Release Date: 1993-12-15

Overview: "Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.

Rating: 6.5 (68 votes)

Release Date: 2006-04-14

Overview: The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.

Rating: 5.653 (124 votes)

Release Date: 2019-02-28

Overview: A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

Rating: 5.8 (131 votes)

Release Date: 1993-04-17

Overview: Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

Rating: 7.3 (125 votes)

Release Date: 1995-02-01

Overview: Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.

Rating: 6.413 (92 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-01

Overview: June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.

Rating: 6.477 (64 votes)

Release Date: 2014-04-27

Overview: James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, not just through his music, but also as a social activist. Charting his journey from rhythm and blues to funk, MR. DYNAMITE: THE RISE OF JAMES BROWN features rare and previously unseen footage, photographs and interviews, chronicling the musical ascension of “the hardest working man in show business,” from his first hit, “Please, Please, Please,” in 1956, to his iconic performances at the Apollo Theater, the T.A.M.I. Show, the Paris Olympia and more.

Rating: 6.897 (39 votes)

Release Date: 1997-04-30

Overview: Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.

Rating: 6.304 (69 votes)

Release Date: 1955-10-18

Overview: A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.

Rating: 6.5 (29 votes)

Release Date: 1982-10-06

Overview: In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.

Rating: 6.083 (192 votes)

Release Date: 2008-12-17

Overview: The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

Rating: 6.1 (386 votes)

Release Date: 1986-08-27

Overview: In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

Rating: 7.7 (581 votes)

Release Date: 2017-10-11

Overview: Under the pressure of his boss, a music producer decides to set up a group consisting of a rabbi, a priest and an imam to make them sing the living together. But the religious he recruits are far from being saints ...

Rating: 5.844 (406 votes)

Release Date: 2011-04-15

Overview: The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

Rating: 6.792 (574 votes)

Release Date: 1969-08-18

Overview: Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

Rating: 7.108 (757 votes)

Release Date: 1992-10-09

Overview: The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.

Rating: 7.03 (1116 votes)

Release Date: 2022-05-04

Overview: While working part-time as a food deliveryman, Antoine, an aspiring young rapper from the suburbs of Paris, meets Mrs. Loiseau, an eminent teacher at the Paris Opéra. Stunned by the young man's raw talent, she introduces him to the world of opera. As Antoine becomes one of Mrs. Loiseau's students, he hides his new dream from his friends and family, fearing that they won’t understand – this double life burdens him... Somewhere in between the gilded and uptight Parisian upper-class, and the harsh yet free-spirited and familiar suburbs he grew up in, Antoine will have to find his own voice.

Rating: 7.038 (325 votes)

Release Date: 1999-12-22

Overview: A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.

Rating: 6.823 (1696 votes)

Release Date: 2018-03-08

Overview: After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Rating: 5.063 (1809 votes)

Release Date: 2003-02-21

Overview: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Rating: 7.441 (2077 votes)