In Godard's dystopian sci-fi, detective Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels to the soulless technopolis of Alphaville on a secret mission to capture the dictatorial Professor Von Braun and destroy the Alpha 60 computer that has outlawed human emotions. Love comes to his aid in the form of ...

Claire (Kerry Fox) and Jay (Mark Rylance) meet on Wednesdays and make love. Without speaking, they share each other's bodies and desires. One day, Claire doesn't show, so Jay decides to find out more about his mysterious captivating lover. The only English-language film from acclaimed filmmaker P...

During daylight, an army of living dead begin pouring out of cemeteries around the world. At a local town council meeting in France, officials discuss the logistics of sheltering these refugees from beyond, many of whom end up in Red Cross tents. As the phenomena develops, unexpected reunions occ...

Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a teenager forced into prostitution by her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her ...

Following a global catastrophe, Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and her family seek refuge at their holiday home in the countryside, but they arrive to find the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are dashed by a violent tragedy so, accompanied by a fierce young boy (Hakim...

Prolific French star Michel Piccoli throws himself – quite literally in some scenes – into the role of Themroc, a factory labourer who, worn down by the relentless and brain-numbing tedium of his job, suffers a catastrophic meltdown. It causes him to regress to a neanderthal state, communicating ...

High school student Léa meets the mysterious Kurt in the South of France at the end of the summer holidays. When Léa returns home to the mountains of Savoy, Kurt comes to see her regularly. Along the route from the Mediterranean to Savoy, a series of burglaries, rapes and inexplicable murders occ...

Based on Moravia’s novel, Jean-Luc Godard’s sardonic look at the world of filmmaking boasts superb performances by Michel Piccoli as a compromised writer, Brigitte Bardot as his bored wife, Jack Palance as a manipulative producer and Fritz Lang as himself, about to film Homer’s Odyssey in Cinecit...

A devoted family man, Carrère’s life takes a crushing turn when he is arrested for financial fraud. Confined to a grimy cell with inmates guilty of far darker crimes, he soon discovers they all share a single desire: to escape. Hope emerges when the group uncover a book of black magic once wielde...

Five milestone scenes from a couple’s life – from that giddy first meeting through to marriage, birth, infidelity and annulment – are painfully played out in reverse chronological order in François Ozon’s examination of the theatrical nature of relationships. With the benefit of hindsigh...

Isabelle is a former nun living in New York, earning a living writing erotic fiction while awaiting her higher calling. She meets Thomas, an amnesiac unaware of his past as a ruthless pornographer, once responsible for turning his young wife, Sofia, into the world's most notorious adult star. As ...

This film is a blunt, brash and blood-smeared revenge tale of two sex workers who decide to go on a killing spree through France. Co-directed by French feminist provocateur Despentes, and based on her book, Baise-moi does not care for cinematic slickness, instead using handheld visuals and raw la...

On her wedding night, Mallory discovers her new husband is a demon – and promptly kills him with an axe. Years later, Mallory leads a rogue government commando unit: Vena Cava, a drag queen and explosives expert; Talking Tina, a pre-teen telepath; and Durand, a hardened government agent making up...

When Hugo meets the enigmatic Myriam on the Paris Metro, he finds himself becoming increasingly obsessed with her. Following her back to her flat, Hugo sleeps with her, but finds that his obsession has grown until Myriam seems to have total control over his body and soul. The final film of cult f...

Recently widowed Andrew Blake decides to leave his business in England and return to France, the country where he first met his late wife. Hoping to reconnect with his past, he takes a job as a butler in a grand but eccentric estate. What begins as an attempt to escape his grief soon turns into s...

Irreversible is perhaps one of the cruelest films ever made. Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) set off on a blind rage of revenge after the former’s girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci) is raped. The twist is that their revenge spools out in reverse. Noé structured his notorious s...

Paul (Francois Cluzet) runs a picturesque lakeside resort with the help of his wife, Nelly, (the exquisite Emmanuelle Beart). As financial pressures of running the hotel mount, Paul becomes increasingly preoccupied with irrational thoughts about his wife’s infidelity, and what starts as a troub...

Detective Yohan Vivès (Bastien Bouillon) has only just taken over as head of the detective bureau of the local police department when he is assigned to the chilling murder of a young woman in her quiet mountain village. But what starts as a meticulous investigation into the victim’s life soon tur...

When the son of former porn filmmaker Jacques Laurent found out what his father did for living, he ran away from home and refused to have any contact with him. Laurent put an end to his career. Many years later, his financial problems meant he had to take up his old profession again. The professi...

When Esse (Nicolas Duvauchelle, in his debut feature role) a young apprentice baker, loses his job, he is drawn in to a dark underworld of gangs and petty crime. Zonca delivers a raw and gripping portrait of life on the margins of society, as a boy on the verge of adulthood is pulled in by the t...

A retelling of the Hansel and Gretel tale through a tacky tabloid lens and a distinct anti-authority vibe, this early Ozon film is sensationalistic by design. Teenage Alice (Régnier) convinces her boyfriend to murder her lover, but after the deed is done they're both trapped by a strange old man ...

When British diplomat Peter Jones suspects his wife of infidelity, he is stunned to discover that the ‘other man’ is a chimpanzee. On a whim, he invites his hairy rival to move into the luxurious family home – more out of curiosity than jealousy – leading to uncomfortable dinner parties, ...

When teenager Camille comes across Joëlle, a young woman who has just been dumped by her boyfriend, the two soon form a fast friendship. Guiding her new friend through the darker side of sex, Joëlle is also grappling with the unscrupulous Doctor Worms, who is using her as a sexual pawn in a cr...

Eager to reconnect with his teenage daughter, André (Depardieu) takes her on holiday to the tropics. But when a local boy catches her eye, Véronique attempts to pass off her father as her lover in a misguided effort to impress. André gamely cooperates in the charade, but the lies – and gossi...