Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bua±uel
Writer
Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
Plot
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Spain | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bua±uel
Writer
Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Pierre Loua¿s
Cast
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, angela Molina
Plot
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French, English
Director
Jacques Deray
Writer
Alain Page, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jacques Deray
Cast
Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet
Plot
Jean-Paul and Marianne spend lazy holidays at their villa in idyllic Southern France. However when Harry and his attractive young daughter Penelope show up, the dreamy summer days are suddenly filled with unspoken tension and jeal...
Octave Mirbeau, Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Michel Piccoli
Plot
A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Luis Bua±uel
Writer
Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny
Plot
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
Movie | Biography, Drama | France, Poland | French
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jean-Claude Carriere, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Plot
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
Choderlos de Laclos, Jean-Claude Carriere, Milos Forman
Cast
Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly
Plot
France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, marri...
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | France, Italy | French, English
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton
Plot
Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, she uninte...
A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. He has it all - but love. When alone, he sits at a desk, sighing, and lookin...
Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French, Latin
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Georges Darien, Jean-Claude Carriere, Louis Malle
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve Bujold, Marie Dubois
Plot
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Geor...
While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover the pleasures of life as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.
Pierre is a shy man whose sole focus in life is studying astrology in solitude, which is often difficult since he still lives at and studies in his parents' house. His parent's would rather he date and get married. He takes on thi...
A woman is preparing a romantic dinner for two for her and her husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Her husband is out running a series of errands, most of his stops to pick up anniversary gifts for his wife. But the an...
A man's sleepless night leads to a revelation about his wife. Office workers struggle to find seats at a crowded cinema. Modern stress affects everyone, even psychiatrists. A hunter, couple, and farmer compete for space in the woods.
Movie | Drama, Romance | France, Germany | French, English
Director
Volker Schlaandorff
Writer
Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Marie-Helene Estienne
Cast
Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon
Plot
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.
In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done b...
