Movies

An anthology of four historical love affairs: at Versailles, Louis XIV shares his mistress with one of his subjects; a courtesan tries to disfigure...

Mild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss...

A loose adaptation of Jacques Prévert's poem of the same title. Through close-up shots of the home shared by a couple, we witness the...

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the...

Prix et Profits is a 20-minute short film originally made for educational purposes and released in 9.5mm format. As the title suggests, the film...

A poetic ode to the River Seine, Ivens' distinguished camera eye surveys its lively banks and step-stone canals with a vérité candor, a...

Marina is in her late thirties and has recently become a widow. After finding an old photo album from her fifteenth birthday, she becomes curious...

Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of...

This documentary tells us about two beautiful stories, two beautiful women, two routes of life that marked each in their own way the memories of the...

Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.

A biography of the French actress Arletty.

In Paul Grimault's satire of the arms trade, the dealer is alerted to the breakout of war by a signal on his map, so travels in turn to each of two...

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them...

Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it...

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

A budding romance between two toy dancers is put into dangers when the boy is conscripted into the toy army.

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate...

A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959.

Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only...