LE SAMOURAI (1967)
After a professional hitman is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
MASCULIN FEMININ (1966)
A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.
OXYGEN (2021)
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there. As she's running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.
BREATHLESS (1960)
A thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle cop, fleeing the police to Italy with a hip American journalism student...
BEAU TRAVAIL (1999)
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti.
THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997)
In the future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil at bay.
THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC (1999)
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
AMERICA AS SEEN BY A FRENCHMAN (1960)
A 1960 French documentary film directed by François Reichenbach about his travels around the USA.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th-century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
CLIMAX (2018)
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
The Early Films of Olivier Assayas: DISORDER (1986) • WINTER’S CHILD (1989)
French writer-director Olivier Assayas is capable of great things. Irma Vep (1996) is one of my favourite arthouse classics and Cold Water (1994) is...