FR #30 | Movie | War, Biography | France, Poland | English, German
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Cast
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Plot
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
FR #49 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Action | France, USA | English, Spanish
Director
James Cameron
Writer
James Cameron, William Wisher
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Plot
A cyborg from the future, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
FR #59 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | France, Germany | English, French
Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer
Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Plot
Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.
Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tes...
FR #188 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Germany | French, German
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle
Cast
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette
Plot
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
FR #214 | Movie | Drama | France, Italy | English, French
Director
Claude Berri
Writer
Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gerard Brach
Cast
Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Plot
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
FR #253 | Movie | Crime, Action | France, USA | English, Italian
Director
Luc Besson
Writer
Luc Besson
Cast
Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Randolph Scott
Plot
When her family is murdered by a group of corrupt officers led by the tyrannical Norman Stansfield, a young 12-year-old girl enlists the help of an Italian-American hitman to seek revenge.
FR #284 | Movie | Biography, Drama | France, USA | French
Director
Julian Schnabel
Writer
Ronald Harwood, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Cast
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Max Von Sydow
Plot
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
FR #354 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Japan | French, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Plot
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
FR #384 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Algeria | English, French
Director
Costa-Gavras
Writer
Vassilis Vassilikos, Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
Cast
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Plot
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
FR #424 | Movie | Religion | France | French, Latin
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Andre Berley, Michel Simon
Plot
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.
FR #463 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
Plot
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
FR #464 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer
Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand
Plot
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
FR #470 | Movie | Drama | France, Turkey | Turkish
Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writer
Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Akin Aksu
Cast
Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar
Plot
An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
FR #550 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French, Arabic
Director
Jacques Audiard
Writer
Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot
A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
FR #626 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | English, French
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Richard Balducci
Plot
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
FR #627 | Movie | Comedy | France, Italy | English, French
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Cast
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Plot
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
FR #638 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, Italy | French, Persian
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Berenice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Plot
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
FR #660 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, USA | French, Russian
Director
Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Guinee, Albert Riera, Jean Vigo
Cast
Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Gilles Margaritis, Michel Simon
Plot
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
FR #701 | Movie | Documentary | France, USA | Japanese, English
Director
Robert J. Flaherty
Writer
Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
Cast
Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou
Plot
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
FR #762 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, UK | English
Director
Florian Zeller
Writer
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss
Plot
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. When he tries to understand what is happening around him, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
FR #798 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, USA | English, Spanish
Director
David Lynch
Writer
David Lynch
Cast
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
Plot
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
FR #827 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | France, Belgium | French, Portuguese
Director
Sylvain Chomet
Writer
Sylvain Chomet
Cast
Michele Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin
Plot
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
FR #849 | Movie | History, Drama | France, Italy | Italian, Latin
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Giuseppe Tomasi DI Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
FR #926 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, Arabic
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant
Cast
Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Marcel Dalio
Plot
A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He's protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom. A visiting Parisian beauty may determine his fate.
FR #1046 | Movie | Action, Crime | France, UK | English, French
Director
Pierre Morel
Writer
Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Cast
Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Plot
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
FR #1165 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Luc Besson
Writer
Luc Besson, Robert Garland, Marilyn Goldin
Cast
Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette
Plot
The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
FR #1167 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Germany | German, Spanish
Director
Sebastian Schipper
Writer
Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike Frederik Schulz
Cast
Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
Plot
A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
FR #1169 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Emile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Cast
Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Plot
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
FR #1276 | Movie | Drama | France, UK | English, French
Director
Joe Wright
Writer
Ian Mcewan, Christopher Hampton
Cast
Keira Knightley, James Mcavoy, Brenda Blethyn
Plot
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
FR #1291 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Bosnia And Herzegovina | English, Bosnian
Director
Danis Tanovic
Writer
Danis Tanovic
Cast
Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
Plot
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier become...
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
FR #1367 | Movie | Action, Adventure | France, Belgium | English, French
Director
Alexandre De La Patelliere, Matthieu Delaporte
Writer
Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre De La Patelliere, Matthieu Delaporte
Cast
Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anais Demoustier
Plot
After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him.
FR #1379 | Movie | Drama | France, Belgium | French, Bambara
Director
Ladj Ly
Writer
Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti
Cast
Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga
Plot
A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.
