Hailed as a forerunner of the French New Wave. A young couple visits the seaside village of La Pointe Courte as they try to resolve their problems.

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.

The story of Antoine Doinel – aged twelve and a half – begins on the day he is given a severe punishment at school to do at home that evening. It happens that he is unable to do it. So, the next day, not daring to go back to school, Antoine, together with his best friend, René, discovers the joys of playing truant. That afternoon, he comes across his mother on the arm of a stranger. He is overwhelmed by the sight of this and he runs away. He ends up in a police station, then in a Delinquents Observation Center. Will Antoine one day come to terms with life?

Jacques Rivette provocative directorial debut follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a group of twenty-something intellectuals in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. This mystery film depicts the bohemian Parisian life in the late 1950s, framed in a lingering post–World War II disillusionment while evincing the fascination with theatrical performance and conspiracy.

Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue.

Diego is one of the chiefs of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris (where he lives) from a mission in Madrid. He is arrested at the border for an identity check but manages to go free thanks to Nadine, the daughter of the man whose passport is used by him. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching one of his comrades, Juan, to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested by Franco's police.

A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.

Young women keep disappearing. Actually, a famous surgeon has kidnapped them to conduct grafting experiments with their face skin. He wants to restore his daughter Christine's face that was disfigured in a terrible accident. However, each operation is a failure and the police start to look into the disappearances. The officers dangle Paulette as bait but when the scientist kidnaps the young delinquent, the police lose her trail.

En Angleterre, John et Laura Baxter ont perdu leur fille, morte noyée dans un lac. Encore meurtris par ce drame et hantés par la culpabilité de n’avoir pu la sauver, le jeune couple arrive à Venise où John, architecte, est chargé de restaurer une église. Laura de son côté fait la rencontre de deux étranges sœurs dont l’une est aveugle et médium. Quand cette dernière lui prédit la mort prochaine de John, Laura, gravement éprouvée, sombre dans une crise d’hystérie qui l’oblige à rentrer en Angleterre. Bientôt, John croit apercevoir son épouse dans une barque. Plus inquiétant encore, il discerne la silhouette d’une petite fille dans laquelle il croit reconnaître son enfant décédé.

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.

An open hearted and unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best out of his life on the streets of Milan.

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

A portrait of the people, the defects and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.

Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták, a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová, takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.

In this satire on Art under Socialism, a minor musician who plays the humble triangle becomes a tyrannical orchestra director.

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He loses his beloved, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of cattle from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.

Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.

Two ex-soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after World War One.

Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martincek, the film's power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.

The film is a tension-filled parable about the power of order, cruelty and submissive behaviour. A young man arrives at a falconers' plant for summer exercise. The plant stands in the middle of barren land, secluded from everything and managed by the fanatic Lilik, keeping rigorous discipline. Besides him and the falconers only Teréz lives there. The Boy learns the tasks at the plant and is captivated by the elementary force and beauty of the flight of the falcons. Yet he is more and more abhorred by the spiritual terror and the barbaric order used by Lilik to subdue his men. He endures the man-probing hunt but releases the captured falcon in the end. Teréz and the Boy are attracted to each other but she is unable to break out. After a mighty, devastating storm, the Boy packs his belongings and leaves. The others stay.

Seventeen-year-old Jóska is captured by the Soviet in the last days of World War II. He is posted to a soldier lad to help him guard the cowherd. Jóska tries to escape, Kolja keeps him from entering the mined area using his gun. Despite their opposed position and language barrier a friendly relationship is formed between them. They feast on the meat of the exploded cow together and chase girls when Kolja suddenly dies of a former injury. Jóska tries to get to the station dressed in his uniform. Some of the former POWs recognize him and thinking that he was a collaborate they beat him up thoroughly.

A French-like burlesque about the adventures of a young boy in the first grade of elementary school. He gets acquainted with time, then, accompanied by his father, leaves home to spend his first day at school. On the way there, he meets Zizi, and they become friends. Mischief interests him more than learning to write, but he is not alone by this inclination. His imagination colours reality around him. He is cured from a major disease, makes adventures in social life, learns to know the adult world. He imagines his uncle, whom he does not love and whom he continuously escapes, to be set in prison. A baby is born in the family, and it is much bigger happiness than his excellent marks, only Zizi needs to be comforted because she failed in a subject. But there is no problem because he makes a promise to marry her. When he grows up.

"Our profession is photography" - sings and advertises Sebő, the herald of a group of travelling photographers, knocking at the doors of village houses. The photographer takes the photos as they have been ordered, the retoucher manages the business, and if people want a rosier picture than the harsh reality of their own faces is he is ready to retouch the photos. And most people choose this option: the photographer is vainly trying to persuade them to choose the true and more telling pictures. Yet, a rich material of the past gets revealed from behind the scenes of the locals' lives: while the retoucher is working on the pictures, the photographer is digging deep in the thirty-odd years old life stories and which "can as well be framed and put on the wall". An old lady, Mrs. Nyerges recalls the tragedy of her husband's murdered daughters, too. The picture taken of the murderous mother turns up as well.

The misadventures of Leopold Pavlovsky as he is stuck in transit in New York.

Zohra, 50 years old, is Algerian. She is employed in the household of a young couple. For the first time in her life, she goes to the beach.

One Sunday, Marguerite, a young pregnant woman from Rouen, and Mario, a Spanish sailor in transit, meet while waiting for a train.

On her birthday, Juliette is too sad to be worried about the strange cleaning lady who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.

A spectator, a string puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the Butterfly Woman, another string puppet with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings that hold him in his place as a spectator give way. Thus free, he runs to the Butterfly Woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.