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In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father’s bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful ’white witch’ …

The nightmare of being deported is described in 14 testimonies from Jews arrested in France and sent to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver – a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away. He abandoned …

Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called « 24 CITY ».
Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the coast. There …

A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.

Father takes his family for a drive in their falling-apart Model T Ford, gets in trouble in traffic, and spends the day on an excursion boat.

Josyane ”loses” her dog in the woods. The dog is trained to jump into single men’s cars. She falls madly in love with the first man she catches this way, but when her lover finds out how they met, he leaves her.

The little Tramp and his dog companion to survive in the city.

Europe, during World War I. Frederick, an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian Army, and English nurse Catherine love each other more than anything. But Major Rinaldi envies their relationship and has Catherine transferred to Milan. Now-pregnant Catherine settles in Switzerland, and when her many letters to Henry remain …

A winter morning at the Saint-Malo station. Mrs Lelièvre (Jacqueline Bisset) has come to pick up Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire), the pearl who has been hired to care of the family house. Sophie gives great satisfaction, nothing is too hard for her. Is it her lack of emotion that makes her …

Due to a revolution in his country King Shahdov comes to New York – almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the chield from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly suspected as a communist himself and had to face one of …

THE LAND OF WANDERING SOULS chronicles the experience of Cambodian workers installing South East Asia’s first fiber optic cable across their beleaguered country.

Thomas, a French photographer, travels the world looking for extreme experiences. He meets with Fouad, a mysterious man who seems to have lost his memory. Thomas will try to discover who he is, taking him into the heart of demonic and erotic Middle East.

A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D’Artagnan, he mounts his steed and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.

Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine of everyday living. But Mila’s unexpected pregnancy, …

In order to prove to the father of his girlfriend that he can do something worthwhile, a young boy joins the navy. When his ship docks at a Middle Eastern kingdom, the girl and her father also arrive by yacht. The local maharajah kidnaps the girl and it is up …

Warsaw. A taxi driver is washing his car. Jacek, a young, obtuse-looking peasant, is wandering around the town. Piotr, a law student, is preparing for his final exam. Their destinies become entwined when Jacek hails the taxi driver for a lift into the suburbs. There he brutally murders him with …

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She’s an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything – not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they …

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine. She then gets caught up in the Hollywood glamorous machine. She and her idol Norman marry but Norman’s best days are behind …

In Iranian Kurdistan, very near the border with Iraq, five brothers and sisters live at subsistence level. The younger boy has a serious illness. The medicine he takes is expensive, and the doctor says he has to be operated soon to have a chance of surviving. Despite the efforts …

Six scholars, member of the Astronomers’ Club, set off on an expedition to the moon. They travel in a bullet-shaped rocket fired into space by a giant canon. After arriving on the moon safe and sound, they meet its inhabitants, escape their king and return to earth in their rocket …

Filmed during the shooting of « THE WIND WILL CARRY US » (Special Jury prize, Venice 1999), this documentary shows us for the first time Abbas Kiarostami at work and his subtle approach to filmmaking.

Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiancé Jean when he fails to meet her at the railway station. She goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events she bounces back and forth between apparent …

An engaging overview of its subject’s career, lovingly made by Irish documentarian Pat Collins in concert with film critic Fergus Daly

A rich American lady has bought the Castle of Longueval. Her sister is being courted by two young villagers, one that fell in love with her, and the other one that fell in love with the Castle.

Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant Seilollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For ten days, their DV cameras capture and caress the faces of thousand children, all orphans, whose parents have died of AIDS. It records tears and …

15-year-old Tahir and 8-year-old Amine wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to find him and wander through the city. Deeply disturbed by this sudden disappearance, they begin to hang about, play hooky and go to the movies, where, one day, they …

Flandres during the inquisition. ZENON, a doctor and alchemist wanted for subversion, has been wandering about Europe for 20 years under the assumed name of Sebastien Théus. He returns to Bruges, his birthplace. But ZENON is a non-conformist at heart. He can’t resist helping rebels, hereby jeopardizing his security. Various …

Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two, hapless, desperate junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. ADAM & PAUL follows the boys over the course of a day like every other. The difference, today, is that Adam and Paul – already near rock bottom …

Two crooks team up and take a wealthy man as their target. They start litlle then begin to work on a larger scale when they learn that the greybeard owns a map which gives the site of of an elephant’s graveyard full of ivory!

Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals…

Baron Gourgaud presents Africa true face, in the land of the “blood drinkers”. A documentary of the 1930’s across Africa, from Port Said to Cape of Good Hope and Saint Helena. Discover animals of the jungle, elephant and lion hunting, Masai and pygmy tribes and visit South African diamond mines …

Mahmoud is one of the “Tahrir square horseriders” who, on 2nd February 2011, manipulated by Mubarak’s regime, charged against the young revolutionaries. Beaten, humiliated, unemployed, ostracised in his neighbourhood near the Pyramids, Mahmoud and his family are losing their footing… It is then that he meets Reem, a young Egyptian …

This trip to Abidjan reveals Kourouma’s world and shows us how Abidjan’s Malinké tradition comes across in everyday life.

A father of Mayan origins and his son Natan spend their last days together before Natan returns to live with his Italian mother in Rome. Spending their days at sea, their relationship grows as they connect with life above and below the surface of the sea.

Vivian, a divorced woman, is set to receive a fortune from her divorce-disapproving aunt. Having taken in her first husband as a lodger, and now living with her second husband, she must pretend to her aunt that she is still married to her first husband…

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

Blase Eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the “wild West” by his father.

Rumania in the Twenties. In a border town on the left bank of the Danube, the mansion of Madame Vorvoreanu, one of the great ladies of the old Rumanian nobility, glitters with the lights of the ball to which all the local nobility has been invited. The young Dumitriu couple …

Angela is born in Ballarò, the market neighborhood of Palermo. She gets married when she’s twenty to Saro, and for years she shares his life of drug dealing and easy money. She is wife, mistress, and trusted accomplice to her husband. The life he leads fascinates her, she likes the …

TOM AND JERRY

Directors : John Foster, Georges Stallings , Franck Tashlin, George Ruffle

USA / 1920-1933 / B&W / 15 x 6’ (approx)

Nothing to do with the famous cat and mouse duo from MGM. In the beginning of the 30’s, Tom and Jerry were two young boys whose thrilling adventures, produced …

Antoine Doinel (the young hero of ‘Les Quatre cents coups’) is now eighteen years old. At a concert of the ‘Jeunesses musicales’, he immediately falls in love with a young student. So he can see her all the time, he moves into the apartment opposite. Heeven becomes her parents’ protégé, …

The director establishes a link between Lisbon, the setting of all his books, and the closed, ritualistic world of this mysterious writer.

Nicky and Uri, two young Israelis, arrive in New York and survice by committing petty thefts. After getting into scrapes, they leave Manhattan for a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. The manager of the building is Max, an authoritarian, cynical man in a wheelchair. Harold Fisher – his brother-in-law, a shy, …

The artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her ”professor” father.

This making of Bartabas’ first feature film highlights his passionate relationship with horses, which gave birth to this flamboyant film.

Russia, 1917. Recently demobilized, Ukrainian soldier Timosh returns home and arrives during a celebration of Ukrainian freedom. But he challenges the local authorities, and then, at the All- Ukrainian Congress, he calls for the soviet system to be adopted.

A duke usurps his brother’s land and power, banishing him into the forest of Arden. The banished brother’s daughter, Rosalind, is however allowed to remain as she is his daughter Celia’s closest friend. Rosalind falls in love with Orlando but when the duke finds out, he banishes Rosalind in fury. …

Shopkeeper Baudu is on the verge of bankruptcy, no longer able to compete with a new department store where his own niece has found a job. Jealousy ensues as the department store owner falls in love with her.

This investigative documentary, combining archive footage and interviews with specialists, gives us a closer insight and understanding of Auschwitz.

Roscoe and Buster are working at a vaudeville house. When the crew attacks the strongman for bullying his assistant, the man goes out on strike so the crew puts on a show.

A young man cut off from his father’s money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.

The show draws breath from the Gypsies, from this relation with life and the ephemeral, linked to the feeling of freedom that prompts and guides it, while the horses are carried away by two groups of Romanian musicians.

In 1900, in a cabaret, the lovely Lina (Gina Lollobrigida) takes over at a moment’s notice from her mother who is too exhausted to finish her song recital. Heckled by the audience, she only manages to make herself heard thanks to the help of Sergio (Vittorio Gassman) who is fascinated …

Francois van Heerden, a mid-40s, white, Afrikaans-speaking family man living in Bloemfontein, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.

We find Antoine Doinel trying to settle down into adult life with mixed results. He is temporarily working in a little-known profession, dying flowers… He has married Christine, the young violinist that he was courting in ‘Baisers volés’ and who gives violin lessons to earn them some extra money. Soon, …

Authorities assign a third occupant to a couple’s small apartment. Soon, it turns out to be a ménage à trois but not for long: the young woman gets pregnant by one the men…

An eye-witness account of the production of THE WALL (1982), during which Guney and his crew shut themselves from the outside world, in an attempt to recreate a penal atmosphere.

A moving, frank portrait of Maurice Béjart during the labyrinthine creation of a new show, a ballet named “Light”.

Marcel Schüpbach’s film follows Maurice Béjart during the labyrinthine creation of a new show, a ballet called Lumière (light). From rehearsals through to opening night, the incredibly sprightly, 75 years young Béjart calls the shots. His lust for life burst forth from a work which comprises music by artists who …

On that night, Betty leaves the bar with a stranger. She is already drunk, when she ends up in ‘Le Trou’, this restaurant in Versailles, meeting point of all bums, as Laure says. Laure is older, and she also hangs out there. As time went by, she became the mistress …

Two of the major works of Cunningham
in the 90′s (« Biped »/ »Pondway »)
Shot thanks to software of choreographic
composition and of holograms creation, developed
by Cunningham himself, in the two new films by
Charles Atlas. He creates a film where the camera
literally dances on stage with performers !

BLACK CAT WHITE CAT Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 years old son Zare. After a failed business deal, he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Ladybird, that he desperately wants to see get married so …

Paris 1817, at the Royal Academy of Medicine. «I have never seen a human head so similar to that of an ape». Standing by a molded cast of Saartjie Baartman’s body, anatomist Georges Cuvier’s verdict is categoric. A group of distinguished colleagues breaks out in cheers. Seven years earlier, Saartjie …

Witek is running after a train. From his banal event, Kieslowski imagines the possible twists and turns in a young man’s life during the turbulent period of Poland in the 70′s. Version 1: Witek manages to get on the train, meets some hard-line communists and joins the Party. He realizes …

A small textile factory, like many others. At the beginning, women in a clothing or weaving workshop. Some of them are young, some of them are old and others are middle-aged; they come here, every day, to produce in the heat, forcing the pace, enduring their tiredness. As well as …

Travel with Jean-Luc Petitrenaud across France and its gastronomy. Passionate about good food but above all by people, food columnist Petitrenaud celebrates conviviality, tradition and authenticity.

Each program is a culinary exploration. Discover France’s regional, culinary specialties and traditions lus tomorrow’s tendencies with Jean-Luc Petitrenaud and MK2 !

Durations: 21 x 26′ …

Young Lucy lives under her father’s strict rule. One day, she falls in love with Cheng Huan, who has just arrived from China. Her father then attempts to break the bond by brute force.

Young playwright spends his last cent to pay the rent of struggling actress in a theatrical boarding house. Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.

A documentary that is specific for its ironical tone and the movements of the camera.

When jury foreman Edward Weldon’s questioning leads to a death sentence for Ethel Saxon, he shows very little remorse, but the tables are turned when his daughter Stella confesses to having killed her unfaithful lover, the gangster Gar Boni.

Filip, a clerk in a small Polish town, buys an 8 mm movie camera to film the baby his wife is expecting. His manager takes an interest in it and commissions him to report on the 25th anniversary of the firm. The film is shown at an amateur film festival. …

Hoping to further increase his ill-gotten gains, infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd inveigles King William III into appointing him the ”patriotic” protector of a valuable treasure ship. Ostensibly hired to fend off enemy vessels, Kidd intends to steal the ship’s cargo for himself with the aid of his …

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures.

The dreams and doubts of Carlos Saura, one of Spain’s most distinguished filmmaker, as he directs the new ballet by Aida Gomez.

A cigarette girl fights with another girl from the factory and is taken into custody by Don Jose, who just happens to be smitten with her. In the city she falls in love with the bullfighter Escamillo. Don Jose’s jealousy drives him to attempt to kill her.

An English author visits Italy to promote his latest book and give a lecture on the relationship between originals and copies in the world of art. He meets a French art gallery owner and they decide to spend a couple of hours walking through the alleyways of a small village …

Dimitri, a Russian violonist and Anatoli, a shaman, escape from the gulag with the help of two wild horses. The shaman is killed but, before he dies, he shows Dimitri the invisible spirits of being and things which are all around him and which will go with him into the …

Charles Chaplin’s masterpieces as you’ve never seen them!

Discover 10 feature-films, all restored in 2K:

THE KID
MODERN TIMES
THE GREAT DICTATOR
MONSIEUR VERDOUX
THE GOLD RUSH
THE CIRCUS
CITY LIGHTS
LIMELIGHT
A KING IN NEW YORK
A WOMAN OF PARIS

Lobster Films, Cineteca di Bologna and the British Film Institute jointly restored 32 short and 1 feature length comedies that Charles Chaplin acted in and directed between January and December 1914 in Keystone studios, in Los Angeles. An invaluable patrimony to the understanding of Chaplin’s Art.
The Keystone films constitute a …

« It really is an angry film, imbued with a certain darkness and venom in its message. And that message is a very powerful one. » Jim Jarmusch

« It doesn’t show a good man or a bad man, a good woman or a bad woman – it shows a human being. » Liv Ullmann

« The fact we know Chaplin from childhood, maybe that does mean, as viewers, that we’re quite literally taken back to that first viewing experience. And then of course there is something childlike about Chaplin. » Peter Lord

« When I see the end of « Limelight » again, I feel close to doing something which, alas, doesn’t happen to me often: crying. » Bernardo Bertolucci

« When Charlie is caught in the cogwheels of the machine, it’s like film winding through the gears of a camera. It’s a motion picture, from the age of motion pictures which itself was the age of industry, the age of the machine. » Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne

« What’s amazing in « Verdoux » is the fact that the women he kills are ugly and unbearable. » Claude Chabrol

« He was, I would say, inventing life, another life. That’s why his cinema was so big, they used to say ‘bigger than life’. » Emir Kusturica

« In Chaplin’s films, you don’t see skin color, you don’t see a white man – you see just emotions ». Idrissa Ouedraogo

« With « The Great Dictator », Chaplin, a moviemaker and in a way, a clown, takes a look at History and the future whereas the world’s great spiritual and political leaders don’t see a thing. » Costa-Gravas

« Chaplin has an extraordinary way of telling stories. The problem today is that people have forgotten how to tell a story. » Abbas Kiarostami

Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

RESTORED IN HD!

Charlie covers all of controversies surrounding Chaplin the man and the artist, highlighted with a remarkable series of newly recorded interviews.

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. With cameo appearance of Chess World Champion José Raúl Capablanca.

A classic of cinema, restored from 35mm nitrate.

How Bartabas’ third show « Chimère » began in the heart of India.

Cameroon, right before the country gets its independence. The Dalens’ live in a small town, run by the French Administration. Marc, the father, is hardly ever home. Aimée, the mother spends most of her days in her yard, gardening. France is their daughter, and she just keeps to what is …

A young girl spends Christmas Eve amongst the demi-monde. There, she meets a gentleman who, thinking she is someone she is not, forces his attention upon her. After numerous twists and turns of the plot, they end up marrying.

A brunette woman takes a picture of a blonde woman, the two women surprisingly look alike.

Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman. Thus, he cannot have the woman he loves, his cousin Roxanne. Roxanne …

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp’s on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl’s benefactor and suitor.

Claire Dolan, an immigrant, works as a prostitute in New York city in order to pay off an ever-escalating debt to her pimp. When her mother dies in a local nursing home, Claire attempts to extricate herself from her life as a call girl. She starts a relationship with a …

An insight into Chabrol’s personality through his films. His personality lends his film a unique easily identifiable flavour.

Paris. A very busy boulevard. Someone throws a crumpled piece of paper into the outst retched hands of a beggar-woman. This is the bond which, for an instant, links the trajectories of several very different characters : Anne, a young actress, is on the threshold of making it in …

Buster plays a student who’s the best at everything except sports. The prettiest girl in the school, who is courted by all the athletes, tells him that she will not give in to his advances until he improves his athletic skills, which is no easy task!

In a little village in Brittany, a 10 year old girl is found assassinated. René, an artist by profession and the girl’s art teacher, is the last person to have seen her. He is immediately questioned by the police inspector in charge of the enquiry. In this little provincial village …

Saint Nazaire. Yan, 22, is unqualified and unemployed. He often has violent discusions with his father, a former worker, who now works in a small bookshop. Juliet, Yan’s girl friend, works in a fashion store. She wants to marry Yan, but first he has to find a stable job. Listening …

The two friends Buster and Fatty want to seduce the same woman. Their methods however differ largely.

HCB’s contact sheets. Far beyond the photographic surface, his contact sheets reveal the depth of his particular look on the world.

In a small provincial French town, Doctor Morasseau, Mr. Lavoisier and the butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business. One obstacle: Mrs. Cuno and her son Louis, the mailman, who do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of the butcher, which motivates the …

The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific Ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.

Superintendent Griffon investigates on the murder of a lawyer. He reaches the backstage of the country’s highest authorities with the help of Sybille Berger, a journalist whom he falls in love with. They uncover the murder’s origin : a contract project concerning railroads raw material, negociated between the French government …

A poor vegetable peddler in Paris runs afoul of the law and finds himself ground up in the cogs of the corrupt French judicial system.

Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley is in love with the young Ethel St. John that accepts marrying him if he makes her a star.

CROSSING THE LINE is a journey across Italy set to the rhythm of long-distance express trains, long abandoned to a destiny of slow decay, as they cross the Italian peninsula from South to North and back again, in a trip spanning night and day. It is a succession of landscapes, …

Paris, August 1997. The World Youth Days are in full swing, and the Pope is in Paris for a few days. When Jason, his first son, is born, Jonas, aged 23, finds himself entrusted with a mission that stems from an ancestral tradition. After a crazy night and a series …

HCB while he is drawing and painting. An open reflection on the childhood of art.

One stifling afternoon, during the summer vacation, on an isolated farm, David, a fifteen-year old boy, gets rolling drunk for the first time in his life. His two uncles have invited their old pals over for a barbecue, washed down with copius quantities of wine. They get the teenager drunk …

Based on a true story.

Mexico, 1949. CORAL FABRE, a buxom sensual young nurse who raises her two children by herself is a fan of French actor Charles Boyer. CORAL is laid off by the hospital she works for because she has bullied the patients. In order to make fun of …

French engineer Jean Domèvre is looking for his missing friend Mokhir, a Lebanese engineer who just found a uranium deposit in the desert. Domèvre asks contessa Athelstane for help but falls in love with that woman who will not stop deceiving him to favour her lover, major Hobson, a secret …

Nanette sends home a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanettes’ former lover returns, who Hillory must confront.

Mat is a night cop in the criminal division of the Paris police force. His lifelong friend Franck works on the drug squad and has been dabbling in trafficking for some time. When Franck takes things a bit too far, Mat must take matters into his own hands.

Mothers talk about their perception of pregnancy.

A father, a mother and their three kids live in a house in the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The kids have never left the house. They are being educated, entertained, bored and exercised in the manner that their parents deem appropriate, without …

Don Cesar de Vega, son of Zorro, is in Spain for his education. He falls in love with Dolores, and befriends the visiting Archduke of Austria. Suddenly the Archduke is assassinated and Don Cesar is accused of murder.

After a violent argument, Nicole walks out on Joel. She moves back in with her parents, Francis and Edith. In the days that follow, Joel, an up-and-coming young chef, can think of nothing but getting his wife back. While Joel is ready to abandon everything for Nicole, Francis has turned …

A convicted thief in prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes are murdered, Holmes and Watson are called upon to investigate.

When Henri comes home from Africa, he discovers that his sister has become a great actress, but he also finds that she has fallen prey to drug traffickers and is in the clutches of a morphine addiction. He goes in pursuit of the gang of pushers across Europe.

“DUMBLAND is a crude, stupid, violent, absurd series. If it is funny, it is funny because we see the absurdity of it all.” David Lynch

9 short films:

THE DARKENED ROOM
BOAT
LAMP
OUT YONDER
NEIGHBOR BOY
INDUSTRIAL SOUNDSCAPE
BUG CRAWLS
INTERVALOMETER EXPERIMENTS
MEMBER QUESTIONS

Pierre Brumeu lives in Paris with his father, a piano teacher and the memory of his mother who died in Tunisia when he was only 5 years old. With the bitter realisation that his life is dull and superficial, he leaves the capital in search of his maternal roots, following …

Two dancers breathe their grace into the show, while the riders and their mounts move in harmony. A world of contrasts on Korean rythms.

An insight into Ireland’s primitive landscapes and violent nature enables us to get right inside the writer’s world. A wonderful profile.

Nanette sends home a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanettes’ former lover returns, who Hillory must confront.

Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina is in love with the Guayi, the 20-year-old Payaguayan maid working at her place. They dream of living together in Paraguay, at the shores of lake Ypoá. Robbing every purse and wallet in the house to fulfill their dream, …

A live recording of the complete choreography by Angelin Preljocaj based on the piece “Sonntags Abschied” of Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Fascinated by the world of the famous choreographer, Angelin Preljocaj, Olivier Assayas attempts to reveal the secrets of creation by shooting the moments of joy and anguish of this ambitious new piece.

« A dream of dark and troubling things. » David Lynch

A journey to Ischia and Rome, two key places understand the true writer’s universe.

The dramatic story of a young boy who lives in a village in the Haut-Valais region of Switzerland, and is unable to cope with the death of his mother. He becomes increasingly desperate when his father remarries a young widow with a daughter of her own. The two children, Jean …

Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury ‘Fahrenheit 451′ Books are the enemy! That is why, in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, reading is strictly forbidden. The fire brigade’s sole mission is not to put fires out but to hunt down people who possess books and to reduce …

It is New Year’s Day 1919. The war is finally over. In the working class suburb of Paris, Michel, 11, lives with his mother, a humble seamstress. They are outcasts and suffer from the neighbors’ mockeries. Michel’s father was killed in action, but not quite properly : shot down …

An exploration of the vast territory which is the relationship between the general practioner and his/her patient.

An exploration of the vast territory which is the relationship between the general practioner and his/her patient.

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a grandfather.

At 17 Fatma is left devastated by rape. She tells nobody. Continuing her studies, she dreams of the day when she will finally be free, but then she meets Aziz, and from then on, she will do anything to keep him.

Jewelry, porcelain, paintings… all lovingly created then sold, given as gifts, destroyed, stolen, resold. Both good and bad deeds pass them from hand to hand; others link people together : the artist burglar, the locksmith who makes unbreakable locks,the robbed bandit financier, the feather-brained coquette and the corrupt judge, the …

The definitive film on Fela, the « Black President », creator of Afrobeat. Shot one year before he passed away

Based on a series of interviews with Damian Pettigrew on the theme of the artist and creation a year before Fellini’s death – « the longest and most detailed conversation ever recorded on my personal vision » according to Fellini – this entertaining, unique portrait explores the mythical director’s world. From Federico’s …

For the first time, a live show was recorded at the Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria, during a  » Sunday Jump », the weekly concert organized by Femi Kuti in one of the most impressive African city.

The result : 70 minutes of live afrobeat recording and a uniqudocumentary with live concert, interviews, …

After having received a number of “Guest Creatures” on its mythical stage such as Dita Von Teese, it is Christian Louboutin’s turn to take over Le Crazy Horse. The famous creator of the red sole revisits the Crazy show.

The 3D effects added during post production like sequins, water, flames and …

Based on ‘The Long Saturday Night’ by Charles Williams. The story is set over the course of a few nights in a small town in the South of France. Julien Vercel, director of a real estate agency, finds himself suspected of a double murder: that of his wife, Marie-Christine, and …

An erotic tale of three gorgeous teenage girls shipwrecked on a remote island. When they meet a couple of teenage boys, one of the girls finds herself drawn to a married man, while another seems to be attracted to members of her own sex.

Five short poetic moments filmed in digital camera:

1. The camera accompanies a piece of wood with which the waves are toying, at the beach.

2. People are walking along, by the seaside. The older people stop, look at the waves, then walk away. Nobody goes past now. All that remains is …

In glamorous Monte Carlo, Count Karanzim, a Russian Don Juan, becomes the lover of Mrs Hughes, the wife of the new US Ambassador.

A sailor (Jean Gabin) on leave has an affair with a singer who considers this affair as a one night stand. He, on the contrary, takes this love affair very seriously and, as his mistress’s unfaithfulness is unbearable to him, he returns to the ship.

Frankie, a 26-year old angel whose beauty is cold and fragile, has just been hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic. She is a model who is no longer young or beautiful enough…This woman who has reached the end of her career is totally disillusioned when she realizes the immensity of her …

A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.

A nomadic tribe in south-east Iran, whose speciality is weaving Gabbeh (Persian carpets) is dying out… On the banks of a river, an old woman who is washing one of these carpets seems to be conversing with it. The motives of this Gabbeh relate the love story of a young …

Set in the mid-west of Ireland, GARAGE tells the story of harmless misfit Josie, the lonely but optimistic caretaker of a crumbling petrol station. Over the course of a summer, Josie’s world shifts. A teenager, David, comes to work with him. They open up to each other. And Carmel, from …

From his modest Normandy origins to the greatest international and Parisian addresses, famous French pastry chef Gaston Lenôtre tells about himself, his passion for “patisserie”, his conquest of Paris in the 1950’s and then of the world (his group is now present in 40 countries).

18 year old Lake has a beautiful girlfriend, but one day discovers he has an unusual fetish for the aged. Then fate conspires to land him a summer job at an assisted living facility and he develops a tender relationship with a certain Mr Peabody. Upon discovering that the clients …

The comic adventures of a new car owner.

Gwenaëlle and Angéla are friends. They are 17 and 18 respectively. They live in the same town on the outskirts of Paris. At home, times are hard and each has her share of family problems. A charity organisation that is very active in their neighbourhood offers travel grants. The girls …

During a summer, 27 year old Sam takes a road trip to the south in his Ford. On the road he, by chance, meets Mathieu and his sister Léa. Léa is beautiful, voluptuous and feminine to the bone. She loves men, as does Mathieu. On this long journey to Spain, …

Bebe and Bud are running a spiritualist racket and take a break.

Goodbye South Goodbye presents a beautifully delineated portrait of a generation of Taiwanese cut off from their society’s traditional values. Hou records a world stuck in short-lived businesses and scams in which the characters have no real shot at economic advancement. The characters are cold, rootless, and basically corrupt. No …

Roscoe’s wife wants him committed to the “No Hope Sanitarium” for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver/ wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient.

Always the mama’s boy, or in this case a grandma’s boy, Sonny joins a posse after a tramp accused of robbery and murder…

Adam, a boy from a Roma settlement in Eastern Slovakia, has only two joys in life: his training as a boxer and his girlfriend Julka. But when his father is killed in mysterious conditions, his mother marries her brother-in-law, the loan shark and thief, Zigo. Adam’s life changes from one …

1965. The Vietnam war. Romain and Michel are best friends. Aware of the damage provoked by war, they create a students Committee and join the French communist revolutionnary youth, with Alain Krivine, May 68, the conflict is here, Romain and Michel are fighting on the barricades, as they believe in …

One of the last films shot together with the photographer. HCB is commenting on several of his own pictures.

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

A young man can only get the woman he loves if he becomes famous and manages to get his picture in the newspapers. He determines to let nothing stand in the way of his doing exactly that, and in the process winds up getting involved with a gang of criminals …

An American book salesman is persuaded to go to the kingdom of Thermosa to impersonate the Prince…

In a drugstore Al and Roscoe are rivals for Alice. Roscoe slings melons and operates the gas pump. Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice, begins modeling it, is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.

Michel and Nadine’s weekend on the countryside was supposed to bring them closer. Arriving at the hotel, they meet their fellow guests and find them everything but average. After a particularly confusing night at the hotel, the opera singer Eva Lopez is found dead and Michel and Nadine find themselves …

The film explores the way the mafia took control of Haollywood in the 30′s, and how the studios found themselves the hostages of gangsters.

Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.

A portrayal of the sensuality of horses’ bodies and movements.

Erika has it all: a good job, lots of friends and a secure relationship. Until the day it all falls apart. Suddenly this perfect life means nothing, and the feelings she once was able to control are no longer within reach. She starts going to group therapy and meets other …

Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.

Nanette sends home a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanettes’ former lover returns, who Hillory must confront.

Referring to the famous article written by Emile Zola in defence of Dreyfus, J’ACCUSE is one of Abel Gance’s major works. The film condemns war and uses as its main theme, the life and death of a French soldier in World War I who was to become a staunch pacifist.

Three brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh work together in a Lower East Side fabric shop and seem to be leading quiet lives until Josh is suddenly gunned down in front of Abe. Determined to understand the mystery of his brother’s death, Abe is progressively thrown into the underworld of prostitution. …

Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.

Joey Wellman is an American cartoonist, visiting an exhibition in Paris. Uncomfortable with this new environment, he wants to go home; that is when he meets Christian Gauthier, a teacher who admires Joey’s work. Christian invites Joey for dinner at his home. Christian actually got married with Elsie, Joey’s own …

Shangai, a fast-changing metropolis, a port city where people come and go. Eighteen people recall their lives in Shangai. Their personal experiences, like eighteen chapters of a novel, tell stories of Shangai lives from the 1930s to 2010.

Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives with her family in the suburbs. In a few words, FIONA is happy… till one day… FIONA gets accidentally locked into a walk-in fridge while closing up. She gets out in the morning, half frozen andarely alive, only to realize …

A young law student fails his exams and becomes a country solicitor. He employs the young woman he is in love with as his clerk. He transforms his law practice into a music hall venue, and the story ends with a wonderful wedding.

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot chose Romy Schneider, age 26, and Serge Reggiani, 42, to be the stars of L’ENFER. It was an enigmatic and original project with an unlimited budget that was to be a cinematic “event” upon its release. But after three weeks of shooting, things took a turn …

Inspector Lavardin investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved. She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was trying to abuse her. Uncovering the true story, Lavardin finds another convict with …

Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras: in ancient Babylon, in Judea, in 1572 Paris and in modern America.

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git’s girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He’s now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank …

What first distinguishes Isabelle Huppert is her unwavering energy.What surprises, puzzles or fascinates is her courage, her daring ideas and her almost childish stubborness to be an actress. But the secret stems from pleasure, enjoyment felt by an actress who likes the moment when light which arises from her acting, …

A young French director travels Chechnya in the depths of winter to meet those “indomitable Chechens », a People in resistance.
Shot without authorization in 1996 during the First War, then edited ten years later as a testimony of a forgotten age, The Sons of Itchkeria is more than a movie to …

During World War I, an English officer is inspired to fulfill his mission when he finds the decaying sword of Joan of Arc, who appears to him in a vision.

One of the first historical films by Cecil B. DeMille.

A journey into John Woo’s world, from the Los Angeles Chinese Supermarket he used to go, to his method and directing that influenced many other filmmakers.

Based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, this film is about two men, two artists, one of whom is Austrian, the other French, and their love for the same woman over a period of twenty years. This pure love triangle is interrupted by the Great War, but becomes even stronger …

Suburban neighbours join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard.

KANSAS CITY, 1934. Blondie O¹Hara, a young telegraph operator, concocts a desperate plan to kidnap Carolyn Stilton, the socialite wife of an advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt. Her goal is to exchange Mrs Stilton for her petty thief of a husband, who has been caught by legendary gangster Seldom …

Dunkirk, February 1998. It’s carnival time. A month and a half of partying, parades and singing. The town is in turmoil. After a violent argument with his father, Larbi decides to leave the family’s garage business and go to Marseille to make a fresh start. For his last night in …

Abbas Kiarostami comments a few scenes of THE WIND WILL CARRY US.

As he watches a few extracts, Kieslowski explains, frame by frame, the way BLUE, RED and WHITE has been made, shot and edited

On the tracks of the earlier works of Krzysztof Kieslowski, from The Scar to The Double Life of Veronique

Kinshasa, Congo. About 30.000 children are accused of witchcraft and expelled from home. Living on the street, little José and his fellow friends, all considered as witch children, decide to form a rap band to ward off bad luck, along with a crazy impresario called Bebson. Together they will rock …

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis, who kills her lovers and momify their bodies…

Alvaro lives a simple and lonely life. In a region of Argentina completely lost in time, his homosexuality aggravates his isolation. El Turu, a violent man, feels threatened by Alvaro’s « difference » and is set on harassing him.

A lazy and pennyless young man becomes the director of a jail thanks to the help of hi sgrand mother. Before his nomination, he writes a letter to the tribunal to accuse himself of jewel robbery hoping to be transferred in a country where lives a young lady adventurer he …

The love life of the cruel and fiery queen Marguerite who took a new lover every night only to have him executed the following morning. The film is a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel; the orgy scenes caused a great scandal when the film was first released.

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers of a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.

In the 90s, Laurence tells his girlfriend Fred that he wants to become a woman. In spite of the odds, in spite of each other, they confront the prejudices of their friends, ignore the council of their families, and brave the phobias of the society they offend. For 10 years, …

Captain Craddock welcomes a mysterious passenger on board his ship who turns out to be the queen of his country. He plays roulette and loses the money that the queen has entrusted with him for safekeeping. He threatens to bomb Monte Carlo if the money he has lost is not …

Under the reign of Louis XIII, in a dilapidated manor house in Gascony, a descendant of the Sigognac family no longer has his fortune to rely on. Fate has it that one evening a group of actors turns up at his door, looking for a room for the night. The …

During the Second World War, the lives of three comrades fighting in the Forces Françaises Libres’ flight. Pierre is a valiant pilot, afraid of nothing. Jean is reported missing during the Normandy landings. Jacques gets killed on the very last day of the conflict, leaving behind him a weeping widow.

The Larzac struggle is the story of one territory, one living space, one landscape’s defense. One just has to walk around this plateau to understand how much its inhabitants settled there for generations or not, couldn’t give it up without fighting. Scarcely has a social conflict been so deeply ingrained …

Contrary to normal belief, films did not suddenly become ’talkies’ in 1927 with the release of THE JAZZ SINGER. From films accompanied by singers or pianists, to machines that make noise with a synchronized phonograph, a multitude of practices have all contributed to this grand adventure.

Cartier-Bresson is writing a letter to the President of Mauritania, to express his anger about the murder of Mamadou Bâ, a young shepherd, killed by the mational guards.

For the first time in his long career, God, the Eternal and Omnipotent, unhappy at what is happening on Earth, decides to use sound and pictures to address mankind. Hardly has he completed his divine screenplay, he takes his courage in both hands and hurries down to Earth in search …

On a May day in 1941, a military biplane crashlands outside the little Russian village of Krasnoye. The commander of the local army unit posts the most useless of his men, driver Ivan Chonkin, to guard the crippled craft. As sometimes happens, the commander forgets all about him. Left to …

1919, a castle, a count. The aristocrat propose to all his guests a unique experience, which puts everyone in a state of permanent happiness. The experience turns into a tragedy. 1982, same castle. Architects and sociologists are attending a conference which theme is how to raise imagination. The conference is …

On one side is Le Quesnoy family, catholic middle class people, perfectly educated, and somehow boring. On the other side is Groseille family, poor and unsane, squeezed in a filthy apartment. Both families have nothing in common, except this one child in each family : born on the same day, …

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to …

Chaplin’s final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian’s effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin’s only real artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton.

Talia is 13. She gets into a fight with her stepfather and runs away, taking her dog Kim with her. She heads for the projects in Pantin, near Paris, to hook up with a friend. But the friend has moved to a foster home. She meets four kids her age, …

The film focuses on a typical French department store : Les Grandes Galeries. All kind of things can be found in there, as well as all kind of people. Mr Lepetit has just been appointed General Manager of the company, whose one and only aim is to precisely manage, but …

Evelyn is in love with Albert, who is in love with Arthur, who in turn loves the girl who’s being a drama queen and who is in love with the man driving a cabriolet. There’s the Night who is in love only with herself, and then Death who only loves …

Fred Madison, a saxophonist, is accused under mysterious circumstances of murdering his wife Renee. On death row, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton, leading a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred’s paths begin to cross in a surreal, suspenseful web of intrigue, …

Directed by Alexandre Rockwell (In the soup, Four rooms), Louis & Frank is a feature length comedy about two mismatched cousins who, in their youth, were part of a doo-wop group. Years have passed since then, and Louis, (one of the cousins) has moved on to other things, a family …

Focused on the connection between life and cinema, Louis Malle’s films can be seen as an autobiography in the making.

François lives in an old house, La Méridienne, which he shares with two sisters, Marie and Marthe. He decides to get married, and hires Dubois, a private eye to take care of him. Dubois reports his job to Marie, and falls in love with her. Will he marryher?

Inspired by the Tantric Monestary of Gyuto, Bartabasdelivers an amazing show.

Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another woman. He is thrown into a cell …

A young Parisian woman falls in love with a sailor she meets on holiday. Whilst the summer brings them together, the autumn pulls them apart. They continue to write to each other but live separate lives, he in Brest with his friends, her in Paris waiting to see him again. …

Two officers serve in a Spanish regiment: Duval is French and Hamed is the son of a Berber chieftain. Hamed discovers that his friend Duval has fallen in love with his sister and has to confront the Moorish custom that requires that he kill the infidel.

Antoine Doinel gets divorced. It is the first divorce by consent, and journalists are waiting outside the law courts. He comes across one of his old girlfriends who is now a lawyer. Antoine’s life continues with new girlfriends, arguments, and old acquaintances with whom he forms ties again. Then, he …

In Uzès, a mysterious, austere town, four characters who live in seclusion have a simple yet superb life. It is the story of two couples. The first, Judith and Jérôme, have been living for ten years in deep, exalted mutual understanding. Both clerics, they have their own ideas on faith. …

A small provincial town with its castle, its school and its burlesque and gracious characters. The school’s principal, a pleasant soul, transmits his love of jazz to his pupils and encourages a young student supervisor’s love affair.

Nanette sends home a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanettes’ former lover returns, who Hillory must confront.

A rare glimpse into the fascinating mind of one of cinema’s greatest directors. Footage was gathered over a two year period and documents David Lynch’s many creative interests as well as his passion for filmmaking. We ride along with David as he makes his latest film, INLAND EMPIRE, witnessing his …

Taken from the novel by Gustave Flaubert. Romantic drama of a woman’s abandoned pursuit of love and the three men who loved her. Emma Rouault is a daughter of a peasant. Eager to get away from her mediocre life, she marries a health officer, Charles Bovary. Emma soon gets bored, …

Newlyweds, John and Jane Mason struggle through their first year of marriage, plagued by money problems, illness and a meddlesome live-in mother-in-law. Through all this turmoil, their love never falters, as they are ”Made for Each Other.”

Walt, a young homosexual falls madly in love with Johnny an illegal Mexican immigrant who doesn’t speak any English. Based on the Walt Curtis autobiographical novel of the same name.
“It shouldn’t be missed” Chicago Reader
“This is a knockout debut.” Washington Post

Gloria Swanson plays a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.

To record a poetic inspiration in its truest form without concern for conventional formalism.
With regard to poets, I would say, a cinema that would be to cinema what insomnia is to sleep.
To finish, imagine the end of an absolutely captivating film. Suddenly, the image leaps from the screen and meanders …

Christian Legagneur is a very popular TV Show announcer and producer. He invites the journalist Roland Wolf to spend a few days in his country house, in order to write his biography. There, Christian lives with his god daughter Catherine, who used to be the best friend of Madeleine, Roland’s …

Paris, 1917: everyone is talking about the endless war: about the civilians who do not understand what is going on, and about the shirkers who are living it up. Everyone is so discouraged and frightened that spy mania is rife. In a Parisian music hall, people come to see a …

Somewhere in France, May 1995. All TV sets are ablaze in the Le Corbusier apartment building, 12 minutes before the announcement of the winner of the next presidential elections. We are about to enter the lives of the inhabitants of seven of the building’s apartments, in real time. The sounds …

Theodore Gericault, a young romantic painter, fascinated by horses, meets the famous trainer, Franconi, director of the Olympic Circus. Theodore settles himself in the Circus and shares the life of the company. With Franconi, Géricault learns to free himself from convention and to consider horses as almost the only subject …

1926. Romaine seduces Marcel Blanc, a violonist and a friend of her husband Pierre. She also tries to poison Pierre, and gets suspected by her cousin Christiane. Full of remorse, Romaine kills herself. Pierre marries Christiane. Three years later, as Pierre and Marcel meet again, Pierre finds out about his …

Three 12-year-old children wake up one morning and see that they have been turned into adults during the night. Completely panic-striken, they run into their parents’ room only to discover that their parents have been turned into children…

When jury foreman Edward Weldon’s questioning leads to a death sentence for Ethel Saxon, he shows very little remorse, but the tables are turned when his daughter Stella confesses to having killed her unfaithful lover, the gangster Gar Boni.

The famous love affair between Mireille, a rich Provencal heiress and Vincent, a poor basket maker, thwarted by the jealousy of Ourias, a herdsman himself in love with Mireille.

Based on the novel by William Irish, ‘Waltz into Darkness’ Louis Mahé, a Frenchman living on Réunion Island, has been corresponding with a young woman, Marion subsequent to a lonely hearts ad. He bids her to come out on the ‘Mississipi’ ship. They get married at once, but after a …

The artist at work. With his astuce look and the Leica hidden in his hand, the photographer is approaching and ambushing his prey.

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Yvon is delivering oil. He is being paid one day with counterfeit money, and tries to pay his bill in a bar with it. Uncovered, he loses his job. He then gets involved in a hold-up which turns out badly. Thrown behind bars and desperate, he tries to attempt suicide. …

Thirty-something, James, Alex and Eric are best friends. Living in a small city in Michigan, they are constantly in trouble trying to make endsmeet. Until the day barman Eric eavesdrops on a conversation between an old cop and two gangsters. The cop is given a briefcase full of cash, buying …

Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck.

A satire of stage melodrama. Roscoe and Buster are looking for moonshiners in Virginia. Roscoe is captured and put in a cabin which is blown up by dynamite.

Moscow 1916 : a wheat merchant and a young officer are both in love with the same young woman. There is a war and a beautiful spy is trying to take advantages of the young officer’s weakness. As he is about to be convicted for treason, the young officerwill be …

Through various fictional art forms – films and literature – the fascinating, passionate and violent bond between mother and daughter is analyzed.

A young man attempts to commit suicide over a singer who let him down. At the hospital, three mothers come forward, none of whom are the real mother since the father married four times and his actual mother died, giving birth to him.

The daily lives of European families in various European countries: Germany, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Eire, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, UK, Sweden.

The cinematographer misses a certain element capable of giving complete reality: color. From the first films colored in by hand up to blockbusters filmed in Technicolor, this quest has been an incredible adventure in which art and science combine.

A new understanding of French Muslims, who describe their everyday life with Islam and the place they find for themselves in the French secular space.

People’s behaviour is always determined by their unconscious impulse. Professor Laborit is studying that kind of reaction on his experiment animals. Unknown forces might be influencing Jean, the careerist middle class man, or Janine, comedian of humble extraction, or even René, son of a peasant, who created his own textile …

One night, Colette gets a phone call that wasn’t intended for her: a woman she’s never heard of, who’s coming out of prison, asks her to go and pick up her little boy. Colette goes to pick up the boy, a certain Billy, who is actually no child but dangerously …

In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father’s bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful ’white witch’ …

A series about different kinds of child care today, from the most classic collective childcare centre to some more original ones.

A story of life and love in the actual Arctic that documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo and his family. NANOOK OF THE NORTH describes the life of a group barely touched by industrial technology. This film is considered the first feature-length documentary.

Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor ”cures”, thereby building a reputation….

On the outskirts of Bucharest one hot summer day. Norica, a young waitress and Mitu, a pig-keeper, meet, taunt each other and play at who will drink and dare the most. Next morning, Mitu’s mind is a blank. What happened between them? But their affair is more than a one-night …

After a several atomic experiences, the dead get out of their tombs to devore the living. Barbara locks herself up in an isolated house with five other people. There will only be one survivor…

West China. Wu Hongyan works in a Court as a female bailiff, in charge of women awaiting execution. Every weekend, she looks for love in Matchmaking dance parties. Yet her encounters, more sexual than emotional, always turn out badly. Until she meets the mysterious Li Jun whose wife is actually …

ANDRE POLONSKI, a virtuoso pianist, and MIKA marry for the second time in Lausanne, years after their first, very brief union. In the meantime, ANDRE had married LISBETH who gave him a son, GUILLAUME. On the day of his sixth birthday, while the family was staying with Mika in Switzerland, …

It’s 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her …

Paul is a 50 years old movie director. Unfortunate to find his ideal actor, he gives up with his latest movie project. Then he meets Jean, just back from a New York directing school ; Paul asks him to go seeking Dara, the once star who used to work with …

Rousseau is a bestselling crime novelist from Paris, troubled by a persistent writer’s block. Candice Lecoeur is a local beauty, gracing the famous ” »Belle de Jura »” cheese packaging, who has gotten it into her head that she might well be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. The two will meet in …

A group of women work in a radiology department. Cécile is a radiologist. She lives alone with her son. She behaves like a man between a homosexual male friend and her child with whom, no matter what, she forms a « couple ». Isabelle, also a doctor, is married. The couple is …

Since 1983, the Art Rock Festival in St Brieuc, mixing styles and subjects, has distinguished itself as one of the major events on the French music scene. In June 2005, the very prestigious ”Carte Blanche” was offered to Olivier Assayas. During one night, two stages at the festival played host …

A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the woman he loves.

The film focuses on a small hotel in a working-class district of Paris, and relates a serie of human dramas taking place inside its walls. In one of the rooms, a star-cross couple contemplates a double suicide. Another room is inhabited by a prostitute and her cowardly pimp who has …

In order to launch its top secret new product, the Muller pharmaceutical company throws an extravagant party where directors, managers and employees are all invited. During the course of the evening, the guests are asked to participate in a role-playing game which, it turns out, is actually a massive training …

Hazel Flagg, a lively young woman, is fed up with her monotonous small-town existence. She is wrongly diagnosed as dying from radium poisoning, and brought to the big city by New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook for a final fling. At first, Hazel has a great time, but complications arise …

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Our hero chases his girlfriend’s dog around a seaside resort, on the roller-coaster and merry-go-round.

François has just checked out of the mental hospital. His goal: to win back Anna, the love of his life.

Starring Eric Elmosnino, César Best Actor Award winner in 2011 for his outstanding performance as French singer Serge Gainsbourg in Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.

In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counterrevolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, …

lady. Then the doctor and the lady’s husband lose their money betting on the same horse. While the doctor is taking care of her, her husband is taking care of the doctor’s fortune.

The story of a tough competition between an Emir and an Armenian businessman, both fighting to be the biggest oil supplier in France. An hilarious French comedy…

Marfa, a poor peasant woman who cannot afford a horse to plough her land, gets a job at the cooperative. The Kulaks try to sabotage it. But Marfa’s determination manages to overcome the reservations and prejudice of the other peasants. She also manages to thwart the traps set by the …

Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife in favour of Juliet Raeburn but when Juliet’s name is mentioned in connection with a murder, he marries Viola and takes her to Paris.

Oliver’s mother, a penniless outCast, dies giving birth to him. As a young boy he is brought up in a workhouse, and later taken in by a gang of thieves, who befriend him for their own purposes. All the while, there are secrets from Oliver’s family waiting to come to …

Just after his father’s death, Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou. Sal and Dean bond instantly. Determined not to get locked into a constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to …

In 1986, producer Marin Karmitz is eager to record conversations with the great thinkers of the 20th century. Famous French paediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto (1908-1988) agrees to give several interviews. With her particular vision of the child, her humor and her inimitable gift to turn psychoanalytic theories simple, Dolto …

William Forsythe’s ONE FLAT THING, reproduced in high definition.

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her …

A tale about a fearless girl who spends a night hitching rides through the deserted streets of Teheran.

When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.

Malandro is a Brazilian musical set in the Rio of the 1940s. A likeable prostitute is fired from her nightclub job. Her friend vows vengeance upon the girl’s odious ex-boss.

Naples. A happy, harmonious family has gathered together to celebrate a double Christmas: the night of December 24, a child is to be born to them, on the anniversary of the Holy Birth. Everyone is excited about the birth of little Franceschino; everyone except Rocco, the newborn’s future brother. Rocco …

After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit …

Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together. When Louise goes blind, they both go to Paris to cure her blindness. There, Henriette and Chevalier de Vaudrey fall in love but De Vaudrey is condemned to death for being an aristocrat, and Henriette for harboring him.

Milan, today. Ugo is a well-known banker, acting illegally. Rita, a captain of the Finance Police Force, is investigating.
Around them, other characters: models and pensioners, prostitutes and murderers, with their ambivalence of violence and weakness. Money runs the city and rules their lives.
Finally their stories flow into the same time …

John and Mary Sims are city/dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of the Depression. Driven by bravery and sheer desperation they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community, a socialist mini-society.

A group of kids plays havoc in Hollywood. The OUR GANG serie is one of the Hal Roach studios biggest successes.

Fire Fighters – 1922 / 25’

The Big Show – 1923 / 19’

The Champeen – 1923 / 12’

Derby Day – 1923 / 16’

Dogs Of War – 1923 / 24’

Giants Vs. Yanks …

A satire of western movies. Roscoe becomes barman in a saloon reigned and terrorized by bad boy Wild Bill Hiccup.

Midway through her prison sentence, Matilda is granted a 24-hour temporary release. Not willing to return to jail, she plans to escape and flee the country. But before the day is over, Matilda must first confront her troubled past. She visits her brother, reluctant to offer any help, and Paul, …

Robert Greenwald, is trying to give Fox News Channel the kind of cinematic spanking that Moore just delivered to President Bush in « Fahrenheit 9/11. »

A family in Beijing, China. Father, mother, and daughter. The family lives on making leather bag by hand. The business is fallen. 23 scenes from their daily life made up this movie. All scenes happen in their home of 50 square metres.

Alex, a teenage skateboarder from Portland, accidentally kills a security guard. His otherwise typical life spirals into a dizzying new reality of confusion, cover-up and guilt, while the Police are investigating the death. Based on Blake Nelson’s dark coming-of-age tale, Paranoid Park is « sort of Crime and Punishment in High …

Paris in 1957, just after the Budapest events. A circle of intellectuals is obsessed by the mysterious death of one of them and suspect each others. But is there a mystery or is it world complexity?

A panorama of the great flooding of Paris, January 29th 1910. How would it be if it happened today? With unique recentlydiscovered dramatic scenes of the 1910 drama.

Gabrielle, an apprentice at Paquin, the famous fashion house, becomes a star of the music hall thanks to an actor, Georges Barsac. She triumphs under the stage name Gaby Derys and marries Barsac.

Jeff wants to get married to Virginia, but Virginia won’t marry until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets married off first. Jeff pretends that a shy, never-married nobody he has just met is really a great lover, in order to get Angelica interested in him.

As the director observes the writing ritual and gathers the writer’s words without comments, we discover the well-known but secret Pascal Quignard.

Charlie is an expert bricklayer. As he leaves work his wife takes the pay he has hidden in his hat. But he steals her purse so he can go out for the evening. When he comes back he finds her waiting for him with a rolling pin.

His friends regard Daniel as a guy who is doing well and who always manages to make it through. No matter what. He makes it through the battle to provide for himself, through dangerous situations that demand quick reflexes and a very cool head. Lately he seems to need all …

In Phoenix, Arizona, all is not well at the local police station as some of the colleagues are not good of heart. Superstitious cop Harry Collins is on the take. He a compulsive gambler who is forced to plan a heist with fellow cops Mike, James, and Fred to rip …

Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques in favour of returning to pickpocketing (after taking lessons …

He won the Palme d’Or at the age of 15, the César Award at 16.

Jean-Christophe Kern, aka JC, is no ordinary teenager. A mix between Jean-Luc Godard and Justin Bieber, at 17 he divides his time between eating Honey Pops in front of the TV after school and his professional …

Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle’s worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. A …

Lisbon, 1667. Marie-Françoise, princes of Savoie and cousin of Louis XIV, is married to king Alfonso VI. However, she feels neither as a queen, nor does she appreciate her life at the Portuguese court and that at a moment where Europe urgently needs a strong franco-portuguese alliance… …

While investigating current labour struggles, a man ponders the disturbing political and social gap between Europe and America.

A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in ”the company of kings”. One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the throne of a small European kingdom. However, there are forces at work who …

Gisèle Gelbert is a physician, specialized in neurology and aphasiology (linguistic problems resulting from brain damage). She found out that some children having big trouble reading, writing and speaking, linguistic anomalies identical to aphasic adults. Her method allowed her to cure with success countless children considered as “irrecoverable”.

Nelson Mandela was once considered a terrorist by the apartheid government. “Reconciliation” details events leading up to what South African’s coined “Mandela’s miracle”, a strategy that prevented a bloodbath and shepherded in a peaceful transition to a democracy. It is driven by the notion that even the most terrible tyranny …

April 1937: the pro-Franco troups are on their way to Madrid. The Republicans lack weapons to defeat them. The Soviet secret service sets a huge gunrunning net throughout Europe. Anton, a Stalin agent, is in charge of the district of Paris. One night, he is arrested by the Gestapo. Leo, …

In an unspecified time and country lived a people called the Kreuls. They were a gentle, peaceful people who were in love with life. This people worshipped a god: Rei Dom who was often represented with a bird, a kind of chicken with atrophied wings which was not quite a …

Nina, a young provincial and a student actress, discovers the Capital. That of her dreams of love and theater. Guided by her instinct, she travels around alone and follows her chance encounters, whether good or bad. On her way, she first meets Paulot, a simple clerk, with a reassuring face …

Lincoln, New-Mexico, 1881. William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid, is shot by Pat Garrett, his friend and newly-appointed sheriff.
Lincoln, New-Mexico, 2004. Sheriff Tom Sullivan decides to exhume Billy the Kid’s body. He wants to put an end to the perstent rumour claiming that Pat Garrett let the Kid go and …

A film about the war prisoners in Germany and their difficulties to get back to liberty and life. It’s certainly the film in which Cartier-Bresson involved himself the most.

Paris Right bank : Paul Sénanques is a brilliant lawyer whose main client is Pervillard, nicknamed as the President. Paris Left bank : Sacha Vernakis, young and beautiful divorced woman, who works in a Public Relations agency, where she sometimes has to accept to compromise. They fall in love. Eager …

A group of traveling players arrives at the opera house where they have their next engagement. Harold, one of the stage hands, takes a liking to one of the dancers, and he willingly helps her with her baggage, until he realizes that one of her props is a live snake…

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant.

The greatest singers and musicians of Jamaica’s Golden Age of music, Rocksteady, come together after 40 years to record an album of their greatest hits, to perform together again at a reunion concert in Kingston, and to tell their story.
ROCKSTEADY – THE ROOTS OF REGGAE revisits classic Rocksteady songs such …

Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: latin dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, there is a car accident and they see their lives turned up and down and up and down and up and down…

« An old-fashioned, sweet-natured dance-based comedy debut …

Nanette sends a letter to her family telling them about her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanettes’ former lover returns, who Hillory must confront.

In the detention centre calles S21, located in the heart of Phnom Penh, some 17 000 prisoners were tortured, interrogated and then executed from 1975 to 1979

Aida Gomez is rehearsing a new ballet. The music, the set, the costumes are beginning to take shape… Suddenly, we discover a silhouette on a wheel chair… And realize it belongs to Herod, Tetrarch of Galilee. We are at his birthday party.Herod wants hisstepdaughter to dance for him, whatever …

Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/ uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.

Between San Francisco and Berlin, a love story between a German dancer and a US southern cow boy.

The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Nanette sends home a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanettes’ former lover returns, who Hillory must confront.

Three ravishing models are murdered at top designer Dominique Airelle’s place. A cop investigates and after a number of mishaps and a certain amount of flirting, he manages to clear up the case.

Thomas is fourteen and perhaps because not much happens in his remote village in southwestern France, he likes to tell tales. But then one day, something really does happen to him, something that upsets his life and the lives of everyone around him. The lives of his grand parents. The …

When her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a 27 years old black woman, decides to look for her real mother. She is overwhelmed when she discovers that her biological mother, Cynthia, is white and that she has a 20 year old daughter, Roxanne, who she lives with. Despite the panic Cynthia …

Whoever pretends he can choose his life is a liar. It’s an hotel with the walls covered with striped paper, crossed like the bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end for those who do not have enough cash to …

A young composer is suffocating in his social and family life. He dreams of leaving and starting his life over somewhere else… Jacques goes on a tour of the provinces with a ballet troupe who dance to his music. They live in hotel rooms, train compartments, and dressing rooms where …

After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck – but in doing so, causes himself the worst luck imaginable.

Mister Jean is the King of Shadow, a crack secret agent. He frees Xavier Brabant, an ex-militant, now involved in gunrunning. In fact, Jean wants to use Xavier to infiltrate and neutralize JANUS, a clandestine fascist network. Jean wants to know who is behind this organization. Eventually, JANUS will have …

A dying Chinese man converts to Christianity in order to stop a friend from being blackmailed.

Shirin is the passionate story of a passionate love told by Nezami, an iranian 12th century poet and by Shirin herself to an audience of more than 110 actresses. The audience identifies with the heroine of the film they are watching, an audience that is both subject and object, an …

SHOAH BY BULLET reveals a chapter of the « final solution » that is generally misunderstood or even unknown, the story of the hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered by gun shot by Nazis during the invasion of the Soviet Union. The documentary follows the investigation of Father Patrick Desbois, …

Based on the novel by David Goodis, ‘Down There’ Charlie Kohler, the pianist at Plyne’s Bistro, is a sad, absent-minded, secretive man. His strange brothers are in trouble with some crooks. One evening, one of them is being chased and seeks refuge with Charlie in the bistro. Léna the waitress …

Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.

ALEC FENTON, an American by adoption and his wife MARJORIE, an American of Greek origin, live with their two children in Athens. Both Alec’s business life and his tender relationship with his daughter, are guided by a playful but deeply felt need to interpret the smallest details of the world …

Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddaughter Denise. But Denise herself loves André Berval, an engineer employed by the marquis. Filled with jealousy, the marquis sends André to the Antilles, to prospect some land he has just acquired.

The film brings together a dozen children – boys and girls – whose adventures illustrate the various stages along the path from early childhood to adolescence (from the first feeding bottle to the first lover’s kiss).

After the execution of Louis Mandrin, a famous outlaw and mid-18th century folk hero, his companions decide to take the risk of another campaign in France’s southern provinces. Under the protection of heavily armed comrades, they set up illegal markets outside rural villages, where they sell tobacco, fabrics and precious …

SNOW WHITE is the latest creation from the acclaimed Preljocaj ballet, a great contemporary romantic ballet, based on the Grimm brothers’ classic fairytale. Angelin Preljocaj’s trademark modern choreography is accompanied by fashion giant Jean Paul Gaultier’s costumes and music by Gustav Mahler.

A writer, Pierre Lachenay, a family man, falls in love with an air hostess during a lecture tour. He leaves his wife, lives alone, and visits, in turn, his wife and his mistress. Unable to face up to the situation, putting off the moment of choice, Pierre is killed in …

A woman passes a construction site and gets dirt in her eye, which causes her to wink involuntarily. Soon she has a trail of suitors.

Paris in the early 70′s. Gilles, a young high school student, is taken in by the political and creative turmoil of the times. Much like his friends, he is torn between his radical commitment and his personal ambitions. Through romantic encounters and artistic discoveries, Gilles and his friends’ journeys take …

These two documentaries are travel books, based on the visual splendour and strenth of the images. With these films, Cartier-Bresson tried to capture the late 60′s USA, during the Vietnam War.

Documentary on the Spanish Civil War and its postwar years.

Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

Two years spent in the core of one of the most innovating educational projects of the last 30 years: the Neuville School imagined by Fabienne d’Ortoli, Michel Amram and famous French paediatrician Françoise Dolto. A school where each child is an essential element of the project. A unique documentary that …

Canfield Jr. is in love with the daughter of the banker King, but King is competing with Canfield Sr. for a steamer business on the Mississippi. During a cyclone storm, Canfield Jr. rescues everyone. They patch up their differences, and wedding bells ring.

Two paper-hangers, Oliver Hardy as the boss and Bobby Ray as the helper are on their way to a sanatorium, but there is a collision and their wallpaper gets mixed up with circus posters.

Olivier Assayas enables us to discover the world of creation and the art of the renowned German composer who influenced a generation of musicians from the Beatles to Björk.

Antoine Doinel leaves military prison after his national service that we imagine has been a trying time for him. He goes back to civilian life and looks for a job. He is, in turn, a night watchman, a television repairman, a packer and also a ‘periscope’, in other words, a …

Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. She dreams he quits the job for they can live quietly. One night, during a sea rescue, he meets Catherine. She wants to leave her husband, …

Second World War. Marie is a 30 year old housewife. Acting by solidarity, she will help her neighbour Lucie to get rid of an unpleasant burden. But due to the tough times people go through, this soon becomes the real job of Marie : husbands, prisoners of war, one night …

Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances change very quickly: he wins one race after another, …

In a Russian factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents.

Based on the novel by Henry Farrell, ‘Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me’ Camille Bliss, suspected of a crime, is in prison when the story begins. She was locked up when she was very young. We discover her behind bars when a young sociologist conducts an inquiry on juvenile delinquency… …

The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle’s exceptional 19th century art collection dies. Adrienne, a successful New York designer, Frédéric, a university professor in Paris and Jérémie, a dynamic businessman expanding into China, are left to confront the end of childhood, their …

An employee at a soap factory is also the captain of a football team. When the boss takes a day off, the workers play hookie to watch a game in Brussels. But fate has it, they will run into the director.

This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since « Vertigo » is a middle-aged, moderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a famous film director or both. Madeleine hails him on the street as the …

Charlie works hard on a farm. He loves the neighbour’s daughter Edna but is disliked by her father. Several mishaps lead him back and forth between the dream world and the reality world.

Father, mother and the two sons sit together at the dining table. One of the two sons, Max, leaves the table. A little later, his brother follows and finally it’s the turn of their father, leaving his wife behind. All three end up with the same woman.

The only film with …

When perennial college students Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw’s band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.

Hijinx at a classical dance academy when two tramps take a stab at ballet.

In the wake of Argentina¹s spectacular economic collapse in 2001, Latin America¹s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts worklk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they …

In Seoul, the paths of two men and one woman intersect and move apart from one another, centering around their love for cinema. A suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to follow him in his fatal gesture. Coming out of a cinema, Tongsu, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a …

A cossak chief (Harry BAUR), fighting against the poles, is broken hearted to find out that his son (Jean-Pierre AUMONT) has betrayed him because he has fallen in love with the daughter (Danielle DARRIEUX) of the polish governor. During the assault, he kills his son and manages to enter the …

Flora, Jane’s niece, is in love with the overseer of Tarzan’s African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzan races with his pet lion to save Flora from being sacrificed to a lion-god.

A tale of one middle-aged man¹s wish to die in a society where suicide is considered an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with …

One of the first fruits of post-glasnost collaboration, this Soviet/French production gives an eye-opening account of the underbelly of Russian daily life, as we follow a tough taxi driver, Schlikov, and a drunken sax player, Liocha, who are first brought together when the latter skips out on his cab fare. …

In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.

Ten: ten sequences in the emotional lives of six women and the challenges that they face at one particular moment in those lives, that could just as easily be ten sequences in the emotional life of the one same woman…

Holmes and Watson investigate a series of apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamorous woman.

An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue?

The story of Antoine Doinel – aged twelve and a half – begins on the day he is given a severe punishment at school to do at home that evening. It so happens that he is unable to do it. So, the next day, not daring to go back to …

1939. Marie, a young Parisian girl, is preparing to spend her summer holidays in the village of her beloved grandmother with her family. During that very summer, Marie turns into a real woman, falling in love with a young Jewish doctor, who will prefer Marie’s mother. These holidays will seal …

A New York socialite, Anatol DeWitt Spencer, after having been married for a few days, has become bored with his new bride Vivian. In search of new romantic vistas, Anatole takes up his old flame Emilie. Briefly returning to his wife, he attempts other extramarital adventures, and finally decides that …

Monsieur Andesmas hopefully waits for his daughter’s arrival as the sun starts to set into the abyss. His mind journeys through memories while his body for the last time responses to the skirts of a woman. As it gets colder by the approaching evening, Andesmas gets closer to death…

Arlen Faber is the reclusive author of « Me and God, » a book that has redefined spirituality for an entire generation and has been translated into over 100 languages. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of his still wildly popular book, Arlen is still sought after as the man who …

Based on a true story : in the South part of Teheran, several families have got together to denounce their neighbours to the Social Services for not letting their children out of the house. A social worker is put in charge of the inquiry. She discovers that the two twins, …

Jean Lerat de la Grignotière is as full of himself. Heeding the call of the Motherland he is to accomplish his military duty. Posted to Corporal Bourrache’s platoon he is surprised to meet there…Joseph, his own servant. Making blunder after blunder Jean gets hazed by his comrades and punished by …

Officer Saint-Avit joins up with his battalion and relates his adventures: he and Morange were taken prisoner by the lovely Antinea, queen of Atlantis who ordered him to kill his comrade. He managed to escape, with the help of a servant girl. The day after his account, Saint-Avit mysteriously disappeared.

See …

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis, who kills her lovers and momify their bodies…

See also THE ATLANTIS by George Pabst.

Spiro, the beekeeper, his truck full of beehives, starts off on his Spring rounds. However, this year, nothing is as before. The family is scattered: Spiro’s favourite daughter gets married, the mother follows the youngest boy to live in a university town, and Spiro is more excited than usual. Humdrum …

At the Elk’s Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.

Gaston lives in London. He falls in love with a young Lady. However, to save her father, she decides to marry a more wealthy man. Gaston decides to move to France where he meets with a young lady singer…

The friendship of two families is being threatened by the American Civil War as they must join up opposite armies.

NEWLY RESTORED FROM  35 MM NEGATIVE.

Based on the novel by William Irish. One sun-drenched morning, Julie comes out of a church in a white dress on the arm of a boy called David whom she has loved since childhood. As the bells ring and the wedding party poses for the photographer, a shot rings out. …

Fatty, the butchers trainee, and Slim, the shelf manager are both in love with Amanda, the butcher’s daughter. When Amanda is sent to a boarding house, they both have the same idea: they dress up as girls in order to get into the fortress.

Rich old Cyrus West’s relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But Cyrus stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle …

A documentary on children learning the meaning of spirituality while going into 6th grade.

A venal, spoiled stockbroker’s wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

A powerful documentary about an ancestral nation: the Chukchee who live in eastern Siberia. In winter, the temperature can drop to minus 62° and the sun only shines a few hours a day. Their culture is organized around whale hunting, a tradition and a symbol of their unity.

Charlie’s Tramp character finds himsef at a Circus where he promptly gets chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the bigtop, he is an accidental sensation with his hilarious efforts to elude the police.
RESTORED IN HIGH DEFINITION.

When a country hotel advertises for someone to help them modernize, Harold arrives from the city to take the job. He soon has the hotel re/organized and re/decorated. Things are going smoothly until a society belle arrives, followed by a desperate suitor whom she has discarded.

Against the backdrop of political unrest in the late 1960′s, Anou, a shy boy from rural East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), is sent off to madrasa by his religious father. There Anu struggles to adjust to the austere monastic life, quite different from the vibrancy and pagan festivity of his village. …

Two friends from High School meet again in Paris some years later. Nicolas manages a company which puts people together, sort of a meeting club. He is married, two children, and likes to seduce. Bernard is more the shy style, always hanening, currently getting divorced. Thanks to Nicolas, his life …

In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef of a fancy Oceanside restaurant and his assistant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber.

Rwanda April 1994.

During the first days of the genocide, westerners escape the country. Before being evacuated, a Belgian family finds a hiding place for Jacqueline, their young nanny, in the attic. Despite the horror taking place outside, Jacqueline leaves her hideout to find her way back to her village and …

François Veber is a clumsy electrician, whose passion is theater. He leaves his wife to follow the tour of Marguerite Balicourt. He then enters a theater school, and discovers his talent for comedy. Admitted in National Comedy School, his real gift is revealed as he plays the part of Scapin, …

Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in France.They don’t know each other. Veronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Veronique’s life seems to take a turn …

A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is also arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution.

Two men have been hired to kill film producer Mike Max who has built his career on exploiting violence. They successfully abduct him but the next day their bodies are discovered, decapitated.

Inspector Doc Block is in charge of iestigating the case. He pieces together a plausible scenario : Mike Max …

An editing of live performances shot between 1984 and 1990.

The adventures of an American, ”Mr. West”, and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible, evil Bolsheviks. Through various mishaps, Mr. West discovers that the Soviets are actually quite remarkable people, and, by the end of the film, his opinion of them has …