Ran

Ran

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan...

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by...

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That Obscure Object of Desire

That Obscure Object of Desire

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers...

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The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel....

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Farewell, Friend

Farewell, Friend

After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are...

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Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her...

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Casque d'Or

Casque d'Or

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets...

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Lola Montès

Lola Montès

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

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The Cow and I

The Cow and I

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.

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A. K.

A. K.

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

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And Hope to Die

And Hope to Die

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

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Tomorrow Is My Turn

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.

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The Death of Joe the Indian

The Death of Joe the Indian

The film is a continuation of the story of Tom Sawyer and his friends, the second part of the Romanian screenplay after the famous novel by Mark...

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Paris, Palace Hôtel

Paris, Palace Hôtel

On Christmas Eve, a manicurist pretends to be a wealthy man's daughter after meeting a young garage worker who falsely claims to own a luxury car...

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Flesh and the Woman

Flesh and the Woman

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village...

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À belles dents

À belles dents

An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a...

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