In the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?

In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.

À sept ans Ludovic surprend son entourage en s’habillant en fille et annonçant vouloir se marier avec Jérôme, le fils du patron de son père. Alors que leur enfant s'affirme dans son identité de femme, ses parents ont du mal à l'accepter... 

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.

It starts out like a fairy tale: there's a queen, a king and their beautiful children, Pauline, Anaïs and Guillaume. But it's a bit more complicated, a little more funky than that.

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.

A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.

Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.

In a small Montana town, four women navigate life's circumstances, each facing their own challenges and aspirations. Laura, a lawyer, receives a visit from a depressed client, Gina struggles to build her house, and Jamie meets Beth, a young lawyer and part-time teacher.

Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

At his daughter’s wedding, the head of a powerful real estate company is confronted with a long-buried corruption scandal tied to an employee’s suicide. His secretary, now his new son-in-law, appears devoted, but has entered the family with a single purpose: to expose the truth.

Blending corruption, revenge, and deception, The Bad Sleep Well reveals a world without justice, where the powerful are never held accountable.

Lola is a cabaret dancer who’s raising her son alone and awaiting the return of his long-lost father. When another love-struck soul, the wanderer Roland, falls in love with her, she is ultimately unwilling to entertain his adoration.

An exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother and accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.

Pop singer Cléo is worried while awaiting results of her biopsy. During an hour and a half, walking the streets of Paris and talking in cafés, Cléo comes to terms with her selfishness, finding peace before the results come back.

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision. A dazzling musical
heart-tugger that launched Catherine Deneuve to stardom.

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1944, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

A turn-of-the-century romantic drama, THE GO-BETWEEN recounts the secret love affair between a beautiful heiress, Marion (Julie Christie), and the poor tenant farmer, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates). The "go-between" in the romance between Marion and Ted is a twelve-year-old boy (Dominic Guard) who unwittingly allows himself to be used as their message bearer. Eventually, Marion's mother (Margaret Leighton) discovers the ruse. And after she precipitates a shocking confrontation, the emotional experience of being caught up in a doomed love affair leaves a lasting scar on the young boy's life.

A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends.

Light is everywhere. By daylight it brings out the beauties of nature while at night it illuminates the big city, thus making it both attractive and mysterious. François Reichenbach's camera artistically captures the filmmaker's impressions and delivers them to a beautiful music by Michel Legrand and to superb poems by Arthur Rimbaud.

BEI Sui-Mi becomes the new tutor for the WANG family in a bid to secretly investigate the death of Mrs. WANG, her sister. She makes an effort to mend the father-daughter relationship between her niece and Mr. WANG, caring about the girl like a mother.

A young couple, Bun-tik and Kui-ki, are in love but their parents are determined to control their destinies. When the couple try to meet, Bun-tik's widowed father A-kau intervenes, but Kui-ki begs him and he agrees to a marriage. However, when he realizes Kui-ki's mother is the woman who abandoned him years before, he refuses the marriage. Bun-tik and Kui-ki elope together, but life alone proves cruel and they begin to miss their homes.

Tshui-giok's step-father sells her to a club to pay off his debt. Her boyfriend, Kok-liong, attempts to release her and plans to marry her but his mother disapproves and arranges for him to marry a wealthy girl, Hun-kiau. Years later, Tshui-giok and Kok-liong meet again; their feelings rekindled. However, Tshui-giok rejects Kok-liong for the sake of Hun-kuai. The decision drives him mad and eventually Hun-kuai sets Kok-liong free to be with Tshui-giok. A key film, at the pinnacle of Taiwanese-language family melodrama.

Tsi-Bing is living a wealthy and successful life. However, when he is manipulated by his mistress into believing that his wife is having an affair, he throws her out. When his mistress vanishes with all his money, Tsi-Bing is forced to relocate to a makeshift home with his three children, who are forced to take on various jobs, such as selling rice dumplings, to make ends meet. Will this unfortunate family be reunited one day?

Khue-Guan, a deliveryman living in a cheap apartment, dreams of making it big one day. He happens upon a teenage runaway, Tsing-Bi, and entices her to work in a nightclub to make money for him. Meanwhile, the nightclub hostess, Giok-Sian, pays for Khue-Guan’s company but keeps a no strings attached relationship. When Tsing-Bi becomes pregnant with Khue-Guan’s child, she asks him to marry her but is coldly rejected. Khue-Guan proposes to Giok-Sian only to be sneered at. In the choice between love and money, Khue-Guan must decide what he truly wants.

Alexander vit avec sa mère, Christiane, dans un appartement de Berlin-Est. Le jour du 40ème anniversaire de la RDA, celle-ci sombre dans le coma des suites d’un infarctus. Lorsqu’elle en sort huit mois plus tard, le mur est tombé, la ville est transformée. Mais pour protéger sa mère, dont le cœur affaibli ne pourrait supporter un tel choc, Alexander décide de lui cacher la vérité et, avec la complicité de son entourage, de recréer un environnement socialiste...

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

Peggy Sue, on the verge of a divorce, faints at her 25th high school reunion, and wakes up to find herself back in 1960, leading her to try to spot and correct the mistakes that led to disappointments and an unhappy marriage.

In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?

A bord d’un paquebot, un playboy français et une chanteuse de cabaret tombent amoureux. Cependant, il est fiancé et elle doit se marier. Ils se donnent rendez-vous dans 6 mois en haut de l’Empire State Building…

Note : Leo McCarey tournera un remake en couleurs de son propre film, Love Affair, en 1957 intitulé An Affair to Remember. Les deux ont le même titre en français.

A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. They fall in love, but their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt.

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

Else, pour sauver son père qui croule sous les dettes, doit choisir d’accepter ou non de se mettre nue devant le vieux Dorsday, en échange d’une somme d’argent. Sous la pression, la jeune fille choisit un geste encore plus radical.

Note : Ce court-métrage est une libre adaptation du roman d’Arthur Schnitzler écrit en 1924, reprenant sa trame initiale mais sous une forme éclatée.

Betrayal: Marseille, 1814. Edmond Dantès, a young sailor promoted to the rank of first mate, is about to marry Mercédès. But, accused of treason by his fellow-sailors, jealous of his situation, he is arrested, found guilty and locked-up in the Château d'If. He remains there for eighteen long years.

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Injustement fait prisonnier au Château d’If, Edmond Dantès parvient à s’évader lorsque meurt l’Abbé Faria, que tout le monde croit fou. Guidé par la vengeance, il part à la recherche du trésor dont lui avait parlé le mystérieux abbé. Sous l’identité du comte de Monte-Cristo, il condamnera ceux qui l’avaient trahi auparavant.

Note : Le film est proposé en deux parties : Première époque : Edmond Dantès et Deuxième époque : Le Châtiment.

Plotting on a payment they are about to receive, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is coming back to the village.

On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.

On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history.

Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.

A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends.

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1944, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision. A dazzling musical
heart-tugger that launched Catherine Deneuve to stardom.

Alexander vit avec sa mère, Christiane, dans un appartement de Berlin-Est. Le jour du 40ème anniversaire de la RDA, celle-ci sombre dans le coma des suites d’un infarctus. Lorsqu’elle en sort huit mois plus tard, le mur est tombé, la ville est transformée. Mais pour protéger sa mère, dont le cœur affaibli ne pourrait supporter un tel choc, Alexander décide de lui cacher la vérité et, avec la complicité de son entourage, de recréer un environnement socialiste...

Betrayal: Marseille, 1814. Edmond Dantès, a young sailor promoted to the rank of first mate, is about to marry Mercédès. But, accused of treason by his fellow-sailors, jealous of his situation, he is arrested, found guilty and locked-up in the Château d'If. He remains there for eighteen long years.

The first film directed by a female director, "The Cabbage Fairy" presents a brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently moving through the cabbages and using of lovely gestures, she takes one baby out of there, then makes more magic and delivers two more.

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.

Comedy is benefited by originality. In this Alice Guy short, an alcoholic is inadvertently sewn in to a mattress. With that unique premise, havoc ensues.

A behind the scenes look at Alice Guy Blanche directing one of her films.

An uncharacteristic "trick" film from Alice Guy. The fellow prepares for his bath. And prepares. And prepares.

A four-year-old saves the day.

Betrayal: Marseille, 1814. Edmond Dantès, a young sailor promoted to the rank of first mate, is about to marry Mercédès. But, accused of treason by his fellow-sailors, jealous of his situation, he is arrested, found guilty and locked-up in the Château d'If. He remains there for eighteen long years.

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?

A bord d’un paquebot, un playboy français et une chanteuse de cabaret tombent amoureux. Cependant, il est fiancé et elle doit se marier. Ils se donnent rendez-vous dans 6 mois en haut de l’Empire State Building…

Note : Leo McCarey tournera un remake en couleurs de son propre film, Love Affair, en 1957 intitulé An Affair to Remember. Les deux ont le même titre en français.

Betrayal: Marseille, 1814. Edmond Dantès, a young sailor promoted to the rank of first mate, is about to marry Mercédès. But, accused of treason by his fellow-sailors, jealous of his situation, he is arrested, found guilty and locked-up in the Château d'If. He remains there for eighteen long years.

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Injustement fait prisonnier au Château d’If, Edmond Dantès parvient à s’évader lorsque meurt l’Abbé Faria, que tout le monde croit fou. Guidé par la vengeance, il part à la recherche du trésor dont lui avait parlé le mystérieux abbé. Sous l’identité du comte de Monte-Cristo, il condamnera ceux qui l’avaient trahi auparavant.

Note : Le film est proposé en deux parties : Première époque : Edmond Dantès et Deuxième époque : Le Châtiment.

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

Ce programme réunit 11 courts métrages réalisés par Alice Guy : La Fée aux choux, Comment monsieur prend son bain, Le Matelas épileptique, Les Résultats du féminisme, Madame a des envies, Une femme collante, Le Bonnet à poil, Une héroîne de 4 ans, La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, Sur les barricades et Alice Guy tourne une photoscène.

Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn't quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He's being put out of business by J.J. King, who not only owns the local hotel and bank, but has recently introduced a new paddle wheel steamer that puts Cannings older boat, the Stonewall Jackson, to shame. Bill Jr. and Kitty King take a liking to each other much to the dismay of both of their fathers. When a fierce storm hits River Junction, Bill Jr. is forced to save Kitty, her father and his father.

Betrayal: Marseille, 1814. Edmond Dantès, a young sailor promoted to the rank of first mate, is about to marry Mercédès. But, accused of treason by his fellow-sailors, jealous of his situation, he is arrested, found guilty and locked-up in the Château d'If. He remains there for eighteen long years.

Betrayal: Marseille, 1814. Edmond Dantès, a young sailor promoted to the rank of first mate, is about to marry Mercédès. But, accused of treason by his fellow-sailors, jealous of his situation, he is arrested, found guilty and locked-up in the Château d'If. He remains there for eighteen long years.

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1944, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice

Pop singer Cléo is worried while awaiting results of her biopsy. During an hour and a half, walking the streets of Paris and talking in cafés, Cléo comes to terms with her selfishness, finding peace before the results come back.

Lola is a cabaret dancer who’s raising her son alone and awaiting the return of his long-lost father. When another love-struck soul, the wanderer Roland, falls in love with her, she is ultimately unwilling to entertain his adoration.

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision. A dazzling musical
heart-tugger that launched Catherine Deneuve to stardom.

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.