Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carrière

Direction Chris Marker

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Sorel · Michel Piccoli · Francisco Rabal

Plot Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid,...

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Claudine Auger · Philippe Dionnet · Luce Klein

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Paul Frankeur · Delphine Seyrig · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Plot Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Ángela Molina · Carole Bouquet · Julien Bertheau

Plot Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti

Plot One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on...

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 Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Annie Fratellini · Nicole Calfan · Alain Janey

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Michel Piccoli · Georges Géret · Françoise Lugagne

Plot The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes...

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Denise Péronne · Roger Trapp · Véra Valmont

Plot The director's cut (restored version) opens and closes with theatrical curtains in homage to Georges Méliés films, and is divided into four parts, separated by title cards: I - L'insomnie...

Direction Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

Cast Jean-Pierre Marielle · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jean Carmet · Jean-Michel Dupuis

Plot Two men are facing one another. One, a monk, thinks that South-American Indians are human beings, and wants their slaughtering to end. The other, an official philosopher, thinks - or...

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · France Arnel · Laurence Ligneres · Claude Massot

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Michel Piccoli · Miou-Miou · Michel Duchaussoy · Dominique Blanc

Plot Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast David Bennent · Mario Adorf · Angela Winkler · Daniel Olbrychski

Plot Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday...

Direction Juan Carlos Rulfo · Natalia Gil

Cast Jean-Claude Carrière · Kiara Alice Carrière · Nayal Carrière · Iris Carrière

Plot This is a film of love, nostalgia and reunion, with the stories of a lifetime. Jean-Claude Carrière, well known writer, scriptwriter, film critic, traveler, mystic, storyteller, husband and father, is...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Wojciech Pszoniak · Anne Alvaro · Roland Blanche

Plot Wajda directs his camera toward the social upheaval and political treachery of the French Revolution, and by doing so, draws an obvious allegory to the political situation in his native...

Direction José Luis López-Linares

Cast Jean-Claude Carrière

Plot Follows late screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, as he researches the painter Goya in a trip filled with culture, cinema, emotion, painting and Spain.

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Paul Frankeur · Laurent Terzieff · Alain Cuny · Edith Scob

Plot Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from...

Direction Atiq Rahimi

Cast Golshifteh Farahani · Hamid Djavadan · Massi Mrowat · Hassina Burgan

Plot Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A young woman in her thirties watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. He is...

Direction Daniel Vigne

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Nathalie Baye · Roger Planchon · Maurice Barrier

Plot During the medieval times, Martin Guerre returns to his hometown in the middle of France, after being away in the war since he was a child. Nobody recognise him, and...