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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)
Director: Marco Ferreri
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell
Based on the short stories of American writer Charles Bukowski ('Barfly'), this paints a passionate, steamy portrait of a grizzled poet (Ben Gazzara)... Read more
The City Of Women (1980)
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucel, Bernice Stegers
Marcello Mastroianni stars as the bruised, baffled, bedazzled man who stumbles into a feminist convention, setting off a series of wild surrealistic f... Read more
Trop Belle Pour Toi ( Too Beautiful For You ) (1989)
Director: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet
Gerard Depardieu is the star of this highly praised comedy, as a wealthy bourgeois businessman with an incredibly beautiful wife, (Carole Boquet) who... Read more
A Tale of Springtime ( Conte De Printemps ) (1989)
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Anne Teyssedre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel
The first in Eric Rohmer's acclaimed series "Tales of the Four Seasons". An enchanting comedy of manners about a philosophy teacher who meets and befr... Read more
Would I Lie To You? / Would I Lie To You, Again? (1997)
Director: Thomas Gilou
Starring: Richard Anconina, Vincent Elbaz, Bruno Solo
'Would I Lie To You?' Jobless, broke and down and out in Paris, Eddie Vuibert (Richard Anconina) is going nowhere fast. After a local fabric-seller co... Read more
Les Enfants Terribles (1949)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dhermitte, Renee Cosima
Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau's immensely popular, wicked novel about the... Read more
Children of Paradise ( Les Enfants du Paradis ) (1945)
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with "Children of Paradise" ("Les Enfants du Paradis"), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four diffe... Read more
Milou en Mai ( May Fools ) (1989)
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Dominique Blanc
An entertaining comedy of manners set against the backdrop of the 1968 student uprising in Paris, the film follows the Vieu-sacs as they converge on t... Read more
Shoot the Piano Player ( aka Shoot the Pianist ) (1960)
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
This early Truffaut gem pays homage to the Hollywood gangster thrillers, combining the style of American film noir with all the mood, twists, visual j... Read more
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Starring: Ron Perlman, Judith Vittet, Daniel Emilfork
A dazzling nightmare fantasy about a mad scientist (Daniel Emilfork) who is unable to dream and goes about kidnapping children (with the help of his c... Read more