A shy yet gifted chocolatier falls in love with a timid chocolate-factory owner in this buoyant romantic comedy starring...
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Rémi
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2011
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Free-spirited Arab liberal Baya (Sara Forestier) uses seduction to covert conservative men to her left-wing lifestyle, but...
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Lucien Martin
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2011
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With a conceit that suggests a contemporary, female-centered reprise of Melvin Van Peebles's offbeat Watermelon Man, the...
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2008
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2007
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A suicidal police detective travels from La Havre to Deauville at the behest of a mysterious femme fatale in the suspenseful...
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2007
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Her daughter abducted by kidnappers who have demanded an exuberant ransom, a woman who used to dabble in stolen furs...
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2007
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It's hard to say if the kids or the counselors need more supervision at the second-rate summer camp in this comedy from...
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2006
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2004
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2004
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Directed by Michel Boujenah, Pere et Fils (Father and Son) centers around retired traveling salesman Leo Serano's...
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2003
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Robert Guediguian's Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves is an intimate, straightforward look at a woman having an affair. Marie-Jo...
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Jean-Christophe
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2002
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Racism, violence, and drug abuse run rampant in this ensemble drama set in the southern French city of Marseilles. Michele...
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2001
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A woman discovers that the joys of parenthood are not making her especially happy in this dark comedy/drama. Christelle...
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2001
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Maverick director Melvin Van Peebles translates his own satirical novel to the screen with this multi-national portrait of...
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Henri
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2000
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2000
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A lighthearted and nostalgic drama about life among a group of close-knit friends, Les Enfants du Marais/Children of the...
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1999
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From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A...
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1998
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The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers...
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1998
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A couple puts faith in love to get them through times of extreme poverty in this comedy-drama that was a major box office...
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Justin
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1997
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In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa...
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Mr. Elmer
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1997
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In this film, director/screenwriter Jean Teule adapts his novel Rainbow pour Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a...
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1996
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A down-and-out group of basically decent people band together to somehow survive in modern Paris in this fascinating French...
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1995
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Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on...
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1995
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The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th...
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1994
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If this had been a western, the older gunfighter would have taught his younger rival a thing or two about the perils of a...
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1992
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In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together...
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1991
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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and...
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1990
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Without undue melodrama or moral judgment, this evocative French drama paints a painfully realistic portrait of a woman who...
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1990
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1989
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1988
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Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who...
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1987
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1987
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1986
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Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet...
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1984
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This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as...
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1984
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This story about a wounded American gangster seeking refuge in the country villa of a blind, sophisticated, and aging actor...
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1983
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1983
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The French Ministry of the Future announces that it has computer-selected a so-called "average" French couple, Jean-Michel...
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1977
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Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be...
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1975
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