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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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I Fetch the Bread
Arriving dinner guests find somewhat improbably that their hostess has forgotten the bread; a quick visit to the bakery motivates this accumulation of comic incident, a variation on the chase film formula. I FETCH THE BREAD was filmed in the empty streets of Paris by Pathe Freres in 1907.Start your free trial to watch
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
Arrabal's second film, I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE (aka. J'IRAI COMME UN CHEVAL FOU) forsakes the political allegory present in VIVA LA MUERTE! for a dramatic discovery of faith and rejection of organized religion. The story follows a man, Aden, played by the American George Shannon, who flees society...Start your free trial to watch
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In the Barber Shop
Blackface proves less than permanent in this slapstick confection by French pioneer Georges Méliès. The fanciful vision of a barber shop run amok anticipates later comedies of faulty machinery in Charles Chaplin's MODERN TIMES and Jacques Tati's PLAYTIME. - Max GoldbergStart your free trial to watch
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In the Bogie Man's Cave
The Bogie Man’s cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly turn when the monster chops up his servant for a steaming pot of stew. But the Bogie Man’s guilty conscience weighs on him, plaguing his sleep with even more...Start your free trial to watch
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In the City of Sylvia
A young artist searches the winding streets of Strasbourg for an old love in Jose Luis Guerin's acclaimed and exceedingly beautiful IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA. During a languid summer, a young man spends his afternoons sketching in an outdoor café. He is looking for a woman he met several years earlier. Amidst...Start your free trial to watch
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In Their Hands
IN THEIR HANDS follows the psychotherapy of vulnerable people, that in some cases have been destroyed by acts of torture. Their speech deals with an inhuman past: they want to stop the pain, rule out the folly and protect their family from the violence that sleeps within them, be understood and recognized; these are the...Start your free trial to watch
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Inferno
One of the great, unfinished works in film history, Henri-Georges Clouzot's INFERNO was an audaciously experimental film with a virtually unlimited budget that was stopped only three weeks into production. Working closely with Clouzot's widow, Inès, Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea reconstructs Clouzot's original vision,...Start your free trial to watch
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Into Our Own Hands
When their lingerie factory goes bankrupt, the employees (mostly women) attempt to take it over by forming a cooperative. As their project takes shape, they come up against their boss and the reality of the marketplace. Their little enterprise becomes a theater where, in an impish tone, fundamental...Start your free trial to watch
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Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung plays herself in haute auteur Olivier Assayas’ spiky satire of the French film industry. After seeing her in Johnny To’s cult-actioner HEROIC TRIO, past-his-prime director René Vidal (New Wave legend Jean-Pierre Léaud) impetuously casts Cheung as the lead in his remake of the silent classic...Start your free trial to watch
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J'accuse
Abel Gance’s extraordinary breakthrough work is a WWI drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. It was referred to by Gance as “a human cry against the bellicose din of armies.” It stars Marise Dauvray as Edith, a woman who is unhappily married to an older...Start your free trial to watch
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Juve vs. Fantômas
Driven by greed and sheer malice, ruthless criminal genius and incomparable master of disguise Fantômas (René Navarre) weaves a path of death and destruction across Paris while trying to remain a step ahead of his resourceful nemesis, police inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) in JUVE VERSUS FANTOMAS, the second...Start your free trial to watch
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The Knight of the Snows
Georges Méliès avails himself of fabulous painted sets, lavish costumes, acrobatics and editing tricks to satisfyingly transpose the imaginative domain of the fairy tale into cinema. The plot turns on a spurned suitor who sells his soul to the devil to capture his beloved princess. Enter the shining knight...Start your free trial to watch
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Kobelkoff
Carnivals were popular amusement in the late 19th century, featuring rides, x-rays, games of skill, wild animals, strong men, contortionists and even tent show cinemas. Midway freak shows, giants, dwarfs and bearded women, were especially potent public attractions.Start your free trial to watch
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La morte saison des amours
Sylvain (Pierre Vaneck), a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer, and Geneviève (Françoise Arnoul) met 10 months ago. He wanted a serious relationship for the first time so they moved far into the country so they could be together and he could write. He claims that she inspires him. He...Start your free trial to watch
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Lady Chatterley
Robbed of intimacy by her blueblood husband's war injuries, Constance Chatterley longs for the emotional fulfillment and physical passion that her marriage lacks. When she espies the gamekeeper Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch) unselfconsciously bathing, stripped to the waist amidst the beauty of nature, she experiences a sexual...Start your free trial to watch