La Belle Noiseuse (2 disc set)
(1991) [MA]

Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters...  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

Hail Mary (Je vous salue Marie)
(1985) [R]

Condemed by the Pope and banned across Europe and the US, Jean-Luc Godard's notorious retelling of the birth of Christ is the great French director's most daring cinematic work. In Godard's contemporary twist on the story of the Virgin, the Virgin Mary is a Swiss gas station employee, and...  More

Un Homme Et Une Femme (A Man and A Woman)
(1966) [PG]

Critically acclaimed around the world, A Man and A Woman stars Anouk Aimee as a widowed script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a racer who lost his wife to suicide. The film is a study of moments between the time they meet and the point at which they begin to read each other intuitively. A Man...  More

Les Choses De La Vie (Things Of Life)
(1970) [M]

A dramatic car crash at an intersection and Pierre is thrown from his car into a field. Whilst fighting for his life on the way to hospital, his mind fills with images from his life – his mistress, his ex-wife, his son, his friends, the places he has known – everything which gives his life...  More

La Grande Bouffe (Blow Out)
(1973) [R]

An amusing satire on life, the world and appetites in general. A group of middle-aged men decide to have one last good blow out. Previously banned from general release in Britain. French dialogue with English subtitles.  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

Danton
(1982)

It's 1794 and France is in the grip of a revolution. Within the struggle two leaders fight, one for peace and one for outright victory at any cost. French dialogue with subtitles.  More

Atlantis
(1993) [G]

Atlantis is director Luc Besson's awe-inspiring celebration of the beauty of the world beneath the sea, expanding upon the themes touched on in his huge hit The Big Blue. Combining stunning underwater cinematography and a hypnotic score by Eric Serra, Besson's singular vision defies dialogue or...  More

Betty Blue (37°2 le matin)
(1986) [R]

They fought by day and made love at night. Theirs was an affair of destructive passions and violent emotions. Of impotence overcome by force. Because when Betty Blue rose up and hit her lover's life like a whirlwind, nothing could be the same again. He had been a quiet, failed man living in a...  More