Serge Reggiani

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.

The last of the celebrated collaborations between director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) unfolds in a dreamily beautiful vision of a wintry, nocturnal Paris shortly after the city’s postwar liberation. It’s there that Jean Diego (Yves Montand in one of his first film roles), a former member of the French underground Resistance, has an encounter with destiny as he meets a long-lost comrade, villains of the war, a prophetic tramp, and a beautiful woman who will draw him into an inexorable tragedy. A richly allegorical evocation of a country reckoning with the guilt and national trauma of World War II and the occupation, LES PORTES DE LA NUIT (“The Gates of the Night”) was a tough sell for postwar audiences looking for escapism, but it can now be appreciated for both its haunting atmosphere and unique fusion of poetic fantasy and bitter reality.

Wonderbird aids a chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess in this incredible animated classic adventure for the whole family to enjoy.

Ophuls’ exquisite, imaginative adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s play about a carousel of erotic encounters involving characters of different social status.

The star (Carole Laure) of a traveling show leaves its director (Lewis Furey) to help an old ecologist (Serge Reggiani) fight a factory.

To solve the murder of a construction worker, the new police chief of a Sicilian town is forced to take on the government and a ruthless mob boss.

Héroïnes is a 1997 French drama film directed by Gérard Krawczyk and starring Virginie Ledoyen.