The Milky Way
(1969)

Two men making a religious pilgrimage through France form the basis for string of Luis Bunuel `jokes', parables, and surrealistic visions. Heretical, funny and haunting. French dialogue with subtitles. *MR  More

Phantom Of Liberty
(1974) [M]

Luis Bunuel's dreamlike comedy of irony, composed of surreal, randomly connected anecdotes. Highlights include a dinner party in which the openness of eating and the privacy of defecating are reversed and adults fretting over a young girl's disappearance - even though she's present all along....  More

Too Beautiful For You (Trop Belle Pour Toi!)
(1989) [M]

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of...  More

Les Fugitifs
(1986) [M]

Pierre Richard returns as Francis Veber's walking accident, Francois Pignon, alongside Gerard Depardieu's straight-guy, Jean Lucas, in the huge international hit, Les Fugitifs. On release from prison, reformed bank-robber Lucas visits a bank-only to be taken hostage by bumbling would-be-bank...  More

La Cage Aux Folles
(1979) [PG]

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

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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

Tatie Danielle
(1990) [M]

A domineering old widow, after the death of her long-suffering house-keeper, is invited to live in Paris with her only surviving relatives. Inevitably the old lady's demands become too much to bear and the whole family decamp to Greece, leaving the cantankerous old woman behind. French dialogue...  More

Belle De Jour
(1967) [M]

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in...  More

And God Created Woman
(1956) [PG]

Roger Vadim's directorial debut broke box-office records and censorship taboos in its teasing display of eroticism in the sunny vacation playground of the Saint-Tropez seashore. It also made Brigitte Bardot an international star.

Bardot is Juliette, cinema’s original sex-kitten,...  More

The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
(1972) [M]

"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" was Bunuel's most successful film; it made more money even than his famous "Belle de Jour" (1967), won the Oscar as best foreign film and was named the year's best by the National Society of Film Critics. It was released in a year when social unrest was at...  More