Histoires Extraordinaires (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination) (Spirits of the Dead)
(1968) [MA]

Three of Europe's finest filmmakers - Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini - direct compelling remakes of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Louis Malle's take on "William Wilson" features Alain Delon as an officer troubled by a mysterious doppelganger; Roger Vadim's journey into supernatural...  More

Milou En Mai
(1990) [M]

In a large villa in the Southwest of France, the grandmother has just died. Her son, sixty-year-old Milou, who has been living with her and taking care of the property rather negligently, gathers the rest of the family for the funeral. We are in May 1968. The student demonstrations have just...  More

Damage
(1992) [R]

Jeremy Irons plays Stephen Fleming, a respected Member of Parliament and Junior Minister, comfortable with his life as he approaches his fiftieth birthday. Secure in his enduring marriage, he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he is drawn to an attractive woman...  More

Au Revoir Les Enfants
(1987) [PG]

During WWII, in a Catholic boarding school in the French countryside, two boys become friends. One is a French boy, Julien Quintin, and the other is a Jewish boy, Jean Bonnet, who is being hidden from the Nazis by the friars who run the school. Louis Malle directed this film based on what...  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

Les Amants (The Lovers)
(1958) [R]

At the age of 26, Louis Malle directed his second fiction feature, "Les Amants". The star, Jeanne Moreau, had been the focus of "Ascenseur pour L'echefaud", and their collaboration continued here. In this delicately woven tale of frustrated love & passion, Malle utilizes long takes, an elegant...  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

Zazie Dans Le Metro
(1959) [PG]

The lighthearted comedy Zazie Dans Le Metro, an early directorial effort from Louis Malle, stars Catherine Demongeot as a 12-year-old girl named Zazie. Zazie is forced to travel to Paris when her mother wants to rendezvous with her lover. Zazie is left in the care of Uncle Gabriel (Philippe...  More

Le Souffle Au Coeur (Murmur Of The Heart)
(1971)

Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the...  More

Vanya On 42nd Street
(1994) [G]

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props...  More