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Delicatessen

  Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is a butcher who owns a run-down apartment building in post-apocalyptic France. The building is in constant need of a handyman, because Clapet routinely butchers them Read More

Danton

  Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre’s incitement, has begun a Read More

Les Cousins

  Reserved, bourgeois college student Charles (Gérard Blain) comes to stay with his devil-may-care cousin, Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy), who lives the fast life in Paris. Sensitive Charles, thrown into the Read More

The Collector

  A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the Read More

The City of Lost Children

  Set in a dystopian society, someone is kidnapping the children. Krank and his band of clones are using the children to harvest their dreams. Then they kidnap Denree, the Read More

Cousin Cousine

  Their unfaithful spouses have provided them with license to fool around, but there’s much more at play than romantic revenge in the pairing of Ludovic (Victor Lanoux) and Marthe Read More

Candide

  The film follows the adventures of Candide, an orphaned Westphalian brought up in a baron’s chalet. He falls in love with the baron’s daughter, Cunégonde, and is thrown out Read More

Meeting Balthazar

  A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from Read More

Good Work

  This film focuses on ex-Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and Read More

Adhemar

  No matter where he goes or what he does, Adhémar Pomme finds that he cannot help being a laugh stock. The cause of his affliction is his distinctive appearance, Read More