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Alfred Hitchcock's Aventure Malgache

Short Films · Drama · War

While preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.

The Balcony (Special Edition)

Drama · Comedy

In a very special brothel known as the “Balcony,” the customers live out their wildest dreams, oblivious to a revolution that’s going on outside.

Café de Flore

World Cinema · Drama

Cafe de Flore is a love story about people separated by time and place, but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorc…

Camille Claudel 1915

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · Historic Drama

In CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as Auguste Rodin's protégé (and later mistress), and sister of the Christian/mystic poet Paul Claudel. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, writer/director Bruno Dumont (Humanité, La Vi…

The Champion: A Story of America's First Film Town

History · Documentary

For almost a decade Fort Lee, New Jersey was the filmmaking hub of the US. That golden age is celebrated in this documentary — along with silent films preserved by the Library of Congress. 

La Chinoise

World Cinema · Drama

Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form …

The Conformist

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · Based on Literature

Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – who joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in.

The Demoniacs (Unrated Extended Cut)

Horror · Cult · Erotic

A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, THE DEMONIACS (Les Demoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered.

The Devil Bat

Horror · Cult · Drama

Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who commands a mutant bat to avenge himself upon his enemies (using a specially formulated after-shave lotion as the targeting device). Even as he takes diabolical pleasure in such a ludicrous premise, Lugosi invests the character with an underlying sense of tragedy,…

Dracula's Fiancee / Lost in New York

Vampires · Staff Picks · Horror

Dracula's Fiancee stars Jacques Regis as a vampire hunter whose pursuit of the descendants of Count Dracula leads him to a convent of supernatural beings from a parallel world. Also included is Lost in New York, a modern-day Alice in Wonderland in which two siblings explore the wastelands of Ma…

The Escapees

Horror · Cult · Drama

THE ESCAPEES is among Rollin's most personal films, and has been remastered in HD from the original 35mm negative. Jean Rollin's THE ESCAPEES revisits the director's fascination with pairs of women who wander, dreamlike, through a modern dystopia (Requiem for a Vampire, Two Orphan Vampires). Two fem…

Fanny

World Cinema

FANNY is the second part of Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Actor and director Daniel Auteuil (The Well-Digger’s Daughter) has faithfully and beautifully recreated the grand emotions of this beloved text. Following the events …

Fantomas (Hunebelle)

Action & Adventure · Cult · World Cinema

Pierre Souvestre’s Fantômas was originally adapted for the screen by legendary filmmaker Louis Feuillade (Les vampires) in 1913. André Hunebelle (OSS 117: Mission for a Killer) introduced a revamped and modernized version of Fantômas to the 1960s OSS 117 and 007 audience.

Fantomas Unleashed

Action & Adventure · Cult · World Cinema

In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre. Journalist Fandor develops an inge…

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Action & Adventure · Cult · World Cinema

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply. Journalist Fandor and commissaire Juve are invited to Scotland by Lord McRashley (played by Jean-Roger Caussimon). Lord McRashley, one of Fantômas' potenti…

Fascination

Horror · Cult · World Cinema

The masterpiece of renowned French filmmaker Jean Rollin, FASCINATION follows a swaggering thief who hides out in a lavish chateau, holding the occupants at gunpoint. When night falls, he discovers that these two maids are in fact the gatekeepers to a ring of bloodthirsty women.

Fela Kuti: "Music is the Weapon"

Music Documentaries · African-American · Music & Dance

Shot in Lagos at the peak of his career in 1982, this documentary contains interviews with Fela detailing his thoughts on politics, Pan-Africanism, music and religion. For all who wish to know more about an artist at the heart of African musical history, FELA KUTI: MUSIC IS THE WEAPON is an essentia…

Film Socialisme

Culture · Avant Garde · World Cinema

Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) triumphantly returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, "a remarkable and beautiful and challenging" (Glenn Kenny, MSN) essay on the state of Mediterranean life, culture and history.

Filmmakers for the Prosecution

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

Adapted from a monograph by Sandra Schulberg, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt by brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. Seventy-five years later, Jean-Christophe Klotz uncovers never-before-seen footage and intervi…

Girl on a Motorcycle

Erotic · Sexuality · Culture

A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968) stars Alain Delon (Le samoura) and Marianne Faithfull—two actors at the height of their impressive cool—as lovers with a taste for the open road.

Goodbye to Language

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · 3D Movies

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Goodbye to Language is a triumphant masterpiece from Jean-Luc Godard.

The Image Book

RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema · Drama

The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world.

The Iron Rose

Horror · Cult · World Cinema

Two lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, only to find themselves trapped within the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. One of cult director Jean Rollin’s most unconventional films, THE IRON ROSE vividly depicts the young couple’s steady descent into madness.

Joan the Maid: The Battles

History · World Cinema · Period Drama

For the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two-part study, director and co-screenwriter Jacques Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English. As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind…

Joan the Maid: The Prisons

History · World Cinema · Period Drama

The second part of Rivette’s diptych, brought leading lady Sandrine Bonnaire a César Award nomination for her powerful performance. Joined in this installment by other excellent French actresses, including Edith Scob, Hélène de Fougerolles, and Nathalie Richard, Bonnaire t…

Korkoro

World Cinema · Drama · War

In this passionate WWII drama, a tightly-knit family of Gypsies journeys through occupied France, trying to avoid the violent Vichy patrols. Directed with wit and vigor by Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom), Korkoro unearths the hidden story of the Romany people's joys and struggles during the war.

Lady Chatterley

Sexuality · Based on Literature · Period Drama

Pascale Ferran's intelligent, deeply moving, and exquisitely photographed Lady Chatterley brings D.H. Lawrence's most celebrated and notorious literary work to the screen.

Le Gai Savoir

Experimental · World Cinema

While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the m…

The Living Dead Girl

Horror · Cult

Bloodier and more violent than his own tastes preferred, THE LIVING DEAD GIRL forced Rollin to work against the grain in his own preferred genre - and he transformed himself in the process.

The Lost Film Of Nuremberg

Documentary · Film Documentaries

Inspired by Sandra Schulberg’s decade-long research into the making of and suppression of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, The Lost Film of Nuremberg re-traces the hunt for film evidence used to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood — Budd &am…

Maigret Sets a Trap

Crime · World Cinema

Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfect as Georges Simenon's secure and steady sleuth, and old-hand Jean Delannoy expertly keeps up the pace and suspense in this enjoyable wh…

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Crime · World Cinema

Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die.

Marius

World Cinema

Writers Daniel Auteuil ((adaptation)) and Marcel Pagnol ((based on the writings of)) Directed by Daniel Auteuil

Marius & Fanny

World Cinema · Drama

In this 2-film installment, Daniel Auteuil presents a contemporary update to Marcel Pagnol's famed trilogy. Two emotionally impactful epics follow the hardships of two hopeless lovers, Marius and Fanny, during their time together and apart.

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Documentary · Film Documentaries · Lesbian

MUTANTES is a documentary about pro-sex feminism, a movement that seeks to redefine how we understand pornography and its role in media. Through interviews with sex workers, porn actresses, and other members of the sex industry, the film demystifies and explores the various sexual niches of punk por…

My Friend Victoria

An 8-year-old black child named Victoria (Keylia Achie Beguie), is taken in for a night by the wealthy, white, well-intentioned family of one of her schoolmates. The experience haunts her for years to come, shaping her desires and offering a mirage of privilege that she dreams of but finds impossibl…

The Night of the Hunted

Erotic · Sci-Fi and Fantasy · Horror

A man driving home late one night nearly hits a beautiful, scantily-clad woman who is running wild in the streets; he takes her back to his apartment, they make love, and he discovers that she has already forgotten where they met. She is rapidly losing her memory, a woman without a past. The amnesia…

Out 1

Cult · Drama

Jacques Rivette's Out 1 has been practically impossible to see for more than forty years. Both the complete 8-part series, Out 1: noli me tangere (1971), and the shorter theatrical version, Out 1: Spectre (1974), are offered here in newly restored 2K presentations supervised by the films director of…

The Outsider aka Le Marginal

Cult · Thriller · World Cinema

Commissaire Philippe Jordan is a rogue French detective in Marseille infiltrating a network of drug traffickers and their crime boss, Sauveur Meccacci.

A Paris Education

Drama

Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema, unsung auteur Jean Paul Civeyrac’s story of a young cinephile who moves to Paris for film school is an ode to the creative process and the heady days of student life.

Prey for Rock & Roll

Drama · Musical

Prey for Rock & Roll, based on Cheri Lovedog’s autobiographical stageplay, stars Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who’s hitting her “I’m still here” years and worrying that she may never make it big. Also starring Drea DeMatteo, Lori Petty, Shelly Cole, Marc Blucas, …

Princess Tam Tam

Music & Dance · African-American · Comedy

An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocrat. This charming Continental comedy follows both the myth of Pygmalion and La Baker's own rise as an expatriate celebrity.

Le Professionnel aka The Professional

Cult · Thriller · World Cinema

French super-spy Joss Beaumont is a top agent sent on a mission to assassinate a foreign dictator. But when the political winds change, and Beaumont is double-crossed by his own government, revenge becomes the name of the game.

The Rape of the Vampire

Horror · Cult · Avant Garde

A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural.

Razzia Sur La Chnouf

Crime · World Cinema · Film Noir

After a spell in the U.S.A., master criminal Henri Ferré dit ‘Le Nantais’ returns to Paris and is recruited by the head of a major narcotics ring. Merchandise has been disappearing and Henri is assigned two hitmen to eliminate unreliable dealers. 

Requiem for a Vampire

Horror · Cult · Erotic

REQUIEM?FOR?A?VAMPIRE was Jean Rollin’s favorite of all his films. Because he dredged the scenario from his subconscious, and because it was rushed into its written form so quickly, he felt it was his purest work.

Return of the Hero

Comedy

France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the nai?ve Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline soon starts to become ill with worry, pushing her sister Elizabeth to write fake letters on be…

Rider on the Rain (4KUHD)

Mystery · 4K UHD DISC · Crime

When a beautiful young woman in the South of France is stalked and assaulted by a mysterious masked assailant, she kills the man in self-defense, and dumps his corpse over a cliff. Soon an American investigator (Charles Bronson) shows up and, to her horror, seems to know everything about what she ha…

Slam

Drama

A young Black poet (Saul Williams) is imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge, where he meets a writing teacher (Sonja Sohn) who inspires him to use his creative expression to fight for his freedom in this Sundance and Cannes award-winning film.

Sophie Scholl -The Final Days

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · Academy Award Nominees

The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearl…

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Erotic · Sexuality · Cult

A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora. Imprisoned in a convent, the girl's seductive wiles hypnotize the cops and clerics that surrou…

La Syndicaliste

Drama

This investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics tells the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), an influential head union representative who became a whistleblower and was violently targeted for exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector.

The Big Combo

This iconic film noir crime film directed by Joseph H. Lewis stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy, as well as Jean Wallace, who was Wilde's wife at the time. It also included the final screen appearance of actress Helen Walker. Police Lt. Leonard Dia…

Three Sisters

Theatre · Period Drama

Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in a remote Russian village is given the all-star treatment by director and star Laurence Olivier.

Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars

Short Films

At the time of his death in September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had been in the midst of planning another feature. Though never produced, the intricate and beautiful “trailer” that Godard put together in preparation now stands as his final work, a complex collage of history, politics, a…

Two Orphan Vampires

Horror · Cult · Staff Picks

TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES follows two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision, as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.

Two in the Wave

Art Documentaries · World Cinema · Documentary

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship.

Walk With Me

Buddhism · Documentary

With unprecedented access, ‘Walk With Me’ takes us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, and captures the life of a monastic community who have given up all their possessions for one common purpose – to practice the art of mindfulness. Narra…

The Well-Digger's Daughter

World Cinema · Romance

In this sun-drenched melodrama (a remake of the 1940s classic by Marcel Pagnol), acclaimed French actor Daniel Auteuil directs and stars as the eponymous well-digger Pascal, a widower who is torn between his sense of honor and his love for his eldest daughter, Patricia (the luminous Astrid Berg&egra…

Who Is Dayani Cristal?

Sundance Film Festival · Documentary

The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight into the human stories…