French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet directs the animated feature The Triplets of Belleville. A young boy is raised by his...
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2003
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Claude Chabrol directed this well-crafted thriller, which recalls the style and themes of his best-known work of the 1960s....
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Dufreigne
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2002
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Director Antoni Krauze takes the helm for this adaptation of former Soviet GRU spy Victor Suvorov's landmark memoir Inside...
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2002
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One woman decides to change the world by changing the lives of the people she knows in this charming and romantic comic...
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2001
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2000
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This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The...
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1995
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The small port town in Brittany in this movie has its charms, but they are largely invisible to the children growing up...
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Paul
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1992
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Former circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his feature-film directing bow with the Belgian/French/German coproduction Toto...
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1991
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1991
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1991
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In this meditative, poetic comedy, a strait-laced young bureaucrat has been informed that, rather than being promoted, he is...
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1989
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Ribald, violent, surreal and satirical, Marquis offers a unique take on the events leading up to the French revolution as...
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Amebert/Rat
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1989
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This gentle, mildly satiric French comedy follows the romantic adventures of a group of men who have gone with their children...
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1988
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This film's two well-known stars -- Nastassja Kinski as Diane, a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange, and...
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Mons. Raoul
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1985
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In a beautifully animated story with the thinnest of plot lines, Gwen is a young orphan adopted by a nomadic tribe whose...
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1984
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Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by...
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1984
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In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of...
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1983
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The Death of Mario Ricci is a Swiss/French/West German coproduction, filmed on location in Switzerland. Gian-Maria Volonte...
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1983
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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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Victor
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1983
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A compelling but very strange relationship between a young and lonely fourteen-year-old girl and a mute peasant farmer is at...
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Father
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1982
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Mr. Bens
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1981
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Man in the Park
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1980
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Based on a popular novel by Pierre-Jakez Helias, Horse of Pride is set in a hardscrabble peasant community in Brittany....
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1980
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Bertin (Victor Lanoux) has accidentally killed his wife during an argument. He is the owner of a tannery which employs most...
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Gaspard
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1979
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Pipe (Michel Robin) has worked on the same farm for forty of his 66 years of living. Now he is in his "salad" years, and in...
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Pipe
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1978
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Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation...
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1977
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Even though she was fired from her last job for an accident which resulted in the death of one of her young charges,...
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Xavier
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1977
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In this French farce, a wealthy young boy decides to teach his father a lesson by buying a man and employing him as his...
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1976
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When a young Englishwoman (Mimsy Farmer) crosses the paths of an annual hunting party, two of the hunters rape and try to...
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1975
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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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This well-received film covers the World War II survival tactics of two young French Jewish boys, aged 10 and 13, as they...
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1975
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Based on a groundbreaking 19th-century French trial, this movie recreates the courtroom controversy surrounding a young man...
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Father
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1975
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This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien (Paul Meurisse) to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an...
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Bertrand
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1975
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In Jury of One, French filmmaker Andre Cayatte once more probes into the intricacies of the Gallic justice system....
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1974
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In this comedy, a newly married groom finds himself overwhelmed by business expenses and becomes a crook. The trouble really...
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1974
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Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is perhaps one of the best films to come out of Switzerland. The...
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1973
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In the children's film Le Petit Poucet, a small young man outwits a powerful cannibalistic giant and not only saves his...
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1972
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This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his...
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1970
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Two young French schoolgirls, bored and left too much by themselves, decide to dedicate themselves to doing evil after...
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1970
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