Yvonne's Perfume (Le Parfum D'Yvonne)
(1994) [R]

From Patrice Leconte, the director of The Hairdresser’s Husband, comes an intoxicating masterpiece of delicate eroticism.

Victor Charma (Hippolyte Girardot, Manon de Sources) looks back at an idyllic summer on Lake Geneva in the late 50s which he spent with the beautiful aspiring...  More

Modigliani
(2004) [M]

A gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision in this biographical drama based on the true story of Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani (Andy Garcia) was an Italian Jew who was living in Paris in the 1910s, when the city's bohemian...  More

First Name Carmen
(1983) [R]

First Name: Carmen is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen. The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) if she can borrow...  More

Lady Chatterley (2006)
(2006) [M]

Drawing on the most scandalous summer romance in English literature, French director Pascale Ferran has beautifully adapted "Lady Jane & John Thomas", the second version of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Lawrence wrote the novel three times in two years, while suffering from the...  More

The Dinner Guest (L'Invite)
(2007) [PG]

Gerard has been unemployed for 3 years when he is offered a job in Indonesia. To impress his new boss, he invites him for dinner. But Gerard, a toy train enthusiast, and his wife are real dags, so turn to their PR maestro neighbour for help, In 24 hours, he gives the couple an ultimate makeover,...  More

Haute Cuisine (Les saveurs du Palais)
(2012) [M]

Hortense Laborie, a renown chef from the Périgord, is astonished when the President of the Republic appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Élysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks...  More