8/10

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

8.1/10

Director: Federico Fellini

Starring: Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier, Franca Marzi

The third of Fellini's trilogy of solitude. 'Nights of Cabiria' features Giulietta Masina as an impoverished prostitute living on the outskirts of Rom... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier

A riveting thriller and a nightmare of urban alienation, this is director Melville's reinterpretation of the dark world of Hollywood's gangster 'noirs... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring: Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Francois Perier, Gian Maria Volonte, Andre Bourvil

This heist classic from Jean-Pierre Melville ("Le Samourai") features Alain Delon as a crook just out of the slammer who joins forces with suspect-on-... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Alain Resnais

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Anny Duperey, Francois Perier, Michael Lonsda...

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a small-time swindler, to make friends with the most influent... Read more

4.2/10

Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Starring: Jeremie Renier, Deborah Francois, Jeremie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gou...

Sofia and her boyfriend Bruno are two irresponsible teens living on the bottom rung of the social ladder. When Sofia falls pregnant and gives birth t... Read more

5.6/10

Director: Philippe Le Guay

Starring: Francois Cluzet, Jeremie Renier, Berenice Bejo, Jonathan Zaccai, Patrick Descamp...

Simon and Helen live in Paris together, they decide to sell a basement in their building. The man who buys it has a troubled past and the couple's lif... Read more

6.1/10

Director: Nick Hamm

Starring: Frances McDormand, Franco Nero, Vincent Perez, Polly Walker, Marisa Paredes, Pen...

The period prior to the Spanish Civil War provides the background setting for the arrival in Spain of young Irish governess Mary Lavelle (Polly Walker... Read more

Director: Julie Dash

Starring: Angela Bassett, Cicely Tyson, Peter Francis James

Angela Bassett stars in this compelling docudrama about the strong-willed NAACP secretary whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Herk Harvey

Starring: Candice Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger

This extremely eerie, little known gem with nightmarish black and white photography, concerns a girl who, after a near-fatal car crash, is haunted by... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Terence Fisher

Starring: Peter Cushing, Eunice Gayson, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn

In this sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein", Peter Cushing's Baron is rescued from the guillotine and escapes to Carlsbruck, where he assumes a new... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Francois Truffaut

Starring: Nicole Felix, Chantal Mercier, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Virginie Thevenet, Tania...

In the quaint French town of Thiers, the streets abound with the sound of children laughing and playing. Most are dealing with such straightforward is... Read more

6.6/10

Director: David Foenkinos, Stephane Foenkinos

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Bruno Todeschini, Francois Damiens, Pio Marmai, Melanie Bernier,...

After the abrupt and tragic death of her ideal husband (Pio Marmai), a young widow (Audrey Tautou) steeps herself in her workaday office world, certai... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Peter Hyams

Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, Kika Markham

This science-fiction translation of "High Noon" stars Sean Connery as a 21st-century marshal on the third moon of Jupiter who alone stands up to a rut... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Peter Howitt

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Michael Sheen, Nora Dunn, Frances...

Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are the best divorce lawyers in New York - neither has ever lost a case. She is ser... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Joel Coen

Starring: Peter Stormare, William H Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Frances McDormand

A lovingly mocking tale of a kidnapping scheme that goes horribly wrong in the snow-clad Mid-West. A pregnant Sheriff (Oscar-winning Frances McDormand... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Regis Roinsard

Starring: Eddy Mitchell, Miou-Miou, Romain Duris, Frederic Pierrot, Deborah Francois, Ber...

Set in 1950s France, Rose (Deborah Francois), a village shopkeeper's daughter, travels to Normandy to try out for a job as a secretary for local lawye... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Katja von Garnier

Starring: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker, Pat...

American women didn't get the vote until 1920, an important yet largely overlooked historical landmark that is given air in this HBO-produced drama st... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Marc Munden

Starring: Frances Grey, Natasha Little, Jeremy Swift, Tom Ward, Nathaniel Parker, Miriam M...

Meet Becky Sharp - Governess, temptress and social climber supreme. A woman who more than compensates with brains and beauty for what she conspicuousl... Read more

7/10

Director: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djiggir

Starring: David Gulpilil, (Voice of) , Peter Minygululu, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbir...

Rolf de Heer's uniquely enchanting and humourous fable is the first film spoken entirely in Aboriginal languages. Set before the time of Western cont... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Mika Kaurismaki

Starring: Hippolyte Girardot, Patrick Bauchau, Michael Nyqvist, Martina Gedeck, Peter Lohm...

The Girl King paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are agai... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Jeffrey Friedman

Starring: Bob Balaban, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, James Franco,...

James Franco stars as famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this moving drama, centered on his iconic poem "Howl" and the 1957 obscenity trial that follow... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Darren Grodsky, Danny Jacobs

Starring: Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Madison Davenport,...

Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong), an uptight and disillusioned medical student, is failed by one of his professors, who happens to be his father. Seeking... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Starring: Frances McDormand, Harve Presnell, Steve Buscemi, William H Macy, Peter Stormare...

"Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten hi... Read more

3.7/10

Director: Neil LaBute

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker, Leelee S...

Nic Cage plays an emotionally fragile California cop who, after receiving a distressing phonecall from his ex, ends up on a remote island, searching f... Read more

6.3/10

Director: John Huston

Starring: Michael Parks, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd, Peter O'Toole, Franco...

An all-star cast, including George C Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris, heads this dramatic retelling of the first 22 Books of Gene... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Dick Clement

Starring: Alan Shearman, Billy Connolly, Diz White, Mel Smith, Ron House, Ron Pember, Fran...

An outrageous spoof of Sapper McNeile's 1930s "Bulldog Drummond" secret agent stories complete with stolen formula, mad professor, hapless heroine and... Read more

8.7/10

Director: Daniel Attias, Jeremy Podeswa, Nicole Holofcener, Daniel Minahan, Rodrigo Garcia, Karen Moncrieff, Michael Cuesta, Michael Engler, Alan Poul, Kathy Bates, Alan Ball

Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez,...

Life. Death. Guilt. Afterlife. For the Fishers, the more things stay the same, the more they change. Get ready to break new emotional ground with the... Read more

8.7/10

Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez,...

When death is your business, what is the meaning of your life? For Nate, David, Ruth and Claire, the world outside the Fisher and Sons Funeral Home co... Read more

6/10

Director: John Woo

Starring: Adam Beach, Christian Slater, Frances O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Nicolas Cage, Noah...

Set during the 1944 Allied invasion of Saipan and inspired by a true story, John Woo's WWII epic stars Nicolas Cage as a battle hardened Marine sergea... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Charlie Peters

Starring: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Jack Warden, Blair Brown, Tim Curry, Frances McDo...

A darkly humorous account of how an offbeat family deals with the death and funeral of the clan patriarch. Bob Hoskins, William Petersen and Blair Bro... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Victor Fleming

Starring: Cecil Kellaway, Francis L Sullivan, Gene Lockhart, Hurd Hatfield, Ingrid Bergman...

The life story of one of history's most remarkable heroines is boldly brought to the screen in this Academy Award winning production, an epic tale of... Read more

6.4/10

Starring: Peter Falk, Raymond Burr, Telly Savalas, Leonard Nimoy, Anne Francis, Nita Talbo...

A collection of three episodes from classic '70s detective shows. 'Columbo: A Stitch in Time' guest stars Leonard Nimoy as a brilliant cardiac surgeon... Read more

8.7/10

Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez,...

From Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning writer of "American Beauty", comes a series that digs where others fear to tred. When a bus kills Nathaniel Fisher,... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Cameron Crowe

Starring: Billy Crudup, Peter Frampton, Patrick Fugit, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kate Hudson...

Former rock critic Cameron Crowe delves into the past with this affectionate story centering on high school student Patrick Fugit, who aspires to cove... Read more

7/10

Director: David Gordon Green

Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Gary Co...

From the writers of 'Superbad', this is a stoner/buddy/crime caper flick that delivers on all three levels with no small thanks to indie director Davi... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Starring: Samuel Anderson, James Corden, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths, France...

Set in Thatcher's England, a group of clever, though working-class lads, attempt to earn the academic scores required for acceptance into the elite sc... Read more

9/10

Director: Kathy Bates, etc

Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Mathew St Patrick,...

The fifth and final season of this award-winning show, provides a fitting finale to a well-loved and decidedly earth-bound family. With its usual pit... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Metin Huseyin

Starring: Brian Blessed, John Sessions, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Lindsay Duncan, Peter...

A ribald and bawdy romp through the mansions and taverns of Georgian England. Henry Fielding's fallen hero bed-hops his way out of a good home and alm... Read more

8.2/10

Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Kathy Bates, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy, James Cromwell,...

Alan Ball's acclaimed funeral home drama continues as Nate faces a deeply personal burial, Claire explores her sexuality at Art School, and new partne... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Gary Leva

Starring: Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Brad Bird, Milos Forman, Saul Zaentz, Sofi...

While L.A. has been the undisputed capital of studio filmmaking in America since the early 20th century, San Francisco has become home to a different... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Eric Roberts, Hank Azaria, Robert Patrick, Sharon Stone, Wes Bent...

In 1972 - before the internet, before the porn explosion - "Deep Throat" was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, fe... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Robert Altman

Starring: Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Andie MacDowell, Jack Lemmo...

The visions of two great American artists merge in "Short Cuts", maverick director Robert Altman's kaleidoscopic adaptation of Raymond Carver short st... Read more