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Director: Richard Berry (2010)
Charly Mattei has turned over a new leaf and left his criminal past behind. For three years now he has been leading a peaceful existence dedicated to his wife and their two children. However, one winter morning, he is left for dead in a parking lot in the old port of Marseille, [...]

Director: Roselyne Bosch (2010)
On July 16-17, 1942, over 13,000 Jews were arrested in Paris and its suburbs by French police who were zealous supporters of the German occupiers. Most were kept at Paris’ Velodrome d’Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France’s Vichy government. A movie about possibly [...]

Director: Jean Renoir (1938)
Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin lusts after Simone Simon, the wife of his co-worker Fernand Ledoux. When Ledoux is in danger of losing his job, Simon offers herself to her husband’s boss. In jealous pique, [...]

Director: Jean Renoir (1939)
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend hunting party on [...]

Director: Jean Renoir (1937)
Probably the most loved of Renoir’s films, certainly the most feted, dealing as it does with the common bonds between men across national, class and religious barriers. In WWI, three French soldiers – played by Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin and Marcel Dalio – become POWs under the monocle of a German commander [...]