François Lalande

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jean Reno

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alain Delon

A young man finds love on the streets of Paris, thanks to an Umbrella

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

Genre: History

Cast: Vincent Perez

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Rochefort

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Poiret

A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone Signoret

Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nathalie Nell

An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Annie Cordy

Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elisabeth Huppert

Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dean Jones

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenn Close

Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernard Giraudeau

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Davis

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Marshall Grant

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected...

Genre: War

Cast: Jacques Denis

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Colin Firth