This intimate, revealing film of conversations between Jean Rouch and a number of filmmakers and friends including John Marshall is unlike any past films on Rouch's life and work. It was shot over a two-year period, 1978-80 by his friend, Ann McIntosh.

At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children aged 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. Demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development.

An exploration of the complex creative process that goes into making documentary films. Features interviews with 38 directors and 163 clips of scenes from classic films plus a bonus disc with over four hours of additional filmmaker interviews.

FACES PLACES documents the authors' heart-warming journey through rural France and the unlikely, tender friendship they formed along the way. Winner of the Golden Eye at Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.

Abel Gance's extraordinary depiction of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is a landmark in cinema history. Painstakingly reconstructed by film historian Kevin Brownlow, the film has now been digitally restored in all its glory by Photoplay and the BFI National Archive.

Pépé le Moko is a gangster from Paris that hides in Algier's Casbah. In the Casbah, he is safe and is able to elude the police's attempts to capture him. But he misses his freedom, after two years in the Casbah. He meets a gorgeous Parisian tourist, Gaby, and they fall in love. Native inspector Slimane tries to use her to attract Pépé out of the Casbah in order to catch him.

During World War I, three captured French pilots have an uneasy relationship with their German commandant. The test comes when the German, with pistol in hand, must decide the fate of his prisoner whose escape plan has been foiled. The film is a comment on the hopelessness and deceitful glory inherent in any war.

A romantic story set against a backdrop of the popular theater and the underworld of mid-19th century Paris, with Arletty starring as a beautiful and sophisticated actress loved by four men.

Love and fear produce death in this murder drama. The plot to murder his lover's husband backfires when Tavernier is charged with two other murders.

The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father, who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from the Beast's garden. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. The Beast falls in love with her and proposes marriage on a nightly basis, which she refuses. Belle eventually becomes more drawn to the Beast, who tests her by letting her return home to her family, and telling her that if she does not return to him within a week, he will die of grief.

Monsieur Hulot is let loose in an ultramodern home of his sister and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose.

The manager of a Central American oilfield offers big money to drivers who will take trucks loaded with nitroglycerine into the jungle to put out an oil fire. Four men accept knowing their chances of survival are slim.

Jean Paul Belmondo plays Michel Poiccard, a hoodlum who after stealing a car to drive to Paris, discovers a gun in the glove department and shoots a policeman whom he encounters on the way. While in Paris, searching for a criminal who owes him money, he meets up with an American ex-girlfriend Patricia Franchini.

A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.

Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, and a German student, Jules; after the war, they meet again and form a constantly shifting triangle.

A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan's imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English.

Content: Le pont de mauves -- Attaque nocturne -- La ballerine -- Les horizons morts -- Le sabotier du val de Loire -- Ars -- La luxure -- L'univers de Jacques Demy (documentary by Agnès Varda - 1993).

Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own, he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.

François Truffaut's story of Bertrand Morane, a bachelor who is obsessed with women. Bertrand is no Don Juan--he is an intelligent and sensitive man who adores women of all ages, shapes and sizes. In an effort to understand his obsession, Bertrand writes his memoirs and remembers all the women he has loved.

Set in a Catholic boarding school during the German occupation of France, this is a powerful story of a sensitive, headstrong twelve year old boy who befriends the new student in the class and eventually discovers the secret surrounding his identity.

The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region, Marcel's affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his mother's true nature.

Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.

Chloe, a young makeup artist, leaves her cat, Gris-gris, with a local "cat lady." Upon arriving home, Gris-gris is missing and her search for her pet becomes a discovery of the neighborhood in which she lives.

Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life - educated at home by over-protective parents, she retreats into a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian cafe, life is pretty uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a tin box containing a schoolboy's long forgotten mementos.

Set in the 1930s when Eliane runs one of Indochina's biggest rubber plantations and looks after her adopted Indochinese daughter. Eliane meets and falls in love with a French navy officer. Her teenage daughter, who knows nothing of the affair, falls in love with the same officer after he saves her from a terrorist.

Hire is an isolated bachelor who works as a tailor, with no human contact outside his job beyond occasional visits to a brothel, a skating rink and a bowling alley. Though he talks to no-one and says he dislikes people, he observes them closely and in particular is struck by a young woman called Alice who moves into the building opposite and never closes her blinds.

Investigating the deaths of two monks, a visiting brother discovers a secret library containing rare books considered lost to the world and dangerous to the Catholic faith.

A poignant coming-of-age story set in southwest France in 1962. Sensitive young François is uncertain of his sexuality as he finds himself more attracted to his classmate Serge than to his platonic girlfriend Maïté. An older boy, Henri, is drawn into the circle, further complicating relationships. Through their passage into adulthood, the four experience a series of sexual and political conflicts as they explore the mysteries of the human heart.

Hélène, a distracted anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, suspecting that Hélène could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects.

Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.

The film is the first of a trilogy exploring the French Revolutionary ideals of freedom, equality and fraternity. Julie loses her husband, a composer, and child in a car accident. She tries to make a new start but music still surrounds her. Slowly she learns to live again and music proves to be a healing force.

Five soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but the fiancée of one of the soldiers refuses to give up hope.

Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.

In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, which is located near Paris. He is there under the care of Dr. Gachet and living in a humble inn.

Two years after World War I, Major Dellaplane helps two women search for the men they have lost in the war.

A medieval knight and his squire are transported into the present day. They begin an all-out comic assault on their former castle, now a hotel, in their quest to return to the past.

In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, so are dismayed to hear the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts they think only of getting the water.

Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.

Based on a true story, this is the dramatic tale of a husband and wife along with their associates in the French Resistance during several months of 1943.

Based on Bégaudeau's semi-autographical book Entre Les Murs (Between the Walls), "The Class" dramatizes a year in the life of a middle school in an immigrant heavy, multiracial neighborhood in Paris. The students are also nonprofessionals, and classroom sessions were improvised from workshops around specific themes. The documentary-approach to the filming puts the lie to the one-teacher-can-make-a-difference myth propagated by so many other films about school.

Silmane has worked in the same shipyard job for over 35 years, when his growing dissatisfaction prompts him to try to open his own restaurant.

Laure (Zoé Héran) is a 10 year old girl who over the summer moves to a new home. She introduces herself to the neighborhood kids as a boy, Mickäel, and participates in the games and activities with the children as a boy.

A series of anonymous videotapes and drawings unsettle a bourgeois family and as they get closer to solving the mystery of who is sending them, unpleasant secrets from the past rear their heads in a particularly extreme way.

The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, a millionaire aristocrat hires a young African man from the projects to be his caregiver.

In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers.

November 1918. A few days before the Armistice, Édouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. These two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. Thus, as Pradelle is about to make a fortune with the war victims' corpses, Albert and Édouard mount a monumental scam with the bereaved families' commemoration and with a nation's hero worship.

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad police unit in the suburbs of Paris, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel "Les Misérables". Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada, both experienced members of the team, he quickly discovers tensions are on the brink of exploding between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.