Mireille Mathieu, along with Edith Piaf and Dalida, is part of France's national cultural heritage. The documentary shows the tension between the celebrated and at the same time banished, the ambassador of France in the world, who appears only rarely in her own homeland. Why is Mireille Mathieu, the unusual star, so divisive?

Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir ...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

For a long time, in France, comedy was the preserve of men. Female roles were mostly secondary and c...

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team u...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...

To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capot...

Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpub...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. ...

"Donatas Montvydas. 1987. Concert Film'. An incredible music show that will take you behind the scen...

A portrait of Spanish comic book author Paco Plaza.