Emmanuelle Riva

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant in this feature nominated for the Golden Lion at the 1960 Venice Film Festival.

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave.

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes and Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, this French drama directed by Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon, Funny Games) examines old age, infirmity and mortality with relentless honesty as it depicts the relationship of a couple in their eighties.

The great Juliette Binoche stars in the first entry of writer-director Krzysztof Kieślowski's masterful Three Colours trilogy.

French comedy starring the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and an oddly egotistical vagabond whose paths cross in the City of Lights.