The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental...

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a...

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion...

When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies...

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for...

A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been...

Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s...

The film tells the story of a love affair between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in 19th century Paris.

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.

Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is...

A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's death.

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local...

Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other, titled...

Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are...

This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house,...