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 with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community...

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

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking...

When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with...

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is...

Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in the city, she stays with her older sister, Martine,...

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18...

Pierre is fascinated by the Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev, who, as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the...

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.

Anthropology professor Michal develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a...

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau,...

Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his...

After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he...

Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong...

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...

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love...

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity...

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...