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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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An Excursion to the Moon
Georges Méliès' best known film, A TRIP TO THE MOON, is inspired by Jules Verne's "From Earth to the Moon" and H.G. Wells' "First Men on the Moon." In 1908, Segundo de Chomón was originally hired to prepare Spanish titles for the Pathé films sold in Spain. Proving adept at every possible camera trick, he...Start your free trial to watch
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Exiting the Factory
As the first short work shown at the first public film exhibition on December 28th, 1895, WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY is frequently cited as cinema’s Big Bang. This alternate version pictures employees leaving a different gate from a lower camera position. The modification to the iconic composition...Start your free trial to watch
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Exorcism
A gleefully sordid grindhouse gem punctuated with disarming moments of visual eloquence, EXORCISM is a quintessential Jess Franco film that takes the director's idiosyncratic sexual obsessions and folds them within the trappings of the conventional horror film. Made during the height of the demon possession film craze,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Extraordinary Voyage
THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE chronicles the journey of A TRIP TO THE MOON from the fantastical Georges Méliès' production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a nitrate print in color in 1993 to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. The story of...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fairy
Dom works as a night clerk at a small hotel in the industrial port city of Le Havre. One night, a strangely dressed woman named Fiona arrives and claims she is a fairy. She grants Dom three wishes, and makes his first two wishes come true before mysteriously vanishing. By now, Dom has fallen in love with Fiona, and he...Start your free trial to watch
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The False Magistrate
In THE FALSE MAGISTRATE, Louis Feuillade's fifth and final film in the Fantômas series, Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) once again battles false accusations from behind bars (though this time in a plan of his own devising). It is all part of a fiendish plot of multiple disguised identities in order to...Start your free trial to watch
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Family Tree
Frederick is a tree grower, and for nearly sixty years he has been cultivating a secret. His wife and eldest son are the only ones around him who know the truth. Pushed by the death of his son, with whom he had a conflicted relationship with, he finally reveals what he just couldn't say to those near and dear to him: his...Start your free trial to watch
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Fanny
Set in Marseilles, the young and beautiful Fanny discovers that she is pregnant after her lover, Marius, has deserted her to follow the adventurous life of the sea. After finding succor in the kindness of the equally bereaved Cesar, Fanny reluctantly accepts the marriage offer of an older wealthy suitor Panisse (Charpin), in...Start your free trial to watch
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Fantasmagoria
Émile Cohl was already 50 by the time he made his first breakthrough work for Gaumont. FANTASMAGORIA's squirmy chalk drawings are infused with the same anarchic spirit which inspired his earlier work as a caricaturist and art provocateur. Pointedly crude, the animation skewers a bourgeois lady at the theater within seconds....Start your free trial to watch
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Fantômas in the Shadow of the Guillotine
Based on the phenomenally popular French pulp novellas, Louis Feuillade's outrageous, ambitious FANTOMAS series became the gold standard of espionage serials in pre-WWI Europe and laid the foundation for such immortal works as Feuillade's own LES VAMPIRES and Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE films. In the first of...Start your free trial to watch
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Fantômas vs. Fantômas
Evildoer Fantômas (René Navarre) operates uninhibited as his rival, Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon), battles false accusations in prison in FANTOMAS VS. FANTOMAS, the fourth film in the series. Director Louis Feuillade's five Fantômas films feature surrealistic horror, cold-blooded murder and startling plot...Start your free trial to watch
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Fear and Trembling
A dream job rapidly becomes a nightmare for Amelie, a Japanese-born Belgian woman, who suffers a series of increasingly humiliating demotions after she lands a job as an interpreter at a large Japanese corporation. Sylvie Testud earned the French equivalent of the Academy Award® for her haunting...Start your free trial to watch
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Fela Kuti: Music is the Weapon
Fela Kuti is to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of black music, from funk to electronic, owe something to the irresistible groove of the Afrobeat sound that he created. He recorded more than 60 albums and spent a lifetime fighting against political corruption...Start your free trial to watch
