Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking - a city he was once only able to admire in books...

Based on Coq's press cartoons, this series of 16 sketches (2'30" each) is packed with gags and twists of all kinds. The series features the...

This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young...

Short movie starring Marcel Marceau.

ORTF adaptation of a work by Tawfiq al-Hakim.

Through a series of pantomimes, Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, evokes the three ages of life: youth, middle and old age.

An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer...

A comedic take on the Frankenstein story.

In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit...

In this French murder mystery, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much worse. He has been having problems in his relationship with his...