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A Simple Story

  Finding herself pregnant at the age of 39, Marie has an abortion without telling her lover Serge, because she has decided she must live without him. Her mother disapproves Read More

The Seven Deadly Sins

  Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In “Anger,” a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear Read More

Les Précieuses ridicules

  Les Précieuses ridicules, a one-act satire by Molière in prose, takes aim at the précieuses, the ultra-witty ladies who indulged in lively conversations, word games and, in a word, Read More

Identity Pieces

  This Belgian comedy follows African king Mani Kongo (Gerard Essomba), who journeys to Brussels in order to track down his daughter, Mwana (Dominique Mesa), who left their homeland to Read More

Small Cuts

  Small Cuts opens with journalist Bruno (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife, Gaelle (Emmanuelle Devos), having it out over his affair with Nathalie (Ludivine Sagnier). The tides of history are Read More

Le Misanthrope

  Le Misanthrope is a satiric comedy in five acts by Molière, performed in 1666 and published the following year.  The play is a portrait of Alceste, a painfully forthright Read More

No Fear, No Die

  Two friends (Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas) train birds for illegal cock fights, but one has trouble handling the violence inflicted on the animals.  Natives of Benin and the Read More

Perfect Love

  As Frédérique lies dead on her kitchen table at the hands of Christophe, police try to piece together the events that led to the gruesome killing. Frédérique’s teenage daughter Read More

Mondo

  Mondo (Ovidiu Balan), a young orphaned gypsy, finds himself in Nice, France, where he scouts out potential foster families, evades the police and meets an assortment of eccentric people. Read More

Deadly Circuit

  Mortelle Randonnée is a 1983 French thriller film inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm.  The plot revolves around Catherine, a serial killer who seduces Read More