Cinematography: Pierre Lhomme

Direction Jean Eustache

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Françoise Lebrun · Bernadette Lafont · Jean Douchet

Plot It focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish...

Direction Chris Marker · Pierre Lhomme

Cast Chris Marker · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret

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

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Lino Ventura · Simone Signoret · Paul Meurisse · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Plot Army of Shadows is an intimate epic of the French Resistance in WWII. France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs....

Direction Joris Ivens

Cast Roger Pigaut

Plot Scenes of life and landscape in Provence where a chilly wind called the Mistral blows down the valley of the Rhône to the Mediterranean. The Provençal terrain is dry and...

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Vincent Pérez · Anne Brochet · Jacques Weber

Plot Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu) is a renowned swordsman and poet throughout Paris with one not-so-small defect, his nose. This physical attribute has caused Cyrano to believe that no woman...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Isabelle Weingarten · Guillaume des Forêts · Jean-Maurice Monnoyer · Giorgio Maulini

Plot The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Hugh Grant · Simon Callow · James Wilby · Denholm Elliott

Plot Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Marguerite Duras

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Alan Bates · Geneviève Bujold · Jean-Claude Brialy · Julien Guiomar

Plot During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has...

Direction Bruno Nuytten

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Gérard Depardieu · Alain Cuny · Madeleine Robinson

Plot Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Plot A documentary account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s.

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Dominique Sanda · Bulle Ogier · Mathieu Carrière

Plot The plot of The Navire Night concerns a love affair between a man and a woman, who first make contact by telephone one night, quite by chance.

Direction Alain Cavalier

Cast Romy Schneider · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Henri Serre · Diane Lepvrier

Plot The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant, of Z and The Conformist) leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s...

Direction Jean Eustache

Cast Michael Lonsdale · Douchka · Laurie Zimmer · Josée Yanne

Plot A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Sam Shepard · Julie Delpy · Barbara Sukowa · Dieter Kirchlechner

Plot Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love...

Direction Jacques Doillon

Cast Jane Birkin · Michel Piccoli · Natasha Parry · Eva Renzi

Plot Anne is a seriously disturbed young woman who is driven to leave her husband for awhile and go home to her parents in the countryside. Once there, she comes up...

Direction Alain Cavalier

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Michel Piccoli · Roger Van Hool · Amidou