"Paris, Paris, you know, I would eat it..." wrote André Sauvage. An artist close to the avant-gardes, André Sauvage composed the first great filmed portrait of Paris. Its ambitious symphony of a big city marries, on the music composed by Jeff Mills, the changing rhythm of the Belle Époque. Contemporary of the dizzying explorations of Dziga Vertov and Walter Ruttmann, Sauvage is less fascinated by speed than by the repertoire of urban mobility, attentive to the neighborhoods he crosses, always curious about their furtive inhabitants. He draws a portrait of Paris in five studies: Paris-Port, North-South, the islands of Paris, the Little Belt and from the Saint-Jacques tower to the Sainte-Geneviève mountain.

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.

This documentary traces the capture of serial killer Guy Georges through the tireless work of two wo...

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World ...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

Under the Eyes retraces the route of a parisian hardcore band, from creation to their first concert....

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the adven...

Using a rostrum camera, Raymond Depardon films a long series of photos, from the narrow streets of P...

"I often say sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defence. Basically, you use it to defend yo...

Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Sta...

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

This illuminating documentary examines the aftermath of Princess Diana's tragic death and the tense,...

This documentary about legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf begins at her birth (which was helped a...

Five floors. Forty apartments. Rats, leaks and debts. In Pantin, I live in a building with a danger ...