Soundtrack: Antoine Duhamel

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-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Anna Karina · Dirk Sanders · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Plot Ferdinand Griffon, AKA 'Pierrot' (Jean-Paul Belmondo) escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne (Anna Karina), a babysitter hired by his wife (Graziella Galvani)...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale

Plot Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Hiroko Berghauer · Daniel Ceccaldi

Plot The fourth film in François Truffaut's quasi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle finds the idealistic child-man (played by Truffaut's alter ego and French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud) married to his sweetheart...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Ettore Manni · Keith Skinner · Umberto Orsini

Plot In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. He can't say no to women's sexual invitations, and jealous villagers blame him for recent fires...

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Maurice Ronet

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Bouquet · Nelly Borgeaud

Plot Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence...

Direction Patrice Leconte

Cast Charles Berling · Fanny Ardant · Jean Rochefort · Judith Godrèche

Plot In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue.

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Romy Schneider · Harvey Keitel · Harry Dean Stanton · Max von Sydow

Plot Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will...

Direction Fernando Trueba

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Jorge Sanz · Penélope Cruz · Ariadna Gil

Plot The sultry Spanish countryside, 1931. The monarchy is ending, and the army and church reign supreme over Spanish life. In this tumultuous world, a young soldier Fernando (Jorge Sanz), decides...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Mireille Darc · Jean Yanne · Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Juliet Berto

Plot The master of the French New Wave indicts consumerism and elaborates on his personal vision of Hell with this raucous, biting satire. A nasty, scheming bourgeois Parisian couple embarks on...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Jane Birkin · Odette Laure · Emmanuelle Bataille

Direction David Trueba

Cast Fernando Ramallo · Lucía Jiménez · Luis Cuenca · Isabel Otero

Plot This humorous movie charts the life of a 14 year old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie he has...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Jacques Gamblin · Denis Podalydès · Marie Gillain · Charlotte Kady

Plot In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the...

Direction Claude Barma

Cast Juliette Greco · René Dary · François Chaumette · Sylvie

Direction Fernando Trueba

Cast Penélope Cruz · Antonio Resines · Jorge Sanz · Rosa María Sardà

Plot A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...

Direction Jean-Daniel Pollet · Volker Schlöndorff

Direction Jean Chapot

Cast Romy Schneider · Michel Piccoli · Hans Christian Blech · Sonia Schwarz

Plot Julia (Romy Schneider) gave away her infant son to a foster couple before she married Werner (Michel Piccoli). Now she selfishly wants her child from the foster parents who have...

Direction Jacques Rozier

Plot Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through...

Direction Jacques Rozier

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Jean-Luc Godard · Fritz Lang · Jack Palance

Plot Jacques Rozier filmed this documentary on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film "Contempt" (Le Mépris) during location shooting on the island of Capri, and he interviews Godard, star Brigitte Bardot,...