Dominique Chapuis

A Claude Lanzmann documentary about one uprising by Jews in a Nazi-run concentration camp taken from his Shoah interviews.

Jean-Francois and Angie have known each other for 25 years and have been lovers on and off for most of that time. After two marriages (one ending in divorce, the other with her husband's death) and two children, the free-spirited Angie has returned to Jean-Francois, only to announce after a year of living together that she's leaving him to open a antique business in the United States. Jean-Francois regrets Angie's decision, but also knows her well enough to know there's little he can do to change her mind. Five years later, Jean-Francois has become friends with Angie's daughter Winnie, who now lives in Paris and has fallen in love with Laurent, a carefree artist who lives in a studio given to him by his father. However, after sleeping with Laurent, Winnie is convinced he can't be trusted and keeps him at a distance. Over the next few years, Laurent keeps running into Winnie, and Angie periodically arrives at Jean-Francois' doorstep only to leave again shortly after.

This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him to realize the most extraordinary desires. He is very attached to his grandfather, who owns a butcher's shop and who offers that Stan take over the family business. But Stan refuses. He decides to drop out of school and move out of his family's apartment, despite the opposition of his parents. His uncle is the only one to support him in the impossible dream of becoming an actor.

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

In industrial Lyon of the early '50s, a widowed bar-owner listens to radio crime serials, reads detective magazines, and grieves for her daughter, killed two years earlier in a mineshaft accident. Consumed by her loss and unwilling to face the truth, the bar-owner becomes suspicious of the grim patrons in her drab tavern, seeking someone to blame as she contemplates revenge.

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other

Lord knows where João de Deus has been. He's come home wounded in the head. He's got a bit of the soundtrack to Johnny Guitar in his head. Strangely enough, there is no sign of the hole in his head. Day breaks over the city. Further strolls are in sight. It is said that Mr. Monteiro, the alter ego of João de Deus, occasionally goes out with Nicholas Ray. At least, they've been seen together.

The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span) exploring the Jewish experience. The two earlier documentaries, "Porquoi Israel," and "Shoah," have had great effect on the ways documentaries are produced. "Tsahal" zeroes in on the crucial role of the military in Israeli society and politics. The film uses many in-depth interviews to present the many feelings and thoughts about the Israeli military.

The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.

The beginning of the end of the apartheid era in South Africa is seen through the perspectives of three female friends: Sophie, who is of English descent; Aninka, who is an Afrikaner; and Thoko, who is black.

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to be the most beautiful sex worker in Lisbon—and is also Eloi’s daughter.

The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.

La historia de 3 hermanas durante la guerra de Argelia.

According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.

Año 1950. En la escuela donde estudia la joven de 16 años Janine Castang (Charlotte Gainsbourg), comienza a notarse la frecuente pérdida de objetos de los estudiantes, y ya los profesores sospechan de una de las alumnas, mientras que las miradas de sus compañeras apuntan a Janine. Ladrona de oficio diario, la joven Janine busca parecerse a las estrellas de cine que ve con frecuencia en la sala de su barrio y sueña con una existencia parecida a la de ellas. A su vida llegarán luego los hombres, y queriendo encontrar también el amor, ella vivirá ese paso hacia la madurez con muchos reveses y con profundas experiencias que, quizás, transformen su vida para siempre.

This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story) about a woman's obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its probable inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmmaking, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.

Un investigador de seguros está de visita en París por trabajo. Pronto se hace el objeto de una apuesta de la seducción entre tres damas. Los problemas surgen cuando las chicas se dan cuenta de que realmente están enamorandose de él.

Emmanuel, 37, lives in Paris with his wife, Irene, and his daughter Anne, 14 years old. He accidentally discovers that Irene is receiving mail in the remaining mail. She refuses to follow Emmanuel to Italy where he has to write a biography of Filippo Lippi. Distraught, Emmanuel decided to leave immediately for Florence.

Milly, de catorce años, está convencida de que los chicos lo tienen mucho más fácil en la vida que las chicas: son más fuertes, poderosos y la gente los respeta. Durante un eclipse solar, Milly se concentra en su deseo de cambiar de sexo y, a la mañana siguiente, para su sorpresa, se levanta convertida en un guapo muchacho. Su padre y su madre están perplejos y los médicos no encuentran explicación alguna. Milly, ahora Willy, empieza a asistir a un nuevo colegio donde comprobará que ser chico no es tan bonito como había imaginado... (FILMAFFINITY)

Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she can trust him.Directed by David Saperstein and based on a novel by Robert Houston, A Killing Affair features twists and turns up until the end.

La adolescencia de Charlotte, una niña de 13 años que vive en un poblado rural francés, puede ser una experiencia traumática. La poca atención que le presta su padre, el poco afecto que siente hacia su cuidadora y el engorro de tener que soportar a su obsceno hermano hacen que Charlotte desee poder marcharse de ahí para empezar desde cero en algún otro lugar. Esta oportunidad se hace posible cuando conoce a Clara Baumann, una pianista infantil de gran talento, quien le ofrece ser su asistenta. (

Retrato de las andanzas de Madjid, hijo de inmigrantes argelinos, y su amigo Pat. Son dos jóvenes que viven en los suburbios de París, han acabado el colegio y tienen dificultades para encontrar trabajo. Su única salida posible es la delincuencia.

Rodada entre los años 1970 y 1980, investiga las causas y motivos del genocidio desde el nivel de la experiencia: los paisajes de los campos de exterminio y los guetos, las rutinas diarias de los encarcelados, el inexorable trauma de la humillación, el castigo y el exterminio, y los fascinantes y escalofriantes testimonios de aquellos que lo experimentaron de primera mano, salvaguardando para siempre en el tiempo las palabras de aquellos que sobrevivieron. Las imágenes de archivo están desterradas en la obra de Lanzmann y son estas mismas palabras las que ejercen como vehículo y alma de la narración. La obra de un genio, un esfuerzo heróico por humanizar lo inhumano, por narrar lo inarrable y explorar con un detalle sin precedentes los horrores del pasado.

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José's studies easier...

A woman's only son is killed through the negligence of his doctor. Her husband, in practice at the same clinic, colludes in the cover-up. How will the mother react to the fact that 'they call that an accident'? An obscure thriller, the first directorial effort of its star, Nathalie Delon (who also scripted it); it features music by Steve Winwood and Marianne Faithfull, including her splendidly sour song 'Guilt';

A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in an upcoming election.

Basado en el poema "Una tirada de dados jamás abolirá el azar", escrito por Stéphane Mallarmé en 1897. Fue rodado en el cementerio Père Lachaise de París en mayo de 1977. (FILMAFFINITY)

Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.

The real life and the parallel life of two women. A delirium that results from their confusion and their expectation. The mixture of reality and imagination ending in emptiness.

When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani's for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's daughter, and he discovers that Bruno, Juliette's brother, also died that same night in a car accident...