Soundtrack: Michel Legrand

Direction Chris Marker · Pierre Lhomme

Cast Chris Marker · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret

Plot Documentary about Paris and the attitudes of Parisians at the height of the Algerian crisis.

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Sady Rebbot · André S. Labarthe · Guylaine Schlumberger

Plot Nana (Anna Karina) is a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties who deliberately leaves her husband and her infant son hoping to become an actress. Without money, beyond what she...

Direction Albert Barillé

Plot TV Series (1986). 26 Episodes. The series Once Upon a Time... Life used the same characters from the other Once Upon a Time... seasons: the good characters represent the cells...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Oja Kodar · Joseph Cotten · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Plot Orson Welles' free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr's biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Corinne Marchand · Antoine Bourseiller · Dorothée Blanck · Loye Payen

Plot Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean-Claude Brialy · Henri Attal

Plot Angela, a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Anne Vernon · Nino Castelnuovo · Ellen Farner

Plot Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening...

Direction Albert Barillé

Plot A comprehensive animated survey of the evolution of humanity and the history of predominately Western Civilization. In this series, the history of humanity and Western Civilization is surveyed. To illustrate...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Anouk Aimée · Marc Michel · Alan Scott · Jacques Harden

Plot In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola,...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Claude Brasseur · Sami Frey · Louisa Colpeyn

Plot Three young people, Odile, Arthur and Franz meet up at an English language class and become instant friends. They share an interest in literature and crime fiction. When Odile reveals...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Burt Lancaster · Susan Sarandon · Hollis McLaren · Kate Reid

Plot Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Julie Christie · Alan Bates · Margaret Leighton · Michael Redgrave

Plot Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Françoise Dorléac · Danielle Darrieux · George Chakiris

Plot In the little town Rochefort lives Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange Garnier (Françoise Dorléac), two musical twins that teach music and dance to kids. One day, Etienne (George Chakiris) and...

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Jennifer O'Neill · Gary Grimes · Jerry Houser · Oliver Conant

Plot Gently nostalgic, Robert Mulligan's tender and insightful look at three teenage boys' approach to the mysteries of love and sex takes place on the coast of New England during World...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Anouk Aimée · Richard Berry · Nino Castelnuovo · Danielle Darrieux

Plot In tribute to her late husband, the wife of the respected French director honors his life and artistic works by highlighting his vision in clips and interviews.

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Geraldine Chaplin · Fanny Ardant · Sharon Stone · Valérie Quennessen

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Mann · Paul Guers · Henri Nassiet

Plot Demy’s second feature centres upon a relationship forged between compulsive gamblers over the roulette tables of Nice and Monte Carlo. Moreau’s ravishing divorcée draws the eye of younger thrillseeker Jean...

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Michel Boujenah · Alessandra Martines · Annie Girardot

Plot A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered...

Direction William Klein

Cast Dorothy McGowan · Jean Rochefort · Sami Frey · Grayson Hall

Plot In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell...

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Orson Welles · Jeanne Moreau · Peter Brook · Costa-Gavras

Plot Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as...