Synopsis: A cabin cruiser is shipwrecked off the coast of a remote island, and its three passengers manage to reach the island safely. The island is owned by a strange and enigmatic count who invites them to stay. But […]
Synopsis: Sacha (Nathalie Baye) is a divorced woman from the Left Bank of the Seine, out of a job because she refused to bestow sexual favors in the line of duty, and Paul (Gérard Depardieu) is a lawyer from […]
Synopsis: In 1327, the monks of a Benedictine abbey disappear mysteriously. A Franciscan monk and his young apprentice have been called in to investigate. So begins the most serious interrogation of the 14th century, evoking a rebellion between two […]
Synopsis: Jean, a farm lad, wants to escape his silent father; he runs to Paris to his older brother, Georges, who’s away covering the war in Kosovo. Angry, he throws a bag of half-eaten pastry into a beggar’s lap. […]
Synopsis: Ilva is a woman who falls in love too quickly. Unaware and unconcerned about how her passion may be perceived, she finds herself having to live with the consequences of her actions. First, in the middle of the […]
Synopsis: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine. She then gets caught up in the Hollywood glamorous machine. […]
Synopsis: Europe, during World War I. Frederick, an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian Army, and English nurse Catherine love each other more than anything. But Major Rinaldi envies their relationship and has Catherine transferred to Milan. Nowpregnant […]
Synopsis: Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle’s villa. There’s a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and […]
Synopsis: Karin is a refugee. In order to remain in Italy, she marries a sailor from the Stromboli Island if Sicily. Soon their different mentalities and the harsh lifestyle on the island strains the couple. Hated by the townsfolk […]
Synopsis: Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami directed this experimental feature in which, in the truest sense, the audience is the star. Shirin was shot during a performance of a play based on Farrideh Golbou’s narrative poem Khosrow e Shirin, […]
Synopsis: When her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a 27 years old black woman, decides to look for her real mother. She is overwhelmed when she discovers that her biological mother, Cynthia, is white and that she has a 20 […]
Synopsis: A woman and three men. Nina, who’s come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he’s smitten. She also meets Paulot’s flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. […]
Synopsis: Alex, a teenage skateboarder from Portland, accidentally kills a security guard. His otherwise typical life spirals into a dizzying new reality of confusion, cover-up and guilt, while the Police are investigating the death. Based on Blake Nelson’s dark […]
Synopsis: Tessa is seventeen and passionate about life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she determines to use every moment, compiling a catalogue of what a normal teenager would experience, including losing her virginity and taking drugs. With the help […]
Synopsis: In a small town, Hélène is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. However, while her eldest son, Frédéric, wants to preserve her home after her passing, she harbors […]
Synopsis: A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who […]
Synopsis: In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he’s told, only to be attacked by the convict’s partner. A murder ensues, and […]
Synopsis: Erika Kohut teaches piano ar the Conservatory in Vienna. In her early forties, she lives at home, cooped up with her mother, whose influence Erika escapes only on her regular visits to porn cinemas and peepshows. Her sexuality […]
Synopsis: This films is inspired by a true story. It is the story of a young love, Juliette and Romeo, dragged harshly from their carefree happiness and made to confront life’s unexpected brutal chaos. The illness of their son, […]
Synopsis: Ever since his wife Sarah disappeared without a trace, Paul has been living alone with his two children. But a year has gone, a year in which he has had to reinvent himself anew every day and Paul […]
Synopsis: A monastery high in the mountains of the Maghreb, some time in the 90s…Eight French Cistercian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. Close to the villagers, they share in their labors and festivities, and take care […]
Synopsis: Gaëlle is suddenly released by her kidnapper Vincent, after eight years of captivity during which they had been “everything” to each other. Just as she had to earn her freedom day-by-day against him, she has to do so […]
Synopsis: Mila and Javier are both heart surgeons. Married for ten years, they have two passions: their love and their job. But Mila unexpectedly becomes pregnant, and the perspective of a baby undermines the balance of their relationship. Javier’s […]
Synopsis: In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief […]
Synopsis: Hazel Flagg, a lively young woman, is fed up with her monotonous small-town existence. She is wrongly diagnosed as dying from radium poisoning, and brought to the big city by New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook for a […]
Synopsis: Alessandro is an Italian professor of baroque music living in Strasbourg with his daughter, Irina, 15, in mid-teenage crisis, and his brother Crampone, a delightfully eccentric anarchist who has repeatedly applied for refugee status ever since Berlusconi came […]
Synopsis: Valentine, a student, is preparing a tough university examination in literature and has no time for love. One evening she meets Edouard, a night-time musician who becomes seriously enamored. The pair are separated by their conflicting schedules. But […]
Synopsis: Amélie is no ordinary girl. A barmaid in a Montmartre bar, she likes observing people and letting her imagination roam free. One day, she suddenly finds her purpose in life: to fix up other people’s troubles. Among them: […]
Synopsis: Two men have been hired to kill film producer Mike Max who has built his career on exploiting violence. They successfully abduct him but the next day their bodies are discovered, decapitated. Inspector Doc Block is in charge […]
Synopsis: Melina, 40, is the most famous voice of French radio. On her night show, she cheekily and humorously solves her listeners’ emotional and sexual issues without the slightest taboo. But, in her everyday life, she is obnoxious and […]
Synopsis: Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir’s painful former life; nor that […]
Synopsis: Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards & punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety […]
Synopsis: 80-year-old retired doctor Lucien has a big personality. He is and has always been a man of action, famous for his defense of women’s rights and family planning. Nowadays, Lucien stands up for the rights of illegal immigrants. […]
Synopsis: Fond de l’Etang is a boarding school for troubled boys located in the French countryside. In the mid-twentieth century, it is run by the principal M. Rachin, an egotistical disciplinarian whose official unofficial mantra for the school is […]
Synopsis: One evening three impossibly different characters are all in the same elevator of a grand hotel in Paris: Wanu, an Indian from the Amazon forest on a humanitarian tour, Campana, his interpreter, and Perrin, a dashing, funny gambler […]
Synopsis: Ten years ago, Claire was the mistress of the future French President. When she became pregnant, he asked her in a letter to abort; she refused. Now then, today, the letter is snatched by Pierre, a young thief. […]
Synopsis: 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 start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, […]
Synopsis: Widower Georges Pierret runs his shipyard like it’s his lifeline. All his employees are devoted to making the business work. Then Georges learns that his credit line is going to be cut off, a decision made in Paris. […]
Synopsis: Robert Altman’s jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. When Blondie O’Hara’s husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she launches a […]
Synopsis : Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris because his daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend and very soon wants to go home as […]
