French Cinema

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.

Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.

Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.