Alex Pront

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.

Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.

昭和11年。料亭の女中定は店の主人に心惹かれ、情事を重ねるようになる。その情事が男の妻に知れてしまい、二人は駆け落ちを決行する。快楽におぼれる日々を重ねるうちに定は男を永遠に手放したくないと思うようになり、ついには男を自分だけのものにするため首を絞めて殺害し、さらには男の陰部を切り取ってしまうのだった。

The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?

Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he recruits an old friend to help find her.

Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.

Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?

Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a fascinating investigative documentary about post–May ’68 French society.

An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

In America, two French expats, composer Henri and actress Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.

An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.

In a mysterious French castle dark meetings and apparitions happen, seasoned by nauseating erotic menages. The involvement frantically increases up to the amazing epilogue.

Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.

殺し屋ジェフ・コステロは、依頼を受けてナイト・クラブのオーナーを殺害する。だが、その日、出演していたピアニストの女性ヴァレリーに顔を見られてしまう。警察はオーナー殺しの犯人捜しに躍起になり、ジェフも呼び出され、クラブの従業員たちを前に面通しをされるが、なぜかジェフをしっかり見ていたはずのヴァレリーは彼ではなかったと証言をする。ジェフは放免されたものの、操作責任者の警視は彼への疑いを消し去ることが出来ず、尾行をつける。

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

名匠ルネ・クレマンがオーソン・ウェルズ以下超豪華オールスター・キャストで撮り上げた戦争大作。連合軍の反撃が始まっていた1944年夏、自由フランス軍とレジスタンスがパリを奪還し、解放するまでを描く。

ヌーベルバーグを代表する女性監督アニエス・バルダの代表作のひとつで、幸福を求める平凡な夫婦に訪れる皮肉な運命を描いた人間ドラマ。フランソワは美しい妻テレーズや可愛い子どもたちに囲まれ、平穏で幸せな毎日を送っていた。ある日、近くの町へ出かけたフランソワは、郵便局で働く女性エミリーと出会い、恋に落ちてしまう。その一方で、フランソワは妻テレーズのことも心から愛していた。ある日、家族を連れてピクニックに出かけたフランソワは、テレーズに不倫の事実を打ち明けるが……。1965年ベルリン国際映画祭で銀熊賞を受賞した。

1841年、マサチューセッツ州ニューベドフォード。イシュメイルは安宿で知り合った銛打ちと意気投合し、老朽の捕鯨船ピークォッド号に乗り込む。その船の船長エイハブはかつて“白鯨”と呼ばれる巨大なクジラに片足を喰いちぎられており、その復讐に燃えている。この航海の目的もそれで、今度こそ“白鯨”の息の根を止めるつもりのエイハブの目には既に狂気に似たものがあった。“白鯨”を倒す執念に憑かれたエイハブの凶行は、次第に船員たちの命までも危険に晒していく……。