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Le Bossu (1997)
Director: Philippe De Broca
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Fabrice Luchini
AKA "On Guard". From director Philippe de Broca ("King of Hearts") comes this lively swashbuckling adventure set in 18th-century France. When best fr... Read more
Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955)
Director: Rene Clair
Starring: Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Brigitte Bardot
AKA "Summer Manoeuvres" A rakish army lieutenant takes a bet from his comrades that he can make love to any woman in the town. The bet of course backf... Read more
Une Parisienne (1958)
Director: Michel Boisrond
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal
Brigitte Bardot is the daughter of the French Premier, and married to Henri Vidal, his chief aide. When Vidal shows signs of infidelity, Bardot fights... Read more
Saint Ange (2004)
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Lou Doillon, Catriona MacColl, Dorina Lazar
A young cleaning woman, Anna (Virginie Ledoyen), sent to spruce up the abandoned St. Ange orphanage in the remote French Alps in 1960, discovers that... Read more
The Chorus ( aka Les Choristes ) (2004)
Director: Christophe Barratier
Starring: Gerard Jugnot, Francois Berleand, Kad Merad, Jacques Perrin
When he takes a job teaching music at a school for troubled boys, Clement Mathieu (Gerard Jugnot) is unprepared for its harsh discipline and depressin... Read more
Sex is Comedy (2002)
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Gregoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger
Catherine Breillat's "Sex is Comedy" was inspired by her own experiences shooting a sex scene in her controversial feature "A Ma Soeur". Anne Parillau... Read more
Criminal Lovers (1999)
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Natacha Regnier, Jeremie Renier, Miki Manojlovic
A.k.a. "Les Amants Criminels". In this French thriller from Francois Ozon ("Under the Sand"), Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie R... Read more
Madame Sata (2002)
Director: Karim Ainouz
Starring: Lazaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques, Emiliano Queri...
Born to slaves in the arid wasteland of Northern Brazil and sold by his mother at the age of seven, Joao Francisco pursued his freedom on the mean str... Read more
Happenstance (2000)
Director: Laurent Firode
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Faudel , Irene Ismailoff, Eric Feldman
"Happenstance" is set in Paris, the Paris of the everyday. The story celebrates the chaos theory, that the beating of a butterfly's wings on one side... Read more
Apres Vous... (2003)
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jose Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain, Marilyne Canto, Michele Moretti...
A.k.a. "After You". Antoine (Daniel Auteuil), a maitre d' at an upmarket Parisian brasserie, prevents the suicide of a stranger (Jose Garcia) and atte... Read more