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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

Man on the Train

  Milan arrives in a small town by train at the start of the week. The hotel is closed, but he finds accommodation through a chance meeting with a retired Read More

The Man Who Loved Women

  Bertrand Morane’s burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand’s life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an Read More

Manon of the Spring

  In this sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy Read More

Purple Noon

  Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) travels to Italy to visit his playboy friend Phillippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) and Phillippe’s new fiancée, Marge Duval (Marie Laforêt). What Phillippe doesn’t know is Read More

Phèdre

  Based on the Greek legend of Theseus, who returned from war with the Minoans to become king of Athens, and took Phèdre, daughter of the vanquished King Minos, to Read More

Espace Détente

  Deep in the heart of the Veule, an imaginary French province, Geugène Electro Stim, a small business whose survival is based on manufacturing and selling C14, an old but Read More