Don Juan ou Si Don Juan etait une femme
(1973) [MA]

In what was her last feature film, Brigitte Bardot sizzles as a calculating nymphet in this feminised version of the Don Juan story. A lusty seductress who placates her boredom by preying on vulnerable men - a married politician, a jilted folk singer who ends up slashing his wrists - Bardot is at...  More

Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within)
(1963) [M]

Life has become unbearably painful for Alain who is in his early 30s. He once used alcohol to dull the pain. His estranged wife in New York has paid for a cure at a clinic in Versailles and sends an emissary, one of the many women he has known, to see how Alain is. She sees only the surface as...  More

Lift To The Scaffold (L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud)
(1957) [PG]

Whether the face of Jeanne Moreau, or the mournful trumpet of Miles Davis, this film is forever etched into the memory of all who have watched it. Narrative centres around a bungled crime of passion, but the lingering memories of the film stem from the black & white photography, the creeping...  More

La Balance
(1983) [M]

Set in the seedy back streets of Paris, prostitutes and pimps compete with the criminals and cops... to stay alive. French dialogue with English subtitles.  More

La Femme Infidele
(1969) [M]

The first in Claude Chabrol's celebrated 'Helene' series of films in which Helene is played by his then spouse and frequent collaborator, Stephane Audran. Her character is provocative, often predatory and this leads to turmoil in her marriage, betrayal and even murder. La Femme Infidele is a...  More

Plein Soleil (Purple Noon / Full Sun)
(1960) [PG]

This is such an obscenely pleasurable movie it's almost ridiculous. You can take the story however you want -- as a cool look at high society's greediness and chic sensibilities, a homoerotic peek under-the-surface of gay culture at the time, or the empty, whorish rot of a story about money, sex,...  More

Bloodline
(1979) [MA]

Audrey Hepburn stars as Elizabeth Roffe, a strong, intelligent woman who inherits her family's pharmaceutical empire when her father dies in a mysterious accident. The investigation into her father's death reveals a murder in which her closest advisors, family members, and new husband are all...  More