Michel Piccoli

Talleyrand and Fouché, who have absolutely nothing in common apart from their hunger for power, are engaged in verbal combat over supper about the future of France, the tone of their conversation switching from irony, to violence and ferociousness.

International screen icon Simone Signoret stars in this powerful World War II drama directed by René Clément. Signoret is superb as Thérèse, an isolated woman who unwittingly gets involved in the Resistance when British and American planes are shot down over Nazi-occupied France. She reluctantly agrees to smuggle the pilots into neutral Spain, and along the way finds herself falling in love.

In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.

A Polish theater director exiled in England begins work on a play lambasting his Communist homeland, much to the chagrin of his still-patriotic son.

John Forsythe stars as an American CIA agent who hires a French operative to travel to Cuba and investigate rumors of Russian missiles and Topaz, a NATO spy.

Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.

A lighthearted homage to Hollywood musicals that centers around beautiful girls and the men who vie for their affections.

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the shadowy life of a mystic man named Monsieur Oscar.

The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda's The Beaches of Agnes, From Here to There is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the peerless and indefatigable director's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers, for an expansive view of the contemporary art scene. Features interviews with Chris Marker, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and many more.