Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.

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 ...

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowl...

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...

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

The encounters of two people who run into each other on several occasions under circumstances rangin...

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of ...

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a trans...

Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detec...

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cro...

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of h...

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When t...

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris Wo...

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person...