed · Frank Finlay · C. Thomas Howell

Synopsis It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an...