Browse by Country - France
Tess (1979)
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: John Bett, Peter Firth, Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson
Winner of three Academy Awards, Polanski's interpretation of Thomas Hardy's novel is a beautiful and timeless masterwork destined to be a classic. Nas... Read more
The Truce (1997)
Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: John Turturro, Massimo Ghini, Rade Serbedzija
This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war. It deals with their experiences in readjusting to life and their f... Read more
A Woman is a Woman ( Une Femme Est Une Femme ) (1961)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
'A Woman Is A Woman'. Godard's light-hearted tribute to Hollywood musicals, with Anna Karina as a nightclub stripper who wants a baby and expects eith... Read more
The Visitors ( Les Visiteurs ) (1993)
Director: Jean-marie Poire
Starring: Valerie Lemercier, Jean Reno, Christian Clavier
A record-breaking hit in its native France, Jean-Marie Poire's fantasy/comedy stars Jean Reno and Christian Clavier (who co-scripted with Poire) as a... Read more
Western (1997)
Director: Manuel Poirier
Starring: Sergi Lopez, Sacha Bourdo, Elisabeth Vitali
An intelligent and sensitive road-movie about two foreigners spending three weeks together hitch-hiking through northern France. Crackling with traged... Read more
Zazie Dans Le Metro (1960)
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret
Funny in a bold, delicate, freakish, outrageous and occasionally night-marish way and crammed with sight gags and preposterous photographic stunts. 'A... Read more
Madeline's Christmas (1991)
Director: Anon
Starring: Narrated by, Christopher Plummer
In an old house in Paris covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. They left the house at half past nine, the smallest one... Read more
Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
Director: Tonie Marshall
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Samuel Le Bihan, Bulle Ogier, Jacques Bonnaffe, Mathilde Seigner,...
Aka "Venus Beauty". The Venus Beauty Salon is the local beauty shop run by Nadine, a glamorous businesswoman, who in turn, employs three beauticians.... Read more
Pirates (1986)
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Walter Matthau, Richard Pearson, Damien Thomas, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis, R...
Comic-adventure film about buccaneers who take on a Spanish galleon filled with Aztec gold. Polanski is said to have spent $30 million on the film, of... Read more
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Edward Fox, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Lonsdale, Eric Porte...
A rivetting thriller of an assassin hired to kill Charles De Gaulle, juxtaposing his calm preparation for the shooting against the tense international... Read more