Barbarella
(1968) [M]

Barbarella recaptures the spirit of the early comic strips, marked by the audacity and originality, the same mixture of fantasy, humour, beauty, horror, cruelty and eroticism that made comic books such a favourite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella makes a...  More

The Crimson Rivers (2 Disc Set)
(2000) [MA]

When Commissaire Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), France's leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. The dead, whose hands and eyes have been removed, are clues to a terrible tradition the killer can no...  More

Un Flic (Dirty Money)
(1972) [PG]

Jean Pierre Melville's final film is a French gangster thriller that sees a small town bank heist go wrong. Scintillating performances from Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna and Alain Delon. *MR  More

Stolen Kisses / Antoine Et Collete
(1968) [M]

Eight years after the wry romantic sketch Antoine and Colette, François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud reunited to catch up with Truffaut's cinematic alter ego, Antoine Doinel, the troubled adolescent of The 400 Blows. Stolen Kisses opens with the now-grown Doinel sprung from military prison...  More

The Story Of O
(1975) [R]

The Story of O is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O', who is taken by her lover Rene to a chateau near Paris. There she is trained in bondage and sexual...  More

My Mother's Castle (Le Chateau De Ma Mere)
(1990) [G]

Part 2 of the popular French classics based on author Marcel Pagnol's childhood memoirs. In 'La Gloire De Mon Pere' Marcel looks back at a perfect summer spent as a child in a cottage at the foot of the Provence Mountains. In 'Le Chateau De Ma Mere' Marcel remembers his family's trip to the...  More

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'elle)
(1967) [M]

In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson and the actress playing her, Marina Vlady. The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families...  More

Claire's Knee
(1970) [PG]

In search of inspiration, Aurora persuades Jerome to indulge in a little flirtation with Laura (Beatrice Romand), the sprightly teenage daughter of an acquaintance. However, events take a more serious turn when the diplomat finds himself falling for Laura's luminous half-sister Claire (Laurence...  More

Jour De Fete
(1949) [G]

A joyful, almost silent comedy set in the French countryside. Francois, a village postman, zips through his rounds on his bicycle -- the old-fashioned way. But when a traveling carnival comes to town, its proprietors show a film extolling the virtues of modern American mail delivery. Soon the...  More

Histoires Extraordinaires (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination) (Spirits of the Dead)
(1968) [MA]

Three of Europe's finest filmmakers - Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini - direct compelling remakes of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Louis Malle's take on "William Wilson" features Alain Delon as an officer troubled by a mysterious doppelganger; Roger Vadim's journey into supernatural...  More