1959

The 400 Blows

8/2125

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

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The 400 Blows

1968

Stolen Kisses

7/417

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

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Stolen Kisses

1979

Love on the Run

7/194

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.

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Love on the Run

1962

Antoine and Colette

7/253

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

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Antoine and Colette

1970

Bed and Board

7/266

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

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Bed and Board

1988

36 Fillette

5/31

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third.

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36 Fillette

2003

The Dreamers

7/2830

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

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The Dreamers

1967

La Chinoise

7/208

Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.

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La Chinoise

1972

Last Tango in Paris

7/1198

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

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Last Tango in Paris

1973

Day for Night

8/583

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

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Day for Night

1965

Pierrot le Fou

7/840

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

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Pierrot le Fou

1985

Vivement Truffaut

6/1

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.

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Vivement Truffaut

1966

Masculin Féminin

7/371

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

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Masculin Féminin

2001

What Time Is It There?

7/103

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

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What Time Is It There?

1990

I Hired a Contract Killer

7/188

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

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I Hired a Contract Killer

1967

Weekend

7/271

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

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Weekend

1962

Love at Twenty

7/48

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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Love at Twenty

1996

Irma Vep

7/199

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…

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Irma Vep

1992

La Vie de Bohème

8/133

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

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La Vie de Bohème

1967

Made in U.S.A

6/97

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.

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Made in U.S.A

1971

Two English Girls

7/145

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with Ann’s family, Claude falls in love with her sister Muriel, but both families lay down a year-long separation without contact before they may marry.

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Two English Girls

1982

Pour Bonnie

0/0

For Bonnie. This story, dedicated to the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, shows regret for lost paradises. While the sentimental arranges that everything seems perfect and immutable, the romantic knows that passions never last. A man finds 15 years later, a woman he had loved. They try the space of an evening to find the lost emotions. But life is cruel and strangely repetitive, and memory fails. Looking for yesterday's dreams, they will awaken the pain.

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Pour Bonnie

1960

Testament of Orpheus

8/107

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption.

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Testament of Orpheus

2001

The Pornographer

5/66

A former porn director, who once elevated the genre with 1960s counter-culture ideals, returns to filmmaking after 20 years, clashing with his producer's hard-core vision. Estranged from his son over the family business, they begin reconnecting as the son embraces political activism, while the director seeks personal renewal.

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The Pornographer

1989

Bunker Palace Hotel

6/40

In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up.

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Bunker Palace Hotel

1986

With All Hands

6/3

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

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With All Hands

2023

Godard Cinema

6/8

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.

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Godard Cinema

1999

Innocent

0/0

A French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from prison after five years in prison. As he tries to adjust to life on the outside, he accidentally meets a Parisian taxi-driver who commits suicide right before his eyes. Without a pause he takes the dead cabbie's place behind the wheel and starts making the rounds of the city, transporting passengers (Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the role of a client who recites Cavafy throughout the entire ride). He feels the air of freedom, a lord of Paris and master of himself, up to the moment that he meets young Anies, and his life falls into new paths. In the end, he takes off, destination unknown.

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Innocent

1976

Lola's Lolos

5/5

In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young man from the provinces, he makes his pilgrimage to Paris and seeks adventure while living on a barge.

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Lola's Lolos

1969

Paul

6/4

Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are arrested for stealing eggs. Marianne is one of the followers, and she and Paul go to a remote island to live off seaweed and vegetation, but a development company moves in to wreck the paradise. Paul is brokenhearted when Mariane goes off with one of the greedy developers in this symbolic film that decries the allure of the material world.

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Paul

1991

Paris Awakens

6/12

Adrien is a nineteen year old who has not seen his father, Clément, for four years. Adrien returns home and the two try to repair their relationship. Clément lives with Louise, a twenty-something woman who wants to be an actress. Adrien starts a flirtatious relationship with Louise, which strains his newfound bond with Clément.

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Paris Awakens

1988

The Color of the Wind

6/10

Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.

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The Color of the Wind

1969

Pigsty

7/149

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.

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Pigsty

1973

The Mother and the Whore

7/163

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.

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The Mother and the Whore

1969

Le Gai Savoir

6/22

Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.

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Le Gai Savoir

1985

Detective

5/58

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.

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Detective

1988

Jane B. for Agnès V.

7/53

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.

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Jane B. for Agnès V.

2009

Face

6/24

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.

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Face

2011

Le Havre

7/419

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.

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Le Havre

1960

Boulevard

6/12

Boulevard focuses on Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roof of a block of apartments in the Pigalle section of Paris. He ran away from home when he realized that his step-mother hated him from day-one. Among Jojo's many neighbors is the gorgeous Jenny Dorr , a nightclub dancer, whose lover he dreams of being. But, to Jojo's disappointment, Jenny becomes the lover of Dicky, a former boxer, who spends his time loafing about the Pigalle cafés. Jojo lacks for steady work, but manages to meet his financial obligations with a series of odd jobs. He tries selling magazines, which is a success for a while, though posing as Narcissus for two gay artists proves to be something of a disaster. Eventually, he woos Marietta, one of his other neighbors and a girl more suited to his age. But when things go really awry, Jojo becomes desperate and tries to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of his building

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Boulevard

2000

A Matter of Taste

6/33

Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.

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A Matter of Taste

2019

C'è tempo

6/102

After the death of his estranged father, professional rainbow-watcher Stefano finds out he has a 13-year-old half-brother, and that he must become his legal guardian to receive the inheritance.

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C'è tempo

1966

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

7/22

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

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Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

1971

Out 1

7/52

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.

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Out 1

2004

A Wonderful Spell

6/4

Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.

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A Wonderful Spell

1996

Diary of a Seducer

5/6

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At school, Claire meets Gregoire, who loans her a book by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that makes the reader attracted to whoever gave it to them. Smitten with Gregoire, Claire passes the book on to her therapist, who then falls in love with her.

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Diary of a Seducer

2002

The War in Paris

7/1

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.

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The War in Paris

2012

Camille Rewinds

6/221

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?

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Camille Rewinds

1971

A Girl Is a Gun

5/7

The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse.

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A Girl Is a Gun

1967

The Departure

7/36

A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same time.

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The Departure

2009

The Chalk Circle Man

7/10

For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles.

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The Chalk Circle Man

1971

The Lion Has Seven Heads

6/26

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.

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The Lion Has Seven Heads

1994

Nobody Loves Me

4/6

Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.

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Nobody Loves Me

1998

Elizabeth

7/1365

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

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Elizabeth

1969

Bad Company

6/15

Two short films by Jean Eustache (Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes) presented together. US limited theatrical release in 1969.

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Bad Company

1968

Dialogue 20-40-60

5/3

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."

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Dialogue 20-40-60

1987

Boran - Zeit zum Zielen

0/0

An exconvict turned in a movie star search for revenge against a corrupt cop.

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Boran - Zeit zum Zielen

2005

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

5/10

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.

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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

1976

Hugs and Other Things

3/2

Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes place in typical Bavaria.

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Hugs and Other Things

1966

Love at Sea

7/44

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

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Love at Sea

1997

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

0/0

Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read texts written by Eustache, including the following reflection: “The role of the author in cinema should be one of non-intervention.” This sentence reminds us that he belongs to the greatest of film traditions (he cites Griffith, Renoir, Dreyer, and Lang as his models), the one that sees cinema as a matter of placing the camera in front of reality and capturing it ardently, precisely, and without tricks.

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Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

1981

Parano

4/4

Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life. Unfortunately, her tendency to express their unhappiness or disapproval by murdering her victims could jeopardize her romance with mathematician and philosopher Ignacio from Spain.

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Parano

1993

The Birth of Love

6/16

The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young nor successful anymore.

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The Birth of Love

2001

1968 - Without Losing Tenderness

6/1

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.

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1968 - Without Losing Tenderness

1986

Treasure Island

6/10

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.

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Treasure Island

1997

Just for Laughs

6/13

Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux, follows the covert sexual misadventures of the troubled foursome.

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Just for Laughs

1984

La cassure

5/1

Four policemen have shot down Albert Thoulouse's daughter by accident but are acquitted of all charges. Such injustice infuriates the unfortunate father, who abruptly turns from Jekyll to Hyde. Without giving them a second chance, Albert executes two of the men and swears that he will go to the end of his "mission". But, being reported as suspect N°1, he cannot go back to his home. One night he gets to know Claire, a young movie usherette, who accepts to accommodate and help him.

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La cassure

2002

In the Darkness of Time

7/20

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and, of course, cinema.

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In the Darkness of Time

1985

L'Herbe rouge

0/0

Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.

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L'Herbe rouge

1965

Alphaville

7/532

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

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Alphaville

1968

Concentration

10/1

La Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed.

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Concentration

2022

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra

0/0

Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.

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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra

1967

The Oldest Profession

5/27

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

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The Oldest Profession

2016

The Death of Louis XIV

6/87

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

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The Death of Louis XIV

2020

Les secrets de François Truffaut

8/2

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Les secrets de François Truffaut

1972

Out 1: Spectre

7/13

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...

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Out 1: Spectre

1989

The Ministries of Art

6/3

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.

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The Ministries of Art

2000

The Marcorelle Affair

5/5

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant

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The Marcorelle Affair

1968

Françoise et Udo...

0/0

This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a French teacher exchange on their past, their character, and fall in love. Their journey is made in music. The opportunity to evoke Georges Brassens, Annabel Buffet, Eugène Ionesco…

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Françoise et Udo...

1984

Rebelote

6/4

Rémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding school and then an authoritarian and abusive nanny. Teenager, he works as butcher in Paris. On Saturday, he made “silly little things” that sometimes lead to prison.

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Rebelote

2024

Jean-Pierre Léaud - The Child of Cinema

9/2

A cult figure of the French New Wave, Jean-Pierre Léaud was revealed to cinema-goers in the starring role of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical film The 400 Blows (1959), a character he would play again in several Truffaut films.

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Jean-Pierre Léaud - The Child of Cinema

2017

M

7/67

Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden…

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El Brujo

0/0

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El Brujo

1965

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit

6/1

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Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit

1958

King on Horseback

6/18

Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense at it and challenges Henri to a duel. However, while they fight, a group of Austrian soldiers appear suddenly and the two rivals instantly unite to repel their enemies. Unfortunately, Saint-Sever is mortally wounded and, feeling he is about to die, he entreats his new friend to offer protection to Toinon, his natural daughter, whose life is being threatened...

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King on Horseback

2018

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

7/18

An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead, long-ago lover.

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight

1986

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

6/21

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingly difficult to raise the capital he needs for his ventures. His wife Eurydice dreams of being a movie star. A perverse game between the two men ensues, with Almereyda wanting to please his wife, but reluctant to demand a role for Eurydice because of Bazin's reputation as an incorrigible seducer.

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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

2004

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

7/2

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

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Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

1987

Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel

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Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel

1981

Help Me Dream

8/3

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.

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Help Me Dream

2009

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

0/0

The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.

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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

1982

Véra

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Véra

2018

Alien Crystal Palace

3/12

A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.

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Alien Crystal Palace

1970

The Heirs

6/6

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.

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The Heirs

2014

François Truffaut l'insoumis

6/3

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.

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François Truffaut l'insoumis

1993

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

5/7

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.

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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

2019

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

5/2

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. Overwhelmed by the weight of power. The numerous exploits of André Malraux (1901-1976).

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André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

1991

C'est la avie

0/0

1991 drama film.

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C'est la avie

1987

Lady Cops

5/17

Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge on Mireille, Jean-Pierre, another pimp, accuses him of corruption. It was then the subject of an investigation by two IGS inspectors: Blondel and Lacroix. Soon after, Charlie was released for lack of evidence. To keep Yasmina, he kidnaps his son and threatens to kill him.

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Lady Cops

1985

Just a Movie

0/0

Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves for home with his wife, Judit, but as he catches sight of a girl at the station, he cannot resist the temptation and gets off the train.

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Just a Movie

2001

Léaud l'unique

0/0

Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and actors he has worked with.

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Léaud l'unique

1996

My Man

6/35

In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.

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My Man

2009

On the Trail of the New Wave

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On the Trail of the New Wave

1995

One Hundred and One Nights

6/48

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

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One Hundred and One Nights

2019

I shot Antoine Doinel

0/0

A film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary cinema to the character of Antoine Doinel. When he learns that the actor who played him is coming to visit his city, he makes a drastic decision.

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I shot Antoine Doinel

1964

Nadja in Paris

6/33

Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust; she also likes to stroll about Paris.

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Nadja in Paris

1981

Le petit Pommier

1/1

Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.

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Le petit Pommier

2010

Sodankylä Forever

0/0

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

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Sodankylä Forever

2004

Léaud de Hurle-dents

0/0

Jean-Pierre Léaud wanders among the graves of Montparnasse Cemetery in search of several ghosts of the cinema...

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Léaud de Hurle-dents

1982

Mersonne ne m'aime

0/0

After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.

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Mersonne ne m'aime

1984

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

5/8

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

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Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

1964

Mata Hari, Agent H21

6/24

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.

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Mata Hari, Agent H21