The Brontë Sisters (1979)
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations
Love on the Ground (1984)
A play within a play within a play within a play Actors perform a play in a house an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life The line between fiction and reality blurs
La Truite (The Trout) (1982)
Frederique Huppert leaves her familys small town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man Irritations concerning her actions and present state of feelings begin to fill her mind, forcin
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide
Pola X (1999)
A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark haired woman who claims to be his long lost sister, starting an unusual relationship with her and prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fian
Létudiante (1988)
Weeks from her final exams, part time teacher Valentine meets a very different musician Just a one night stand and back to preparing for exams, she thinks
One Deadly Summer (1983)
A young woman who oozes sensuality arrives in a small town and marries the local mechanic Was it love at first sight What links her enigmatic presence to the familys piano Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister
The Devil, Probably (1977)
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option
Rum Runners (1971)
In the prohibition years, the rumrunners travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set
Le Trou (1960)
Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison break scheme
Le Gai Savoir (1969)
How do we learn What do we know Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution Scenes of Pariss student revolt, t
Torment (1994)
Paul and Nelly have everything to be happy a dream wedding and a hotel Until Paul starts to doubt Nelly
Divertimento (1992)
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 Mariannes point of view
A Spiritual Matter (2015)
In an empty house, a woman, 40, lets herself go to her most motivating, deepest impulses
The Cage (1975)
A vengeful woman traps her ex husband in their basement He realizes that the only chance he has of ever getting out is to try and beat her at her own psychological mind game
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other
Panique (1946)
After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues
Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Young unhinged female ex con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to
Le jaguar (1996)
Two Frenchmen must go to South America to save the local shamans soul from the evil forces
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face
Cop au Vin (1985)
In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house Louis presumably provokes the death of
César (1936)
Honore Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side He confesses to the priest in front of his friends he insists that the doctor be truthful But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that h
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
A look at 18th century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand
Fort Saganne (1984)
Young army officer of peasant origin becomes a war hero battling in the Sahara while seducing a young woman from the aristocratic class
LAge dOr (1930)
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society
The Beautiful Person (2008)
Cute Junie starts at her cousin Matthias high school and class after her moms death She meets his friends The boys want to date her even her handsome, young Italian teacher
Sound and Fury (1988)
Bruno is 14 When his grandmother dies, he returns to Bagnolet with his mother who is rarely there At school he meets Jean Roger, who introduces him to a group of delinquents
Aviva (2020)
After meeting online, transatlantic lovers Aviva and Eden embark on a tumultuous courtship, love affair and marriage The couple struggles, separates, and tries to get back together, as dual aspects of each ones personality battl
The Strollers (1950)
Jean Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossingWho could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to
The Living Dead Girl (1982)
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood
The Infernal Trio (1974)
A cunning French legal adviser teams up with an unemployed German girl and her sister to commit murders in Marseille
The Exchange Student (1967)
A strict French headmaster sends his frivolous son to England to learn English But the student has a better idea of how to spend his summer holidays
Liberté (2019)
Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virt
Wolfwalkers (2020)
A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack But everything changes when she befriends a free spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
Andrea Artusi begins to have doubts about the loyalty of his beautiful wife When doubt becomes an obsession , his behavior becomes completely crazy , stalking her relentlessly
The Soft Skin (1964)
Pierre Lachenay is a well known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10 He meets an air hostess, Nicole They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Le Dabe retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses He is a very rich man He was the king of all money counterfeiters He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job He says no B
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
A man from Guinea Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women
Monsieur Hire (1989)
A recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay
Black Beauty (2020)
A wild horse and a teenage girl forge an unbreakable bond which keeps them connected for a lifetime
Edith and Marcel (1983)
The worlds most popular entertainer and Europes greatest boxer the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cer
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40 something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband
Bordel SS (1978)
A popular brothel in Nazi occupied Paris is actually a secret front for members of the anti fascist Resistance movement
Garibaldi (1961)
How Italys historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples
8½ (1963)
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies