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see all genres ›Cinema was born in France (or at least the public exhibition of motion pictures) and the medium shows no signs of slowing down. France remains the go-to first stop for many film buffs seeking foreign alternatives to commercial formula since French filmmakers have a justifiable reputation for unaffected, intimately-scaled dramas of everyday life.
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North Star: Mark di Suvero
Directed by Francois de Menil, written by art historian Barbara Rose and with original musical score by Philip Glass, this newly redigitized film first released in 1977, is an illuminating portrait of Mark di Suvero. One of the most important sculptors of the Twentieth Century, the artist is renowned for...Start your free trial to watch
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La nuit de la mort
There's something strange going on at Deadlock House, a secluded French retirement home. The residents seem like nice people but employees are disappearing and the whole place seem a bit odd. The boarders are vegetarian, the house director plays the same creepy tune on the piano over and over again and one...Start your free trial to watch
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The Obsession
Louis Feuillade's THE OBSESSION tackles the ruse of palm-reading, a topic of pseudo-science rarely covered at the time. It addresses the harm that obsessive belief in the paranormal can have for susceptible individuals. While the short shares a number of traits with other Feuillade films, the most direct thread (and the one...Start your free trial to watch
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On est venu là pour s'éclater
Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Once there he is rejuvenated by the beautiful bronzed topless bodies of sexy Eurostars Ursula Buchfellner, Sandra Barry, Olivia Dutton and Valentino Venantini. A series of sexy shenanigans and high jinks ensue...Start your free trial to watch
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On the Barricade
Taking a page from Victor Hugo’s LES MISÉRABLES, Alice Guy-Blanché’s historical drama imagines a boy unwittingly caught up in an insurrection. Her surprisingly frank picture of military executions tempers the film’s sentimental ending. ON THE BARRICADE was one of the last films Guy-Blanché made in France...Start your free trial to watch
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One Day You'll Understand
As the 1987 trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie unfolds on television, Victor Bastien (Hippolyte Girardot) reviews old family documents and finds a distressing “Aryan declaration” authored by his late father, a discovery that throws Victor’s conception of his family’s history into darkness. His mother,...Start your free trial to watch
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Onésime, Clock-maker
Goofy Onésime hatches a bright idea when he discovers that he'll only receive his inheritance after twenty years have passed: why not just change the gears of Paris’s regulating clock and speed up his waiting time? Jean Duran’s brilliantly choreographed fast motion cinematography shows a city in overdrive,...Start your free trial to watch
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Paris Was a Woman
A film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors (including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas) who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century. Utilizing groundbreaking research and newly discovered home...Start your free trial to watch
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Peeping Tom
An early use of vignette masking shows a clownish servant peeking through several keyholes in what might be a brothel. He spies natural and artificial beauties alike but comes a cropper when he looks through the wrong keyhole. The glory that is the first woman's hair is a sight for the ages. - Marilyn FerdinandStart your free trial to watch
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Le petit lieutenant
A gripping police noir, LE PETIT LIEUTENANT tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives and developing an unlikely relationship with his...Start your free trial to watch
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Pierrette's Escapades
Preserved by Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, PIERRETTE'S ESCAPADES retains the original hand-tinting from the film's release in 1900. Director Alice Guy adapts a brief sequence from the ballet of Arlequin and Pierrette (essentially condensing much of the narrative in under two minutes) to provide some...Start your free trial to watch
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Plaisir d'amour en Iran
How can you talk about love when you're looking at a mosque or talk about architecture in bed? This short film is a variation on the amorous outpourings of Pomme and Ali Darius (in ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T) but it could also be any couple's dream in such an ideal setting as the Imam Mosque in Esfahan,...Start your free trial to watch
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Playing Cards
Given that imitators of Georges Méliès’s own work would ultimately lead to his own financial ruin, noting that his first film was a virtual copy of the Lumieres' film CARD PARTY may seem to be an example of poetic justice. Only a few details differ, such as the gender of the person waiting on the three seated men playing...Start your free trial to watch