This impossible-to-decipher punk-rock film by rock singer Francois-Jacques Ossang is filled with pounding music that in sheer...
L'Affair des Poisons is an unusual murder yarn, set during the reign of France's King Louis XIV. Danielle Darrieux stars as M...
In 1950s France, an old peasant patriarch was tried for the murder of a family of British campers. At the time, the case was ...
One of the most expensive French films of the immediate postwar years, L'Affaire du Collier de la Reine is primarily a vehicl...
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Former Cahiers du Cinema editor Serge Le Peron writes and directs this screwball crime comedy chock full of ironic film refer...
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This standard melodrama by director Robert Siodmak, active in Germany, France, and the U.S., is nuanced with shades of film n...
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In this complex political thriller, a police inspector operating out of Geneva discovers that the death of a Swiss journalist...
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In this earnest drama, a rural schoolteacher who has become a strong advocate for ecological awareness and is a committed opp...
El-Hadj Diop, a young Senegalese, is studying in Paris. His residency permit having come to an end, he finds himself faced wi...
Searching for the ideal place for a new resort in Central Africa, Catherine Deneuve stumbles into an ex-lover, Philippe Noire...
This opera by Meyerbeer tells the story of explorer Vasco Da Gama whose sea voyage takes him to the African coast where he fa...
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Serious, logical Martha (Barbara Sukowa) and dreamy, superstitious Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) have been best friends. That is,...
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Jacques Leduc directed and co-scripted (with Jacques Marcotte) this Canadian-French co-production, a drama about an aging Mon...
An author (Pierre Etaix), an actress (Nicole Calfan) and a stage manager (Jean Carmet) star in this plotless story about the ...
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Emile (Jean Gabin) and his family travel to the South of France to meet the parents of the man who is to marry his daughter i...
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An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a busines...
Pauline Kael has characterized Jean Cocteau's The Eagle with Two Heads (L'aigle a deux tetes) as an inversion of Cocteau's Be...
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While investigating her thesis on the sex-life of Adolf Hitler, an American woman scholar (Lisbeth Hummel) interviews a numbe...
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L'Aiguille Rouge is a mountain-climbing melodrama, a genre more indigenous to the German cinema than to French films. Set in ...
In this comedy, Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic, the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning o...
A man universally renowned for his directorial artistry, French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin (La Sentinelle, Kings & Queen) in...
A venerable banker from Paris leaves for America when he discovers there will be an investigation into his questionable busin...
Ostensibly about the sudden disappearance of a businessman and the subsequent behavior of his wife Elena (Helen Surgere), his...
Financial backers from three different countries--Belgium, Canada, France--converged upon the domestic drama L'Air de Rein (E...
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During a political demonstration some years before, the police brutalized the demonstrators and Trassell (Jean-Pierre Mocky) ...
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Prolific actor/director Mario Bonnard had another winner on his hands with L'Alberio di Adamo (Adam's Tree). Despite its titl...
Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal wi...
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As softcore films go, this offering by Joe D'Amato manages to give even less motivation to its characters, less substance to ...
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In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driven to near insanity by an...
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L'Allegro Cantante was released outside of Italy as The Merry Singer. The title succinctly describes the hero, played with pa...
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Trainer Oronzo Canà is called to manage Longobarda, the team of a small town of Northern Italy, when it's promoted to the Fir...
Hughes (Jean-Claude Carriere), a veterinarian, contacts an agency for people who are seeking marriage. Through the agency, he...
In France, the slang-word for "bounty hunter" is "alpagueur." When the police are working on cases where they do not want the...
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There could be no more disparate people than Olga (Francesca deSapio), temporarily separated from her husband, and Regina (Fa...
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