Country: France

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Plot "Apocalypse: The Second World War" is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is comprised exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war...

Direction Teo Hernández

Cast Jakobois · Gaël Badaud · Michel Nedjar · Pascal Martin

Plot Lacrima Christi, third part of the tetralogy Le Corps de la Passion (The Body of the Passion, 1977-1980), is inspired by Christian mythology, from which it draws a creative transformation...

Direction Jean-Pierre Cuny

Direction Pascal Plisson · Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Plot Culled from more than 500 hours of archival material, unfolding in five 52-minute installments, 'Apocalypse WWI' takes us to the battlefields, inside the minds of those who govern, and to...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Philippe Leroy · Marc Michel · Michel Constantin · Jean Kéraudy

Plot Year 1947. In France, a young man, Gaspard Claude, is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he is innocent of the crime. He is sent to the...

Direction Claude Lanzmann

Cast Simon Srebnik · Michael Podchlebnik · Motke Zaïdl · Hanna Zaïdl

Plot Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Maria Falconetti · Eugene Silvain · Maurice Schutz · Michel Simon

Plot Year 1431. Young french Joan of Arc is put on trial for alleged treason. Once glorified as her nation’s saviour, she has become a mere pawn in a game of...

Direction Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Plot Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life emotional stories from more than 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Those emotions, those tears and smiles, those struggles and those laughs...

Direction Pierre-André Boutang · Michel Pamart

Cast Gilles Deleuze · Claire Parnet

Direction Émilie Tronche

Cast Émilie Tronche

Plot An emotional portrayal of adolescence follows Samuel and his friends, blending introspection, humor and nostalgic songs.

Direction Jean-Charles Fitoussi

Cast Frédéric Bonpart · Hélène Boons · Leos Carax · Adeline D'Hermy

Plot Alix, a woman created by scientific William Stein, is born at the age of twenty-seven and sets out in search of the one thing she should never be able to...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast François Leterrier · Roland Monod · Charles Le Clainche · Maurice Beerblock

Plot April 1943, during WWII. Fontaine, a 27 years old young man who is a member of the French Resistance fighting against the nazis, is arrested by the Gestapo in order...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Pierre Brasseur · Pierre Renoir · Arletty

Plot It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Yves Montand · Charles Vanel · Véra Clouzot · Peter van Eyck

Plot In a wretched South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry...

Direction Chris Marker

Plot French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin...

Direction Alain Resnais

Plot This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Documentarian Alain Resnais...

Direction Wim Wenders · Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Cast Sebastião Salgado

Plot During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of...

Direction Jean-Claude Rousseau

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives...