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

The Little Thief (La Petite Voleuse)
(1988) [M]

We do not sense that Janine is a bad girl, only an unhappy one who needs someone to love her and something useful to do, and she will be healed. It was the same situation with Antoine, the famous young hero of Francois Truffaut's great 1959 film "The 400 Blows," and there is a poetic justice in...  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

Chocolat (1988)
(1988) [PG]

A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty - and the intricate nature of relationships in a...  More

Le Grand Chemin
(1987) [M]

A sweet, unhurried film, Le Grand Chemin is another reminder that the French are masters of the coming-of-age film. Watching the movie is like wandering around on a summer day, predictable, not terribly provocative, but pleasantly entertaining. The film appeals to the viewer's emotions through...  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