European Films

Carion turned pen and camera towards a story of how opposing sides in WWI came together on a Christmas Eve and stopped the violence of war long enough to share the peace.

Dec 6, 2009 - Barbara DeGrande

Banlieue 13, or District 13 in English, is a French action film featuring David Belle's parkour, a free-running stunt-sport involving lots of running and jumping.

Nov 20, 2009 - Jason Parent

The Bicycle Thief is a neo-realist movie focusing on the life of people in Rome after World War II. The relationship between a father and son is beautifully depicted.

Nov 14, 2009 - Prakash Thulasimani

Parisian lovers (Nathalie Baye & Sergi Lopez) share an emotionally revealing sexual rendezvous in Fredaric Fonteyne's Une Liaison d'Amour (The End of the Affair).

Nov 9, 2009 - Gil Mansergh

French biopic Coco Avant Chanel, now in many cities in the United States, brings to life Chanel and the crushing mores and gaudy fashion that defined her early life.

Oct 17, 2009 - Pema Levy

Behind the "Red Hollywood" series of Soviet musicals of the 1930s sits a tale that links 3 film festivals, a Romanian graduate student, and a New York film programmer.

Oct 14, 2009 - Susan Z. Swan

A lavish Busby Berkeley-style musical, a critique of race intolerance, and Stalin's favorite actress add up to a movie that was wildly popular in the 1930s USSR.

Oct 12, 2009 - Susan Z. Swan

Few films will haunt you longer, capture your imagination more viciously, or leave you with a better idea of what the cinema can achieve.

Oct 7, 2009 - Russell Coy

Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni's Italian masterpiece, has been one of the most successful International films of the past decade. Where does its appeal lie?

Oct 6, 2009 - Ed Mayhew

A look at the career of the director of La Haine, Gothika and Babylon AD, and star of Amelie, Munich and Birthday Girl, plus his forthcoming projects

Oct 5, 2009 - Michelle Strozykowski

Cavayé's film consolidates French cinema's position as a leading light in the thriller genre, with a robust, engaging tale starring Diane Kruger and Vincent Lindon.

Sep 29, 2009 - Stephen Morgan

Der Muede Tot means the tired, or weary dead, or Weary Death, a 1921 silent art film by Austrian-American film maker, Fritz Lang and German writer, Thea Von Harbou.

Sep 26, 2009 - Paula Marie Deubel

Co-written and directed by Joachim Trier, Reprise is an insightful film about the writer's life, and the compromises an artist makes for love and friendship.

Sep 26, 2009 - Martin G. Wood

Real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac star alongside Hollywood legend Gene Kelly in Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

Sep 21, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Crime drama Mesrine: Killer Instinct is a showcase for the talented and versatile Vincent Cassel. Jean-Francois Richet's gangster film is up there with the best.

Sep 21, 2009 - Gareth Harding

French film Le Scaphandre et le Papillon stars Mathieu Amalric as quadriplegic Jean-Do who dictates a book by blinking out the individual words with his left eye

Sep 17, 2009 - Michelle Strozykowski

The genuine and hopeful demeanor of the main character makes Nights of Cabiria a favorite with Fellini fans, with an ending that will inspire and awe.

Sep 13, 2009 - Katy Burtner

Poignant, superbly acted, and with an original and compelling storyline, the film is easily one of Fellini's best.

Sep 12, 2009 - Katy Burtner

Erice's remarkable movie starring Ana Torrent as a young girl whose imagination is inspired by James Whale's Frankenstein and her own growing sense of identity.

Sep 11, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Maggie Cheung was best known for action movies when she made this quirky French satire. She plays herself as the star of the remake of a French silent film classic.

Sep 2, 2009 - Jacqueline Ching

OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) is sent to Egypt to investigate after an old friend goes missing. Spy genre parody based on a character created by the novelist Jean Bruce

Aug 27, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Jacques Demy's adaptation of the Japanese Manga 'The Rose of Versailles,' about a woman raised to be a man and serving in the court of Marie Antoinette.

Aug 20, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

Jacques Demy directs Catherine Deneuve in an adaptation of the Charles Perrault fairytale story Donkey Skin.

Jul 23, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

In 1970, Werner Herzog made Even Dwarfs Started Small, an abstract, comic fable about the inhumanity of man and the necessary failure of anarchy and institution alike.

Jul 20, 2009 - Stephen Morgan

Jean Genet's remarkable European gay short film Un Chant d'Amour defied prejudices to depict themes of existentialist gay love, making it a landmark piece of LGBT cinema.

Jul 10, 2009 - Steve Williams