Simone Signoret

The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.

The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the ...

French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and ’70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the ...

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she’s a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to ...

A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot is a ...

A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. ...

A documentary about the making of L’Aveu / Confession (Costa Gavras, 1970), adapted from the memoirs of Czech communist Arthur London, ...

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other ...

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he’s being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary ...