Seraphine
(2008) [M]

The moving true story of a simple housemaid who painted to appease the voice of heaven. In 1913, German art collector Wilhelm Uhde, the first Picasso buyer and discoverer of acclaimedna ve primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau, rents a modest apartment in Senlis in order to leave behind the...  More

Madame de...
(1953) [G]

Max Ophuls' exquisite The Earrings Of Madame De... is a story of lust, jealousy and materialism, set in Europe in the late 19th century. When Louise, the wife of a general, sells the earrings he gave her to cover her debts, it unleashes a torrent of tragic misunderstandings which travel from wife...  More

Le plaisir
(1952) [PG]

Le Plaisir weaves together three separate tales about the ecstasy of pleasure: one about an aging man who covers his face with a mask to disguise his age, another about an artist's model who returns to enact revenge on the mentor/lover who abandoned her, and the third about a brothel which is...  More

The Joy of Learning (Le Gai Savoir)
(1969) [M]

Patricia and Emile meet nightly on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris' 1968 student riots, the Vietnam War, and other big events of the late '60s, posters, books, photographs and cartoons, serve as a backdrop to their discourse. Words...  More

Une femme mariée
(1964) [M]

Charlotte is young and modern, not a hair out of place, superficial, cool; she reads fashion magazines - does she have the perfect bust? She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. Assignations with him, dinner with her husband and a...  More

The Golden Coach
(1952) [G]

Set in a small Central American town in the eighteenth century, Camilla, played by Italian screen goddess Anna Magnani, is the prima donna of the local theatre company - and the object of three different men's affection. While all three ravish her with gifts and incentives in exchange for her...  More

Ballerina
(2007) [G]

Hers is a rare art. Her craft as demanding as an athlete. Her dancing life as brief as a butterfly. All to a vision of fragile beauty. A vision of what it is to be a woman. Ballerina follows the destinies of five female dancers of the Kirov Ballet in Saint-Petersburg. Their lives weave together...  More

Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (To Each His Own Cinema)
(2007) [M]

Chacun son Cinema: to each his own cinema. To each his own tale about the most lyrical, emotive and textual of art forms, To celebrate the 60th birthday of Cannes, the world's premier film festival, festival director Gilles Jacob approached 33 of cinema's greatest talents, asking them to make a...  More

Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
(2009) [MA]

Paris 1913, Coco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love with Arthur "Boy" Capel. At the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky premieres his Rite of Spring. Coco attends the premiere and is mesmerised. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos...  More

A Prophet
(2009) [MA]

Academy Award nominated, A Prophet (2009, Best Foreign Language Film) details the gritty prison career of nineteen year old Malik (Tahar Rahim, 2009 European Film Award Winner for Best Actor). Arriving at the jail, he is cornered by the leader of the ruling Corsican gang (Niels Arestrup, 2010...  More