Claude Dauphin

Starring the great Simone Signoret as an unforgettable femme fatale and Serge Reggiani, it is one of the greatest films about the Belle Époque and a true masterpiece of French cinema.

Doris Day and Ray Bolger star as a chorus girl and a diplomat who meet and fall in love all because of a bureaucratic snafu. There's plenty of singing, dancing and romance when it's April in Paris.

After his 1972 film The Devil was banned in his homeland, the great Polish visionary Andrzej Żuławski decamped to France to make this frenzied tale of troubled passion in love and art. Driven with animal fervour by an unforgettable Romy Schneider, this moody drama won her the César for Best Actress.

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...

Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

A German general is ordered by Hitler to destroy Paris if it is in danger of being recaptured by the Allies.