Screenplay: Honoré de Balzac

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Synopsis Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded group who are rehearsing another work by the same ancient...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Michel Piccoli · Emmanuelle Béart · Jane Birkin · Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis A renowned painter's ten-year hiatus comes to an end after becoming inspired by a young artist, and in particular the young artist's lover (Beart), who becomes the model for his return to the canvas. It's a slow, methodical exploration into...

Direction Xavier Giannoli

Cast Benjamin Voisin · Cécile De France · Vincent Lacoste · Xavier Dolan

Synopsis Lucien is a young unknown poet in 19th century France. He has great hopes and wants to forge his destiny. He leaves the family printing house in his native province to try his luck in Paris on the arm of...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jane Birkin · Emmanuelle Béart · Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view.

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Jaque Catelain · Roger Karl · Charles Boyer · Philippe Hériat

Synopsis Nolff, a fisherman on the coast of Brittany, has aspirations that his son Michel will follow in his career path. However, Michel, a young rebel has different ideas and wastes his days and nights with his dissolute friends in the...

Direction Jean Epstein

Cast Léon Mathot · Gina Manès · Jean-David Évremond · Pierre Hot

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Marion Leonard · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis In this movie suggested by Poe's "A Cask of Amontillado", The king constructs a cozy, windowless love-nest for himself and his concubine. However, she is not faithful to her sovereign, but consorts with the court troubadour. In fact, they use...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Jeanne Balibar · Guillaume Depardieu · Bulle Ogier · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis Antoinette is the Duchess of Langeais, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls in 1820’s Paris during The Restoration, where hypocrisy and vanity reign. Upon the handsome general Armand de Montriveau’s first meeting with her, he realized it...

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 Raoul Ruiz

Cast Elsa Zylberstein · Jean-Marc Barr · Audrey Marnay · Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

Direction Alain Berliner

Cast Thomas Coumans · Annabelle Hettmann · Julien Honoré · Mylène Jampanoï

Direction Des McAnuff

Cast Jessica Lange · Elisabeth Shue · Bob Hoskins · Hugh Laurie

Synopsis Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead...

Direction Claude Mulot

Cast Josephine Jacqueline Jones · José Antonio Ceinos · Emiliano Redondo · Helga Liné

Synopsis Spanish actor Jose Antonio Ceinos stars as a down-and-out sculptor, whose inspiration returns with the strange appearance of a beautiful, mysterious black muse.

Direction Jacques de Baroncelli

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Pierre Richard-Willm · Aimé Clariond · Lise Delamare

Synopsis The Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in love with General de Montriveau, a cabal goes up against...

Direction Emilio Gómez Muriel

Cast Marga López · Julio Villarreal · Andrea Palma · Ramón Gay

Direction Gyula Gazdag

Cast Gabor Mate · Dorottya Udvaros · Robert East · Boguslaw Linda

Direction Arielle Dombasle

Cast Arielle Dombasle · Julie Depardieu · Cédric Kahn · Michel Fau

Direction E. Mason Hopper

Cast Jetta Goudal · Lionel Barrymore · Mary Brian · Edmund Burns

Synopsis In a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts of the residents, all the while hiding a secret of his own.

Direction Cayetano Luca de Tena

Cast Maite Blasco · Pablo Sanz · Pepe Martín · Mary González

Direction Jesús Fernández Santos · Jaime Chávarri · Pilar Miró · Antonio Giménez Rico

Cast José Riesgo · Guillermo Díaz-Plaja · Carmen Maura · Mery Leyva