7.6
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
IMDb: 7.6 1993 88 min
Twenty-six people – including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood ...
8.1
The Lumière Brothers’ First Films
IMDb: 8.1 1996 61 min
A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France. Release: The Lumiere ...
7.7
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
IMDb: 7.7 1988 267 min
Winner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls’ riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed “The ...
7.3
The World of Jacques Demy
IMDb: 7.3 1995 90 min
Agnès Varda’s documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes. Release: The World of ...
7.4
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
IMDb: 7.4 1963 23 min
Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but ...
7.9
La Guerre sans nom
IMDb: 7.9 1991 240 min
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a “war”, including interviews with some of ...
7.6
Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz
IMDb: 7.6 1997 113 min
“It must schwing!” was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, ...
6.9
The Young Girls Turn 25
IMDb: 6.9 1993 64 min
Agnes Varda’s documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy’s film Les demoiselles de ...
7.6
My Journey Through French Cinema
IMDb: 7.6 2016 190 min
Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier examines the great directors, actors, writers, composers and cinematographers of French cinema, including Jean ...