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Jacques Rivette's latest masterpiece Story Of Marie And Julien, creates a brooding, melancholic atmosphere within a sublime, enrapturing narrative to tell the story of Julien, a reclusive antique clock restorer and the beautiful, enigmatic Marie, with whom he once shared an intense, passionate love affair. Twelve months have passed since the end of their tumultuous relationship when Marie, (the stunning French actress Emmanuelle Beart - 8 Femmes, La Belle Noiseuse, A Heart In Winter) accidentally runs into Julien (Jerry Radziwilowicz) as she rushes to catch a bus.

He becomes obsessed with rekindling their intimate relations while Marie, the elusive object of his desire, has become strangely distant. Julien meanwhile, who is also blackmailing an illegal antiques dealer called Madame X, has discovered a dark secret that links her to the sublime Marie.

Despite a growing intensity of mutual love, Marie seems incapable of recalling her physical feelings. Julien tries to help release her from this state and together they go as far as a man and woman can go - to a place where questions of life, death, hope and fear cease to exist - a place ruled by love without limits.

One of the truly great films about innocence shattered by the macabre reality of war.
This 1987 feature saw Malle’s reputation and popularity peak again – a genuine smash hit in art-house cinemas world-wide, it’s not been available on DVD until 2006. The tale of two schoolboys, blissfully unaware of the differences that could tear them apart, is backgrounded by a cruel winter. But that cruelty is little compared to the truths ahead. The pacing of the film enables the narrative to build in intensity, and attention to the seemingly mundane serves to amplify the impact of some fateful decision-making the young characters are forced into. The story is based on Malle’s own childhood.

A box office smash and critical favourite in France, THE HOUSEKEEPER is a return to form for veteran director Claude Berri (Jean De Florette, Lucie Aubrac). In Berri's latest tale, set in Paris and the majestic beaches of Normandy, Jacques is a forlorn bachelor living alone after his wife has left him. Deciding to get his life back in order, he hires a housekeeper, Laura, to plow through the mess that's overtaken his apartment. He soon learns that she's never done a day of housework in her life. However, her presence adds a joyful spark to his life that's been missing too long and reawakens feelings that Jacques thought were beyond revival.

Berri keeps his audience guessing at the outcome in this extremely well acted and meticulously observed film, a bittersweet and sexy romantic comedy that shows how hope can come to the hopeless and love to the lonesome.

Catherine thinks she's in control, Marlene is just doing her job and Bernard just wants his wife back. When Catherine finds her husband Bernard is having an affair, she doesn't want revenge...she wants to share the experience, but in secret and in fill control, which she is at first. Prostitute Marlene is happy to become "Nathalie" - the kind of classy, cultured girl that Catherine thinks Bernard would find irresistible. But when things start to get out of control, what is Catherine going to do? How can she stop what she has unleashed?

(37.2 Le Matin)

Often described as "the sexiest, most tragic love story ever", this is a tale of beauty and tragedy intertwined. Betty Blue is one of the all time great foreign language classics - a sexy love story available in a stunning three hour Director's Cut.

(La Fille Sur Le Pont)

A girl on a bridge is preparing to take her own life, Adele (Vanessa Paradis) looks determined to jump but a passing stranger offers her an alternative ending. Gabor (Daniel Auteil) is a circus performer on the search for a new assistant but is this where all knife-throwers like him find their new targets or is this just love at first sight?

It's summer, with a family holiday by the sea and summer romance. It's Anais' first experience of love but she makes this discovery by proxy. She observes her older sister, Elena, whom she loves (and hates). Elena is fifteen and diabolically beautiful. She is neither more futile nor more stupid then her younger sister, but she doesn't realise that she is no more than an object of desire. And, as an object, all she can do is to be taken . Or be had.
Indeed, this is the subject, the loss of girls' virginity. And which opens the door to tragedy that summer.

Having a difficult time accepting the reality of death and feeling regretful of his past, a man dying of cancer tries to find peace in his last moments. His estranged son, ex-wife, ex-lovers and old friends will all come to him to share his last breath.

During the early 1960`s, Paris, like the much of Europe, was an explosion of life. As the old gave way to the new, everything was in flux and the city was filled with a energy that promised cultural shifts and social change. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters – a young Jew and an elderly Muslim – begin a friendship. When we meet Momo (Pierre Boulanger), he is in effect an orphan even though he lives with his father, a man slowly retreating into a crippling depression. His only friends are the street whores who treat him with genuine affection. Momo buys his groceries at the neighborhood shop, a crowded dark space owned and run by Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a silent and exotic looking man who sees and knows more than he lets on. After Momo is abandoned by his father, Ibrahim becomes the one grown up in Momo`s life. Together they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.