Les Amants Du Pont-neuf
(1991) [M]

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and...  More

La Veuve De Saint-Pierre (The Widow of Saint-Pierre)
(2000) [M]

The year is 1850. On Saint Pierre, a forgotten small island near Canada, Neel Auguste (Emir Kusturica) is found guilty of murder and condemned to death. But in Saint Pierre there is neither guillotine nor executioner to carry out the sentence. While waiting for a guillotine to arrive from France,...  More

Damage
(1992) [R]

Jeremy Irons plays Stephen Fleming, a respected Member of Parliament and Junior Minister, comfortable with his life as he approaches his fiftieth birthday. Secure in his enduring marriage, he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he is drawn to an attractive woman...  More

Hail Mary (Je vous salue Marie)
(1985) [R]

Condemed by the Pope and banned across Europe and the US, Jean-Luc Godard's notorious retelling of the birth of Christ is the great French director's most daring cinematic work. In Godard's contemporary twist on the story of the Virgin, the Virgin Mary is a Swiss gas station employee, and...  More

Three Colours Blue
(1993) [M]

Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy, which explores the French Revolutionary ideals of Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood, are landmarks of world cinema. Three Colours Blue was an immediate success, winning the top prizes at the 1993 Venice film festival and unanimous praise from critics...  More

The English Patient
(1996) [M]

THE ENGLISH PATIENT is an epic film of adventure, intrigue, betrayal and love about four strangers whose diverse lives become inextricably connected. The story is told largely through the eno of an unknown English patient, the sole survivor of a plane shot down near the beginning of World War II,...  More

Alice et Martin
(1998) [M]

A love story betweem two emotionally damaged outsiders, Alice et Martin marks auteur Andre Techine's return to the haunting and intense territory of The Wild Reeds and reunites him with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche. Following the death of his father, 20 year old Martin goes missing. He...  More

Chocolat
(2000) [M]

In the small French village of Lansquenet where life has remained the same for 100 years, the wind of change is about to sweep through it, altering it forever... Free-spirited wanderer, Vianne Rocher has arrived with her daughter to set up a chocolaterie during the Lenten period of abstinence....  More

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
(1988) [M]

In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly...  More

Jet Lag
(2002) [M]

Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche (Best Supporting Actress, The English Patient 1996; Chocolat) and Jean Reno (Ronin, Leon) soar together in a wonderfully fun and sexy comedy where opposites don't just attract, they collide! Pampered beauty queen Rose (Binoche) and over-stressed insomniac Felix...  More