Alphaville (1965) Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina
Private eye Lemmy Caution turns intergalactic agent, and visits Alpha 60, a fully automated city.

Pierrot Le Fou (1965) Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Sam Fuller.
A thriller of love and language, of neon and song, of Picasso and Velazquez.

Une Femme est une Femme.(1961) Jean Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Jean Claude Brialy
An almost musical, shot in scope and studio, a menage á trois, the desire for a baby. Godard's first film in color.

Le Mepris (1963). France/Italy. Briggite Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang.
A funny look at the odd world of international movie making, following in part a woman's increasing sceptism of a husband torn between a director, and an American producer, with eyes on the box office.

The Blue Villa (Un Bruit Qui Rend Fou (1995). Fred Ward, Arielle Dombasle, Charles Torjman
The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by the ghost-like return of a young man, who mysteriously disappeared after the killing of a young Eurasian woman

Last Year in Marienbad (1961). Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
Modernist love story. Landmark movie of the French New Wave

Trans-Europ-Express (1966). Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier.
Authors and their imaginary characters come face to face on train. Drug-trafficking, sinister intrigue, with lots of sado-masochism sexual perversion

La Ceremonie (1995). Isabelle Huppert, Jacqueline Bisset.
The new housekeeper seems perfectly normal until she meets the post mistress and local gossip (Isabelle Huppert).

L'Enfer (1994). Emanuelle Béart, François Cluzet.
Cluzet and Béart seem the perfect couple, but their marriage is rotting away, thanks to his obsessive jelousy. Thriller.

The Double Life of Veronique.(1991) France/Poland. Irène Jacob, Philippe Voltier
Two women, one French, one Polish, unrelated but identical, one dies, the other feels inexplicable loss.

Three Colours:Blue.(1993). Juliette Binoche, Benoît Regent, Florence Pernel.
Blue is the colour of liberty, demonstrated by Binoche's attempt to cope with the death of her husband and child, by ridding of all her material possessions

Three Colours:White.(1994). France/Poland. Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy.
White represents equality, set in post communist Poland, to which Karol Karol returns in order to start afresh after his French wife leaves him

Three Colours:Red.(1994). France/Switzerland. Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Red represents fraternity, in the relationship of a retired judge to a young woman who accidentally runs over his dog. She returns it to him, finding unexpected secrets both of herself and him

The Sacrifice.(1986). France/Sweden. Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valérie Mairesse.
In Tarkovsky's last film, a writer hearing news of impending nuclear strike, offers everything he owns as a sacrifice, praying for salvation.

Belle de Jour.(1967). Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel
A bored surgeon's wife spends the afternoons working in a high class brothel. A collage of surrealist images with a whirlwind of degenerate desires

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.(1972) Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig
A South American ambassador and his five friends try to have dinner together, but are unable to do so, interrupted by steadily more and more absurd events.

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964). Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Geirges Geret
Octave Mirbeau story of a servant girl who looked through keyholes, in a society of fetishists.

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Buñuel's last film story of a businessman who is so obsessed with the maid Conchita that he fails to notice that she's played by 2 different actresses, and he finds himself helplessly ensnared in her erotic web

Tristana.(1970). Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey
A great Buñuel, set in 1930s Toledo, about an elderly free-thinking guardian (Rey) who seduces/rapes his young ward Tristana (Deneuve) but is unable to completely possess her, even after the amputation of her legs confines her to his house.

The Milky Way. Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Bernard Verlay
Two tramps on a humorous pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostella, complete with Buñuel's blasphemous and abrasive views of the Catholic dogma.

The Phantom of Liberty (1974). Michel Piccoli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic
His most free film, surveying human absurdities in all their richness and unpredictability

The City of Lost Children (1995). Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon
The tales of our childhood from Grimms Brothers to Jules Verne

Delicatessen (1991). Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac
Fantasy set in delicatessan in tenement building: despite the national food shortage, meat is plentiful, and the occassional vanishing tenant never worries anyone.

Last Tango in Paris.(1973) Marlon Brando, Maria Shneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud.
Brando adores and degrades an anonymous Maria Shneider in Paris in empty rooms, industrial angst, and romantic dancehalls.

Quai des Brumes (1938). Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon.
Jean Gabin is a cynical army deserter who falls in love with idealistic, trench coated Michèle Morgan, and tries to take her from her guardian Michel Simon.

Le Jour Se Leve (1939). Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jules Berry.
Jean Gabin is a murderer held at bay in a Paris Tenement. Screenplay by Jacques Prévert.

La Bête Humaine (1938). Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux.
A train driver falls for Séverine, whose jealous husband has already murdered her previous lover.

Betty Blue (1986). Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gérard Darman.
A painter novelist sunning himself in Gruissan, near Narbonne, finds love in unpredictable Betty Blue, and they discover the cruelty of art, reflecting in their lifestyles

Diva (1982). Frederic Andrei, Richard Bohringer.
Opera mad messenger boy get involved in thriller, with missing tapes, mistaken identities, and the voice of Diva Wilhelminia Wiggins Fernandez

The Baby of Macon (1993). Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone.
In mid-seventeenth France the people of Macon watch a passion play that mirrors their own life - it tells of a community struck barren as a result of allowing their cathedral to fall into disrepair....

Eyes without a Face (1959). Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli.
Mad plastic surgeon tries to reconstruct daughters face.

Les Diaboliques (1955). Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse.
Wife and mistress of villanous headmaster at seedy boys school plot to murder him.

Lift to the Scaffold (1957). Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau.
Man and his mistress plot to murder her husband, murderer gets stuck in lift whilst escaping.

Nelly and Mr Arnaud (1995). Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade.
A friendship between young Nelly and old Mr Arnaud.

Gazon Maudit (1995). Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabait, Ticky Holgado.
Husband and wife have affairs on the side with hilarious results.

Rendez-vous in Paris (1995). Clara Bellar, Antoine Basler, Mathias Megard.
Three short stories of romantic encounters

A Tale of Springtime (1990). Ann Teyssedre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel.
Story of a father, his lover, (who is as young as his daughter), and his daughter

A Winter's Tale (1991). Charlotte Véry, Michel Voletti, Hervé Furic.
Shakespeare rears his head, in the life of a hairdresser Felice, whose idyllic holiday is spoiled by her giving her lover the wrong address.

La Jetee (1964). Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux.
A film of the New Wave, a man witnesses the moment of his own death

Les Miserables (1995). Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Jean Marais
A film spanning , and Jean Valjean history, including Nazi occupation and the persecution of the Jews.

Zero de Conduite (1933)
Revolution in a seedy boys school

L'Atalante (1934). Dita Parlo, Michel Simon, Jean Dasté
Wonderful film. First few days of marriage between young bargekeeper and his wife, and their adventures with their first mate Michel Simon.

A Propos De Nice (1930)
A travelogue.

La Vie du Christ (1906). Silent. B/W
25 sets, 300 extras. Passion story where women are given pre-eminence

Madame a Des Envies (1906).
Pregnant woman has craving for phallic food which leads her into trouble

Un Soulier pour un Jambon (1906)
Two hobos fish ham out of a soup, and replace it with an old shoe. Wife serves shoe to husband during meal

A Shadow of Doubt (1992). Mirielle Perrier, Alain Bashung, Sandrine Blancke.
Psychological thriller on daughter's claim her father has subjected her to sexual abuse

Aime Cesaire- Le Masque des Mots (1987)
Documentary on use of torture during the Algerian War

Sambizanga (1989).
Set in Angola in 1970's, a woman increasingly becomes aware of colonial oppression

The Seashell and the Clergyman (1927)
Film banned in England, tells of dream imagery of celibate clergyman. Considered to be the first surrealist film

L'Ame d'Artist (1925).
A young playwright falls in love with successful actress who is instrumental in finally having his play produced