French Language & Literature

The bond between elderly loving couple Georges and Anne is tested when Anne has a stroke and Georges cares for her at home.

A small-time hoodlum kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police.

A single mother and her daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop just before Lent across the street from the local church in a rigidly moral community.

"A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow..."

A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.

"Based on the classic Emile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's La bête humaine was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes--and earned star Jean Gabin a permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen. Part poetic realism, part film noir, the film is a hard-boiled and suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a workingman."

Sensitively recreating the trials of Truffaut's own childhood, portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime.

"In a fortress perched atop of a mountain, a democratically elected 'President' and his closest collaborators are getting ready for a state celebration. Foreign chiefs of state and dignitaries of all sorts are expected. But in the morning of the event, he wakes up to find the country inflamed, the streets in turmoil ..."

Sarah is a famous British murder mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher to stay at his home in the south of France. Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurried pace is just the tonic for her - until late one night, when John's daughter, Julie, unexpectedly arrives. Sarah's English reserve is jarred by Julie's lifestyle. An increasingly unsettling series of events occur that blend a creative process with a possible real-life murder.

"The story of a wildcat strike at a [French] sausage factory, as witnessed by an American reporter and her has-been New Wave film director husband"