Movie | Biography, Drama | France, Poland | English, German
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Cast
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Plot
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
Movie | Comedy, Romance | France, Germany | French, Russian
Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer
Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Plot
Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Belgium | English, French
Director
Michel Hazanavicius
Writer
Michel Hazanavicius
Cast
Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman
Plot
When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tes...
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French, Arabic
Director
Jacques Audiard
Writer
Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot
A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Algeria | French, Russian
Director
Costa-Gavras
Writer
Vassilis Vassilikos, Jorge Sempraºn, Costa-Gavras
Cast
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Plot
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Movie | Drama, War | France, Germany | French, German
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle
Cast
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtaa, Francine Racette
Plot
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
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.
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian, French
Director
Danis Tanovic
Writer
Danis Tanovic
Cast
Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
Plot
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier become...
Movie | Drama, Mystery | France, USA | English, Spanish
Director
David Lynch
Writer
David Lynch
Cast
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
Plot
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ...
Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Frana§ois Truffaut
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Richard Balducci
Plot
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
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.
Movie | Biography, Crime | France, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer
Dalton Trumbo, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Henri Charriere
Cast
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory
Plot
A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant
Cast
Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre
Plot
A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
Movie | Drama, History | France, Canada | English, German
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Tony Kushner, Eric Roth, George Jonas
Cast
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josee Croze
Plot
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
Movie | Animation, Adventure | France, Belgium | French, Portuguese
Director
Sylvain Chomet
Writer
Sylvain Chomet
Cast
Michele Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin
Plot
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
Movie | Action, Crime | France, UK | English, French
Director
Pierre Morel
Writer
Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Cast
Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Plot
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local ga...
Movie | Drama, Romance | France, Japan | French, Japanese
Director
Alain Resnais
Writer
Marguerite Duras
Cast
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas
Plot
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
Movie | Drama, Mystery | France, Italy | French, Persian
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Berenice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Plot
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
Movie | Action, Adventure | France, UK | English, Swedish
Director
Luc Besson
Writer
Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Cast
Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman
Plot
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
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.
A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
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.
A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
