Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing debut from Marco Bellocchio. One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. It is a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son.
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post—World War II Tokyo, a band of prostitutes eke out an existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order.
But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. A winner of Academy Awards for best foreign-language film and best costume design, Gate of Hell is a visually sumptuous, psychologically penetrating work from Teinosuke Kinugasa. In , self-styled dictator General Idi Amin Dada took control of Uganda; director Barbet Schroeder turns his cameras on the dynamic, charming, and appallingly dangerous tyrant. Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity. The insects are taking over in this nasty piece of disaster horror directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu. A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane.
An ambitiously constructed, elegantly photographed meditation on adolescence, the first full-length film by director David Gordon Green features remarkable performances from an award-winning ensemble cast. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love—but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks.
Dreyer Denmark , DVD. After laying waste to an alien civilization on Venus, the three-headed, lightning-emitting space monster Ghidorah brings its insatiable thirst for destruction to Earth, where fierce foes Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra must join forces in order to deal with the unprecedented threat.
Jim Jarmusch combines his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller. Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious U. The goalkeeper Josef Bloch Arthur Brauss is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to completely lose his bearings.
In , Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Toho Studios followed the enormous success of the original Godzilla with this sequel, efficiently directed by Motoyoshi Oda as a straight-ahead monsters-on-the-loose drama.
An alien invasion prompts a tag-team battle between Godzilla and Anguirus, the planet protectors, and King Ghidorah and the new monster Gigan, a cyborg with scythe-like claws, an abdominal buzz saw, winglike back fins, and pincerlike mandibles.
Intended to address the crisis levels of pollution in postwar Japan, Godzilla vs. Hedorah finds the King of the Monsters fighting an alien life form that arrives on Earth and steadily grows by feeding on industrial waste. A robot designed by aliens to conquer Earth, the enduringly popular villain has since been resurrected by Toho Studios several times. Nuclear testing unleashes mayhem on the undersea kingdom of Seatopia, causing a series of environmental disasters that nearly wipes out Rokuro, the schoolboy protagonist at the center of this film.
After an airplane is forced to crash-land in a remote area, its passengers find themselves face-to-face with an alien force that wants to possess them body and soul—and perhaps take over the entire human race. Despite having a loving and patient wife at home, a good-natured suit-and-tie man, played by writer-director Pierre Etaix, finds himself hopelessly attracted to his gorgeous new secretary in this gently satirical tale of temptation.
Featuring sensuous cinematography, a lush score, and an award-winning central performance by the great Toni Servillo, this transporting experience by the brilliant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a breathtaking Felliniesque tale of decadence and lost love.
In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion. When a soldier returns home at the end of World War II, he refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night in order to pay off medical bills after their son's sudden illness.
In this psychologically rich character study, written and directed by Satyajit Ray, Bengali film star Uttam Kumar draws on his real-world celebrity to play Arindam Mukherjee, a matinee idol on the brink of his first flop. Based on a shocking true story and shot in documentary-style black and white, The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love.
This landmark film, which documents the journeys of two remarkable families, continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema. As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?
House might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. A torrent of sexual obsession, revenge, and betrayal is unleashed under one roof in this venomous melodrama from South Korean master Kim Ki-young. Richard E. Grant is the endlessly suave Dennis Bagley, a high-strung advertising executive whose shoulder sprouts an evil, talking boil. This landmark document of Swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary. It tells the story of a searching and rebellious young woman's personal quest to understand the social and political conditions in s Sweden, and her own sexual identity.
With the separation come loneliness, nostalgia, and, perhaps, some new perspectives that might rejuvenate their love. A college student attempts to cheat on his final exams by scribbling notes on his shirt; naturally his best-laid plans go awry. In the high-octane, unorthodox romance I Hate But Love Nikui anchikusho , a celebrity played by megastar Yujiro Ishihara , dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village.
Kurosawa depicts a society emerging from the shadows but still terrorized by memories of the past and anxieties for the future. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women, and nights at the pool hall. Today, this "folly" looks ever more fascinating. At a masked ball, her inability to distinguish one from the other leads to much confusion.
A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, In the Realm of the Senses , set in and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control.
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues.
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet, but that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka. Sadako Masumi Harukawa , cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a victim, she forges a path to her own awakening.
The marvelously moody Intimidation Aru kyouhaku is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama. Aliens from Planet X make an irresistible offer to the people of Earth: let them borrow Godzilla and Rodan to help defeat King Ghidorah, and in return they will provide a cure for all known human disease.
Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. With its lushly photographed landscapes and innovative visual storytelling, this film shows a director at the peak of his powers and experimentation.
In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man Alejandro Ferretis travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman Magdalena Flores whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires. In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend.
But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. Combining stylish sixties modernism with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents, Judex is a delightful bit of pulp fiction and a testament to the art of illusion.
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. A gripping disaster film and a stirring plea for international cooperation, Kameradschaft cemented G. Kanal was the first film about the Warsaw Uprising. Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties.
He did this by assembling an amazing team—including such eventual nonfiction luminaries as Richard Leacock, D. Pennebaker, and Albert Maysles—that would transform documentary cinema. Silent-comedy legend Harold Lloyd goes west in this irresistible blend of action, romance, and slapstick invention. Forced out of the U. Charles Chaplin United Kingdom , 35 mm. DeMille could tell it. In , working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster.
Cecil B. Kamikaze Hanns Zischler , who is fleeing from his own past. A husband, a wife, a stranger, a knife: Roman Polanski sets them all adrift on a weekend filled with simmering resentments and gut-churning suspense in his seminal psychological thriller, still one of the greatest feature debuts in film history. In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai.
Onibaba, Kuroneko Black Cat is a spectacularly eerie twilight tale. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. More politically minded than the original, Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance is full of exciting plot turns and ingenious action sequences.
Living in Mexico with a top-ten hit under their belts, the Leningrad Cowboys have fallen on hard times. The great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, known for his virtuosic, emotionally gripping films, perhaps never made a more visually astonishing one than Letter Never Sent. This epic portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the astounding Kinuyo Tanaka as an imperial lady-in-waiting who gradually descends to street prostitution, was the movie that gained the director international attention, ushering in a new golden period for him.
Chaplin plays Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. An early work of independent Latin American filmmaking, Limite was famously difficult to see for most of the twentieth century.
It is a pioneering achievement that continues to captivate with its timeless visual poetry. Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman met in during the filming of Persona. Both were married, and there was a difference in age: Liv was 25, and Ingmar was But none of it mattered. This exploitation-cinema classic took the action and graphic violence of the Lone Wolf and Cub series to delirious new heights.
In this distinctly lowbrow entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Itto Ogami is hired by the Owari clan to assassinate a tattooed woman who is killing her enemies and cutting off their topknots.
The third Lone Wolf and Cub film follows Itto Ogami and Daigoro as they stumble upon a crime scene involving a group of lowlife swordsmen from the watari-kashi class. The inaugural film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series immediately thrust Itto Ogami into the ranks of the all-time great samurai movie icons. Bob Hoskins, in his breakthrough film role, stars as a London racketeer fast losing control of his gangland empire; Helen Mirren shines as his classy moll.
Jimmy Porter Richard Burton is a university graduate, and the husband of a woman of some means, but he has rejected middle class dreams, and operates a candy stall at the local flea market. When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect, Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist, testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity. This story of the tragic romance between a young telephonist Eva Ras and a middle-aged rodent sanitation specialist Slobodan Aligrudic in Belgrade is an endlessly surprising, time-shifting exploration of love and freedom.
For his feature debut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unorthodox crime drama about a love triangle involving the small-time pimp Franz Fassbinder , his prostitute girlfriend, Joanna future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna Schygulla , and his gangster friend Bruno Ulli Lommel.
Antoine Doinel strikes again! In this bold, genre-defying horror-musical mashup — the playful and confident debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska — a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters are drawn ashore in an alternate '80s Poland to explore the wonders and temptations of life on land.
This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors. With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped.
A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad Ahmad Razvi, elements of whose own life story were woven into the script was a famous rock star. When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building.
But after the police take the camera as evidence, it becomes unclear if there was ever a thief in the first place. Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema. Marius and Fanny, two young shopkeepers on the harbor front of Marseille, always seemed destined to marry, but Marius cannot overcome his urge to break free and voyage on the open sea.
After her husband disappears in the last days of World War II, Maria uses her beauty and ambition to prosper in s Germany. A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew— The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. Before he turned to the story of Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer fashioned this ahead-of-its-time examination of domestic life.
Kati Outinen is memorably impenetrable as Iris, whose grinding days as a cog in a factory wheel, and nights as a neglected daughter living with her parents, ultimately send her over the edge. When a rash of strikes and political turmoil bubbles up in France, Milou Michel Piccoli finds himself unable to bury his mother. Louis Malle France , 35 mm. The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint.
In this anguished yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor.
Once upon a time in postwar Italy. Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Bruce Beresford United States , 35 mm. Mon oncle is a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society that earned the director the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder. This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda. Ernest B. After her husband kills his boss and himself, Mother Kusters becomes drawn into the activities of the German Communist party and then a group of anarchists.
Family turmoil ensues when, after his father's death, an eldest son is revealed as a scion of a long-dead first wife. Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil. Thank You for his constant exclamation to pedestrians who kindly step out of his path—traveling from rural Izu to Tokyo.
Both shocking and deeply poignant, this is one of the finest coming-of-age films ever made. There, with the help of the warmhearted eccentrics who populate the town, the boy finds both refuge from his misfortunes and unexpected adventure.
As influenced by Italian neorealism as American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism in noir.
The setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute a crackerjack Constance Towers relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. Zatoichi is back—and in color! Hoping to leave violence behind, the blind masseur wanders to a village, where he meets an old friend fallen on hard times.
Shot outside of Pittsburgh at a fraction of the cost of a Hollywood feature by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, George A. George A. Five cities. Five taxicabs. Jim Jarmusch's lovingly askew view of humanity from the passenger seat makes for one of his most charming and beloved films.
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling discovers her former torturer and lover Dirk Bogarde working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. In Akira Kurosawa's first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, who transforms herself from genteel bourgeois daughter to independent social activist during a tumultuous decade in Japanese history.
In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father. Unfortunately, his past returns in the form of old jail pal Emile to upset his carefully laid plans. This affectionate paean to young love is also a frank examination by Akira Kurosawa of the harsh realities of postwar Japan.
During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, Yuzo and Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time. When a neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage—and a horrifying fate at the hands of an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask—ensue. The first shot shows students descending a staircase in calm, orderly fashion, then the second details the same action as a chaotic rush.
This historical drama by Mario Monicelli, brimming with humor and honesty, is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people. A soldier is waylaid at a rural spa when he accidentally cuts his foot on the titular object. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten. The director's often-used leading actress Isuzu Yamada stars as Ayako, a switchboard operator trapped in a compromising, ruinous relationship with her boss to help support her wastrel father.
In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful and enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path.
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Suffused with a lingering post—World War II disillusionment while also evincing the playfulness and fascination with theatrical performance and conspiracy that would become hallmarks for the director, Paris Belongs to Us marked the provocative start to a brilliant directorial career.
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? The first of many films featuring the endearing single-dad Kihachi played wonderfully by Takeshi Sakamoto , Passing Fancy is a humorous and heartfelt study of a close, if fraught, father-son relationship. Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy are brought to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent achievements of the silent era. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him.
Saul J. Charlie is a bricklayer who sets off to celebrate payday with his pals. But his wife is waiting with the rolling pin. Sacha Guitry plays four roles in this whirlwind of pageantry investigating the history of seven pearls, four of which end up on the crown of England and three of which go missing.
The Pearls of the Crown rockets through four centuries of European history with imaginative, winking irreverence. People on Sunday, an effervescent, sunlit silent, about a handful of city dwellers a charming cast of nonprofessionals enjoying a weekend outing, offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin, would influence generations of film artists around the world.
But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy. Academy Award—winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial novel by Elfriede Jelinek.
A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers. This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema.
The film is shot in gorgeously composed, bustling cinemascope. Having escaped from prison, Charlie disguises himself as a pastor.
Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure. A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass Tim Robbins finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would be right at home in one of his movie projects, in this biting industry satire from Robert Altman.
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush. Jackie Chan followed up the massive success of Police Story with an even bigger box-office hit. Subu makes pornographic films.
He sees nothing wrong with it. When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company in Ermanno Olmi's tender coming-of-age story. Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else. Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent.
Charles Laughton gulps beer and chomps on mutton, in his first of many iconic screen roles, as King Henry VIII, the ultimate anti-husband. La promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. Jean Vigo was twenty-five when he made this, his debut film, a silent cinematic poem that reveals, through a thrilling and ironic use of montage, the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the Mediterranean resort town of Nice.
Cranky Professor Henry Higgins Leslie Howard takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle Wendy Hiller into a "proper lady" in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. In her breathtaking and assured debut feature, Lynne Ramsay creates a haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood.
In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. Charles Laughton once again teams up with Korda for this moving, elegantly shot biopic about the Dutch painter. Reset Apply. Pennebaker, D. DeMille, Cecil B. Pabst, G. Four charming comedies from Eric Rohmer. And the Pursuit of Happiness.
Abbas Kiarostami: A Retrospective. Adventures of Zatoichi. The Age of the Medici. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Alice in the Cities. All Monsters Attack. Director Ishiro Honda returned again for the first Godzilla movie expressly for children.
All These Women. The American Friend. The American Soldier. And Life Goes On. And the Ship Sails On. Androcles and the Lion. An Angel at My Table. Apart from You. The Apu Trilogy. As Tears Go By. Ashes and Diamonds. Au revoir les enfants. An Autumn Afternoon. A Tale of Autumn. Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. The Bad Sleep Well. The Bakery Girl of Monceau. The Ballad of Narayama. Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron.
The Baron of Arizona. The Battle of Algiers. The Beales of Grey Gardens. Beauty and the Beast. Berlin Alexanderplatz. Beware of a Holy Whore. Beyond the Law. Bicycle Thieves. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Black Panthers. Les Blank: Always for Pleasure. Boudu Saved from Drowning. Branded to Kill. The Bread and Alley. Breaking the Waves. A Brief History of Time. A Brighter Summer Day. Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family. The Browning Version. Buena Vista Social Club. Burden of Dreams. The Burmese Harp. Burroughs: The Movie. Canoa: A Shameful Memory. Capricious Summer. Carnival of Souls. Case 1, Case 2. Chess of the Wind. The Children Are Watching Us.
Children of Paradise. Chimes at Midnight. Chinese Roulette. Chronicle of a Summer. Chungking Express. Closely Watched Trains. The Cloud-Capped Star. La collectionneuse. The Color of Pomegranates. Colossal Youth. A Colt Is My Passport. The Comfort of Strangers. La commare secca. The Complete Jean Vigo.
The Complete Mr. The Cranes Are Flying. Cries and Whispers. Cruel Gun Story. Les dames du Bois de Boulogne. David Lynch: The Art Life. A Day in the Country. Days of Being Wild. The Daytrippers. Death by Hanging. Death of a Cyclist.
A Dedicated Life. Destroy All Monsters. The Devil and Daniel Webster. Diamonds of the Night. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. Dillinger Is Dead. Distant Journey. Divorce Italian Style. Dont Look Back. Double Suicide. The Earrings of Madame de. Ebirah, Horror of the Deep. The Element of Crime. Elena and Her Men. Elevator to the Gallows. Empire of Passion. The End of Summer. An Enemy of the People. The Entertainer. Equinox Flower.
Every-Night Dreams. The Exterminating Angel. Extreme Private Eros: Love Song The Eyes of Orson Welles. Eyes Without a Face. Eyimofe This Is My Desire. The Face of Another. Fanny and Alexander: Television Version. Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version.
Fantastic Planet. Tati's first film in colour. Yes, his contrast of the glorious awfulness of the Arpels' automated Modernistic house with Hulot's disordered Bohemianism is simplistic. Yes, Hulot as. R min Action, Comedy, Crime. Two thugs harass assault, steal, murder, Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor, on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure. A huge hit in seventies France, this offbeat comedy follows two youths waving a finger at society.
Their pursuits include car theft, robbery, three-way sex, and general impulsive. Not Rated 95 min Drama. The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him.
A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette. Animal as saint: Bresson's stark, enigmatic parable, a donkey named after one of the Three Wise Men is both a witness to and the victim of mankind's cruelty, stupidity -. R 99 min Drama, Romance. It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer.
She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her R min Biography, Drama. This stunningly photographed and skilfully acted film uses an accretion of naturalistic detail to present an emotionally restrained but utterly compelling account of the last three. Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
Votes: 8, This film ranked 21 in Time Out's list of the greatest French films. Click here to see the full list. Not Rated 89 min Comedy, Crime. Bizarre, unreal black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. See full summary ». Rigorously absurd contemporary film noir which presents every character, incident and situation known to the genre, but none of the customary explanations, motivations or consequences.
Not Rated 94 min Drama, Mystery. In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. Something of a key film in the development of concepts of cinematic modernism, simply because - with a script by nouveau roman iconoclast Alain Robbe-Grillet - it sets up a puzzle that is never.
Not Rated 90 min Comedy, Drama, Music. Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor. Votes: 20, GP min Crime, Drama. After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
Melville's hombres don't talk a lot, they just move in and out of the shadows, their trenchcoats lined with guilt and their hats hiding their eyes.
This is a great movie, an. Votes: 47, Inspired by a wide variety of sources, it follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites lunar inhabitants , and return in a splashdown to Earth with a captive Selenite in tow.
Not Rated 92 min Crime, Drama, Mystery. A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
David Thomson calls Clouzot's a 'cinema of total disenchantment'. R min Drama, Romance. Marlene Dietrich had Sternberg. Anna Karina had Godard. Deneuve stars as. Unrated 92 min Drama, War. This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti.
Denis' extraordinary movie centres on Galoup Lavant who, while holed up in Marseille, recalls his time as a sergeant-major in the Foreign Legion. In the desert, he drilled raw recruits while quietly nurturing feelings of. GP min Drama, Romance. On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
The fifth and most accessible of Rohmer's six 'moral tales', Claire's Knee is the story of the temptation of an affianced diplomat Brialy while on holiday, and its successful suppression. The film was rapturously received as a. Not Rated 98 min Crime, Drama. Twenty-four hours in the Paris projects: an Arab boy is critically wounded in hospital, gut-shot, and a police revolver has found its way into the hands of a young Jewish skinhead, Vinz Cassel , who vows to even the score.
Unrated min Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. One dropped scarf and a lengthy. Not Rated 28 min Short, Drama, Romance. The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
Not Rated 90 min Crime, Drama. A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. GP 93 min Drama, Thriller. An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Classically simple but relentlessly probing thriller, set in a French village shadowed by the presence of a compulsive killer. Some lovely Hitchcockian games, like the strange ketchup that drips onto a picnic hamburger from a. A dying mob boss hands over his business to an old friend, Fernand. The boss' assistants want to get rid of the latter. Ensuing fights and shootouts are more comical than deadly. Not Rated min Biography, Drama, Romance. When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
A biography of the celebrated 19th century adventuress, but not a biography in the conventional sense: the lady's life is chronicled in a highly selective series of flashbacks, framed by scenes in a New Orleans circus where she.
An erratic young woman's family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways. Alone of her family, her father played by Pialat himself understands her, but when he leaves home for.
Not Rated min Crime, Drama, Horror. The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi. Not Rated 90 min Drama, Romance. A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. Hiroshima's mushroom cloud has probably inspired more glib statements and images than any other 20th century phenomenon.
So it's particularly refreshing to find that it still has some meaning in Resnais' first feature, now. Not Rated 81 min Drama. A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man. Votes: 11, Adapted from a Georges Bernanos story, Mouchette describes the life and tribulations of a poor, barely mature peasant girl. Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around He meets an air hostess, Nicole.
They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her. Votes: 7, GP min Comedy, Drama, Romance. The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality. Votes: 12, In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors.
Mimi, another Votes: Not Rated min Crime, Drama, Music.
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