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On the Adamant

Documentary

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary invites viewers to come aboard the Adamant, a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of Paris that offers care with dignity for adults with mental illnesses.

Oporto of My Childhood

Biography · Documentary · History

With the rigor of inspiration, director Manoel de Oliveira returns to Oporto (commonly referred to as Porto), the city of his birth, to reveal a society unseen by most travelers or tourists.

Out 1

Drama · Cult

Jacques Rivette's Out 1 has been practically impossible to see for more than forty years. Both the complete 8-part series, Out 1: noli me tangere (1971), and the shorter theatrical version, Out 1: Spectre (1974), are offered here in newly restored 2K presentations supervised by the films director of…

The Outsider aka Le Marginal

Action · Thriller · World Cinema

Commissaire Philippe Jordan is a rogue French detective in Marseille infiltrating a network of drug traffickers and their crime boss, Sauveur Meccacci.

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Nature · Art Documentaries · Fine Art

In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac, a town in the south of France. Sophie Fiennes' film sheds insight into the years that Kiefer spent there, engaged in a fervent process of artistic creation, in order to shape the estate according …

A Paris Education

Drama

Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema, unsung auteur Jean Paul Civeyrac’s story of a young cinephile who moves to Paris for film school is an ode to the creative process and the heady days of student life.

Pasolini

Drama · Based on Literature · RT Certified Fresh

The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer (played by Willem Dafoe), in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes f…

Paulina

Drama · Thriller

The daughter of an eminent left-wing judge, suspends her legal education and the prospects of a promising political career to travel to an indigenous community of extreme poverty on Argentina’s border with Paraguay and Brazil. Paulina‘s unfathomable actions, and the limits of s…

The Pearl Button

Historic Drama · Culture · Documentary

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered…

Peshmerga

War · World Cinema · Documentary

Bernard-Henri Lévy travelled to the front lines of ISIS, seeking first-hand understanding of the ongoing conflict.

La Petite Jerusalem

Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema

Winner of the script prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Karin Albou's La Petite Jerusalem pits intimacy against sex and ideology against divinity, "with candor, sympathy and excellent cinematography," (Nathan Lee, The New York Times). Offering an unusual glimpse into an unseen, cloistered world…

Porto

Drama · Romance · World Cinema

An American loner (Anton Yelchin) and a French student (Lucie Lucas) experience a night of carefree intimacy in the ancient Portuguese city of Porto. This romantic encounter is viewed from years later, both characters still haunted by the powerful connection they shared.

Possession

Horror · Drama

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani, in a role that …

Princess Tam Tam

Music & Dance · Comedy · African-American

An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocrat. This charming Continental comedy follows both the myth of Pygmalion and La Baker's own rise as an expatriate celebrity.

Le Professionnel aka The Professional

Action · Thriller · World Cinema

French super-spy Joss Beaumont is a top agent sent on a mission to assassinate a foreign dictator. But when the political winds change, and Beaumont is double-crossed by his own government, revenge becomes the name of the game.

Proud

Drama · LGBTQ · World Cinema

In 1981, it was still illegal to be gay in France. Today, same-sex marriage is recognized and has paved the way for legalizing the adoption of children by LGBTQ families. Proud tells the story of Charles, Victor and Diego, three generations of the same family who represent the seismic social changes…

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Peabody Award Winners · Documentary

Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photographer killed by an Israeli airstrike, developed a friendship by video call with filmmaker Sepideh Farsi for a dialogue that transcended current events to create a compelling work of art.

Rabin, The Last Day

Based on True Story · Jewish Interest · Drama

Lauded director Amos Gitai (Kippur) delves into the prelude and aftermath of the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in this gripping docudrama.

The Rape of the Vampire

Horror · Vampires · Cult

A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural.

Rapt

Thriller · World Cinema

Nominated for four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor), Lucas Belvaux's edge-of-your-seat thriller -- inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Edouard-Jean Empain -- features a career-defining performance by Yvan Attal (Munich, My Wife Is an Actress) as a …

Razzia Sur La Chnouf

Crime · World Cinema · Film Noir

After a spell in the U.S.A., master criminal Henri Ferré dit ‘Le Nantais’ returns to Paris and is recruited by the head of a major narcotics ring. Merchandise has been disappearing and Henri is assigned two hitmen to eliminate unreliable dealers. 

Real Love

Drama

After his wife of 20 years leaves the family home, Mario, suddenly is left to care for his teenage daughters alone. A follow-up to Claire Burger’s Camera d’Or–winning Party Girl, Real Love elicits moving performances from its cast.

Requiem for a Vampire

Horror · Vampires · Erotic

REQUIEM?FOR?A?VAMPIRE was Jean Rollin’s favorite of all his films. Because he dredged the scenario from his subconscious, and because it was rushed into its written form so quickly, he felt it was his purest work.

Return of the Hero

Comedy

France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the nai?ve Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline soon starts to become ill with worry, pushing her sister Elizabeth to write fake letters on be…

Rider on the Rain (4KUHD)

Thriller · Crime · Mystery

When a beautiful young woman in the South of France is stalked and assaulted by a mysterious masked assailant, she kills the man in self-defense, and dumps his corpse over a cliff. Soon an American investigator (Charles Bronson) shows up and, to her horror, seems to know everything about what she ha…

Rocco and His Brothers

Drama · Crime · World Cinema

The tragedy of Luchino Visconti’s searing family drama is set in motion when brothers Rocco and Simone both fall in love with the mercurial Nadia. Presented by Martin Scorsese. 

La Sapienza

Drama · Culture · Architecture

In director Eugène Green's elegant and poignant La Sapienza, architect Alexandre (Fabrizio Rongione) and social scientist Alienor (Christelle Prot Landman) retreat to Stresa, Italy, intent on climbing out of the emotional malaise that has trapped their marriage.

Scarlet

Drama · Period Drama · Based on Literature

One of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, Pietro Marcello follows his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with an enchanting period fable that delicately interweaves realist drama, ethereal romance, and musical flights of fancy.

Serial Killer 1

Based on True Story · Drama · World Cinema

Specializing in police procedurals, writer/director Frederic Tellier marks his feature debut with a story about one of the trickiest criminal cases in recent French history, and the first case to incorporate DNA evidence.

Silent Avant-Garde

Avant Garde

SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.

Simon's Got a Gift

Romantic Comedy · Romance · Drama

Eight-year-old Simon is an orphan who dreams of being adopted by a family. But Simon is not like other children, he is able to transform into other people whom he has touched. When his best friend dies in an accident, Simon takes on his identity and lives with his family.

Siren of the Tropics

Music & Dance · Silent

Available only as a fragment for decades, Baker's first film debut establishes the rags to riches fairy tale from which her subsequent films would be cut - this time set in a conspicuously Parisian Antilles. Among the crew was a very young Luis Bunuel.

Sister

Drama · Thriller · World Cinema

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests. A by Ursula Meier.

Slack Bay

Cannes Film Festival · Slapstick · Comedy

The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family—among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi—have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitut…

Slalom

Cannes Film Festival · Drama · World Cinema

This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy, Noée Abita in a breakthrough role, and her predatory instructor, played by frequent Dardenne brothers collaborator Jérémie Renier.

The Son of Joseph

Drama · Comedy · Fine Art

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugène Green exists in his own special artistic orbit. His latest movie, The Son of Joseph, is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisi…

The Sorrow and the Pity

War · Documentary · History

What did French people of do during WW II? Marcel Ophüls' Oscar-nominated documentary shattered the myth of an undivided and universally resistant France under the Vichy government.

Souleymane's Story

Drama

An undocumented Guinean immigrant (Abou Sangare, whose work for the film won the Un Certain Regard Best Actor prize at Cannes) in Paris tries to juggle his responsibilities as a food delivery bike courier with the preparations needed for his asylum review hearing.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

RT Certified Fresh · Music Documentaries · Documentary

The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.

The Specialists aka Gli Specialisti

Adventure · Spaghetti Western · Cult

Notorious gunfighter Hud Dixon arrives in Blackstone, a town where his brother was wrongfully accused of robbing a bank and lynched for it. As Hud seeks revenge, he starts to discover the truth behind the stolen loot.

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Erotic · Sexuality · Cult

A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora. Imprisoned in a convent, the girl's seductive wiles hypnotize the cops and clerics that surrou…

The Sun

War · Historic Drama · World Cinema

The final portrait in a series on the lives of dictators by Alexander Sokurov, THE SUN is a re-imagining of Emperor Hirohito's final days in power during the waning days of WWII. Hirohito wanders through his palace in a child-like state of denial. But reality soon intrudes as American soldiers overr…

The Super 8 Years

Cannes Film Festival · Documentary

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory, compiled from gorgeously textured home movie images taken from 1972 to 1981.

Sweet Bean

Drama · Health and Healing · Culture

A lonely baker has his life (and business) reinvigorated when he hires an elderly woman with an uncanny culinary skill and a mysterious communion with nature, in this graceful, quietly moving drama from Japan's Naomi Kawase.

La Syndicaliste

Drama

This investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics tells the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), an influential head union representative who became a whistleblower and was violently targeted for exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector.

Synonyms

Drama · Comedy · World Cinema

Based on the real life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher, Policeman), Synonyms tells the story of a young Israeli who moves to Paris with little more than a dictionary and an obsession with erasing his origins.

Tehilim

Family · World Cinema

From director Raphael Nadjari. In contemporary Jerusalem, an average middle class Jewish family balances the rituals of family, friends, religion and workaday life. But when middle-aged father and husband Eli (Shmuel Vilozni) unaccountably vanishes after a fluke car accident, the ensuing legal and e…

Tey (Today)

Drama · World Cinema

In a village outside Dakar, the gods – or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché  must die by the end of the day. Until nightfall, the film follows him making his goodbyes to those around him – his family, his friends, his lover, his children, his wife.

The Mouth Agape

Drama

When cancer strikes the mother of a French family, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others

Tip Top

Cannes Film Festival · Comedy · World Cinema

Serge Bozon's TIP TOP is a sharp and witty absurdist political commentary that will leave audiences with more questions about modern day France than answers. Farid, an Algerian turned informant for the French police, is found murdered in a small French town. Two offbeat and unethical female investig…

To Be and to Have

World Cinema · Documentary

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Tommy Guns

Drama · War

This Locarno award-winner has elicited comparisons to the work of Claire Denis, Miguel Gomes, and even M. Night Shyamalan. What starts out as a portrait of the final days of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola playfully swerves from art house drama to war film to zombie flick to escape thriller with …

Touch Me Not

Sexuality · Drama · Documentary

Filmmaker Adina Pintilie’s Golden Bear winner is a brave and raw look at bodies, intimacy, and empathy, exploring the private lives and sexual desires of four people with an approach that blurs the line between fiction and documentary.

Tough Being Loved by Jerks

Documentary

Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had triggered the wrath of Muslims worldwide, Philippe Val, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, was cited to court by the Great Mosque of Paris, the World Muslim League and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France.

The Trouble With You

Cannes Film Festival · Comedy · World Cinema

When a widowed police detective (Adèle Haenel) learns her dead husband was a crooked cop, she tries to help the man scapegoated for his crimes get back to his life and his wife (Audrey Tautou), setting off a spectacular sequence of events in this slapstick comedy set in the French Riviera.

The Troubles We've Seen

War · Documentary · History

One of the most important films of director Marcel Ophüls' career, THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN explores the ethical challenges of war commentary, interlacing footage of 1993 Sarajevo with caustic references to Hollywood depictions of war.

Two Orphan Vampires

Horror · Vampires · Cult

TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES follows two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision, as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.

Two Pianos

Drama

After years of exile, pianist Mathias (François Civil) returns to France when his former mentor Eléna (Charlotte Rampling) invites him to perform a series of concerts. But soon after his arrival, a chance encounter with a child who looks just like him throws Mathias into turmoil, threa…

Two in the Wave

World Cinema · Film Documentaries · Documentary

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship.

Utama

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · World Cinema

In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple who have spent their whole lives herding llamas are faced with a dilemma when an extended drought threatens their traditional way of life. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival.