Foreign

Jean-Pierre Melville directs this pre-New Wave classic, chronicling a raid on a Parisian casino. Bob the Gambler (Roger Duchesne) reverts to his old trade as a bank robber after several bad rolls of the dice. However, his plans to rip off a casino are...

This French thriller is the directorial debut of Jean-Jacques Beineix. Jules (Frédéric Andréi) is a Parisian mail courier in possession of two highly sought-after tapes: the first contains a rare recording of American opera singer Cynthia Hawkins...

Julio Medem's romantic drama charts the crossing paths of Otto and Ana, two lovers who meet at the age of eight and remain inextricably linked from that moment on. As their relationship develops through the years, they find themselves drawn to the...

Pair of films by French poet, novelist, dramatist and artist Jean Cocteau bookending his film career: 'Un Sang D'Un Poete' (1930) is his debut and a surrealist classic in which the action begins with a young poet sketching faces. The mouth of one of the...

Jean-Pierre Melville's last film stars Alain Delon as Police Commissioner Coleman who finds himself playing a game of cat and mouse with a gang of thieves after a bank robbery in a small Riviera town goes wrong. The gang is led by Coleman's friend, Simon...

5-disc box set highlighting the work of the effortlessly cool Jean Paul Belmondo. 'Breathless' (1960), is Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking tale of the brief love affair between petty criminal Michel (Belmondo) and young American student Patricia (Jean...

The tragic story of sculptor Rodin and his muse, Camille Claudel. Camille becomes Rodin's apprentice and despite their difference in ages and much opposition, they fall in love. Their stormy love affair lasts for fifteen years. Camille is Rodin's...

1970s French comedy directed by Patrice Leconte, which has achieved cult status in its country of origin. The film's cast list reads like a who's who of French comedians, including Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Michel Blanc, Josiane Balasko and...

French romantic comedy starring Daniel Auteil as Romuald, a successful yoghurt mogul who is being betrayed by his staff: his workers are engaged in fraud and implicate him in the scheme, while his deputy is having an affair with Romuald's wife. The only...

Private eye Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is catapulted into space and ends up in Alphaville, a city run by domineering scientist Dr von Braun (Howard Vernon). After Caution sees his chief contact being killed, he becomes determined to strike at...

Jean-Paul Belmondo stars in this classic 1960s drama by film-maker Jean-Luc Godard. Unfulfilled in life, Ferdinand (Belmondo) decides to leave his wife and child and runs off with the babysitter, Marianne (Anna Karina). As the pair head south in search...

Italian 'portmanteau' film composed of six different segments, each with a different writer or director. Films are: 'Paid Love' (written and directed by Carlo Lizzani), 'Attempted Suicide' (by Michelangelo Antonioni), 'Paradise For Four Hours' (by Dino...

French comedy about a middle-aged bachelor trying to remain single despite the best efforts of his family. Confirmed bachelor Luis Costa (Alain Chabat), has a good life, and that's the way he likes it. A perfume designer, Luis is forty-something,...

The first film from former film critic Bertrand Tavernier, this moving story of a man forced to fight against the press, public opinion and his friends on behalf of his estranged son won a Special Jury Prize at Berlin in 1974. When a police car stops...

Daniel Lefebvre (Phillipe Torreton) works as the principal of an infant school in the poverty stricken region of Hernaing. His attempts to serve his pupils are thwarted by the incompetence and laziness of the local authorities. He becomes involved with...