Michel Piccoli

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. ...

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these ...

After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that’s populated ...

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in ...

It’s a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, ...

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign. Napoleon ...

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his ...

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about ...

Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, ...

A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers ...

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas ...

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner’s son to ...

A wealthy wife’s affair with her daughter’s guitar tutor is threatened when the tutor is attacked and rescued by a hired killer, ...

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the ...

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize ...

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called “Apostrophes”, hosted by French TV showman Bernard ...

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, ...

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is ...

A rich Italian’s shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, ...

Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages ...

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the ...

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left ...

During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as ...

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis ...

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted ...