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My American Uncle

  Three Parisians with different dreams and backgrounds become close friends as they struggle with the trials of life.  Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories to discuss behaviorist theories of Read More

My Night at Maud’s

  Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a devout Roman Catholic who subscribes to an austere moral code influenced by the philosophy of Blaise Pascal. When he spots a pretty girl (Marie-Christine Read More

Monsieur Vincent

  Born into poverty and sold into slavery, Vincent de Paul (Pierre Fresnay) survives to become a respected clergyman and a confidante of the nobility. But when the Black Plague Read More

The Lovers

  Jeanne Tournier (Moreau) lives with her husband Henri (Alain Cuny) and child in a mansion near Dijon. Her emotionally remote husband is a busy newspaper owner who has little Read More

Lancelot of the Lake

  This stylized and unglamorous French drama by Robert Bresson presents the Arthurian legend as seen through the eyes of Lancelot du Lac (Luc Simon), one of the most prominent Read More

The Lacemaker

  Beatrice is a very reserved and quiet young woman. Her friend Marylene is left by her lover and brings her to Cabourg (Normandy) for a few days’ vacation. There, Read More

Léolo

  Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that Read More

Late August, Early September

  A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their Read More

The Devil’s Envoys

  At the end of the 15th century, two minstrels Gilles and Dominique come from nowhere into the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hughes’ daughter, while Dominique charms Read More

The Daydreamer

  A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company. He topples from one problem to another.