Notre Dame de la Croisette

Notre Dame de la Croisette 1983

6.00

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.

1983

The Chef's Wife

The Chef's Wife 2014

5.11

The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme of things. Without meaning to, the two women find their lives growing tangled together, with ever more complex tragicomic consequences.

2014

Malevil

Malevil 1981

6.60

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...

1981

M the Damned

M the Damned 1982

6.10

A Claude Chabrol remake of M by Fritz Lang for French television.

1982

Villa Mauresque

Villa Mauresque 1993

2.67

Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute of high flight and a great writer fallen and suicidal.

1993

Psy-Show

Psy-Show 1999

1

"Psy-Show" concerns a man approaching middle age, a fragile soul who becomes the plaything of his psychoanalyst who surreptitiously re-positions his quiet motorized chair as his patient lies on the couch.

1999

Croesus

Croesus 1960

6.20

Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…

1960

The Prude

The Prude 1986

4.40

Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...

1986

Trash

Trash 2011

4.67

Thanks to his wife Madeleine, a social worker who saved him from the street when he was 17-years-old, Pierre Dalpé has become a prosperous entrepreneur, running a garbage-collection business in the Montreal area. His quiet happiness with his wife and their children changes when he crosses paths with Eve, a teenage drug addict/prostitute who belongs to a street gang.

2011

Swannsong

Swannsong 2024

1

A mother goes searching for memories of her son after his death and struggles with the truth she finds out.

2024

Paradise Calling

Paradise Calling 1988

3.00

Elise is content being the lover of Alex, a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back.

1988

Pinot simple-flic

Pinot simple-flic 1984

5.50

The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered that she comes from the same village, Nanteuil, then him, he takes compassion for the young girl and decides to take her under his wing to keep her away from Tony, a dangerous dealer with whom she is in love.

1984

Deux et Demi

Deux et Demi 1970

1

Two brothers, Louis and Noah, take part in an enduro competition. As the competition reaches its climax, the brothers' ambitions begin to interfere with and jeopardize the balance of their relationship.

1970

Window

Window 2024

1

Sam, a window cleaner, arrives at a residential block in Brussels with no windows. In her search for the missing windows, she meets characters who confront her with herself and her loneliness. Gently she breaks through her isolation and starts to interact and connect.

2024

Endorphine

Endorphine 2015

5.70

Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.

2015

Hygiène de l'assassin

Hygiène de l'assassin 1999

6.00

Part police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women, Hygiene de l'assassin concerns a young female journalist, Nina (Barbara Schulz). Nina has scored a plumb assignment, an interview with Tach (Jean Yanne), a well-known but reculsive novelist who rarely speaks to the press. After he passes along his less-than-charitable views about women (including the belief they should be killed in childhood, before they start to menstruate), Nina concludes the interview, but soon finds herself interrogated by police when Tach is found dead and she is the key suspect.

1999

The King of Escape

The King of Escape 2009

6.04

43-year-old Armand Lacourtade, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is getting sick of his homosexual life. When he encounters a young girl called Curly, he changes sides. Chased by her parents and the police, they brave all dangers to live this forbidden love and become an odd couple. But is it really what Armand dreamed about?

2009