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Sunday God Willing

  In Algeria, Zouina (Fejria Deliba) bids a tearful goodbye to her mother as she embarks on a voyage to France to be reunited with her husband. In a provincial Read More

Jean de Florette

  In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing Read More

Love on the Run

  Antoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of François Truffaut’s saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying moderate success as Read More

Love After Love

  Isabelle Huppert stars as Lola, a novelist in her mid-30s who is involved with two men, her long-term lover, David (Bernard Giraudeau), an architect, and Tom (Hippolyte Girardot), a Read More

The Life of Jesus

  A social movie about current life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and Read More

Lila Says

  Chimo (Mohammed Khouas) is a nineteen-year-old self-described loser who lives in an Arab ghetto with his mother in post-9/11 Marseille. Unemployed, he turns down an opportunity to study (free Read More

My Favorite Season

  When her health begins to fail, Berthe (Marthe Villalonga), an aging widow, is forced to live with her successful but emotionally distant daughter, Emilie (Catherine Deneuve). In an attempt Read More

Mon Oncle Antoine

  Benoit (Jacques Gagnon) is an adolescent in the care of his uncle, Antoine (Jean Duceppe), who runs a general store in a small mining town in Quebec. To make Read More

My Life to Live

  In director Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark drama, Nana (Anna Karina), a young Parisian woman who works in a record shop, finds herself disillusioned by poverty and a crumbling marriage. Hoping Read More

Le magnifique

  Screen greats Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset star in the uproarious Le Magnifique (The Man from Acapulco). Belmondo plays Francois, a reclusive novelist whose wild imagination gets the best Read More