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Océans

Océans

Jacques Perrin 2009 1h 44m 7.5

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe

Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou 1996 1h 20m 8.1

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography.

Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette

Claude Berri 1986 2h 2m 7.7

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in.

Le peuple migrateur

Le peuple migrateur

Jacques Perrin 2001 1h 29m 8.6

Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.

'Je vous salue, Marie'

'Je vous salue, Marie'

Jean-Luc Godard 1985 1h 12m 7.0

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Trois couleurs: Rouge

Trois couleurs: Rouge

Krzysztof Kieślowski 1994 1h 40m 7.9

Red This is the third film from the trilogy by Kieślowski. “Red” meaning brotherliness. Here Kieślowski masterly tells strange coincidentally linked stories in the most packed work.

Paul s'en va

Paul s'en va

Alain Tanner 2004 1h 25m

A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn't show up for a class.

Sátántangó

Sátántangó

Béla Tarr 1994 7h 12m 9.0

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering.

Soigne ta droite

Soigne ta droite

Jean-Luc Godard 1987 1h 22m 4.3

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.

Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef

Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef

Eric Valli 1999 1h 48m 9.0

As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and rebellious young Karma (Gurgon Kyap). Tinle tries to maintain his clout and preserve obedience to ancient customs when Karma challenges the old man's power.

La vallée fantôme

La vallée fantôme

Alain Tanner 1987 1h 42m

The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production.

Éloge de l'amour

Éloge de l'amour

Jean-Luc Godard 2001 1h 39m 7.0

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera.

Les convoyeurs attendent

Les convoyeurs attendent

Benoît Mariage 1999 1h 34m 7.5

Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse and a long list of curious ideas, and his wife and children must often bear the brunt of his eccentricities.

Hyènes

Hyènes

Djibril Diop Mambéty 1992 1h 50m

Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.

Notre musique

Notre musique

Jean-Luc Godard 2004 1h 20m 7.0

An indictment of modern times divided into three "kingdoms": "Enfer" ("Hell"), "Purgatoire" ("Purgatory") and "Paradis" ("Paradise").

Memoria del saqueo

Memoria del saqueo

Fernando E. Solanas 2004 2h

After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy.

Nouvelle vague

Nouvelle vague

Jean-Luc Godard 1990 1h 29m 8.0

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job.

Merci pour le chocolat

Merci pour le chocolat

Claude Chabrol 2000 1h 41m 7.0

Milka Muller is the general director of Chocolates Muller, who lives in Switzerland with her husband André Polonski, a prestigious pianist, and Guillaume, the son of André. Jeanne Pollet is a young pianist who has not yet begun her studies at the conservatory and who one day discovers that when she was born she was about to be exchanged in the h...

Un autre homme

Un autre homme

Lionel Baier 2008 1h 29m

Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.

For Ever Mozart

For Ever Mozart

Jean-Luc Godard 1996 1h 25m

In the face of the upheavals of contemporary history, some shy away while others step up-like Camille, Jérôme, and Djamila, who head to Sarajevo to perform Musset, or Vicky, who is trying to make her film in Paris.

Hélas pour moi

Hélas pour moi

Jean-Luc Godard 1993 1h 24m 3.5

Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.

Mort un dimanche de pluie

Mort un dimanche de pluie

Joël Santoni 1986 1h 49m 6.0

Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance.

L'invitation

L'invitation

Claude Goretta 1973 1h 40m

Rémi, a confirmed bachelor and model bureaucrat, invites his colleagues and superiors to a magnificent house to celebrate an inheritance. Under the influence of drink, they drop all pretence and reveal their true selves. But what will remain of this brief interlude the following day?

Mon frère se marie

Mon frère se marie

Jean-Stéphane Bron 2006 1h 31m

Adopted by a well-off Swiss couple with slightly older son and daughter, Vinh never cut off links with his country of origin. Postcards from the adoptive family regularly conveyed to Vinh's mother in Vietnam reassurance about the warmth and nurturing environment that she always wished for her boy.

Petition

Petition

Zhao Liang 2009 2h

It is a fantastic documentary about Chinese govt's systemic oppression and persecution toward ordinary folk who petition the government.

Home

Home

Ursula Meier 2008 1h 38m 7.0

Life for a family in a rural town is upended when a major highway is constructed nearby.

Reise der Hoffnung

Reise der Hoffnung

Xavier Koller 1990 1h 50m 7.0

In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two.

Ivul

Ivul

Andrew Kötting 2009 1h 40m

Ivul est l'histoire du jeune Alex, qui, banni par son père excentrique, escalade la maison jusqu'au toit et jure de ne plus jamais remettre un pied sur terre. Il vit ainsi une brève et tragique existence, en exil, regardant du haut de son royaume un monde en décomposition et une famille qu'il aime.

Lisa

Lisa

Pierre Grimblat 2001 1h 49m

Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last appeared in the film.

Verso

Verso

Xavier Ruiz 2009 1h 45m 5.0

Alex belongs to an elite unit of the Geneva police. When Victor, his former teammate, is released from prison, Alex is caught up with his past. He testified against Victor, and fears reprisals. The ex-cop is hired as a henchman for a powerful mafia boss.

Gito, l'ingrat

Gito, l'ingrat

Léonce Ngabo 1992 1h 27m

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and caught between two women: his current French girlfriend Christine and his local old flame Flora.

La chouette aveugle

La chouette aveugle

Raúl Ruiz 1987 1h 30m

In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.

Le Pays des sourds

Le Pays des sourds

Nicolas Philibert 1992 1h 39m

Anyone who has ever ventured to the "Land of the Deafs" will have been struck by the strangeness of the choreographed signs with which deaf people express themselves. Developed ages ago, these signs constitute a veritable language.

Les Arpenteurs

Les Arpenteurs

Michel Soutter 1972 1h 25m

A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.

Lumumba: La mort du prophète

Lumumba: La mort du prophète

Raoul Peck 1991 1h 9m

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.

Milh Hadha al-Bahr

Milh Hadha al-Bahr

Annemarie Jacir 2008 1h 49m

Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile.

Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune?

Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune?

Chris Vander Stappen 2000 1h 38m 10.0

A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada.

Rien ne va plus

Rien ne va plus

Claude Chabrol 1997 1h 45m

Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

Jean-Luc Godard 1986 1h 32m

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingly difficult to raise the capital he needs for his ventures.

Scénario du film 'Passion'

Scénario du film 'Passion'

Jean-Luc Godard 1982 54m

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarmé,” Godard uses…