Gebo and the Shadow
2012 1.0 ★ 94 mins Drama Rated: NR
Gebo is a poor but virtuous Lithuanian man who lives with his sullen wife and devoted daughter-in-law; his only son Joao vanished years earlier. When Joao shows up again, the blessing of his return is soon followed by brazen theft from his father.
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Two in the Wave
2010 3.4 ★ 92 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Emmanuel Laurent appeals directly to fellow film buffs with this absorbing portrait of French New Wave icons François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, capturing their relationship through rare interviews and archival f...
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Two in the Wave
2010 3.4 ★ 92 mins Documentaries Rated: NR
Emmanuel Laurent appeals directly to fellow film buffs with this absorbing portrait of French New Wave icons François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, capturing their relationship through rare interviews and archival footage. Laurent's documentary premiered at Cannes Film Festival exactly 50 years after the Cannes debut of Truffaut's first feature, The 400 Blows -- a film that signaled the New Wave's cinematic arrival to much fanfare.
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Carmel
2009 1.8 ★ 93 mins Dramas Rated: NR  until 01-Jan-2025 
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai -- a war veteran whose son fights in the conflict that has seized the region -- interweaves a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Middle East's bloody and complex history with personal reflections on family and war. Actress Jeanne Moreau delivers texts and poems in voice-over throughout this thought-provoking collage of image, sound and ideas. This film was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Face
2009 3.4 ★ 138 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Taiwanese director Hsiao-Kang (Kang-sheng Lee) journeys to the Louvre in Paris, where he shoots a wild adaptation of the story of Salome (supermodel Laetitia Casta), the stepdaughter of Herod who demands the head of John the Baptist (
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Carmel
2009 1.8 ★ 93 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025 
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai -- a war veteran whose son fights in the conflict that has seized the region -- interweaves a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Middle East's bloody and complex history with personal reflections on family and war. Actress Jeanne Moreau delivers texts and poems in voice-over throughou...
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Face
2009 3.4 ★ 138 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Taiwanese director Hsiao-Kang (Kang-sheng Lee) journeys to the Louvre in Paris, where he shoots a wild adaptation of the story of Salome (supermodel Laetitia Casta), the stepdaughter of Herod who demands the head of John the Baptist (Jean-Pierre Léaud). Léaud joins Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant and Nathalie Baye -- all mainstays of François Truffaut's films -- in director Ming-liang Tsai's dreamy tribute to the French new wave.
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One Day You'll Understand
2008 3.0 ★ 89 mins Dramas Rated: NR
All his life, Victor (Hippolyte Girardot) has remained in the dark when it comes to his Jewish mother's (Jeanne Moreau) side of the family. She's absorbed in the trial of Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie, but frustrates Victor with her refusal to discuss the past. When he finally uncovers documents that reveal his parents' experiences during the war, Victor begins to understand her reluctance. Emmanuelle Devos co-stars in Amos Gitai's powerful drama.
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One Day You'll Understand
2008 3.0 ★ 89 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
All his life, Victor (Hippolyte Girardot) has remained in the dark when it comes to his Jewish mother's (Jeanne Moreau) side of the family. She's absorbed in the trial of Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie, but frustrates Victor with her refusal to discuss the past. When he finally uncovers documents that re...
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Disengagement
2007 2.7 ★ 115 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
When her father's death brings her estranged Israeli stepbrother, Uli (Liron Levo), back into her life, Ana (Juliette Binoche) leaves the comforts of France and travels back to Israel, where she hopes to find the now-grown daughter she left behind 20 years ago.
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Disengagement
2007 2.7 ★ 115 mins Dramas Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
When her father's death brings her estranged Israeli stepbrother, Uli (Liron Levo), back into her life, Ana (Juliette Binoche) leaves the comforts of France and travels back to Israel, where she hopes to find the now-grown daughter she left behind 20 years ago. Jeanne Moreau, Barbara Hendricks and Dana Ivgy co-star in this politically charged drama from director Amos Gitai, who also co-wrote the script.
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Go West
2005 2.7 ★ 97 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
While trying to flee war-torn Sarajevo, Muslim cellist Kenan (Mario Drmac) disguises himself as a woman to avoid questioning by the Serbs. Together, he and his star-crossed gay lover, Serbian student Milan (Tarik Filipovic), must keep up the charade long enough for them to escape. Director
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Time to Leave
2005 3.3 ★ 81 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
At the height of his career, a gay fashion photographer suddenly faces terminal cancer in this French drama helmed by Francois Ozon. When Romain (Melvil Poupaud) learns he has little time left to live, he decides to tell only his beloved grandmother of his condition, pushing away everyone else in his...
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Time to Leave
2005 3.3 ★ 81 mins Dramas Rated: NR
At the height of his career, a gay fashion photographer suddenly faces terminal cancer in this French drama helmed by Francois Ozon. When Romain (Melvil Poupaud) learns he has little time left to live, he decides to tell only his beloved grandmother of his condition, pushing away everyone else in his life -- his parents, his sister, even his lover. Refusing chemotherapy, he struggles to accept his fate and make the most of his precious last days.
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Go West
2005 2.7 ★ 97 mins Comedies Rated: NR
While trying to flee war-torn Sarajevo, Muslim cellist Kenan (Mario Drmac) disguises himself as a woman to avoid questioning by the Serbs. Together, he and his star-crossed gay lover, Serbian student Milan (Tarik Filipovic), must keep up the charade long enough for them to escape. Director Ahmed Imamovic weaves elements of farce and satire into his wartime romance, the first gay-themed film out of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Cet Amour-La
2003 2.8 ★ 98 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Jeanne Moreau stars in this biographical look at Marguerite Duras, the Indochina-born French author whose popular books were adapted into plays and films. Duras is wasting away the last years of her storied life plagued with writer's block and adrift in an alcoholic haze that is, until she meets Yann Andrea, a man considerably younger than Duras, and falls passionately in lov...
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Cet Amour-La
2003 2.8 ★ 98 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Jeanne Moreau stars in this biographical look at Marguerite Duras, the Indochina-born French author whose popular books were adapted into plays and films. Duras is wasting away the last years of her storied life plagued with writer's block and adrift in an alcoholic haze that is, until she meets Yann Andrea, a man considerably younger than Duras, and falls passionately in love with him.
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Les Miserables
2000 3.8 ★ Drama Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
This adaption of the classic novel by Victor Hugo stars Gerard Depardieu as Jean Valjean, a Frenchman jailed for 19 years for stealing bread. Though he finds redemption and turns his life around, Valjean must still elude police inspector Javert.
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Les Miserables: Pt. 2
2000 TV Shows Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
When Cosette falls in love with a dashing young man, Jean Valjean must come to terms with the fact that she has a right to live the way she wishes.
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Les Miserables
2000 3.7 ★ TV Shows until 01-Jan-2025
This adaption of the classic novel by Victor Hugo stars Gerard Depardieu as Jean Valjean, a Frenchman jailed for 19 years for stealing bread. Though he finds redemption and turns his life around, Valjean must still elude police inspector Javert.
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Les Miserables: Pt. 1
2000 TV Shows Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
After spending 19 years in jail for stealing bread, Jean Valjean emerges from prison hungry for life, but he's hounded by police inspector Javert.
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
1999 3.3 ★ 210 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Gérard Depardieu -- cast partly for his resemblance to Rodin's sculpture of Honoré de Balzac -- plays the French literary genius in this miniseries that focuses on Balzac's troubled relationships with women and how they inspired his greatest works. Jeanne Moreau plays Balzac's cold and ov...
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
1999 3.3 ★ 210 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Gérard Depardieu -- cast partly for his resemblance to Rodin's sculpture of Honoré de Balzac -- plays the French literary genius in this miniseries that focuses on Balzac's troubled relationships with women and how they inspired his greatest works. Jeanne Moreau plays Balzac's cold and overcritical mother; Virna Lisa is his high-society lover; and Fanny Ardent is Countess Eve Hanska, the married noblewoman for whom Balzac pined.
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story
1998 3.8 ★ 121 mins Romance Rated: PG-13
Orphaned as a child, Danielle is treated like a servant by her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. When Danielle stumbles onto Prince Henry, who's fleeing an arranged marriage, the two inspire each other to resolve their respective troubles.
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story
1998 3.8 ★ 121 mins Dramas Rated: PG-13
Orphaned as a child, Danielle is treated like a servant by her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. When Danielle stumbles onto Prince Henry, who's fleeing an arranged marriage, the two inspire each other to resolve their respective troubles.
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I Love You, I Love You Not
1996 2.9 ★ 80 mins Dramas Rated: PG-13 until 01-Jan-2025 
Based on the acclaimed play by Wendy Kesselman, this film tells the story of Daisy (Claire Danes), a shy teenager who conceals her Judaism from her classmates at a Manhattan private school. Daisy's closest friend is her grandmother, Nana (Jeanne Moreau). A Holocaust survivor, Nana tells Daisy of her youth spent in a concentration camp just as Daisy is experiencing anti-Semitism at her school. Only Nana can help Daisy through this difficult time.
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I Love You, I Love You Not
1996 2.9 ★ 80 mins Drama Rated: PG-13 until 01-Jan-2025
Based on the acclaimed play by Wendy Kesselman, this film tells the story of Daisy (Claire Danes), a shy teenager who conceals her Judaism from her classmates at a Manhattan private school. Daisy's closest friend is her grandmother, Nana (Jeanne Moreau). A Holocaust survivor, Nana tells Daisy of her youth sp...
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The World of Jacques Demy
1995 3.0 ★ 90 mins Documentaries Rated: UR
For a change, French New Wave auteur Jacques Demy is in front of, instead of behind, the lens in this fascinating documentary -- directed by his wife, filmmaker Agnes Varda -- that looks at Demy's life and his work. Get to know the director of the seminal Bay of Angels, Lola and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg through the eyes of those closest to him.
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The World of Jacques Demy
1995 3.0 ★ 90 mins Foreign (English) Rated: UR
For a change, French New Wave auteur Jacques Demy is in front of, instead of behind, the lens in this fascinating documentary -- directed by his wife, filmmaker Agnes Varda -- that looks at Demy's life and his work. Get to know the director of the seminal Bay of Angels, Lola and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg th...
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Catherine the Great
1995 2.9 ★ 100 mins Dramas Rated: NR
This intimate film retells the story of the inimitable teen bride (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who used her feminine wiles to become the empress of 18th-century Russia. With the help of Grigory Potemkin (Paul McGann) -- and a little bedroom manipulation -- Catherine ends the Seven Years War, conquers Turkey and quashes a Cossack rebellion. This historical flick co-stars Ian Richardson, John Rhys-Davies and Omar Sharif.
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Catherine the Great
1995 3.0 ★ 100 mins Drama Rated: NR
This intimate film retells the story of the inimitable teen bride (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who used her feminine wiles to become the empress of 18th-century Russia. With the help of Grigory Potemkin (Paul McGann) -- and a little bedroom manipulation -- Catherine ends the Seven Years War, conquers Tu...
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Map of the Human Heart
1993 3.2 ★ 109 mins Dramas Rated: R until 01-Jan-2025
Told in flashback, this epic drama about love, friendship and race traces a romantic triangle across the decades. When a white Inuit boy named Avik contracts tuberculosis, Walter -- a visiting cartographer -- whisks him off to Montreal for treatment. There, Avik falls in love with Albertine, a mixed-race North American Indian girl who later becomes Walter's mistress. Jason Scott Lee, Patrick Bergin, Anne Parillaud and John Cusack star.
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A Foreign Field
1993 3.5 ★ 95 mins Comedy Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
Returning to the deserted beaches of Normandy 50 years after they fought there as soldiers, British World War II veterans Amos (Alec Guinness) and Cyril (Leo McKern) meet up with Waldo (John Randolph), a vacationing American vet. But their new...
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A Foreign Field
1993 3.5 ★ 95 mins Comedies Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
Returning to the deserted beaches of Normandy 50 years after they fought there as soldiers, British World War II veterans Amos (Alec Guinness) and Cyril (Leo McKern) meet up with Waldo (John Randolph), a vacationing American vet. But their new friendship turns sour when a pretty face (Jeanne Moreau) emerges from the past, and Cyril and Waldo vie for her affection. Lauren Bacall and Geraldine Chaplin co-star.
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Map of the Human Heart
1993 3.3 ★ 109 mins Drama Rated: R until 01-Jan-2025
Told in flashback, this epic drama about love, friendship and race traces a romantic triangle across the decades. When a white Inuit boy named Avik contracts tuberculosis, Walter -- a visiting cartographer -- whisks him off to Montreal for treatment. There, Avik falls in love with Albertine, a mixed-race North American Indian girl who later becomes Walter's mistress. Jason Scot...
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La Femme Nikita
 1990 3.7 ★ 117 mins Foreign (English) Rated: R
Internationally acclaimed director Luc Besson delivers the action-packed story of Nikita (Anne Parillaud), a ruthless street junkie whose killer instincts could make her the perfect weapon, in this French film that was remade as Point of No Return in the U.S. Recruited against her will into a secret government ...
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La Femme Nikita
1990 3.7 ★ 117 mins Action & Adventure Rated: R
Internationally acclaimed director Luc Besson delivers the action-packed story of Nikita (Anne Parillaud), a ruthless street junkie whose killer instincts could make her the perfect weapon, in this French film that was remade as Point of No Return in the U.S. Recruited against her will into a secret government organization, Nikita is broken and transformed into a sexy, sophisticated "lethal weapon."
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Hotel Terminus
1988 3.0 ★ 5340 mins Documentary Rated: NR
Nazi Gestapo leader Klaus Barbie excelled at torture, earning him the epithet "the Butcher of Lyons." Through a series of interviews, this powerful Oscar-winning documentary explores the life of the infamous war criminal, beginning with his childhood and moving on to his career as an SS interrogator. After the war, Barbie spent 40 years in hiding, was eventually deported fr...
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Hotel Terminus
1988 3.0 ★ 267 mins Documentaries Rated: NR
Nazi Gestapo leader Klaus Barbie excelled at torture, earning him the epithet "the Butcher of Lyons." Through a series of interviews, this powerful Oscar-winning documentary explores the life of the infamous war criminal, beginning with his childhood and moving on to his career as an SS interrogator. After the war, Barbie spent 40 years in hiding, was eventually deported from Bolivia and, in 1987, stood trial for crimes against humanity.
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Querelle
1982 2.9 ★ 106 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
For his final film, acclaimed director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Stationmaster's Wife) adapted a Jean Genet novel about a French sailor named Querelle (Brad Davis) who's exploring his long-repressed homosexuality. Veteran Fre...
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La Truite
1982 2.6 ★ 104 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Isabelle Huppert stars as Frédérique, a headstrong young woman who casts off her small-town life in hopes of finding romance and intrigue in Japan. But once she's there, she begins to long for something new again and finally realizes it's not where she is physically but emotionally that brings her lasting joy. Co-stars
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La Truite
1982 2.6 ★ 104 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Isabelle Huppert stars as Frédérique, a headstrong young woman who casts off her small-town life in hopes of finding romance and intrigue in Japan. But once she's there, she begins to long for something new again and finally realizes it's not where she is physically but emotionally that brings her lasting joy. Co-stars Roland Bertin, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Jeanne Moreau.
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Querelle
1982 2.9 ★ 106 mins Dramas Rated: NR
For his final film, acclaimed director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Stationmaster's Wife) adapted a Jean Genet novel about a French sailor named Querelle (Brad Davis) who's exploring his long-repressed homosexuality. Veteran French actress Jeanne Moreau plays the wife of the owner of the brothel in the port town of Brest, France, where Querelle finds his curiosity turning from promiscuity to genuine love for one man. Franco Nero co-stars.
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The Last Tycoon
1976 2.9 ★ 123 mins Drama Rated: PG
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel about Hollywood and its denizens, this Elia Kazan-helmed drama tells the tale of Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro), a 1930s studio head driven to succeed at all costs in his industry but pining for a lost love in private. Playwright Harold Pinter penned the script of...
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Mr. Klein
1976 3.4 ★ 123 mins Dramas Rated: NR
It's 1942, and the Nazis have begun their reign of terror in Europe. In Paris, French-Catholic art dealer Robert Klein (Alain Delon) is busy buying up the valuables of Jews who are anxious to escape to safety when his profitable endeavor takes an unexpected turn. A package arrives at Robert's doorstep addressed to a Jewish man who bears his name, and he's soon pulled into a mystery that will hit much closer to home than he suspects.
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The Last Tycoon
1976 2.9 ★ 123 mins Dramas Rated: PG
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel about Hollywood and its denizens, this Elia Kazan-helmed drama tells the tale of Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro), a 1930s studio head driven to succeed at all costs in his industry but pining for a lost love in private. Playwright Harold Pinter penned the script of this Academy Award-nominated film, which features Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson and Jeanne Moreau.
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Mr. Klein
1976 3.4 ★ 123 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
It's 1942, and the Nazis have begun their reign of terror in Europe. In Paris, French-Catholic art dealer Robert Klein (Alain Delon) is busy buying up the valuables of Jews who are anxious to escape to safety when his profitable endeavor takes an unexpected turn. A package arrives at Robert's doorstep addressed to a Jewish man who bears his name, and he's soon pulled into a mys...
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Creezy
1974 2.5 ★ 90 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Distinguished French actor Alain Delon stars as Julien, a young politician on his way to becoming the next prime minister of France. With his career flourishing, nothing could be better -- until he unexpectedly falls in love with a gorgeous model named Creezy (Sydne Rome). Torn between his new love and his pro...
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Going Places
1974 3.2 ★ 118 mins Foreign (English) Rated: R until 01-Jan-2025
Decadent drifters Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere), in an effort to flout bourgeois morality, go on a bizarre crime spree in director Bertrand Blier's provocative cult comedy that features an ea...
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Creezy
1974 2.5 ★ 90 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Distinguished French actor Alain Delon stars as Julien, a young politician on his way to becoming the next prime minister of France. With his career flourishing, nothing could be better -- until he unexpectedly falls in love with a gorgeous model named Creezy (Sydne Rome). Torn between his new love and his professional ambitions, Julien must choose between his own happiness and his country's. Jeanne Moreau stars as Julien's political advisor.
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Going Places
1974 3.2 ★ 118 mins Comedies Rated: R until 01-Jan-2025
Decadent drifters Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere), in an effort to flout bourgeois morality, go on a bizarre crime spree in director Bertrand Blier's provocative cult comedy that features an early appearance by Isabelle Huppert. The two vagabonds wander the French countryside looking for trouble -- and find it when they kidnap a jaded beautician (Miou-Miou) and cross paths with a lusty ex-convict (Jeanne Moreau).
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Nathalie Granger
1972 2.7 ★ 79 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Against a backdrop of domestic routine that borders on banality, two friends (Jeanne Moreau and Lucia Bosé) discuss the events of the day, including the housekeeper's immigration status and the troubling behavior of one of their daughters, Nathalie Granger (
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Nathalie Granger
1972 2.7 ★ 79 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Against a backdrop of domestic routine that borders on banality, two friends (Jeanne Moreau and Lucia Bosé) discuss the events of the day, including the housekeeper's immigration status and the troubling behavior of one of their daughters, Nathalie Granger (Valerie Mascolo). A young Gérard Depardieu co-stars in this classic example of French-language minimalism, written and directed by novelist Marguerite Duras.
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Monte Walsh
1970 3.6 ★ 99 mins Action & Adventure Rated: PG-13
The unavoidable march of progress and its effect on everyday life in the Old West is examined in this evocative Western starring Lee Marvin as Monte Walsh, an aging cowboy facing the eradication of small cattle ranches and consequent unemployment. Along with his best pal Chet (Jack Palance), Monte contemplates quitting the restless life of an itinerant cowhand and settling down. But the loss of freedom causes him to hesitate, with tragic results.
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Monte Walsh
1970 3.6 ★ 99 mins Action & Adventure Rated: PG-13
The unavoidable march of progress and its effect on everyday life in the Old West is examined in this evocative Western starring Lee Marvin as Monte Walsh, an aging cowboy facing the eradication of small cattle ranches and consequent unemployment. Along with his best pal Chet (Jack Palance), Monte contemplates q...
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The Bride Wore Black
1968 3.6 ★ 107 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Legendary director François Truffaut crafted this interpretation of William Irish's suspense-filled novel. Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) is a woman whose revenge skills are tested when her fiancé is brutally murdered by five men. Stoic and focused, Julie decides to track down all five culprits and engineer their demise. Truffaut's Golden Globe-nominated thriller is accompanied by composer Bernard Herrmann's menacing musical score.
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The Bride Wore Black
1968 3.3 ★ 108 mins Foreign (French) Rated: UR
Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) is a joyful bride-to-be until her fiancee is murdered and she must hunt down the assassins and avenge her lover's death.
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The Bride Wore Black
1968 3.6 ★ 107 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Legendary director François Truffaut crafted this interpretation of William Irish's suspense-filled novel. Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) is a woman whose revenge skills are tested when her fiancé is brutally murdered by five men. Stoic and focused, Julie decides to track down all five cul...
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Mademoiselle
1966 2.9 ★ 103 mins Dramas Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
The denizens of a bucolic French community would be stunned to discover that the town's prim-and-proper schoolteacher (Jeanne Moreau), who prefers to be addressed as "Mademoiselle," is the anonymous sociopath who's been perpetrating destructive acts in their midst. But the devil didn't make her do it: Her motivation is all about frustrated passion for an Italian lumberjack (Ettore Manni) in this lusty melodrama directed by Tony Richardson.
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Mademoiselle
1966 2.9 ★ 103 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
The denizens of a bucolic French community would be stunned to discover that the town's prim-and-proper schoolteacher (Jeanne Moreau), who prefers to be addressed as "Mademoiselle," is the anonymous sociopath who's been perpetrating destructive acts in their midst. But the devil didn't make her do it: Her motivation is all about frustrated passion for an Italian lumberjack (<...
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Viva Maria!
1965 2.8 ★ 117 mins Comedies Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
French bombshells Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau team up as two buxom women named Maria who unwittingly invent the striptease near the turn of the century -- and become such a sensation that enthusiastic audiences strip down right along with them. But when one of the ladies falls for a handsome revolutionary (George Hamilton), she and her new beau soon find themselves embroiled in an armed peasant revolt.
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Viva Maria!
1965 2.8 ★ 117 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
French bombshells Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau team up as two buxom women named Maria who unwittingly invent the striptease near the turn of the century -- and become such a sensation that enthusiastic audiences strip down right along with them. But when one of the ladies falls for a handsome revolutio...
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Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 3.3 ★ 98 mins Foreign (English) Rated: UR
This wicked adaption of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Buñuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with Buñuel regulars
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Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 3.3 ★ 98 mins Dramas Rated: UR
This wicked adaption of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Buñuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with Buñuel regulars Michel Piccoli (as a philandering husband) and Muni (as his l'amour fou).
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964 3.2 ★ 122 mins Classics Rated: NR
One bright-yellow Rolls Royce has three different owners in this star-studded comedy-drama with an ensemble cast that includes Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine,
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The Train
1964 3.6 ★ 133 mins Action & Adventure Rated: NR
During World War II, a French train engineer (Burt Lancaster) attempts to stop a Nazi-led train from leaving France with valuable works of art stolen from a museum. Lancaster performs all of his own stunts in this action-filled drama from influential from director John Frankenheimer (Birdman of Alcatra...
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964 3.2 ★ 122 mins Classic Movies Rated: NR
One bright-yellow Rolls Royce has three different owners in this star-studded comedy-drama with an ensemble cast that includes Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif, Art Carney, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon. Presented as a progression of three stories, the film earned a Golden Globe nod for Best Original Score, ultimately winning the award for Best Original Song ("Forget Domani").
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The Train
1964 3.6 ★ 133 mins Action & Adventure Rated: NR RT:100%
During World War II, a French train engineer (Burt Lancaster) attempts to stop a Nazi-led train from leaving France with valuable works of art stolen from a museum. Lancaster performs all of his own stunts in this action-filled drama from influential from director John Frankenheimer (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate). Franklin Coen and Frank Davis received Oscar nominations for the film's original screenplay.
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Banana Peel
1963 2.2 ★ 98 mins Classic Movies Rated: NR
Con artist Michel Thibault (a supercool Jean-Paul Belmondo) and a beautiful woman (Jeanne Moreau) lead a gang of crafty criminals in a scheme to relieve greedy millionaire Raymond Lachard (Gert Fröbe) of some of his riches. Set largely across the gorgeous backdrop of the French Riviera, Banana Peel is a breezy early work from director Marcel Ophüls, who later directed the Holocaust documentary The Sorrow and the Pity.
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Banana Peel
1963 2.2 ★ 98 mins Classics Rated: NR
Con artist Michel Thibault (a supercool Jean-Paul Belmondo) and a beautiful woman (Jeanne Moreau) lead a gang of crafty criminals in a scheme to relieve greedy millionaire Raymond Lachard (Gert Fröbe) of some of his riches. Set l...
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Bay of Angels
1963 3.1 ★ 79 mins Foreign (English) Rated: UR
While vacationing in Nice, problem gambler Jackie Demaistre (Jeanne Moreau, beautifully decked out in designer Pierre Cardin's creations) meets Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a banker who's just as enamored of casinos as she is. Before too long, their attraction to the vice draws them together; but just as qu...
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The Fire Within
1963 3.5 ★ 108 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Weighed down by depression and not helped by the clinic where his estranged wife has sent him, alcoholic writer Alain Leroy (Maurice Ronet) decides to end his life, but determines to spend his last day trying to find a connection that will make him change his mind. Jeanne Moreau and
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Bay of Angels
1963 3.1 ★ 79 mins Dramas Rated: UR
While vacationing in Nice, problem gambler Jackie Demaistre (Jeanne Moreau, beautifully decked out in designer Pierre Cardin's creations) meets Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a banker who's just as enamored of casinos as she is. Before too long, their attraction to the vice draws them together; but just as quickly, it threatens to tear them apart. Love is a gamble in this 1963 film directed by Jacques Demy.
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The Fire Within
1963 3.5 ★ 108 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Weighed down by depression and not helped by the clinic where his estranged wife has sent him, alcoholic writer Alain Leroy (Maurice Ronet) decides to end his life, but determines to spend his last day trying to find a connection that will make him change his mind. Jeanne Moreau and Léna Skerla co-star in this critically acclaimed existential psychological drama from Louis Malle.
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Jules and Jim
1962 3.7 ★ 105 mins Dramas Rated: NR RT:97%
Writers Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are close friends who fall in love with the same woman, the unpredictable Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), amid the turbulence of World War I Paris in one of director François Truffaut's best-loved films, adapted from the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. What results is a decades-long love triangle that both tests and strengthens the bond between the two men.
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Jules and Jim
1962 3.7 ★ 105 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Writers Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are close friends who fall in love with the same woman, the unpredictable Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), amid the turbulence of World War I Paris in one of director
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La Notte
1962 3.6 ★ 115 mins Dramas Rated: UR RT:71%
Writer Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife, Lydia (Jeanne Moreau), begin the day by visiting a dying friend in this exercise in alienation and indifference from writer and director Michelangelo Antonioni. Later, Giovanni attends a party for his new book, while Lydia visits their old home in Milan. The pair decides to attend yet another party, where they flirt with others, setting the stage for their marriage's eventual demise.
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The Trial
1962 3.3 ★ 119 mins Classics Rated: NR
Director Orson Welles's brilliant adaptation of Franz Kafka's existential novel casts Anthony Perkins as Josef K, a bank clerk who finds himself at the mercy of a powerful and bizarre judicial system when he's arrested for an unnamed crime. In his efforts to exonerate himself, the bewildered Josef becomes e...
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The Trial
1962 3.4 ★ 119 mins Classic Movies Rated: NR
Director Orson Welles's brilliant adaptation of Franz Kafka's existential novel casts Anthony Perkins as Josef K, a bank clerk who finds himself at the mercy of a powerful and bizarre judicial system when he's arrested for an unnamed crime. In his efforts to exonerate himself, the bewildered Josef becomes ensnared in a ponderous maze of bureaucratic camouflage and faceless courtrooms. Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and Elsa Martinelli co-star.
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Eva
1962 2.6 ★ 119 mins Classics Rated: UR
The cushy life of writer Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker) turns upside down when he meets erotic but scheming Eva Olivier (Jeanne Moreau). Tyvian becomes obsessed with her and deserts his beautiful fiancée, Francesca (Virna Lisi), to chas...
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La Notte
1962 3.6 ★ 115 mins Foreign (English) Rated: UR
Writer Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife, Lydia (Jeanne Moreau), begin the day by visiting a dying friend in this exercise in alienation and indifference from writer and director Michelangelo Antonioni....
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Eva
1962 2.6 ★ 119 mins Classic Movies Rated: UR
The cushy life of writer Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker) turns upside down when he meets erotic but scheming Eva Olivier (Jeanne Moreau). Tyvian becomes obsessed with her and deserts his beautiful fiancée, Francesca (Virna Lisi), to chase Eva to Rome, where he satisfies all her extravagant whims. When she cruelly dismisses him, Tyvian returns to wed Francesca but abandons her on their honeymoon for Eva -- leading to his distraught wife's sui...
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Dangerous Liaisons
1961 3.6 ★ 106 mins Foreign Rated: NR
Director Roger Vadim takes Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century novel about sex and seduction and transplants it to a pre-1960s Paris where jazz clubs and sexual permissiveness are the order of the day. Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe play a jaded couple who entertain themselves by dallying with others, and Annette Vadim portrays the virtuous Marianne Tourvel, whose reputation the duo is intent on destroying.
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Jules and Jim: Bonus Material
1961 3.6 ★ 60 mins Foreign (English) Rated: UR
You'll love this Criterion disc's bonus material on director François Truffaut's masterwork about a 30-year friendship between two men. Features include audio interviews with Truffaut, plus in-depth video interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard, co-writer Jean Gruault and film scholars Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew. In addition, the DVD contains two short ...
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Jules and Jim: Bonus Material
1961 3.6 ★ 60 mins Dramas Rated: UR
You'll love this Criterion disc's bonus material on director François Truffaut's masterwork about a 30-year friendship between two men. Features include audio interviews with Truffaut, plus in-depth video interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard, co-writer Jean Gruault and film scholars Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew. In addition, the DVD contains two short subjects (Cineastres de Norte Temps and a segment of L'Invite du Dimanche).
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Five Branded Women
1960 3.3 ★ Dramas Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
Four Yugoslavian women (Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina) who've slept with a Nazi officer (Steve Forrest) -- and one woman who's merely accused of doing so (Vera Miles) -- are rounded up by angry villagers, who shave the women's heads and banish them from town in this drama about the horrors of war. The women want to strike back against the Nazis, but the resistance fighters don't welcome their help.
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Five Branded Women
1960 3.3 ★ Drama Rated: NR until 01-Jan-2025
Four Yugoslavian women (Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina) who've slept with a Nazi officer (
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1959 3.1 ★ 102 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Jeanne Moreau stars as Juliette and Gerard Philipe as Valmont in this Roger Vadim retelling of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel. Juliette and Valmont are a cruel couple intent on breaking hearts, openly engaging in affairs to outdo each other. When their heartless mind games are threatened by Valmont's growing love for Marianne (Annette Vadim), Juliette, who can handle her husband's infidelity but not his love for another, wreaks havoc.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1959 3.1 ★ 102 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Jeanne Moreau stars as Juliette and Gerard Philipe as Valmont in this Roger Vadim retelling of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel. Juliette and Valmont are a cruel couple intent on breaking hearts, openly engaging in affairs to outdo each...
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The Lovers
1958 3.2 ★ 90 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Bored with both her husband and her lover, housewife Jeanne Tournier (Jeanne Moreau) spends a passionate night with attractive archeologist Bernard Dubois-Lambert (Jean-Marc Bory), a tryst that leads her to rethink her life. Upon its 1958 release, Louis Malle's visually poetic erotic drama created international controversy, including the arrest of a Cleveland theater owner for obscenity in a case that eventually went to the Supreme Court.
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The Lovers
1958 3.2 ★ 90 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Bored with both her husband and her lover, housewife Jeanne Tournier (Jeanne Moreau) spends a passionate night with attractive archeologist Bernard Dubois-Lambert (Jean-Marc Bory), a tryst that leads her to rethink her life. Upon its 1958 release,
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Elevator to the Gallows: Bonus Material
1957 3.8 ★ 60 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
This companion disc to Louis Malle's French thriller includes archival interviews with the director, actors Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet, and original soundtrack session pianist Rene Urtreger, footage of Miles Davis and
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Elevator to the Gallows
1957 3.7 ★ 92 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
When the bewitching Florence (Jeanne Moreau) and her lover, Julien (Maurice Ronet), plot to kill Florence's unsuspecting husband (Jean Wall), they don't count on a technical glitch -- a broken elevator -- getting in the way of the perfect...
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Elevator to the Gallows: Bonus Material
1957 3.8 ★ 60 mins Dramas Rated: NR
This companion disc to Louis Malle's French thriller includes archival interviews with the director, actors Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet, and original soundtrack session pianist Rene Urtreger, footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session and a new video program about the score with critic Gary Giddins and jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis.
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Elevator to the Gallows
1957 3.7 ★ 92 mins Dramas Rated: NR
When the bewitching Florence (Jeanne Moreau) and her lover, Julien (Maurice Ronet), plot to kill Florence's unsuspecting husband (Jean Wall), they don't count on a technical glitch -- a broken elevator -- getting in the way of the perfect murder. Louis Malle directs this haunting French thriller in his feature film debut, an impressive achievement heightened by the film's memorable improvisational score composed by jazz legend Miles Davis.
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954 3.7 ★ 96 mins Dramas Rated: NR
Jacques Becker's thriller stars Jean Gabin as Max, an aging, gentlemanly mobster who thinks he's about to retire after a massively successful heist. But he soon discovers that someone else has his eye on the loot: a brutal crime boss named Angelo (Lino Ventura). Angelo heard about the jackpot from his girlfriend (Jeanne Moreau), and he gives Max a choice to give up the cash or sacrifice himself, and what ensues is a tense game of cat and mouse.
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954 3.7 ★ 96 mins Foreign (English) Rated: NR
Jacques Becker's thriller stars Jean Gabin as Max, an aging, gentlemanly mobster who thinks he's about to retire after a massively successful heist. But he soon discovers that someone else has his eye on the loot: a brutal crime boss named Angelo (
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Citizen Welles: The Trial
1946 120 mins Classics Rated: NR
This disc includes The Trial.
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Citizen Welles: The Stranger / The Trial
1946 3.4 ★ Classics Rated: NR
This set includes "The Stranger" and "The Trial," two classic features directed by Welles. As a bonus, it also contains a 30-minute documentary, hosted by noted Welles historian Richard France, with a rare behind-the-scenes look at the restoration process of these two classic features, along with his first film, 1934's "Hearts of Age."
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Citizen Welles: The Stranger
1946 95 mins Classics Rated: NR
This disc includes The Stranger.
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