France Movies

After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbirth. She filmed the work of midwives to produce...

In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn...

After a tragic event, Maxime Cavanel (Nicolas Couchet) will sink into alcoholism, drugs and solitude. He has now only one idea left in mind: "take...

Marion has just moved to the German side of the French-German border to follow her boyfriend - Lukas - who recently got a job in a theater company....

Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the building. A police officer, overwhelmed by the...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against...

In 1955 Count Basie and his Orchestra immortalized Vernon Duke's "April in Paris". In this animated short by Danish animation legend Jannik Hastrup...

Two young Algerians born in France leave the Paris region to return with their parents to the village of their origins. They speak neither Arabic nor...

A gentleman of France

In June 1946, the sculptor and photographer Michel Sima met with Pablo Picasso in Antibes. At Picasso's request, day after day Sima photographed...

Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends...

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by...