Danielle Darrieux

Struggling to make rent, Nicole devises a plan. Enlist her friend to help her snare a rich husband that will make her money woes go away.

Henry Pasquier, the spoiled son of a wealthy doctor, discovers high-octane thrills, jazz-era romance and a sense of purpose in life when he unwittingly falls into the company of an organized ring of car thieves—and falls for Jeannette, who works as car-bait for the gang.

This delightful animation provides a potted history of modern Iran through one woman's experience; from a precocious and outspoken nine-year-old as the Shah is deposed and the veil is forced on women, to a bold 14-year-old sent to school in Austria where she discovers music and men.

Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador tires of being a servant and forms a plan to promote himself to rich gentleman of leisure. His employer has many secret documents; he will photograph them, and with the help of a refugee Countess, sell them to the Nazis.

When a woman sells her earrings to pay a gambling debt, it leads to a string of betrayals.

A documentary about the late Jacques Demy, man and cineaste, by his widow, filmmaker Agnes Varda.

Thomas is fourteen and perhaps because not much happens in his remote village in southwestern France, he likes to tell tales. But then one day, something really does happen to him, something that upsets his life and the lives of everyone around him. The lives of his grandparents. The life of his father Maurice. The life of Martin, a stranger and fugitive he meets one day.

Based on the exploits of the famed Greek, young Alexander III conquers the world and becomes one of the most legendary leaders in human history.

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

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.

Chance encounters between several strangers, including a bourgeois housewife, a henpecked husband and a cellist, offer a comic peek at Parisian life.