The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first Western film. It is based on the classic French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s...

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husb...

A renowned and widowed otolaryngologist hires a young, penniless poet as live-in nanny for his three...

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa...

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h...

Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict betw...

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any k...

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story re...

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a g...

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have...

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-f...

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can sho...