A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Recommended by Bertrand Tavernier, Bruno Podalydès
Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
Recommended by Pierre Salvadori
An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?
Recommended by François Truffaut
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
Recommended by Arnaud Desplechin
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
Recommended by Marjane Satrapi
A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
Recommended by Rebecca Zlotowski
A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Recommended by Cédric Klapisch, Francis Veber
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
Recommended by Todd Haynes, Guillaume Brac
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Christophe Honoré, Pascale Ferran
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Recommended by Akira Kurosawa, Marjane Satrapi, Francis Veber
Against the wishes of their tyrannical parents, Jean and Marie decide to elope to Paris. The sudden death of Jean’s father makes it impossible for him to meet her at the station, and Marie heads for Paris alone. A year later, Jean finds her in the arms of a rich and decadent playboy… and tragedy ensues.
Highly acclaimed by filmmakers from Lubitsch to Scorsese, this brilliant yet subtle Parisian fresco reveals the dramatic genius of the King of Comedy.
Recommended by Arnaud Desplechin
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Recommended by Robin Campillo, Aki Kaurismäki, Albert Dupontel
An ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.
Recommended by Lynne Ramsay, Jerry Schatzberg, Gérard Krawczyk, Todd Haynes, François Ozon, Agnès Jaoui, Olivier und Éric Nakache & Toledano, Michel Ocelot, Bruce LaBruce, Diane Kurys, Yolande Zauberman
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Recommended by Aki Kaurismäki, Albert Dupontel
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Recommended by Pascale Ferran, Bruno Podalydès, Agnès Jaoui, Paul Vecchiali
The film pits a humble small-town lawyer (James Stewart) against a hard-headed big city prosecutor (George C. Scott). Emotions flare as a jealous army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive, beautiful wife (Lee Remick).
Recommended by Christoph Hochhäusler, Bruno Podalydès
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
Recommended by François Truffaut, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Recommended by Robert Guédiguian
Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.
Recommended by Park Chan-wook
A well-planned robbery goes awry, with tough cop Cordell in pursuit.
Recommended by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.
Recommended by Cédric Klapisch, Raymond Depardon, Dario Argento
In 1944, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.
Recommended by Jean-Charles Hue
Millicent Wetherby is a middle-aged woman whose life is devoid of love and affection. Millicent's solitary existence changes when she encounters Burt Hansen a charismatic younger man. As Burt successfully woos her and wins her hand in marriage, rumors begin to surface that Millicent's newfound beau is in fact a deranged maniac. Things grow even more complicated for Millicent when a woman claiming to be Hansen's first wife shows up. As Burt begins to lose control of himself, Millicent ponders the most radical of actions against her husband.
Recommended by François Ozon
A comic battlefield presided over by two superbly-matched sparring partners, The Awful Truth also stars Cary Grant as the other half of a couple facing divorce and fighting over custody of their beloved dog, Mr. Smith. Somewhere before the final divorce decree, however, Jerry decides he wants Lucy back, only to learn that she's marrying a country bumpkin (hilariously played by Ralph Bellamy). Jerry counters with an engagement to the aristocratic Molly Lamont, sparking a sexy, sophisticated battle of wits that ranks among the wackiest comedies in screen history.
Recommended by Jacques Audiard, Christophe Honoré, Arnaud Desplechin
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Recommended by Pierre Salvadori, Robin Campillo, Todd Haynes, Albert Dupontel, Diane Kurys
A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
Recommended by Gérard Krawczyk, Pete Docter
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.
0Recommended by Damien Chazelle, Pete Docter
A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Céline Sciamma, Pierre Salvadori, William Friedkin, Luc Dardenne, Paul Vecchiali, Patrice Leconte, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film. Millionaire Alberto Bravano takes Maria from Kirk. Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini takes Maria from Alberto.
Recommended by François Truffaut, Bertrand Blier
On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
Recommended by Catherine Corsini
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Recommended by Christoph Hochhäusler, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Michel Hazanavicius, Pierre Salvadori, Claude Lelouch, François Ozon, Christian Petzold, Caroline Link, Pete Docter, Nicole Garcia, Serge Bromberg, Guillaume Brac, Francis Veber, Valérie Lemercier
A steamy tale of two Southern rivals and a sensuous nineteen-year-old virgin.
Recommended by François Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Doillon, Marjane Satrapi
A director puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a naive newcomer has to replace the star.
Recommended by Claude Lelouch
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
Recommended by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Todd Haynes, João Pedro Rodrigues