An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple’s lives.

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her…

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She…

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her…

A champagne tycoon’s partner suspects his partner’s gigolo husband of murders he’s been framed for.

Drunk, Betty is feeling worse and worse, the previous evening is slowly coming back to her: her husband and her husband’s family had criticized her harshly, had sent her away….

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are…

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan (“Fumiko’s Five Benefactors” by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“A River of Diamonds” by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy (“The…

Line of Demarcation. is a 1966 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is La Ligne de démarcation. It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires…

Mika is the wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted…

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.

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.

An irritable and stressed-out hotel manager begins to develop paranoid delusions about his wife’s infidelity.

A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.

A Montreal police inspector (Donald Sutherland) cracks a murder case with clues from the victim’s diary.

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with…

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin’s place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger – apparently a fugitive from someone aboard – entrusts her with a jewel in…

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur–or is he?