Release Date: 1984-08-29

Overview: Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.

Rating: 6.762 (126 votes)

Release Date: 1982-05-19

Overview: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.

Rating: 6.8 (82 votes)

Release Date: 1988-12-21

Overview: In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in prison—will help her learn from her mistakes.

Rating: 6.2 (72 votes)

Release Date: 1950-04-20

Overview: A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.

Rating: 5.5 (29 votes)

Release Date: 1978-10-15

Overview: Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

Rating: 6.7 (38 votes)

Release Date: 2009-11-15

Overview: Upon his release from prison, an ex-convict returns to his beloved city of Genoa, and to his lover.

Rating: 6.1 (49 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-08

Overview: The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.

Rating: 6.2 (39 votes)

Release Date: 2011-05-13

Overview: The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...

Rating: 6.1 (35 votes)

Release Date: 2017-11-03

Overview: When Huiying hears that her mother's dying wish is to be buried next to her husband, she discovers that his remains are in the countryside and cared for by his first wife. A conflict ensues, and Huiying's daughter, an intrepid reporter, breaks the story as the three women search for proof of love.

Rating: 7.4 (31 votes)

Release Date: 1984-01-01

Overview: Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.

Rating: 6.2 (38 votes)

Release Date: 2007-11-09

Overview: Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Rating: 8.384 (57 votes)

Release Date: 2015-09-16

Overview: A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

Rating: 6.2 (97 votes)

Release Date: 1987-08-26

Overview: Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to know Fabien.

Rating: 7.1 (124 votes)

Release Date: 1976-03-10

Overview: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.

Rating: 6.841 (138 votes)

Release Date: 2020-09-28

Overview: An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.

Rating: 7 (113 votes)

Release Date: 2015-06-17

Overview: A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.

Rating: 5.9 (93 votes)

Release Date: 2006-10-06

Overview: A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

Rating: 7.347 (167 votes)

Release Date: 2018-12-14

Overview: Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba. Despite his repeated escapes and initial poor behaviour, the boy is inevitably drawn to the world of dance, and begins to shape his legendary career from a young age, becoming the first black dancer to be cast in some of the most prestigious ballet roles, originally written for white dancers, in companies such as the Houston Ballet or the Royal Ballet in London.

Rating: 6.9 (96 votes)

Release Date: 1992-01-29

Overview: Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

Rating: 7 (168 votes)

Release Date: 2024-05-21

Overview: Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. The people around her believe this to be a temporary joke, but Chiara is determined not to give up her new identity…

Rating: 5.9 (56 votes)