Screenplay: Jean Gruault

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Oskar Werner · Henri Serre · Marie Dubois

Plot From the time of their meeting in 1912, two men, Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre), share a close friendship. Shortly before the First World War, Jules marries Catherine...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Cargol · François Truffaut · Françoise Seigner · Jean Dasté

Plot A movingly austere recreation of the true story of a young boy returned to 19th-Century society after growing up in the wild.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Jean-Marie Patte · Raymond Jourdan · Jean Baptiste Colbert · Silvagni

Plot 1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Surintendant who's...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Anna Karina · Liselotte Pulver · Francine Bergé · Micheline Presle

Plot In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal...

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Nicole García · Roger Pierre · Marie Dubois

Plot Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Stecey Tenderer · Kika Markham · Sylvia Marriott

Plot In Paris of the early 1900s, a young French dandy, Claude Roc, strikes up a friendship with a young English woman, Anne Brown. The latter invites Claude to stay with...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Bruce Robinson · Sylvia Marriott · Joseph Blatchley

Plot The Story of Adele H. is a haunting film based on a true story about desire, devotion... and madness. Oscar-nominated Isabelle Adjani stars in this lush portrait of a woman...

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Myriam Boyer · Fanny Cottençon · Lio

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Betty Schneider · Giani Esposito · Françoise Prévost · Daniel Crohem

Plot Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast François Truffaut · Nathalie Baye · Jean Dasté · Jean-Pierre Moulin

Plot Adapted from two Heny James short stories. A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne (Truffaut) is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago....

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Albert Juross · Marino Masé · Catherine Ribeiro · Geneviève Galéa

Plot Godard's powerful anti-war and anti-imperialist film, Les Carabiniers, centers on two peasants who join the King's army. Seduced by the promise of riches, the two leave their wives and embark...

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Aischa Bentebouche · Katherine Best · François Beukelaers · Warre Borgmans

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Sabine Azéma · Fanny Ardant · Pierre Arditi · André Dussollier

Plot Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the...

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Robin Renucci · Fabienne Babe · Tolsty · Gil Lagay

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ruggero Raimondi · Geraldine Chaplin · Fanny Ardant

Plot Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to...

Direction Valérie Donzelli

Cast Anaïs Demoustier · Jérémie Elkaïm · Aurélia Petit · Frédéric Pierrot

Plot The story revolves around Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, the son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, who have had great affection for one another since they were children....

Direction Giovanna Gagliardo

Cast Nicole García · Milva · Heinz Bennent · Claudio Bigagli

Plot When Francesca (Nicole García), a magistrate in a local justice department, starts to investigate the suicide of a young woman she has no idea her own husband was indirectly involved....

Direction Robert Enrico

Cast Stéphane Fey · François Vibert · Marie Laforêt · Reine Courtois

Plot At the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University of Cambridge. During a walk through the countryside, the boy, inspired by the...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Marthe Keller · Andrea Occhipinti · Gian Maria Volonté · Georges Wilson

Plot From his childhood in the family castle by Lake Como to the battlefields of Waterloo, Fabrizio proves himself charmingly headstrong and painfully nave. Upon returning injured to Italy, the young...

Direction Jean-Jacques Andrien

Cast Fanny Ardant · Jeremy Irons · Tchéky Karyo · Agnès Soral

Plot Australia is about Edouard Pierson, a Belgian-born wool dealer who emigrated to Australia after World War Two. The movie actual takes place in Belgium as he returns to his homeland...