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Jean Reno stars as a retired gangster out for revenge for a brutal assassination attempt.
An exploration of capitalism, its effect on individuals, and the nature of reality.
The shifting relationship between a single dad and his teenage daughter.
A classic looking at the life of a 12-year-old in Paris.
When a man loses his job he is forced to become more involved with his tennis prodigy son.
A disabled road movie.
A crazy scientist is on a quest to create a new, immaculate, androgynous being.
A woman dreams of escape from her remote Canadian town.
A surreal look at three stages of a woman's life, drawing heavily on the giallo tradition.
An elderly couple deal with the ravages of old age.
A woman in her early thirties goes full steam ahead in pursuit of experiences which come and go at a fast pace.
Truffaut's second menage a trois movie... this time set in Wales.
Oscar-winning drama about an ill-fated moon mission.
A teenager and her talking cat go in search of her missing scientist parents.
Coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of the Reagan era.
A former soldier in financial difficulty is persuaded to take part in a heist, but nothing goes to plan.
Harrowing and stylistically strong drama about the plight of the French Resistance.
A silent film star fears the advent of the 'talkies' will end his career.
An assassin is given a contract, but finds he is simultaneously the target.
A man rendered mute by childhood trauma finds a road into his memories with the help of a neighbour.
The story of a maltreated donkey.
Lucas arrives in Belgium to visit local bakery owner Henry, who has fallen in love with him via the internet. Their ideas about living together, however, differ greatly.
Young love has never been so menacing.
A man on the run falls in with a group of criminals.
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague.
A woman alone on her birthday heads for adventure in Marseille.
An elderly sculptor, tired of life and mankind’s folly, rediscovers the desire to work again, thanks to the arrival of a young Spanish woman who has escaped from a refugee camp.
The heroes from Gaul head to Britain to repel the Romans
A widowed father and his son meet two women who slowly begin to transform their lives.
A psychotherapist discovers a horrifying secret about his patients that leads him on a journey to confront his past.
A prostitute and her friend go on the rampage after being gang raped.
In an isolated village in Denmark, dominated by puritanism, two spinsters nostalgically recall their distant youth and the rigid upbringing that forced them to pass up their chance at Earthly happiness.
The rise and fall of stars against a background of 1920s Hollywood.
Two misfits and a pretty student conspire to burgle a big house.
Filmmaking and real life start to blur for a director making a biopic about female singer Barbara.
A cop has a dangerous liaison with a suspected murderess.
A vivid recreation of the events leading up to Algerian independence.
Two brothers find their hedonistic bar business heading for trouble.
Bunuel's story of a chaste housewife who gets a job in a brothel still has the power to shock after 40 years. Out now on re-release.
Timeless classic that lives up to the label.
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film where his nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche.
A sequel, set decades later, to Un Homme Et Une Femme.
A struggling writer embars on a passionate love affair with a beautiful, vivacious woman who is gradually losing her mind.
Love, lust and naked women in a quartet of linked tales.
Young lad from up north finds freedom through ballet.
A group of nuns struggle to keep order in a remote Himalayan convent.
A psychological thriller set in the world of the New York City ballet.
A gangster and a bank robber escape from Death Row minutes before their scheduled execution by electric chair.
Two sex workers meet in a Berlin brothel. In a place where the female body is a commodity, they experience moments of happiness.
A thief on a motorbike taunts the police in Rome.
A man tries to turn the rising celebrity of Christ to his own advantage.
An IT company trying to sell up hires an actor to pose as its president.
A British author comes home for Christmas to introduce his American fiancee to his British-Caribbean family.
The story of a transgender teen.
A young criminal hides out with a woman who can't decide whether or not she loves him. Plus read our exclusive interview with assistant director Pierre Rissient.
New Wave brat scholar Tarantino swears blind this was not the inspiration for Kill Bill? You decide.
A naturalist philanderer and an Iroquois martial artist search for a peasant-eating beast in 18th century.
The story of Lukas, a lonely child who lives with his father, and baby eagle Abel.
An HIV positive man comes to terms with age, illness, and the death of his lover.
Animated tale of a boy who loves cycling, his supportive Gran and a dog called Bruno.
A lone twin struggles to cope with the loss of his sibling.
Murder and illicit passion on the railways. Currently out to own as part of the seven-disc Jean Renoir Collection.
A pianist and a double-bass player find their new love tested.
Love, jealousy and domination in Sixties France.
Being the world's greatest New York Giants' fan proves tricky after an altercation with the team's star player.
A French provincial girl grows up fast in Paris.
After a bank heist goes south, the surviving robber tries to get rich quick in Senegal, only to fall foul of a millionaire who is morphing into a snake and gaggle of other weirdos vying for power.
A group of hostage takers in America desperately tries to save the life of a community activist sentenced to death in Nigeria.
Politics, sex, the invading Germans, heavy water, young love, old lust in Paris, 1940.
A man gets paroled and heads home to his brothers and a house where violence rules the roost.
A young trans woman who can't find the right man takes a chance on dating another woman.
The father of a drug addict plots the destruction of his daughter-in-law’s character. Out to own as part of The Claude Chabrol Collection: Vol 2.
Steve Martin is a tax lawyer and Queen Latifah a convicted bank robber in comedy sparring match.
A monk with no name protects a scroll with special powers.
A young cattle farmer is drawn into a dangerous deal.
The artist discusses his violent and abusive past and his quest for redemption.
Confined to an asylum, the former mistress of sculptor Auguste Rodin tries desperately to obtain a release.
French remake of Peggy Sue Got Married.
A cat with a double life becomes embroiled in a tale of animated adventure on the rooftops of Paris.
After leaving prison, a thief crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot a heist.
A night of surprises unfolds at a wedding party in a chateau.
A rural family who make their living from a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner, who turns out to be using their home as a hideout.
A fairground strongman searches for his brother in a grotesque world of artificial intelligence.
Seaside family sex romp with gay/straight permutations.
A hit-man lives isolated in a cabin at the edge of a lake. One day, an injured woman arrives in front of his house. To save her, he could well risk his own life.
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other.
Profile of Eighties New York art scene enfant terrible, Mark Kostabi.
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.
Aa adaptation of the Dumas classic in which a man betrayed and left to rot in prison escapes, acquires a fortune and sets out in pursuit of justice - or revenge.
Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves by the pool on a scorching summer day.
A young chef enters into a kitchen battle of wills.
Resorting to babysitting for an elite Brooklyn family, an awkward young man discovers hope and self-discipline through his friendship with a lonely six-year-old, and the adult superhero Leather-Man who is conjured from a psychedelic cupcake.
A couple embark on a bitter custody battle for their son.
Jennifer Lopez enters the mind of a serial killer in scary scientific experiment.
A seismologist returns to her birthplace to investigate why the tides have stopped.
The days leading up to the assassination of John Lennon.
Mockumentary about a guy a girl, her ex and his camera.
A French music teacher brings new meaning to the lives of his troubled charges.
Ensemble drama about a family brought together - and, possibility on course to be torn apart - by the illness of their matriarch.
A gangster goes on the run with his family.
A second pick'n'mix of Claude Chabrol's prolific output.
A struggling singer attempts to pull her life together and reconcile with her son after her rock star husband dies from a heroin overdose.
Finance thriller, based on the real exploits of Denis Robert – an investigative journalist who spent years tracking the illicit activities of the Luxembourg-based Clearstream bank.
Daniel Auteuil pretends to be gay to save his job at a condom factory.
Four male friends share, listen and support each other through emotional crises.
A woman's search for her abducted boyfriend finds herself drawn into an infamous sect.
A nine-year-old announces to his mum that he has another mother.
Investigating fraud amongst France's fattest fat cats.
An insecure man is persuaded to become an assassin, the target his former teacher.
A Parisian artist taking refuge in the countryside forms a powerful friendship with the gardener he knew as a child.
A relationship between a woman and her tutor conducted almost entirely in the virtual space, takes an unexpected twist.
Four couples go on holiday together and discover that the relationship therapy offered by the resort is not optional.
A cursed house draws three sets of characters through the ages.
When a fast-living heterosexual redneck develops AIDS, he refuses to take it lying down, and in his struggle makes some unlikely friends.
Documentary about the punk pioneers.
Love and adultery... Who could resist!?
The story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe.
Two gelfling head to restore a shard to the dark crystal and order to their world.
Dave Chappelle holds a once in a lifetime free street party in Brooklyn.
Animated story of a boy who leads a wild existence deep in the forest until the day he discovers civilised life in a neighbouring village and meets a girl who lives there.
The daring raid on the Ruhr dams by a squadron of Lancaster bombers in 1943
A Czech migrant saves for an eye op for her son while dreaming of Hollywood song and dance numbers.
The true story of the Anzac's Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam.
The fog of grief shrouding Miriam, a branch librarian, begins to lift when she starts a love affair with cab driver Janko. But what’s the deal with the vaguely threatening letters she keeps finding?
Big screen adaptation of the bestselling thriller concerning one cult's obssession with the story of Christ.
When a poker game is robbed, an ambitious young player and his girlfriend find themselves in a situation where the stakes are suddenly much higher.
Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.
Georges, 44, and his jacket, 100 per cent deerskin, have a plan.
In a post-holocaust world, a butcher and landlord feeds his customers on the flesh of unfortunate tenants.
A group of friends are repeatedly frustrated in their attempts to have dinner.
Memories of a working-class Liverpudlian family during and after the Blitz.
Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.
The memoirs of a man who awoke from a coma to discover he was completely paralysed apart from his left eye.
A young lawyer tries to save a dog from capital punishment.
A fairy plots to rescue a princess who would otherwise have to marry her father.
An insurance salesman falls for a beautiful woman and concocts the "perfect crime".
Stylish French noir thriller, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
A police psychologist renews old acquaintances when she is drafted in to help small town police find an escaped convict.
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
A toothy alien horror goes on the rampage.
The story of the disastrous 1968 round the world yacht race.
A famous scientist falls victim to nature’s seductive charms. Currently out to own as part of the seven-disc Jean Renoir Collection.
Struggling to overcome a recent professional tragedy, an FBI agent relocates to a small town to investigate the disappearance of a woman and her young son.
A nurse relives the horror of her youth after returning to her family's home when her dad has an accident.
Classic tale of betrayal, mistrust and guilt in a boarding school.
Dark comedy exposing the 1930s in thrall to fascism.
Two reluctant heroes rush to defuse a bomb in a future Paris enclave ruled by violent gangs.
A pair of unlikely heroes try to stop bombs being detonated in a Paris ghetto.
A bank job goes horribly wrong.
A Paris coquette seduces and toys with a heroic general, only to fall suddenly and tragically in love with him.
A countess sells her earrings, little realising the huge impact the move will have on her life.
Avant garde 'documentary' loosely exploring the colonialist history of Haiti.
Odyssey of a migrant in search of 'paradise'.
Trouble brews for a couple from different classes when the husband is asked to perform for the friends of his wife's rich uncle.
Michael Caine leads German commando raid to kidnap Churchill from a sleepy English village.
An unpublished author embarks on an unusual relationship after receiving a seemingly random phone call.
An idealistic young midwife inadvertently stumbles across a crime syndicate trafficking prostitutes.
Consideration of post-dictatorship politics and the resurgent right in Brazil.
Jean-Luc Godard at his most incomprehensible in a story that might be connected to making a film.
Soft-porn adventures of a glamorous bisexual.
Four men compete for the affections of Garance, a free spirited courtesan.
Early David Lynch classic about a young man in a bleak industrial environment driven slowly mad by the crying of his mutant baby.
A German-American returns to the land of his forbears to help with the reconstruction after the Second World War.
Peter’s parents divorced after 65 years, his wife left him after 35, and his sons, Nick and Mickey, are off leading their own lives. When Peter flies to Tulum, crashing Nick's bachelor party hosted by Mickey, he realises he's not the only one in crisis.
A mission goes awry for the Expendables when the death of a colleague leads to a quest for revenge.
When a pterodactyl attacks Paris, an intrepid young journalist rises to the challenge.
A car dealer and a hapless burglar go on a road trip across Belgium.
A Polish princess tries to persuade a lovestruck general to carry out a coup in 1880s France. Currently out to own as part of the seven-disc Jean Renoir Collection.
A loose adaptation of the Poe classic, with a lonely aristocrat obsessively painting his wife as she wastes away.
Family secrets are revealed when relatives fight over a country house.
Trippy, Seventies animated version of the biblical story of Exodus.
An intrepid team of surgeons is miniaturised and travels through the body of a patient in desperate need.
A young punk couple's one-night stand develops into something more meaningful.
A fashion designer woos his best friend's fiancee and finds himself in too deep.
Family laundry is aired on an evening out.
A group of passengers on a cruise ship wrestle with existential questions.
Murder mystery involving an estate agent and his secretary in the South of France.
An in-depth documentary about the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition and gala.
A pet mouse flushed down a toilet struggles to find his way home, encountering all manner of adventures along the way.
Black romantic comedy with political overtones still relevant today. Out to own now as part of the 18-disc Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection DVD box set.
The day they move into a new neighbourhood, the Feral family plans to look as normal and friendly as possible. But their son, Philemon, is no ordinary teenager. When he gets closer to his new neighbor, Camila, his thirst for blood grows and his difference becomes impossible to hide…
Anniversary edition of the Disney film about a fox and a pup's unlikely friendship.
True story of a terminally ill gay cop who fought for the rights of her partner to receive her pension.
A club impresario makes a laundry girl the star of his can-can revival show.
Popeye Doyle tracks a drugs kingpin to Marseilles.
The raw edge of survival for a 12-year-old black kid in the projects who runs for the dealers and stays tuned to the psychology of success.
Two half-brothers form an unusual bond.
Alice replaces a recently deceased mechanic onboard Fidelio, an old freighter, and sets off on a voyage of self-discovery.
Remake of the Samuel Beckett screenplay of a man trying to escape the perception of others.
A suicidal man struggling to avoid sliding back into alcoholism visits former friends and lovers to say goodbye.
A multi-character view of one family as they deal with everything from bereavement to nicotine withdrawal.
A young woman goes mad at home whilst the soldier who loves her is surrounded by madness abroad.
In World War One, a group of Americans volunteers to fly with a French squadron.
A Scottish cyclist's biopic.
Dark Scottish comedy as a man tries to support his family by selling double glazing for the boss from hell.
A fashion model crumbles beneath the incessant pressure of an ugly industry.
In 1940s Paris, a young Algerian is blackmailed by the police into spying on a mosque and finds his life changing forever.
An ex-con risks his new-found freedom to help a woman he has just met.
Thieves on the run fall prey to vicious neo-Nazis. Plus read our exclusive interview with Xavier Gens.
A lifeguard finds love in an unexpected place.
Returning home to New Jersey in a twentysomething haze of dysfunctional doubt.
Homophobic homicidal bed and breakfast owners set about picking off their gay guests.
After a man dies in a car accident, time seems to lose all meaning for the residents of a small town... and then strangers begin to appear.
A young woman tries to come to terms with bereavement in the London indie music scene in 2007.
The mother of all monsters tries to nest in New York.
French prisoners in the First World War plot a series of escapes. Currently out to own as part of the seven-disc Jean Renoir Collection.
After he takes a call from a woman in a desperate situation, an emergency operator feels unable to let go.
The Broadway musical of crooks, gamblers and a Sally Army sergeant, called Sarah.
A look at the lives and origins of the young gangsters who control Haiti's shanty towns.
A weathergirl becomes involved in a destructive love triangle.
A city girl buys a farm in the south of France, with the crusty old owner as a sitting tenant.
A loner teacher finds his life changed by an encounter with a single mum.
A group of young lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Dublin stumble in and out of relationships.
The wife of an island's despotic ruler, attempts to escape with her lover.
Classic adaptation of Dickens' novel about a orphan who finds a mystery inheritance propels him into high society.
A man finds himself revisiting his past after he has to take on the job of running his father's grocery van.
Story of a bourgeois family, set against the backdrop of the Calais refugee crisis.
Drama based on the real-life story of the personal chef to former French president François Mitterand.
A psychiatrist goes hunting for the secret of happiness.
A precocious 11-year-old decides to kill herself on her 12th birthday.
A group of people discover they have special abilities – and fate soon draws them together to save the world.
The fragmented Heroes band together to stop the Company unleashing the Shanti virus. And Sylar just won't stay dead.
Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation - only her sister understands and is able to help her.
A middle-aged shoe-shiner helps a young migrant.
Hellboy confronts an Elven prince determined to raise an ancient army and destroy the world of men; and has domestic troubles to deal with at the same time.
Returning to a Vienna they hardly recognise after two years in a Russian PoW camp, a group of Austrian soldiers are hunted by a sadistic serial killer.
A young photographer, travels to Hollywood hoping to make it as a cameraman in the movie business. Unfortunately, the only jobs he can find are shooting porn loops for a sleazy producer. Depressed and increasingly delusional, he begins to take out his frustrations on women he meets - by strangling them.
The heartache, anguish, paperwork and corruption of adopting a baby in Cambodia.
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next.
A teenager finds herself caught between cultures on the road to self-determination
A peasant girl who embarks on a romance with the landowner she serves begins to suspect that the spirit of his dead wife resents her.
A magical tale in a troubled kingdom on the brink of war.
Clever son of factory worker returns to work for the management.
A pregnant woman, resented by her mother, discovers her grandmother's secret diary and begins to understand why.
A young doctor encounters challenges he didn't expect in his first post, working for his father.
A romantic flight from cholera on horseback through Provence in 1832.
A woman mistakes a tax adviser for a psychiatrist and begins to reveal her marital problems.
A racist provocateur stirs up hatred and violence in a small town in the American South.
A doctor finds his community is being secretly taken over by an alien invasion.
Two stories about a cursed dress and its victims.
Fiction and reality become blurred between a teacher and student.
A woman re-examines her past in an effort to make sense of the mysterious death of her newborn son.
A woman drifts into prostitution after the break-up of her relationship.
A woman embraces a new phase in her life.
Shocking story of a butcher on the brink of violence.
Rarely-seen Welles feature about an expat orchestrates a tale of sexual and emotional manipulation.
The family life of superheroes, living incognito in the 'burbs, while saving the city from destruction.
A plantation owner in Indochina finds herself in a love rivalry with her adopted daughter as France's colonial strength wanes.
Estranged sisters reunite under difficult circumstances.
Existential comedy told in four vignettes linked by a roadside cafe.
Repressed bloke needs a best man, but finds his best friend.
How a small time crook is used as a decoy in the kidnapping of a Moroccan dissident in 1965.
The story of a man's faith in a horse that could jump.
Young Indian writer travels down the Ganges in search of a mysterious woman.
The Muscles from Brussels thrusts his personal life into the spotlight.
A lacquered beautician and an overstressed chef come together in the chaos of a crowded airport.
Entertaining martial arts actioner.
Musical about the French heroine.
A group of orphan rebels are fortified in a villa with heavy arms to brace for a drone war with a faceless enemy in a dystopian future.
A sequel to The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc.
An expedition discovers another world hidden beneath the Earth's crust in this reimagining of the Jules Verne classic.
A French love triangle, spanning the years. Out on reissue in May.
Two languorous summer days, two thorny tales of romantic misunderstanding.
Story of the woman who invented the Miracle Mop.
Sexual betrayal, forgiveness and murder in a small, suburban town.
An actress meets a stranger on a train and conceives of a different life.
US remake of Les Visiteurs, in which a medieval knight and his servant appear in the modern world.
Anything goes at the carnival.
A kick boxer is out to avenge his brother.
A suicidal teenager agrees to help a murderer on the run if he will kill her afterwards, but as they flee, he finds himself beginning to care for her.
Sexually abused teens wreak vengeance.
The complex examination of madness, love, psychological growth and unresolved feelings within relationships.
A chimney sweep and a shepherdess try to escape a tyrannical king.
A workaholic image consultant meets his eight-year-old self.
Four young Democratic candidates take on established incumbents in the US 2018 election.
A Scottish aristocrat opposes her former lover during the French Revolution.
A poetic adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic book about an aristocrat who has an affair with her gamekeeper.
A woman leaves Estonia to look after an elderly Estonian woman... but finds her services are less than welcome.
A thief on parole agrees to one last job.
The story of producer and social butterfly Michael White.
Young people fall in and out of love soap-opera style in France.
A fallen angel tries to save humanity from the wrath of God.
A self-centred politican has to deal with the politics of relationships when she returns to her home town.
A woman searches for the man of her dreams.
A bank robber and a retired schoolmaster become friends in a small French town.
An editor facing a lawsuit for his comments on the behaviour of an heiress hires a man to seduce her and ruin her case, but the seducer falls in love.
A documentary which begins as a quirky character study of lifeguards and beachgoers, but becomes something altogether darker and more shocking when events take a dramatic turn.
Four girls come of age in a movie about love, sex and friendship.
Moreau's first lead role about an unfaithful wife who finds nothing but trouble after a fling with her lover.
A troubled ex-soldier takes a job as a counsellor at a mental institution and finds himself falling for a patient.
A mysterious man shares coffee and conversation with people, writing down details on matchbook flaps. But what are his motives?
Musings on the fate of noble men in war.
The life of a plainclothes narcotics detective in the French police is a balance between les cock-ups and camaraderie.
The wife of a Jewish theatre director forced into hiding tries to keep a production afloat in occupied Paris.
Exploration of aristocratic fidelity in 18th Century France.
A French President at the end of his life struggles to find meaning and clarity.
Two strangers meet in a empty apartment and begin a passionate but anonymous affair.
A man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before.
In occupied France, a young mother falls in love with a devout Catholic priest.
Humanity and bureaucracy clash as the debris of war is sifted and reconstituted.
A snapshot of life in a Haitian immigrant community in America.
A rich socialite is accused of the violent sexual murder of her nymphomaniac neighbour, but has she been framed by her scheming husband?
Released from a psychiatric hospital where she was 'treated' for her homosexuality, a deaf mute young woman goes looking for her first love.
The life of a tired academic becomes suddenly moe complicated after his wife asks him to pull strings to help a Serbian woman who is facing deportation.
A young woman finds herself torn between idolising her father and hating him for his indifferent attitude towards her.
Documentary makers chart the falling apart of Gilliam's Don Quixote production.
François has to rush back to Paris to cover for a sick colleague, leaving his partner Daphné, three months pregnant, to welcome his cousin, Maxime. In the four days till Francois’ return Daphné and Maxime get to know each other, sharing increasingly intimate stories that bring them closer.
Jacques Rivette’s 1980s comedy mystery, where life imitates art.
A documentary about the importance of getting back to nature.
Colourful and genuinely revolutionary film, which shows off the considerable imagination and technical prowess of the director. Newly restored version is being show at NYFF 2008.
A look back at the extraordinary life and legacy of sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
Controversial drama about a married mum who walks out on her husband.
A man and the woman he split up with three years previously meet by chance on a plane.
A young woman falls for a suicidal man.
Emma Bovary thinks to escape her dull, provincial life by marrying the local doctor and moving to town, only to find more of the same.
A thirtysomething woman's search for love.
A repressed schoolteacher vents her frustration on the local community.
A depressed boutique manager in Quebec has a nervous breakdown and discovers fish.
A young woman’s determination to have a child catapults her into a nervy love triangle.
The adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the mujahedin against the Soviets in the 1980s.
Marseilles mother and wife embarks upon an afffair with a ferry captain.
Love story between a would-be sailor and his childhood friend.
Adaptation of the Thomas Hardy classic about a man who sells his wife.
An exploration of the work of Michael Haneke.
A midwife's life is shaken up by the arrival of her father's old flame.
Jean, his loving wife and son live a simple, happy life. At his son's homeroom teacher Madamoiselle Chambon's request, he volunteers as substitute teacher and starts to fall for her delicate and elegant charm.
Whether it is right to enforce democracy upon those who remain slaves.
When friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.
A young woman find herself embroiled in the blame game after a bus accident.
The life of a maths genius shifts after she makes a mistake.
Trouble brews for a smalltime hood in Little Italy.
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
Comedy in which a British auctioneer becomes embroiled in the mob after proposing to a gangster's daughter.
Satire on the arms trade, tracking one man's plan to blow up arms manufacturers.
A stranger’s appearance exposes the weird behaviour and the secret desires of a village's residents.
Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt, Special Agent, in the first of his TV spin off action extravaganzas.
A Second World War platoon are given the job of rescuing artwork form Nazi thieves.
Three-part narrative about the life of a gay African-American.
A young journalist becomes convinced the Grand Guinol theatre is linked to a series of murders
Coming of age drama based on the writings of a young Che Guevara.
Life is tough for a young girl in the country.
An American producer and Austrian director clash over the making of a film.
A man who is taking advantage of his fleeing Jewish neighbours in the Second World War becomes obsessed with his Jewish 'double'.
Two friends in Rwanda face choices about their future that stem from their country's past.
A teenager gets an introduction to hedonistic sex, courtesy of his amoral mother.
When a kid catches a spy watching her family, she agrees not to blow his cover if he trains her up.
A pair of old friends embark on adventure in a camper van.
Three French children go to London to find one of their fathers.
After the devastating Haitian earthquake of 2010, a documentarian meets a local man who seems heroic in his efforts to restore order, but then events take an unexpected turn.
Uninvited guests threaten a couple's relationship.
The adventures of the bumbling Mr Bean on holiday in the French Riviera.
Modern-day version of the Ovid tales of transformation.
An inspector tries to catch a serial killer.
Boy meets girl on a rail replacement bus.
A handyman forms a surprising bond with an old lady he meets in the park.
Stop-motion story of a boy, who is sent to a group home for orphans after the death of his mum.
An enigmatic woman acts as a catalyst in the lives of a father and his sons.
When a woman falls seriously ill her friend gets more than she bargained for after pledging to look after her baby and husband.
A young woman struggles to find meaning in her life, becoming obsessed with a writer in the process.
A notorious serial killer is also a cop tasked with his own apprehension.
Following one hell of a party, Sam wakes up to the worst-ever morning after — blood-stained walls, an empty apartment building, and Parisian streets filled with the living dead. Even worse, he’s all alone.
A drama about the hopelessly intertwined world of publishing.
An exploration of perspective and the search for truth.
The Islamic revolution of 1979 banned female singers from appearing in public in Iran. Now Ayat Najafi tries to revive tradition, planning an evening of Iranian and French female soloists to rebuild shattered cultural bridges - but can it work?
A masked criminal goes in search of the treasure of the Knights Templar.
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her experiences.
When their factory is threatened with closure, a group of men plan to raise the funds to buy it by selling their sperm.
A disparate group of Parisians rehearse a play that is trying to be typically French.
Divine intervention and a marriage in trouble.
The mystery of the boy who disappeared.
An Andean adventure sees a bold young woman trying to cut it as a freight pilot and falling for her boss.
Based on a true incident, the film is set in a Cistercian monastery in North Africa in the 1990s, where eight French monks live in cordial harmony with the local population... and what happens when violence encroaches.
A documentary filmmaker, who is terminally ill, reflects on his life.
A documentary portrait of filmmaker Jean Rollin.
Fifties spoof sees not-so-super spy go on a mission to Cairo.
A top French secret agent hunts a Nazi war criminal in Rio and meets a beautiful woman with an agenda of her own.
A passing crooner is kidnapped by a loony in the woods.
A couple's relationship becomes strained under pressure from one of their adoptive parents.
A murderous sex worker strikes up a bond with a youngster he meets by chance.
A Fifties summer love story, French style.
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter...
In 13th-century Ireland, a cadre of monks travel through the war-torn countryside on a mission to bring their land’s most sacred relic to Rome.
Steve Martin attempts to emulate Peter Sellers as incompetent French policeman.
The bungling inspector investigates the theft of some historical artifacts.
The wife of a pub landlord hatches a plot to escape his clutches with the help of the unwitting son of a domineering chemist.
They're here . . . and they're queer. The ghosts of Disco Past cause trouble for a young couple.
A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the film of his next movie.
A military deserter finds love, trouble and a small dog in a foggy Le Havre - the Port of Shadows.
A woman is caught up in a Paris terror attack and three months on she tries to piece together her memory.
When a man arrives at his former girlfriend's home to tell her he has just escaped from a kidnapper, it's the beginning of a long, rambling, comical story which just might hint at something serious.
Patrick lives with his parents on a naturist campsite. When his dad dies and he finds himself in charge he has other things on his mind... namely a quest for his lost hammer.
A diner employee becomes an overnight art sensation.
A young woman carrying secret microfilm for her boyfriend has her purse snatched on an underground train.
The story of a cannibal juxtaposed with the tale of two former Nazis turned businessmen. Out to own as part of the Pier Paolo Pasolini Volume 2 box set.
The alcoholic wife of a jewellery dealer tries to set her life straight with the help of some diamonds after her hubbie tops himself.
Rejected by the main campus fraternities, three young men accept a beautiful woman's invitation to undergo a hazing experience at a remote woodland mansion, only to find that their lives are on the line.
In a not-so-distant future, amid a society madly in love with technology, tech giant Pegazus offers couples the opportunity to share their pregnancies via detachable artificial wombs or pods. And so begins Rachel and Alvy's wild ride to parenthood in this brave new world.
A story of forbidden love set against the religious wars between Catholics and Protestants in the 16th century. Plus, read our exclusive interview with Bertrand Tavernier.
A mayor in the final term of her political career faces a choice between integrity and ambition.
An illiterate teenager struggles when he is sent to jail, but after embarking on a series of "missions" for a gang leader, he begins to hatch plans of his own.
A group of pals hatch a plan to collect evidence of people trafficking from a Bureau De Change.
A lawyer rejects his bourgeois past and moves to the inner city in an attempt to engage with ordinary life.
Sixteenth century intrigue in the court of the king of France, as a religious war rages and passions run red with blood.
A young man explores his sexuality in a decadent French brothel.
Revenge is bitter for the father of a hit-and-run victim.
An engineer's life spirals out of control after he steals from his employers.
A law student re-encounters an old lover as she faces a war-crimes trial.
Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love, they marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc.
A mismatched married couple become entangled with a fugitive of the run.
English comedy of manners and mix ups.
Study of dysfunction, addiction, loneliness and love amongst four characters in Coney Island
A grieving woman finds no comfort in turning to her family, whose members all have their own dark secrets.
In the Belgian underworld, a secret threatens a couple's romance.
Paris, summer 1942. Irene is Jewish and French. She is 19 and living a life of passions - Her friendships, her new love, her desire to be an actress. Nothing suggests that Irene's time is running out.
Drama about a young woman who decides to join the French Navy.
The story of Don Letts, the iconic cultural mover and shaker, filmmaker, musician and raconteur.
Psychic debunkers target a clairvoyant who is determined to prove his talents are for real.
A dancer is torn between the man she loves and her obsessive commitment to her craft.
An inventor whose daughter is missing develops a device which he believes he can use to communicate with the dead.
Story of two ordinary people who go on to have a most extraordinary child.
A documentary about the history and current standing of the Paralympic Games, which has grown to become the world's third largest sporting event.
Two penniless young men try to pick up young women and after one agrees to go with them to a dancehall things turn sour.
When a police officer is critically injured he is brought back to life as a cyborg and celebrated as the future of law enforcement.
Portmanteau film in which four directors “limit themselves to recounting the joyous beginning of the end of the world”. Out to own as part of Pier Pasolini Volume One box set.
Ultra-violent rollerblade/ motorbike game, played for international TV, in former USSR.
The love lives of a series of inter-related characters.
Heist caper starring Robert de Niro.
A bare-knuckle boxer embarks on a relationship with an injured whale trainer.
Collection of groundbreaking films from the French documentarian.
A married woman with two-year-old son starts passionate sexual affair with black American in Paris.
Gritty kidnap and ransom nightmare for two well-heeled socialites, dragged through the Venezuelan ghettos.
A blackmailer with a personal agenda resorts to murder.
Two fleeing criminals are shipwrecked on an island inhabited only by women, who worship a shark god.
The stupidest crook in France joins forces with the most ruthless hitman in Paris.
A snapshot of life for a 12-year-old, who steals from the rich at a local ski resort to support him and his sister.
Nostalgic comedy on about family reunion set in the Seventies.
Close-up and personal view of the slums using hidden cameras and brilliant editing.
A girl's life changes dramatically after she is left in the care of her stepmother.
Harsh coming of age drama set in rural France.
A psychologist finds herself drawn to an enigmatic amnesiac.
A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral and becomes embroiled in family politics.
A skint young man takes a job dressing as santa to raise cash to by a duffle coat.
A master criminal plans one last heist.
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters - and make history to boot.
Documentary about the three-times world champion Formula One driver.
Thriller showing what happens when three flatmates find and keep a suitcase of money.
Shayda, an Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised.
François Truffaut's follow up to The 400 Blows explores American film noir in the style of le nouvelle vague.
A couple find their relationship going south after a trip to an Italian holiday home begins to be fraught with problems.
A man begins an ill-fated affair with an air stewardess.
A silent film idol romances a Hollywood starlet in this much-loved classic.
A comedy drama about a male synchronised swimming team.
Documentary about bodybuilders.
Period comedy, set in 1910, about the investigation into disappearances from beaches in France.
Absorbing and boldly original drama revolving around a German doctor in present-day Cameroon.
Alternate universe split comedy drama, featuring splendid performances.
Muddled romantic liaisons for Communist journalist in Paris and the depths of the country.
Director Robert Guediguian returns to his old Marseilles stamping ground for an entertaining, politically passionate drama starring the director's ensemble regulars.
Students take revenge when their school is snowed in.
Sophie and Vincent Pascal have run the family butcher shop for a decade, but business is bad. So grim it’s on the brink of bankruptcy and so is their marriage. But then Vincent kills a vegan activist who had vandalised their shop. When he butchers the body and his wife accidentally sells it, customers can’t stop lining up for the tender cuts.
The epic tale of a gladiator in Ancient Rome who revolts and tries to lead a slave army to freedom.
A CIA agent on the verge of retirement recalls his relationship with protege after the younger man gets into big trouble in China.
After a shocking incident takes place at a cruising spot, a young man is caught in the throes of a dangerous passion.
When his grandmother suddenly passes away and a young woman with a mysterious rash arrives on his doorstep, a young man tries to help her. As her condition worsens, it becomes clear that she’s afflicted with no ordinary illness. She’s transforming into something dangerous before his eyes, but he’s already in too deep to abandon her.
A woman's disappearance forms the central mystery in this visually stylish neo-giallo.
In this world threatened by contamination, what is Nina’s place?
A historical thriller about Al Capone's bloody war with Bugs Moran.
A prickly English author looks for inspiration in a hedonistic housemate.
Snapshot of a year in the life of an 11-year-old.
A car thief runs into trouble when he experiences love at first sight.
A thief stumbles on a Parisian subculture after he robs a house and takes the loot into the Paris Metro.
In a town of depressives, one family has found a suicidal niche.
Drama about a priceless art collection and a family's decision about how best to use it, for both memory and intrinsic worth.
Portrait of the father of Base jumping Carl Boenish.
French remake sees the squad try to catch a gang of jewel thieves.
A relationship is taken to its emotional and sexual limits.
FW Murnau's tale of love on the run in the South Seas.
Lippy, leggy FBI agent goes to Montreal to find a serial killer.
Darkly comic road movie takes in such detours as blackmail, murder and sexual politics.
Love hurts for an innocent wife in Dublin and a grieving mother in New England.
An experimental short film about Thirties French swimming champion Jean Taris.
A vampire seeks assistance from Dr Freud.
Experimental film, using split-screen to tell its story about the day in the life of Hollywood folk.
A man takes on a corrupt senator who is travelling through time.
Documentary about the gay rights activist gets a timely DVD release.
The eternally youthful reporter/ detective and his chums find themselves involved in a treasure hunt when Captain Haddock receives a surprise inheritance.
After a bullion heist, two gangsters face a test of friendship when one of them is kidnapped.
Three friends pursue thieves to the centre of the Earth and beyond in this animated adventure.
Drama, based on true story, capturing the heroism of British women during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in World War Two.
A man wakes up to discover the police want to talk to him, but he has no idea what he's supposed to have done.
Conversations with a spy in Paris, 1936.
Four inmates try to tunnel out of a prison.
A factory owner falls in love with an actress, causing a mixture of hilarity and regret.
Friends and family of dead artist open old wounds and start new relationships at funeral.
A businessman pretends to his wife and family that he has a prestigious job in Switzerland.
The last great taboo - a dissection of a young man coming to terms with death with the help of his grandmother.
A schoolboy tries to cope with his parent's trial separation and win over the girl of his dreams.
Ever wondered what it would be like to switch sex? Laure, 10, does.
Maverick, now a trainer, encounters the son of his old friend Goose.
When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
Tiger twins separated as cubs face adventure in human world.
In a post-Apocalyptic wasteland, a scavenger trades scraps for food and comics, until a new friendship and a new weapon change his life.
Account of the friendship between Truffaut and Godard.
Classic drama series about the upper classes and their servants.
National and social changes amongst the privileged and servant classes in London during tempestuous times before The Great War.
An eight-year-old boy desperately tries to build himself a family.
Emotional confusion among touring actors, a philosopher and a student in Paris.
A woman embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
The struggles of a working class family in Marseille.
The tempestuous relationship between Vincent Van Gogh and his art dealer brother.
Set in the summer of Mussolini’s demise, a tempestuous love affair ensues between the widowed wife of a naval hero and a younger dodge drafting dandy.
Malle's comic western starring Bardot and Moreau as strip-tease pioneers.
Avant-garde documentary that uses behind-the-scenes material from Jess Franco's Count Dracula film to reconfigure the Dracula story into an otherworldly tale.
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Things get nasty for a group of friends after a prostitute is killed on a stag night.
A woman, refuses to believe her fiancé has been killed on the battlefield and goes in search of him.
A biography of legendary singer Edith Piaf.
Bodies interact as if in a dream.
Dramatisation of the Zoe's Ark controversy.
An action spy spoof in Greece, with Jean Seberg and men with bad haircuts. Out to own as part of The Claude Chabrol Collection: Vol 2.
A student nurse investigate the nighttime activities of a spooky doctor.
Two hitmen inadvertently end up protecting the woman they were hired to kill.
On a Provençal farm, a protective and devoted mother raises her seven illegitimate children... under the uncaring eye of the farmer, who is the father of her kids.
A documentary about the life of the Australian costume designer and three-time Oscar winner Orry-Kelly.
A young man with a background as a youth offender tries to build a career as a mechanic but is framed by one of his clients.
A former child soldier recounts her past to her unborn child.
Classic Ealing comedy where a group of Scottish islanders rescue and hide a shipwrecked cargo of whisky.
A friendship blossoms between a white stallion and a boy.
A would-be sorceror enlists the help of a warrior to take an abandoned baby to safety.
Set over the course of one winter, a 17-year-old high school student struggles with grief.
Based on the true story of the rise and fall of a financial high roller.
This documentary explores the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics and, more broadly, the hurdles that religious doctrine presents to full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people everywhere.
Nature documentary, narrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Portrait of a 17-year-old, who sells her body for cash.
A dramatisation of the early life of Queen Victoria and her initial romance with Prince Albert.
In order to be near the girl he adores, young Nick Twisp has to get thrown out of his mother's house - which means he has to learn how to do bad things.
When her doctor husband order that she be confined for the sake of her mental health, a frustrated writer becomes obsessed by the pattern in her wallpaper.
Two bookshop rivals fall for one another over the internet.
Biopic of the French fashion designer.
You need a one liner after reading the title?
An inspector unexpectedly joins the ranks of the undead at a theme park - can he save the day and reconnect with his daughter?
Golden boy Krit Komkrichwarakool, Matt Dejanovic and Kenny Brain on Auganic
A collection of moments Mickey Keating on the metaphor and technique behind Invader
Family ties and trauma Laurynas Bareisa on relationship dynamics in award-winning drama Drowning Dry
Looking back RaMell Ross on basketball, filmmaking, overcoming objectification and Nickel Boys
In dialogue with time Bookworm director Ant Timpson on the changing landscape of cinema
Alliance of Women Film Journalists announces EDA Awards The Brutalist named best film
Wicked leads the way in SAG nominations Stars sing their way to success
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