Jean Champion

Maigret

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitabl...

The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free Frenc...

Smiley's People

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so o...

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in lov...

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the...

Un mystère par jour

Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre

Four episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. Neither guar...

March or Die

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when...

Le Cercle Rouge

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back in...

Day for Night

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal a...

The Phantom of Liberty

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based...

Mr. Klein

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the mi...

The School Teacher

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become...

The Blood of Others

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistanc...

Coup de Torchon

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts t...

Guardian Angels

A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered...

Rue barrée

Ardéchois, cœur fidèle

In 1822, Toussaint Rouveyre, a former captain in Napoleon's army, returned to his village in the Ardèche after...

I Want to Go Home

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partn...

Pillaged

Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.

Monsieur

Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from h...

The Thief of Paris

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Ge...

The Hatter's Ghost

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial...

The Games of Countess Dolingen

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as...

Life and Nothing But

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irè...

Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's

Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he...

Muriel, or the Time of Return

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's ba...

Sugar

Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

The Big Shots

Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries. When Murelli'...

Pierrot mon ami

Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rig...

Mon père avait raison

After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years.

Love Unto Death

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but returns to life. D...

The Invitation

Rémi, a confirmed bachelor and model bureaucrat, invites his colleagues and superiors to a magnificent house to...

Une robe noire pour un tueur

The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost...

Félicité

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she re...

Drummer-Crab

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques P...