Browse by Country - France
Chocolat (1988)
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Mireille Perrier, Emmet Judson Williamson
An elegant and extraordinarily beautiful film set in the expansive golden countryside of Cameroon. A young French woman returns to Africa and is haunt... Read more
Barbarella (1968)
Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Marcel Marceau, Ugo Tognazzi, Milo O'Shea, John Phillip Law, Jane Fonda, David H...
Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favor... Read more
Cutthroat Island (1995)
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Geena Davis, Frank Langella, Matthew Modine, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, St...
Geena Davis and Matthew Modine deliver a tidal wave of nonstop action and adventure in this big budget pirate romp complete with a treasure map tattoo... Read more
Diva (1981)
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Starring: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Frederic Andrei
A breathtaking series of visual images in this stylish romantic thriller; at the heart of the film is an opera-intoxicated 18-year old mail carrier wh... Read more
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: Gian Maria Volonte, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny
Rosi's BAFTA-winning epic stars Gian Maria Volonte as Carlo Levi, an artist and political exile banished to a southern Italian village by Mussolini's... Read more
Underground (1995)
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
This Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival centres on Marko (Miki Manojlovic) and Blacky's (Lazar Ristovski) exploits through the war years to... Read more
Jour De Fete (1949)
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Jacques Tati's first feature film, which introduced some of the finest mime and slapstick humour since the days of Chaplin and Keaton. Tati is the vil... Read more
The Tenant (1976)
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters
Polanski's most autobiographical film is, like "Repulsion", a journey through the distorted realm of the human mind. Polanski himself plays Trelkovsky... Read more
Bilitis (1977)
Director: David Hamilton
Starring: Patti D'arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Gilles Kohler
The sexual awakening of a young woman is the focus of this gorgeously filmed, super-sensual tale from acclaimed photographer David Hamilton ("Laura").... Read more
Orpheus ( aka Orphee ) (1949)
Director: Jean Cocteau
Starring: Maria Casares, Jean Marais, Francois Perier
Jean Cocteau's 1940s update of the Orphic myth depicts Orpheus (Jean Marais), a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his... Read more