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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: François Truffaut (1962)
Adapted from a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, Jules et Jim tells the story of two aspiring writers who form a close friendship set in the bohemian Paris of 1912. Jules is a shy, philosophical Austrian, while Jim is a debonair Frenchman, confident and successful with women. Both fall for the beautiful, capricious [...]

Director: François Ozon (2005)
Parisian photographer Romain seems to have the perfect life : a great career, an adoring boyfriend and a beautiful appartment. This all changes when he learns that he is terminally ill and has only a few months to live. Upon hearing the news, Romain faces a delicate situation: while he has to [...]

Director: Bertrand Blier (1974)
Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu, in the role that made him an overnight star) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are two crude drifters who travel the French countryside in pursuit of petty crimes and wanton sex. But when their abduction of a frigid young beautician (Miou-Miou) becomes an exercise in frustration, they find sordid solace [...]

Director: Louis Malle (1958)
Elevator to the Gallows is many things: A tight, delicious crime thriller; the debut of director Louis Malle (Zazie dans le metro, Atlantic City, Au Revoir, Les Enfants, and many more works of subtle genius); a movie with perhaps the greatest jazz soundtrack of all time, created improvisationally by trumpeter Miles Davis; [...]