Under The Sand
(2000)

In Francois Ozon’s absorbing and affecting drama, Charlotte Rampling gives one of the best performances of her career as Marie, a college lecturer who has been happily married to Jean for over 25 years. Whilst on holiday, they visit a deserted beach where Marie lazes in the sun while Jean...  More

8 Women
(2002) [M]

Directed by Francois Ozon, 8 Women is a delightful and unconventional tongue-in-cheek thriller – part murder mystery, part musical – featuring some of the greatest actresses in French cinema. It is Christmas and a family gathers to celebrate the festive period with wealthy industrialist...  More

Criminal Lovers
(1999) [MA]

Once upon a time in the suburbs, there lived a teenage girl named Alice. A pretty girl who liked to play games. Games of seduction. Games of violence. When Alice convinces her naive boyfrind Luc to prove his love for her by helping her murder a cocky classmate; the stage is set for a...  More

Water Drops on Burning Rocks
(1999) [MA]

Germany, the '70s. Leopold, a smug, still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces a fresh faced, carrot-topped 19-year old Franz who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold, a kind of gone-to-seed Dirk Bogarde, turns cranky and argumentative....  More

The Short Films of Francois Ozon (2 disc set)
(1988) [MA]

This collection of four short films by Francois Ozon (WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS), one of France's most celebrated filmmakers of the 1990s, is characterized both by the director's startling imagery and the frankly humorous way he approaches his characters' sexuality. The first short, "X2000"...  More

5 x 2 (Five Times Two)
(2004) [MA]

5 x 2 is a haunting and realistic evocation of the evanescence of love and how adult relationships evolve over time. Returning to a more intimate scale following his international smashes Swimming Pool and 8 Women, Francois Ozon's chamber drama is an anatomy of a failed marriage told in reverse...  More

Time to Leave (Temps qui reste, Le)
(2005) [MA]

A successful fashion photographer (Poupaud) is a gay man with terminal cancer. Slowly coming to terms with his situation he is cruel to his lover, has refused chemotherapy, nasty to his pregnant sister and uncommunicative to his loving and supportive parents.  More

Young and Beautiful
(2013) [R]

Young and Beautiful, the latest film from renowned French director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool) is a portrait of 17-year-old Isabelle (Marine Vacth), a beautiful yet distant, bourgeois Parisian student. Set over a year, divided into four seasonal chapters, it chronicles Isabelle's sexual...  More