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- A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
- On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
- Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
- Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.
- Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
- Asterix and Obelix join the Roman Legions to rescue Obelix's crush Panacea and her fiance Tragicomix, who have been kidnapped to appease Julius Caesar.
- A grouchy shopkeeper made an unsuccessful financial investment, and now he is on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to avenge oneself he engages his own family into a plan to rob a next door bank.
- A humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.
- Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.
- Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.
- To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
- This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
- The role of tenderness in love is explained in this film through three couples namely a male chauvinist pig couple,a romantic couple and a tender couple.
- When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.
- Two burglars are surprised by a girl from a good family who imposes on their collaboration.
- Poetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.
- Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means.
- By the Lake of Lugano, in 1917, Lady Alice Copland, the widow of an English lord, meets Thomas in a casino. The handsome young man has just gambled all his money away. Moved both by his lot and by his good looks, Alice prevents him from committing suicide; comforts him and becomes his mistress. After learning that her lover has deserted the Austrian Army, she gives him the money he needs to return to Zurich and accompanies him to the station. Shortly afterwards she surprises him at the casino, gambling the money she gave him.
- A documentary of black art.
- Jo the gangster has the formidable gift of bringing down the worst kind of catastrophes on the heads of his best friends. Thus everything would be perfect if Simon hadn't lent his car to Jo.
- A witty examination of life and culture in Siberia.
- The sexual problems of Beatrice and Mark, who have not made love since the accidental death some months previously of their small son.
- France, 1942. During the Nazi Occupation, the Ardennes falls in the "forbidden zone" between the German Occupied North and the Vichy governed South. Its inhabitants face starvation as movement of people and supplies into the area are strictly controlled. To save his family, Clovis risks his life crossing the boundary to get hold of potatoes which he intends to plant in a patch of unused land. Knowing that his family's survival depends on the success of his scheme, Clovis becomes increasingly obsessed with his crop of potatoes.
- Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad though. Indeed their leader, Julius, whose brother was killed by Schmidt, a merciless S.S., believes, without being absolutely certain, that Fromm and Schmidt are the same man. The team, whose other members are Georges, the son of a deportee liquidated by Schmidt craving for action, Raphaël, a mercenary type, Nils, the photographer and Romain, watch Fromm's every move until Julius, convinced at last that the quiet German is their man, gives the green light for the operation. They manage to lure the former Nazi to an old house but Schmidt/Fromm won't let himself be captured so easily...
- Concerns a scientist's flight into outer space.
- Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.
- A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
- This is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks of the Seine, in the streets, at a café. Enough to drive him up the wall!
- A theory of Situationism is proposed through shots of Paris, a young woman, newsreel clips, extracts from classic films, photographs and newspaper images
- Filming the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand the fighter for the faith and his daily torments of mysticism.
- Edith Stein (1891-1942) had been born Jewish in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland). She studied philosophy in her native town before joining Göttingen University. In Freiburg, she worked with Professor Edmund Husserl, the philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. At the age of thirty, she converted to Catholicism and later entered the Carmel of Echt, in the Netherlands. In 1942, she was arrested there and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was gassed. Edith Stein, who had become Sister Theresa of the Cross, was canonized in 1998.
- "Etincelles et vapeur" deals with the scheduled demolition of the last steam engines at the depot of Sarreguemines, a town situated in the Nort-East of France near the German border. The dismantling of the fallen queens of the rails is carried out in the former roundhouse where the locomotives are brought before being cut with cutting torches
- Jacques Loew takes us for a walk in the Bois de Boulogne. Will we, thanks to him, learn everything about life in a forest ? Well, not really. Just do not expect a "Call of the Wild" experience. Instead, you will meet some famous people at the top, not of society but of a tree . You will be spoofed, will play charades, try to find riddles there while rocked by the inimitable voice of Gérard Philipe. An eccentric walk indeed.
- Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.
- Documentary about a particular instrument, the cello and about a great cellist named Maurice Gendron. Gendron plays four pieces of classical music by Haydn, Boccherini, Chopin and Bach.
- This documentary short from the time of the French war in Algeria is unusually explicit in showing the destruction wrought by colonialist oppression and the disruption of life for the subjected peoples.
- Boscavia is a very rugged region. It is peopled by nit-witted soldiers, of moronic officers and of common people who try hard to go straight - to their tombs.
- French agriculture and its development during the post-war period and the influence of the Marshall Plan on its evolution. The film demonstrates the benefits of this plan which has made the emergence of a modern agriculture.
- Danger on the road is explained to two riders by several French top level athletes: Mady Moreau, a diving champion; Charles Rigoulot, a champion weight-lifter and car racer; Robert Varnajo, a racing cyclist; Robert Villemain, a boxing champion.
- Spain, unchanging and eternal. Its mineral landscapes under a blazing sun. The slow rhythm of its days and hours. Its haunting silence suddenly broken by the clamors of fiestas or bullfights. Its swarm of children, full of life. And the brutal death, suffered or inflicted. Spain, unchanging and eternal.
- A documentary about prima ballerina Nina Vyroubova. She is seen rehearsing at the Paris Opera under the direction of choreographer Serge Lifar and dancing master Yves Brieux with dancers such as Attilio Labis, Youli Algaroff and Serge Golovine.