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Jodorowsky's Dune

Jodorowsky's Dune

Frank Pavich 2013 1h 27m 8.1

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen.

La danza de la realidad

La danza de la realidad

Alejandro Jodorowsky 2013 2h 10m 8.0

'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1990 2h 17m 8.2

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.

Utomlennye solntsem

Utomlennye solntsem

Nikita Mikhalkov 1994 2h 15m 6.0

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura.

Prospero's Books

Prospero's Books

Peter Greenaway 1991 2h 6m 8.0

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

Smoking/No Smoking

Smoking/No Smoking

Alain Resnais 1993 4h 40m 8.5

Those are two films. Smoking and No smoking. All characters played by two comedians. Set is meant to look like pictures used to teach English to French school-children. Both films start the same except in one she decide to quit smoking while in the other she chain smokes. Then what if... and it goes off with a whole different ending.

Sibirskiy tsiryulnik

Sibirskiy tsiryulnik

Nikita Mikhalkov 1998 3h 8.3

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, André, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.

Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni

Joseph Losey 1979 2h 56m

Mozart's opera in lush sets: Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, kills Donna Anna's father. He is then chased by Donna Anna's fiancé, Don Ottavio, as well as Donna Elvira, one of his former conquests. But the real threat lies elsewhere.

Urga

Urga

Nikita Mikhalkov 1991 1h 59m 6.0

A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having any more. The farmer sets out for the nearest town to obtain birth control. He comes upon a Russian truck driver who has ended up in a lake.

Le goût des merveilles

Le goût des merveilles

Éric Besnard 2015 1h 40m

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.

On connaît la chanson

On connaît la chanson

Alain Resnais 1997 2h 8.2

A musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.

À bras ouverts

À bras ouverts

Philippe de Chauveron 2017 1h 32m

Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates.

F comme Fairbanks

F comme Fairbanks

Maurice Dugowson 1976 1h 50m 9.0

André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'.

S'en fout la mort

S'en fout la mort

Claire Denis 1990 1h 33m

Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.

Irène

Irène

Alain Cavalier 2009 1h 23m

A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.

Le paradis

Le paradis

Alain Cavalier 2014 1h 10m

A commentary on the place Cavalier grew up, in search of faith and despair in digital filmmaking.

Partir

Partir

Catherine Corsini 2009 1h 25m 5.0

A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.

Anna ot 6 do 18

Anna ot 6 do 18

Nikita Mikhalkov 1993 1h 40m

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"

Belle maman

Belle maman

Gabriel Aghion 1999 1h 42m

At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.

Lily, aime-moi

Lily, aime-moi

Maurice Dugowson 1975 1h 45m 5.0

Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.

Pater

Pater

Alain Cavalier 2011 1h 45m

Vincent Lindon and Alain Cavalier drink together in bars while coming up with tall tales.

The Land Girls

The Land Girls

David Leland 1998 1h 51m 4.5

During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue, and Cambridge graduate Ag - become best friends in spite of their different backgrounds.

Twist again à Moscou

Twist again à Moscou

Jean-Marie Poiré 1986 1h 29m

Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once.

Le chêne

Le chêne

Michel Seydoux, Laurent Charbonnier 2022 1h 21m 7.0

Follows many families who inhabit the oak like a home, living together as in a proper society, with problems with the neighbors, education, solidarity, survival, etc.