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

The Dinner Game (1998)

Director: Francis Veber

Starring: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Vandernoot

Laughter is the main course in this acclaimed Gallic farce. Snide publisher Thierry Lhermitte delights in attending dinner parties where he and his so... Read more

Irma Vep (1996)

Director: Olivier Assayas

Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard

This dig at French film-making stars Jean-Pierre Leaud as a faded auteur, who having seen Maggie Cheung in some Hong Kong action flicks, casts her as... Read more

Atlantis (1991)

Director: Luc Besson

Following on from his success with 'The Big Blue', Luc Besson has created this 'Marine Opera' containing superb images from the Seychelles to the Nort... Read more

Les Amants ( aka The Lovers ) (1958)

Director: Louis Malle

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Alain Cuny

'The Lovers'. A bored wife (Jeanne Moreau) meets one of her house guests (Jean-Marc Bory) in a moonlit garden and decides to make love with him then a... Read more

The Immortal Story (1968)

Director: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Jeanne Moreau

'Immortal Story' was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life,... Read more

Confidential Report ( aka Mr Arkadin ) (1955)

Director: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Mischa Auer, Michael Redgrave

Orson Welles directed and starred in this film version of his own novel. Powerful financier Mr Arkadin (Welles) claims to be suffering from amnesia, a... Read more

Lola Montes (1955)

Director: Max Ophuls

Starring: Peter Ustinov, Martine Carol, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner

A lush romantic drama that was filmmaker Max Ophuls' last work and his only film in colour. Martine Carol is mesmerizing as the famous adventurer and... Read more

Pepe le Moko (1937)

Director: Julien Duvivier

Starring: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux

The notorious Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is... Read more

Until the End of the World (1991)

Director: Wim Wenders

Starring: Ernie Dingo, Jeanne Moreau, Max von Sydow, Rudiger Vogler, Sam Neill, Solveig Do...

One of cinema's most audacious directors, Wim Wenders, the visionary creator of 'Paris, Texas' and 'Wing Of Desire', brings us the ultimate road movie... Read more