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.

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...

In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Betwe...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside C...

François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up o...

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...

Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house he...

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He n...

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit...

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, ...

Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night h...

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long tim...

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...