Foreign

Both installments of Steven Soderbergh's two-part 'Che' epic, a political drama based on the memoirs of Che Guevara starring Benicio del Toro as the iconic revolutionary. The first part follows events in late 1950s Cuba, when Che and a band of Cuban...

Award-winning biopic of seven-times Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti (Toni Servillo). A long-running political heavyweight in Italian politics with close ties to the Vatican, the last Christian Democratic prime minister of Italy's legacy was...

Luc Besson's sophomore feature is a stylish urban odyssey which helped to consolidate Besson's reputation for unique, visually creative cinema. After stealing sensitive documents from a mob boss, Fred (Christopher Lambert) takes refuge in the Paris Métro...

From director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) comes the must-see thriller about a vicious street punk turned sexy, sophisticated and lethally dangerous assassin. Starring Anne Parillaud, Jeanne Moreau and Jean Reno, Nikita is slick, stylish and...

Four films by Agnès Varda, the French director widely acknowledged to have paved the way for the French New Wave with her debut film, 'La Pointe Courte' (1954). Also featured in this collection are 'Cleo 5 to 7' (1962), 'Le Bonheur' (1965) and 'La...

Lavish biopic recounting the life and work of legendary French fashion designer Coco Chanel, from her humble beginnings in an Auvergne orphanage in the late 1800s after being abandoned by her pedlar father. Audrey Tatou stars in the title role as...

Six short films about Paris by French directors. Jean Luc Godard's film concerns a girl who is writing to her two lovers. Claude Chabrol turns in a sketch about a quarreling couple. Eric Rohmer offers a tale about a salesman who fears he has killed a...

Slice of Italian life comedy, as a middle aged man has to look after four elderly women for a few days. Still living with his ninety year old mother Valeria ( Valeria De Franciscis), Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) has fallen behind on the rent to landlord...

French World War II drama chronicling the famous 1944 'Red Poster' case, in which a group of foreign partisans defied French apathy to form their own resistance against the Nazi occupation. Exiled Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) is...

The directorial debut of British filmmaker Peter Strickland, this Romanian-language drama is based on a traditional Transylvanian ballad. Hilda Peter stars in the title role as a young woman who takes matters into her own hands after being mercilessly...

Four films by Nouvelle Vague director Agnès Varda. 'The Beaches of Agnés' (2008) is an intimate and inventive autobiographical account of Varda's life. A member of the French New Wave and married to fellow director Jacques Demy, Varda pioneered the...

Michael Haneke won the 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or for this two-and-a-half hour black and white study of German rural village life in 1913. Focusing in particular on the austere and often brutal environment of the village school, the film not only exposes the...

Laurent Cantet directs this French drama based on the book by teacher Francois Bégaudeau, which chronicles a year in the life of an inner-city Parisian high school with a high intake of pupils from multicultural backgrounds. Bégaudeau himself plays the...

In a distant, apocalyptic future, conventional society has reached a state of collapse. Grain is now used as currency and meat has become a rare commodity. Meanwhile an unemployed clown finds work as a maintenance man in a squalid apartment block...

A trilogy of stories by Eric Rohmer that explore the misunderstandings and misconceptions that can dog twenty-something love affairs. Each story is shot against the backdrop of Paris, which becomes part of the cast as it positively participates in the...