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The Child

  Young, unmarried couple Sonia and Bruno have just had a son, who Sonia names Jimmy. Bruno, who did not visit her while she was in the hospital, scoffs at Read More

Elevator to the Gallows

  Restless femme fatale Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau) recruits her lover, Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet), to murder her wealthy husband, Simon (Jean Wall), in his office and make it appear Read More

The Exterminating Angels

  François is a film-maker, usually impassive and without affect. He’s making a film about women’s pleasure as they transgress taboos. He doesn’t know that two fallen angels who’ve been Read More

The Fifth Element

  In the twenty-third century, the universe is threatened by evil. The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect Read More

Friday Night

  Having packed up her possessions to move in with her lover, Laure is more unsettled than she appears. Needing to get out and have a change of scenery, she Read More

Flanders

  Promiscuous farm girl Barbe (Adélaïde Leroux) entertains numerous lovers, but mostly prefers the company of Demester (Samuel Boidin). Demester seems incapable of commitment, and so Barbe sleeps with Blondel Read More

Fat Girl

  A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, Read More

Going Places

  Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are crooks. They’re not experts, but they’re competent enough to make their way through France by knocking over stores and lifting cars. Read More

Diva

  A young opera-loving mailman, Jules, becomes inadvertently entangled in murder, when a young woman fleeing two mob hit men drops an incriminating cassette into his mailbag. Jules has just Read More

Diary of a Country Priest

  An inexperienced, sickly priest (Claude Laydu) shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community’s clergy. But the locals don’t take kindly to the Read More