Cinematography: Pierre Lhomme

Direction Yves Angelo

Cast Emmanuelle Béart · Sandrine Bonnaire · André Dussollier · Vahina Giocante

Plot Alda, her sister Olga, and the latter's daughter Sigga live together in an old house facing a cemetery by the sea. Self-assured Alda collects men; Olga shuns them, but cannot...

Direction Claude Pinoteau

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Philippe Noiret · Charles Berling · Christian Charmetant

Plot A humoristic view of the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity.

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Yves Montand · Bob Castella · Chris Marker

Direction Kevin Connor · Douglas Hickox

Cast Stefanie Powers · Lee Remick · Stacy Keach · Robert Urich

Plot Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant...

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Philippe Noiret · Pierre Brasseur · Henri Garcin

Plot A Matter of Resistance is the English-language title of the frothy wartime comedy La Vie De Chateau. Set in occupied France, the film stars Catherine Deneuve as the young and...

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Miou-Miou · Dominique Laffin · Christian Clavier

Plot David is an accountant. He leaves town every Friday, pretending he is going to take care of his parents at their old people's home. But actually his parents are dead,...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Alan Bates · Isabelle Adjani · Maggie Smith · Anthony Higgins

Plot Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani),...

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Michel Serrault · Isabelle Adjani · Guy Marchand · Stéphane Audran

Plot Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never approaches...

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Yves Montand · Catherine Deneuve · Luigi Vannucchi · Tony Roberts

Plot Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by...

Direction Dusan Makavejev

Cast Carole Laure · Pierre Clémenti · Anna Prucnal · Sami Frey

Plot The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and...

Direction Eric Rochant

Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Gérard Lanvin · Sami Bouajila · Grégori Derangère

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Anouk Grinberg · Gérard Lanvin · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Robert Hirsch

Plot Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Nick Nolte · Greta Scacchi · Gwyneth Paltrow · Bruno Putzulu

Direction William Klein

Cast John Abbey · Delphine Seyrig · Donald Pleasence · Serge Gainsbourg

Plot Mr. Freedom is a pro-American Right superhero who fights for God and country by beating, robbing, raping, and killing anyone who looks like they might disagree with him. When he...

Direction Nicolas Gessner

Cast Charles Bronson · Anthony Perkins · Jill Ireland · Henri Garcin

Plot A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Direction Patrice Chéreau

Cast Charlotte Rampling · Bruno Cremer · Edwige Feuillère · Simone Signoret

Plot A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight...

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Greta Scacchi · Madhur Jaffrey · James Wilby · Neena Gupta

Plot On the Malabar Coast in the early 1950s, a British family finds itself in the midst of a cultural clash, instigating a reevaluation of traditional and colonial attitudes. As India...

Direction Claude Autant-Lara · Mauro Bolognini · Philippe de Broca · Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Michèle Mercier · Enrico Maria Salerno · Gabriele Tinti · Elsa Martinelli

Plot A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. 1) "The Prehistoric Era": A caveman discovers that a cavewoman is more attractive when cave paint is applied to her face....

Direction James Ivory

Cast Kate Hudson · Naomi Watts · Leslie Caron · Stockard Channing

Plot Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) is a quintessential young Californian, newly arrived in Paris to visit her pregnant sister, Roxeanne (Naomi Watts). A darkly romantic poet, Roxy has just been jilted...

Direction William Klein

Cast Nina Simone · Archie Shepp · Miriam Makeba · Marion Williams