Contempt (Le Mepris)
(1963) [PG]

An intriguing sensual film set in Rome's glamorous film colony. On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and red Alfa, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang...  More

Passion
(1982) [M]

On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called "Passion," seems...  More

The Milky Way
(1969)

Two men making a religious pilgrimage through France form the basis for string of Luis Bunuel `jokes', parables, and surrealistic visions. Heretical, funny and haunting. French dialogue with subtitles. *MR  More

Phantom Of Liberty
(1974) [M]

Luis Bunuel's dreamlike comedy of irony, composed of surreal, randomly connected anecdotes. Highlights include a dinner party in which the openness of eating and the privacy of defecating are reversed and adults fretting over a young girl's disappearance - even though she's present all along....  More

Milou En Mai
(1990) [M]

In a large villa in the Southwest of France, the grandmother has just died. Her son, sixty-year-old Milou, who has been living with her and taking care of the property rather negligently, gathers the rest of the family for the funeral. We are in May 1968. The student demonstrations have just...  More

Belle De Jour
(1967) [M]

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in...  More

Diary Of A Chambermaid
(1963) [PG]

Luis Bunuel's sharp, unrelenting remake of Jean Renoir's 1946 film concerns fascism in 1939 France and how the bourgeoisie are viewed by maid Celestine played by Jeanne Moreau who stirs the desires of her new household and neighbours. French dialogue with English subtitles.*MR  More

La Belle Noiseuse (2 disc set)
(1991) [MA]

Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters...  More

Les Choses De La Vie (Things Of Life)
(1970) [M]

A dramatic car crash at an intersection and Pierre is thrown from his car into a field. Whilst fighting for his life on the way to hospital, his mind fills with images from his life – his mistress, his ex-wife, his son, his friends, the places he has known – everything which gives his life...  More

La Grande Bouffe (Blow Out)
(1973) [R]

An amusing satire on life, the world and appetites in general. A group of middle-aged men decide to have one last good blow out. Previously banned from general release in Britain. French dialogue with English subtitles.  More