As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well...

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what...

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition,...

This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might...

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the...

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and...

A poetic ode to the River Seine, Ivens' distinguished camera eye surveys its lively banks and step-stone canals with a vérité candor, a beguiling...

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after...

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife...

Paris, during the winter after its Liberation: Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp predicts Jean will meet the most...

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in...

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second...

Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back...

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them...

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's...

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along...

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the...

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets...

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has...

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its...

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern...

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus...

A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a...

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network...

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent...

A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.

An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie...

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of...

Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.

The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his...

A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in...

An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.

Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the...

In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and...

Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the...

An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to...

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...

A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti.

A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator

After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So...

Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal.

Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job....

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens"....

Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler....

World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes...

A young girl dies in an accident just before her wedding. But when her sister starts to look into it, she discovers the truth about her.

Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a...

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them...

A film that evokes the period between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929. For some, it was the golden age of pleasure...

Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very...

Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition.

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location...

Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a...

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction...

10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police,...

The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World...

An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.

Pro-Vietnamese film created by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. This black and white film begins with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, who explains...

A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project ‘Inferno’ was, as well as how those who were involved with it...

Eight-year old Francois has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his...

If love is a universal phenomenon, it is never the same: the animal world experiences brutal and rapid unions, or, on the contrary, slow and...

In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But,...

A student, who wishes to become an opera singer, is helped by a good boy, Saturnin, who improvises as a manager. The student succeeds and becomes...

A rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a military man but she's not prepared to accept it....

Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's...

Based on a montage of photographic and cinematographic archives, this documentary evokes, from the demonstrations of February 1934 to the resignation...

The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions...

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families...

Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces,...

Joris Ivens documentary.

An old cowherd from Haute-Savoie who continues to raise his animals, according to the old methods, falls in love with a young shepherdess.