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In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually...
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend...
Appointment in Bray
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les...
Irma Vep
Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The...
This Night
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure...
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a...
Venus Beauty Institute
Tired of their stressful parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence....
Bed and Breakfast
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.
Marriage
An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of...
Entire Days in the Trees
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en...
The Valley
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the...
Cheaters
A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
Agatha and the Limitless Readings
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.
L'Amour fou
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen...
The Color of Lies
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years...
See How They Fall
General Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes enamored with Duchess Langeais. Across a series of nocturnal...
The Duchess of Langeais
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because...
Son of Gascogne
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the...
My Case
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Candy Mountain
The Daughter of the Moon battles the Daughter of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern...
Duelle
After breaking into a house he believes is empty, thief Olivier is caught by the owner, Ariane, who turns out to be a dominatrix. Improbably falling...
Maîtresse
38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He...
Belle Toujours
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by...
La mort de Molière
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is...
Wandering Streams
Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty,...
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other...
Gang of Four
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried...
Le Pont du Nord
Off and Running
As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he...
Gentille
An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the...
Surreal Estate
A man and a woman who loved each other find themselves in a cemetery. He is here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, she let herself be lured...
Rêve d'automne
Rêves d'automne
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...
The Third Generation
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship...
Chantrapas
Ingmar, a young Swedish architect, is engaged to Monika but, marriage being paradoxically a serious thing in Sweden, he wants to put his future wife...
48 Hours of Love
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in...
Seaside
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at...
Trap
Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical...
Paris s'en va
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style...
Goldflocken
After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.
Deux
One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic...
White Journey
Claire (Bulle Ogier) returns to France following the death of her actress friend Agathe (Loleh Bellon). She attends an auction of her friend's...
Jamais plus toujours
Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings....
Stolen Life
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled...
Nobody Loves Me
The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard...
The Distant Land
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her...
Les Déferlantes
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia,...
The Idols
Poupée and her (so-called) brother Paulo share an apartment in Paris. They dream of becoming actors. In the meantime, life goes on, nothing...
Pop' game
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Out 1
Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice,...
An Angel Passes
A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.
Un ange au paradis
Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde....
The Salamander
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...
La Paloma
Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.
The Hostage Gang
When Antoine returns to the island of Noirmoutier, secrets kept in the past resurfaces and threatens to change his family’s present.
Boomerang
Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament...
Sophie's Ways
Savannah Bay c’est toi
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world....
Short Memory
A film by Marc'o
Les Bargasses
Marie lives with her daughter in a large Parisian apartment. She rents a room to a student: Adrien.
Adrien's Sleep
Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes brutal...
Paulina Is Leaving
Okay, Marie is a little tired of the insouciance of her husband Sam, framework sup unemployed for 2 years. Agree, it is very tempted to be seduced by...
Encore heureux
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful,...
Out 1: Spectre
Pierre used to be a top level football player but he quit. Now he is both a prestidigitator and a stool pigeon, benefiting from the protection of the...
Lovely Swine
Bernard Nissille’s little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare’s...
Bête de scène
Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his...
Alone
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...
Fado, Major and Minor
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of...
Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman
The film depitcs the life of the French author George Sand.
George Who?
Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all...
False Confessions
After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him recover his joy in life....
A Happy Divorce
Aussi loin que mon enfance
Vérités assassines
Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman recovering from rape and an apparent attempted...
Shattered Image
Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress who is still alive. Her journey to find this mysterious woman takes her to places...
All the Fine Promises
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him....
Pierre and Paul
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Notre Dame de la Croisette
A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement...
The Venerable W.
Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without...
Rupture
A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns him and flees with his daughter, Aurore....
Lagardère
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La...
La deuxième femme
This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du...
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law...
L'Énigme blanche
Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk...
Le Navire Night
A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
Aspern
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions...
Private Screening
Bulle Ogier sur Radio Ark en Ciel
In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
Political rivals try to sabotage a new mayor and her eccentric plans for an underprivileged French municipality.
Wonders in the Suburbs
Les murs du souvenir
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire...
North
A cuckolded husband is oblivious to his fed-up wife and her lover in this farcical menage à trois.
Et crac…!
Les filous
The quiet agony of a mother whose daughter grows up to pursue her own life is chronicled in this realistically presented French drama. The Circuit...
Circuit Carole
Essay on the history of Los Angeles
L.A.X.
In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap...
Let's Dance
In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the...
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at...
Another Man
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.
Souvenirs souvenirs
Bisexual attorney Alain is bedding his female boss, his murderer client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend, and a precocious boy who knows what he...
Confusion of Genders
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an...
Both Sides of the Blade
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which...
Io e lui
Mathieu is collected from the hospital by his wife, and dropped of at an apartment. His wife returns home to their son. The next time she sees him,...
'M' as in Mathieu
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