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Director: Roger Vadim (1959)
Amidst the smoky and chic world of Parisian elite, Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman, Barbarella) re-creates Choderlos de Laclos’ scathing 18th-century novel of bedroom secrets and casual cruelties. Jeanne Moreau (Jules & Jim, La Notte) and Gerard Phillipe (La Ronde, Beauty and the Beast) star as Juliette and Valmont, two charming [...]

Director: Nadine Trintignant (1971)
French filmmaker Nadine Trintignant writes and directs the 1971 drama Ça N’Arrive Qu’Aux Autres (It Only Happens to Others), based on her real-life experiences with actor husband Jean-Louis Trintignant. Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) and Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) lose their baby daughter Camille to a deadly illness. In order to mourn their loss, they [...]

Director: Eric Rohmer (1969)
Catholic engineer Jean-Louis’s struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with a woman he’s never met (Marie-Christine Barrault) while attending mass. A chance meeting with an amoral old friend (Antoine Vitez) the same night places him in a potentially compromising situation when he’s forced to spend the [...]

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski (1994)
Praised by critics nationwide as one of the year’s 10 best films, Rouge is a seductive story of forbidden love — and the unknowable mystery of coincidence. The final chapter in Krzystof Kieslowski’s acclaimed “Three Colors” triology, Rouge stars sexy Irene Jacob as a young model whose chance meeting with an [...]

Director: Jacques Deray (1975)
Based on the memoir of French police detective Roger Borniche, this hard-boiled crime story was directed by noir master Jacques Deray. Emile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) became a notorious criminal when he escaped from prison in 1947 after his wife and child died. Traumatized and psychopathic, Buisson eluded the authorities by killing anyone [...]