Dead Man
(1995) [R]

Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native...  More

Beautiful Joe
(2000) [M]

Joe is a florist who finds his unremarkable life transformed through a series of personal revelations, and hits the road in a search for adventure. He finds it in the form of Hush, a sexy ex-stripper turned con-girl.  More

Misery
(1990) [M]

Novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers is waking up in the home of Annie Wilkes (Oscar winner Kathy Bates) - a maniacal fan who is bent on...  More

The Last Metro
(1981) [PG]

Winning an incredible ten French Academy Awards in 1981, The Last Metro is one of Truffaut's most highly acclaimed and popular films. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in magnetic performances, the story is set in Paris, 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France. When Lucas Steiner...  More

Day For Night
(1973) [PG]

An affectionate look at the making of a film, and the off-screen relationships of all the actors involved. Francois Truffaut's admiration for movies was legendary but nowhere is this obsession more evident than in this movie. He was at the peak of his skill here. Day For Night is one of his two...  More

Shoot the Piano Player
(1959) [PG]

Francois Truffaut's second feature is the tender but tragic story of a man embroiled in past betrayals. Charlie, a once-renowned concert pianist, is unable to forgive or forget his former wife’s infidelity and now plays background music in a run-down bar. Having rejected the love of a waitress,...  More

Aria
(1987) [M]

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.  More

Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One)
(1968) [MA]

Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France...  More

Masculin Feminin
(1966) [MA]

Told in fiteen vignettes, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin is a candid and wildy funny free-form examinaiton of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris. Mixing satire and tragedy as only he can, Godard charts the relationship between would-be intellectual Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and aspiring...  More

Six In Paris (Paris Vu Par)
(1964) [PG]

Six of France's finest directors took to the streets of Paris with scripts of their own devising, with each story conjuring up essential images of Paris in the 1960's. Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet),...  More

Weekend
(1967) [R]

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a...  More

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

Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
(1959) [PG]

Landmark French movie that turns the tragi-comic story of a minor crim (Belmondo), obsessed with both Bogart and an aspiring American journo (Seberg), into a major masterpiece of fickle hedonism. Crafted with elusive spontaneity, Godard's nervy style still looks as good as ever.  More

Joan Of Arc - The Messenger (1999)
(1999) [MA]

Starring Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and John Malkovich, director Luc Besson brings us Joan Of Arc - The Messenger, the epic story fo a woman who followed her own path and changed the course of history. In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King...  More

Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
(1990) [M]

A junkie called Nikita commits a robbery and kills a cop. Faced with the choice between a death sentence and a chance to work for the secret service, she spends three years training as a government assassin.  More

The Big Blue (Version Longue)
(1988) [M]

The timeless magical mysterious sea. A place on earth as untouched as the far reaches of space. For two men, its unknown depths will become the ultimate test of their courage. For one woman, the ultimate test of her love. In a place where man has only just begun to learn, Jacques Mayol has...  More

Children Of The Marshlands (Les Enfants Du Marais)
(1999) [PG]

A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France in 1918. Garris and Riton live in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river.  More

36 Fillette
(1988) [R]

A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more.  More

Romance
(1999) [R]

Schoolteacher Marie is unhappy with her staid boyfriend, and begins a process of sexual experimentation. Gradually Marie gives herself to others, and then to anyone who wants her. First it's Paolo, an Italian, then Robert, an eccentric SM master. But Robert shows her something truly dangerous. *MR  More

A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister)
(2001) [R]

A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is...  More

Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos)
(1997) [M]

From Alejandro Amenabar, director of The Others, Open Your Eyes (remade by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky) is a stylish and intriguing mix of fantasy and horror, exploring the collision between dreams and reality. Fate has always smiled on Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) until now. The night he meets his...  More

Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch)
(2000) [MA]

Amores Perros is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, this blisteringly intense film explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into...  More

Jamon Jamon
(1992) [M]

Headstrong senorita Silvia (Penelope Cruz) becomes pregnant to village mummy's boy Jose (Jordi Mulla). Silvia's father has left town and her mother Carmen (Anna Galiena) is forced to become the town prostitute. Jose's overbearing mother Conchita (Stefania Sandrelli) fears her son will marry the...  More

The Flower Of My Secret
(1995)

Spain's high priest of hip returns with a brilliant combination of his familiar stylized comedy and a new departure into full-blooded melodrama. Leo leads a secret double life as an author of romantic fiction. However her success as the best-selling Amanda Gris hasn't brought her happiness and...  More

All About My Mother
(1999) [M]

A birthday treat turns into heart-rending tragedy for single-mother Manuela when her teenage son is killed in a car accident after a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire starring his favourite actress Huma Roja. Determined to exorcise her overwhelming guilt, Manuela goes to Barcelona to...  More

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
(1988) [M]

This colourful hit put director Pedro Almodovar on the international map and cemented the reputation of its star, Carmen Maura. The film is a peppy little soap bubble as TV actress Pepa (Maura) wakes up to find a note from her lover, Ivan (Fernando Guillun), informing her he is leaving. Desperate...  More

Fitzcarraldo
(1982) [PG]

Fitzcarraldo is a legendary film for many reasons - the background to the making of it, the battles between star Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog, the resulting masterwork. These factors combined to bring a vision to the screen unlike anything seen before (or since). A driven Irish...  More

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser
(1974) [M]

Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he...  More

The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder on Sex)
(1972) [M]

Fassbinder on Sex combines three of Fassbinder's most risque and self-reflexive films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and his Friends and In a Year with 13 Moons, which offer the maverick filmmaker's unique views about sex and the nature of sexuality.

The Bitter Tear of Petra...  More

Effi Briest (Fassbinder on Melodrama)
(1974) [M]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, drew much of his inspiration from the work of his idol, the German-born king of Hollywood melodrama, Douglas Sirk. Each of these three films is centred on a woman who is under pressure from those around her to conform, and...  More