World Cinema Canon

A fictionalized retelling of the story of Sada Abe, whose affair with her master quickly turned obsessive and sadomasochistic.

A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.

A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.

An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet.

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.

After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

In sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

Paris, summer 1960. Michel is about to leave for Algeria for military service. He meets Liliane and Juliette, two inseparable friends. Michel goes on vacation to Corsica, where the two girls decide to join him

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses, his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.