When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele...
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is...
Desire
Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other,...
The Gauls
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
Under the Sun of Satan
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been...
The French as Seen by…
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a...
Freedomfighters
A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental...
Van Gogh
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies...
The Branches of the Tree
A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.
The Blue Note
Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is...
Seven Sundays
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Korczak
A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with...
The Stranger
Topi Lehtipuu and Anne-Catherine Gillet star in the 2012 Opera National de Paris production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie. ...
Hippolyte and Aricie (Paris National Opera)
An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include...
La lumière du lac
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on...
Next Time the Fire
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is...
Madame Butterfly
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
The Ring with a Crowned Eagle
Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are...
Travelling avant
Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive...
La Boheme
