Browse by Country - France
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okuda, Stella Dassas
Alain Resnais has created a magnificent mood piece in his telling of the unique love story of a French cinema actress and a Japanese architect who mee... Read more
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
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
Europa Europa (1990)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Julie Delpy, Marco Hofschneider
A riveting and moving fact-based WWII Holocaust drama about a German-Jewish teenage boy who flees the Nazis and conceals his identity - only to find h... Read more
The Last Metro (1980)
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret
Truffaut's poignant, compelling drama, set in Nazi-occupied Paris, unfolds in the Theatre Montmartre, as a group of actors rehearse. But everyone harb... Read more
Jesus Of Montreal (1989)
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Catherine Wilkening, Lothaire Bluteau
The marvellous, emotional and humourous story of modern day hypocrisy, as experienced by a group of actors who stage a radical interpretation of the l... Read more
The Vanishing (1988)
Director: George Sluizer
Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Johanna Ter Steege
A sleek psycho-chiller with an absorbing plot about the vanishing without a trace of a young woman at a gas station, and the terrifying battle of wits... Read more
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier
An accomplished dreamlike mood piece with reverberations of 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Orpheus' as two girls change the outcome of a drama played dail... Read more
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Director: Vincent Ward
Starring: Patrick Bergin, Anne Parillaud, Jason Scott Lee, Ben Mendelsohn, Jeanne Moreau,...
When a half-Eskimo boy named Avik (Jason Scott Lee) leaves his Arctic home with a British mapmaker (Patrick Bergin) to seek medical attention in Canad... Read more
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern
Recounts the odyssey of an American filmmaker (Harvey Keitel) who returns to his Greek hometown after 35 years to pursue a dream of finding three reel... Read more
The Deadly Mr. Frost (Mister Frost) (1990)
Director: Philip Setbon
Starring: Alan Bates, Daniel Gelin, Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Baker
Aka "The Deadly Mr. Frost". After being arrested for 24 murders by detective Alan Bates, the mysterious Mr Frost, (Jeff Goldblum) after refusing to sp... Read more