Jonas (Robert Walker, Beware! The Blob), a young drifter, stops at a desolate roadside service station where Mara (Rita Hayworth, Separate Tables), the owner, identifies him as her son Rocky, who disappeared four years ago. Jonas is overwhelmed by the awkward situation, but tired and hungry, accepts Mara’s offer of room and board. Initially, he believes that Mara is simply delusional, but when Mara’s old friend and neighbor Warren (Ed Begley,...

Raised alone by their authoritarian father in a state of religious conservativism, two siblings without names grow up largely ignorant of the world outside their father's estate. One morning, they find him dead - hanging from a rafter - and must confront their surroundings in order to unravel the mystery of their strange existence. Honorable Mention for Best Canadian Film at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Nominated for Seven Awards,...

When the seductive Jeanne arrives at her boyfriend's childhood home, she is greeted by his brooding mother Anna (Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche). As the two women await him, a mysterious secret looms over the household, ready to boil over.

A slaughterhouse employee decides on a whim to rescue a calf as a gift for his daughter. A short film by French actress and César-winner Mélanie Thierry (Babylon A.D., Largo Winch, Au revoir là-haut).

A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).

The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle’s exceptional 19th century art collection dies. Adrienne, a successful New York designer, Frédéric, a university professor in Paris and Jérémie, a dynamic businessman expanding into China, are left to confront the end of childhood, their shared memories and separate visions of the future.

Camille (Audrey Tautou. Amelie, The Da Vinci Code) works evenings as an office cleaning woman and makes graceful drawings in her free time while living in the attic of a Parisian apartment block. Philibert (Laurent Stocker) is a young, aristocratic history buff living - temporarily - in an apartment lower down, part of the estate of his late grandmother. He has let out part of it to up-and-coming cook, Franck (Guillaume Canet), a gruff young loner...

Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel2s The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clm̌ence,...

A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events--Container.

Fatima lives on her own with two daughters to support: 15-year old Souad, a teenager in revolt, and 18-year old Nesrine, who is starting medical school. Inspired by a true story and the poetry of the North African writer Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing very little French and slowly taught herself the language. A patient, reflective study of a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's...