The Vanishing (Spoorloos)
(1988) [M]

The original version of George Sluizer's masterpiece, one of the best suspense thrillers ever made. Based on the novel 'The Golden Egg' by Tim Krabbe, The Vanishing is among the strongest Hitchcockian thrillers to come out of Europe and boasts a terrifying ending. Whilst touring in France, a...  More

The Music Teacher (Le Maitre de Musique)
(1989) [G]

A mix of Amadeus, Diva, Dangerous Liasons and A Room With A View, Le Maitre De Musique (The Music Teacher) is an operatic delight, a battle of good and evil for the soul of an opera singing protege (Anne Roussel). Set aginst the backdrop of the romantic, opulent world of Grand Opera in the fading...  More

Daens
(1993) [M]

This Academy Award-nominated Belgian drama follows a late 19th-century priest's courageous battle to end the exploitation of child workers in Aalst, Belgium. Father Daens' crusade begins shortly after he is transferred to the impoverished Belgian region. Aghast at the working conditions he sees...  More

The Ordeal (Calvaire)
(2004) [MA]

Setting off for a Christmas Day booking and leaving behind a host of broken-hearted women, cabaret singer Marc Stephens (Laurent Lucas) gets stranded in a desolate forest. He encounters Boris searching for his dog, and with his help, finds a nearby hotel. The owner, Bartel, welcomes the company,...  More

The Ax (Le Couperet)
(2005) [M]

A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.  More

The Child (L'Enfant)
(2005) [M]

After learning he has a newborn son, a small-time thief attempts to go straight - but not until his amorality is pushed to its breaking point - in this social-problem drama from writer-directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Eighteen-year-old Sonia (Deborah Francois) has just given birth...  More

The Promise (La Promesse)
(1997) [M]

A young man born into criminal circumstances is forced to deal with his conscience in this drama from Belgium. Roger (Olivier Gourmet) is a corrupt businessman who smuggles illegal aliens into Antwerp and protects them from the law in exchange for working with his construction company. However,...  More

The Son (Le Fils)
(2002) [M]

This intensely focused film from brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (LA PROMESSE, ROSETTA) follows Olivier (Olivier Gourmet), a man in mid-life working as a carpentry instructor in a blue collar French suburb. By day he teaches teenage boys how to work with wood. By night he leads a drab,...  More

Lady Chatterley (2006)
(2006) [M]

Drawing on the most scandalous summer romance in English literature, French director Pascale Ferran has beautifully adapted "Lady Jane & John Thomas", the second version of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Lawrence wrote the novel three times in two years, while suffering from the...  More

Irina Palm
(2007) [MA]

Maggie is a middle-aged widow who, desperate to raise money to pay for her grandson's medical bills, takes a hostess job in a sex club. She soon transforms herself into the much sought after and highly paid "Irina Palm." Along with her new persona, Maggie gains renewed self-confidence, realizing...  More