Claude Dauphin

Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure. Featuring a stunning cast of French stars (including Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, and Simone Simon), Le plaisir pinpoints the cruel ironies and happy compromises of life with a charming and sophisticated breeziness.

In this stylish heist noir from director Jacques Deray, master director of the French crime film, five men pool their money to go in on one huge narcotics deal.

A psychopath stalks Paris. Beautiful young women are being murdered. The city is terrorized. And an innocent psychology professor is framed for the crimes of the Phantom of the Rue Morgue.

An eccentric French countess (Katharine Hepburn) and her odd friends thwart a plot to drill for oil in Paris.

A private U.S. citizen with a plan goes to 1950s Vietnam and meets a British journalist duped by the communists.

In this adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic tale, a woodcutter is sentenced to jail for stealing a loaf of bread he took to feed his starving family.

In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques popularized by the French nouvelle vague filmmakers. Jump cutting back and forth in time with seeming abandon, Donen and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael chronicle the 12-year relationship between architect Wallace (Albert Finney) and his wife (Audrey Hepburn). While backpa...