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1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

Genre: Action

Cast: Gérard Depardieu

On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Catherine Chevallier

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Michèle Moretti

In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rami Doueiri

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Lanzmann

Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Douche

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Sutherland

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Dutronc

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issiaka Kane

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariadna Gil

Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Leguizamo

Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anouk Grinberg

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marc Berman

Though gay-themed stories about "coming out" and accepting one's sexuality are not uncommon in Western countries, such tales are still rare in many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mamady Mory Camara

Fifteen young dancers of various origins and horizons. They are touring Crowd, Gisèle Vienne's dance piece on the 90s rave scene. Following...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philip Berlin

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: João Lourenço

A quiet French peasant has spent three years as a corporal on the front lines in World War I, and one day he cannot take it anymore and goes AWOL,...

Genre: War

Cast: Philippe Nahoun

An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rabia Ben Abdallah