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 Martin Provost • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet

"Violette" is a finely nuanced portrait of Violette Leduc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. Superb performances by Emmanuelle D...

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 Mohamed Diab • Drama • 2016 • Egypt, France • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Nelly Karim, Hany Adel, Mohamed El Sebaey

Officially selected by the Cannes Film Festival and the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Academy Awards, "Clash" is tale of resi...

Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hans Sternberg

This 1921 silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film directed by Fritz Lang follows a young woman who confronts the personification of Death in...

Directed by Jean Rollin • Horror • 1970 • France • French with English subtitles • Mature Content
Starring Maurice Lemaitre, Olivier Rollin, Caroline Cartier

A surreal blend of horror, espionage, and erotica, Jean Rollin’s “The Nude Vampire” follows the son of a wealthy businessman as he is lure...

Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1990 • UK • English
Starring Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Peter Lee-Wilson

Directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton, this kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, featuring an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical nu...

Directed by Hany Abu-Assad • Drama • 2016 • Palestine • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Tawfeek Barhom, Qais Attaailah, Hiba Attalah

In Palestinian's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, talented teenage singer Mohammed Assaf travels from the Gaza Strip to ...

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 Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel

With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiec...

Directed by Lav Diaz • Arthouse • 2017 • Philippines • Tagalog with English subtitles
Starring Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s epic story of revenge deferred functions as a tale of urb...

Directed by Vittorio De Sica • Drama • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

An Oscar nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), “Sunflower” is a grandly emotional melodrama from Vittorio De Sica. Sophia Loren plays a steel-willed Italian woman on...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 1998 • UK, US, South Africa • English
Featuring Corin Redgrave, Joseph Bale, Adriaan Bassier

In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theater director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. His name was Cecil Williams. This...

Directed by Alain Gomis • Drama • 2012 • France, Senegal • French, Wolof with English subtitles
Starring Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengu, Anisia Uzeyman

In a village outside Dakar, the gods - or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Directed by Alain Gomis and s...

Directed by Nadav Lapid • Comedy • 2019 • Israel, France, Germany • French, Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Nadav Lapid's "Synonyms" follows a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel A...

Directed by Eugene Green • Arthouse • 2017 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Regnier, Fabrizio Rongione

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugene Green exists in his own special artistic orbit and his film "The Son of Joseph" is perhaps his mo...

Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac • Arthouse • 2018 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Andranic Manet, Gonzague Van Bervesseles, Diane Rouxel

A serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile leaves behind his steady girlfriend in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a...

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée • Drama • 2012 • Canada • French with English subtitles
Starring Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Evelyne Brochu

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ("Dallas Buyers Club"), "Café de Flore" is a love story about people separated by time and place, but connected in profound an...

Directed by Eugène Green • Drama • 2014 • Italy, France • French, Italian with English subtitles
Starring Christelle Prot Landman, Fabrizio Rongione, Ludovico Succio

In director Eugène Green's elegant and poignant film, architect Alexandre and social scientist Aliénor retreat to Italy, intent on...

Directed by Philippe Faucon • Drama • 2015 • France • French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Soria Zeroual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza Noah Aiche

Winner of the 2016 Cesar Award for Best Picture and Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, "Fatima" offers an uplifting and moving portrait o...

Directed by Xavier Legrand • Drama • 2018 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Lea Drucker, Denis Menochet, Thomas Gioria

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this domestic thriller that will keep audiences guessing and leave them...

Directed by Bruno Dumont • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy

Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as sculptor Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin's protégé and later mistress. Inspired by the correspondence wit...

Directed by G. W. Pabst • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne

G. W. Pabst’s provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhme's notorious novel, in which the naive daughter (Louise Brooks) of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by...

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...