A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to... Read more
Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal 'Last Year at Marienbad'... Read more
Luis Bunuel's classic satire is filled with savage wit and some of the director's most surrealistic images. Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig and Stephane... Read more
At once charming, bizarre and eerie, director Jacques Demy's ('The Umbrellas of Cherbourg') colourful adaptation of the fairytale by Perrault (who als... Read more
This alternately touching and hilarious film about an inept but likeable jerk-of-all-trades, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Legud) which began with 'The... Read more
"The Ultimate Exercise in Controlled Terror" proclaims the tag-line of this stylish '70s thriller. Michael Caine stars as a British spy who's son is k... Read more
Based on Frederick Forsyths best-selling novel of political intrigue, The Day of the Jackal, tells of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the Fre... Read more
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
Legendary filmmaker Francois Truffaut followed the life of one of his favourite characters from rebellious adolesence to irresponsible adulthood over... Read more
First produced for the stage in 1894, 'Arms and the Man' established Shaw's reputation as one of London's great wits. Helena Bonham Carter is Raina,... Read more
This collection of BBC adaptations brings to life the memorable characterizations, brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit of Bernard Shaw's c... Read more