Orpheus (Orphee)
(1949) [PG]

Cocteau's retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus - the musician whose virtuoso gifts charmed all who heard his music; animals and gods - is among the most breathtaking films ever made. Translated to Paris' Left Bank in the 1950s, Jean Marais' Orpheus is now a renowned poet. To retrieve his dead...  More

Beauty & The Beast (La Belle Et La Bete)
(1946) [PG]

Jean Cocteau's interpretation of the classic fairy tale story of the beautiful young girl who sees the true loneliness of the disfigured beast is much more than a children's story. Illustrating the tale with live-action and fantastic prosthetics for Jean Marais as the Beast, Cocteau's vision is...  More

Last Year in Marienbad (L'Annee derniere a Marienbad)
(1961) [M]

In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad. Because...  More

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959) [PG]

One of the most influential films of all time, Alain Resnais’ first feature sees a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exercise their own scarred memories of...  More

Indochine
(1991) [M]

Eliane is a wealthy French plantation owner living in Indochina in the 1930's with her father and adopted native daughter Camille. She has a brief affair with a young officer, Jean-Baptiste, but after she has ended it, to her dismay discovers that Camille is madly in love with the young man....  More

Les Amants Du Pont-neuf
(1991) [M]

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and...  More

Manon Des Sources (Jean de Florette Part 2)
(1986) [PG]

The equally extraordinary, highly successful and award-winning sequel to Jean de Florette based on the classic. The timless story continues when the late Jean de Florette's daughter Manon, now grown up into a beautiful free-spirited shepherdess on her father's Provence farm. But when she finally...  More

La Veuve De Saint-Pierre (The Widow of Saint-Pierre)
(2000) [M]

The year is 1850. On Saint Pierre, a forgotten small island near Canada, Neel Auguste (Emir Kusturica) is found guilty of murder and condemned to death. But in Saint Pierre there is neither guillotine nor executioner to carry out the sentence. While waiting for a guillotine to arrive from France,...  More

Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train
(1998) [M]

In the twilight of his life the Parisian painter Jean-Baptiste says that he wants to be buried in Limoges: 'Those who love me can take the train'. So begins a sad, wild and marvellous journey which unites all the people that he had touched during his lifetime - his lovers, lovers' lovers,...  More

Time Regained
(1999) [R]

Time Regained (aka Le Temps Retrouve) is a French language film starring the eternally graceful Catherine Deneuve. The film is based (loosely) on Marcel Proust's saga 'a la Recherche du Temps Perdu' (Remembrance Of Things Past). While the film does not strictly follow the structure of Proust's...  More