Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons 1988

7.20

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

1988

Angelique

Angelique 1964

6.70

In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.

1964

Half Shot at Sunrise

Half Shot at Sunrise 1930

6.00

Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.

1930

The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game 1939

7.50

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

1939

Scaramouche

Scaramouche 1923

7.20

A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.

1923

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins 1962

5.60

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.

1962

Utopia

Utopia 1951

5.60

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.

1951

La Traversée de Paris

La Traversée de Paris 1956

7.25

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

1956

Black Magic

Black Magic 1949

6.30

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

1949

The Earrings of Madame de...

The Earrings of Madame de... 1953

7.50

In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

1953

French Cancan

French Cancan 1954

7.10

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

1954

Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris 1995

5.20

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

1995

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins 1952

6.00

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

1952

Quartet

Quartet 1981

5.80

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

1981

The Beauty of the Devil

The Beauty of the Devil 1950

7.22

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

1950

Who Works Is Lost

Who Works Is Lost 1963

5.30

Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had always regarded working as a worthwhile thing, the war, the partisans.

1963

The Dirty Game

The Dirty Game 1965

5.80

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

1965

Elena and Her Men

Elena and Her Men 1956

5.80

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.

1956

The Lovers of Montparnasse

The Lovers of Montparnasse 1958

7.00

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

1958

The Four Truths

The Four Truths 1962

4.20

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.

1962