Merci Pour Le Chocolat (2000)

Director: Claude Chabrol

Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly

Co-writer/director Claude Chabrol's taut thriller stars Isabelle Huppert as Mika, the villanous spider at the centre of an intricate and murderous web... Read more

The Gleaners and I (2000)

Director: Agnes Varda

A self-described 'wandering-road documentary', director Agnes Varda focuses her acclaimed non-fiction film on 'the gleaners', those who scour already-... Read more

Lacombe Lucien (1974)

Director: Louis Malle

Starring: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement, Holger Lowenadler, Gilberte Rivet

Louis Malle's film brilliantly relates the story of a young opportunist French peasant, who joins the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation. Despite bein... Read more

Tintin: Mystery of Shark Lake ( aka Tintin and the Lake of Sharks ) (1972)

Director: Raymond Leblanc

Starring: Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Snowy, Tintin

Aka "Tintin et le Lac aux Requins". Someone is stealing priceless works of art from museums and replacing them with excellent forgeries. Meanwhile, fo... Read more

Triple Cross (1967)

Director: Terence Young

Starring: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Gert Frobe, Claudine Auger,...

World War II true story in which master spy Eddie Chapman (Christopher Plummer) works both sides of the fence going for whichever player offers him th... Read more

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

Director: Francois Truffaut

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve

Beauty is by no means rare on the lush, tropical Isle de Reunion. Yet when island resident and tobacco tycoon Louis Mahe (Jean-Paul Belmondo) first me... Read more

Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961)

Director: Agnes Varda

Starring: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dorothee Blanck, Michel Legrand, Anna Kar...

This intimate film chronicles two hours in the life of a French singer who is waiting to hear if she has terminal cancer. The beautiful but spoiled Cl... Read more

Shoah - 1st Era, Part One (1985)

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann's landmark, monumental epic of the Holocaust. With an assemblage of witnesses, death camp survivors and Nazi functionaries whose combi... Read more

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

Director: Marcel Ophuls

Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Mendes-France

A staggering documentary detailing the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Combining interviews and archival film footage, director Marcel... Read more

Va Savoir (2001)

Director: Jacques Rivette

Starring: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler

Aka ' Who Knows?'. Jacques Rivette's delightfully bittersweet and highly entertaining comedy follows the romantic escapades of Camille (Jeanne Balibar... Read more