Directed by Roger Vadim • Drama • 1963 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein

Set in Nazi-occupied France, “Vice and Virtue” is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's “Justine”. Two sisters navigate very different paths as they ...

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Sci-Fi • 1965 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff

Influential director Jean-Luc Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious “Alphaville” remains one of the least conventional films of all time. American s...

Directed by Alain Resnais • Arthouse • 1961 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff

Winner of the Venice Golden Lion, Alan Resnais's French New-Wave classic features stunning imagery while deliberately avoiding conventional plot and ch...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • Arthouse • 1965 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle

A landmark of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s “The Nun”, adapted from Denis Diderot’s novel, follows a rebellious nun (played by an incandescent ...

Directed by Luis Buñuel • Drama • 1964 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli

Working as a chambermaid, Célestine (Jeanne Moreau) observes the little failings of each member of the household in Luis Buñuel’s take on Octave Mirbeau’s classic...

Directed by Marcel Carné • Crime • 1938 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan

A classic of the golden age of French cinema, Marcel Carné starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies. Jean (Jean Gabin), a de...

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • Crime • 1956 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy

From legendary director Jean-Pierre Melville comes an underworld comedy of manners. “Bob Le Flambeur” melds the toughness of American gangster films wit...

Directed by Édouard Molinaro • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud

Screen legend Jeanne Moreau stars in this twisty, mood-drenched film noir from acclaimed crime writer Frédéric Dard. When a wealthy industrialist discovers th...

Directed by Roger Vadim • Classic • 1963 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Brigitte Bardot, Joséphine James, Michel Subor

Brigitte Bardot stars in this madcap romantic comedy, seen through the fetishizing lens of Roger Vadim. Sophie (Bardot), a flighty young model, learns that he...

Directed by Roger Vadim • Drama • 1959 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim

A provocative adaptation of the classic novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Updated to present-day France by director Roger Vadim, the film follows Valmont (Géra...

Directed by Luis Buñuel • Arthouse • 1930 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

The surrealist masterpiece “L'Age D'or” showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Buñuel at its beginning and the celebrated surrealism of Salvado...

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1967 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliet Berto

Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of students form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After stud...

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1969 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Luc Godard

In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoke...

Directed by Henri Verneuil • Thriller • 1979 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz

Following the assassination of the President, an investigation commission comes up with questionable conclusions about a lone gunman. The commission’s fi...

Directed by Jean Delannoy • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura

Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfec...

Directed by Marcel Ophuls • Documentary • 1972 • France, Switzerland, Germany • French with English subtitles
Featuring Pierre Mendes France, Sir Anthony Eden, Christian de la Maziere

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, "The Sorrow and The Pity" has been acclaimed as one of the ...

Directed by Jean Delannoy • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier

Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die. Jea...

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot • Documentary • 1956 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Pablo Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot

Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and the most influential artist of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso, use experimental and innovative techniques to c...

Directed by René Clément • Crime • 1964 • France • English
Starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Lola Albright

A scorching love triangle ignites between the iconic Jane Fonda , sultry Lola Albright and Alain Delon in René Clément’s "Joy House." Delon stars as Marc, a dashing young con man on the run...

Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet • Drama • 1970 • Tunisia, France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Zimmer, Catherine Jourdan, Lorraine Rainer

From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (“Trans-Europe-Express”) comes “Eden and After”, a dreamlike fable in which a grou...

Directed by René Clément • Drama • 1963 • France • French, German with English subtitles
Starring Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman

International screen icon Simone Signoret stars in this powerful World War II drama directed by René Clément. Signoret is superb as Thérèse, an isolated woman who unw...

Directed by Jacques Deray • Crime • 1972 • US, France • English
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret

In this gritty 70s action classic from Jacques Deray ("La Piscine"), Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French hitman hired to kill a Los Angeles mafia boss by his son and daugh...

Directed by Maurice Tourneur • Crime • 1944 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Albert Préjean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean

With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Préjean stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in this first-rate Georges Simenon adaptation. A young woman named Céci...

Directed by Jack Cardiff • Drama • 1968 • UK, France • English
Starring Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton

Newly married Rebecca (Marianne Faithfull) leaves her husband on her prized motorbike to visit her lover (Alain Delon) in Heidelberg. En route, she indulges in psychedelic and er...