Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...

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...

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation...

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

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But...

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

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearb...

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

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the ...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, wh...

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famo...

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become...

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where t...

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...