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La Chambre des magiciennes (2000)

Claude Miller

Claire, an anthropology student, is suffering from migraine attacks and consults the bizarre Dr Fish. When the medicine he prescribes for her fails, she insists on being admitted to hospital. Here, she shares a room with a paralysed younger woman, Odette, who spends all her time watching television, and a strange older woman, Eléonore, about whom little is known... [More...]

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)

Luis Buñuel

Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early. Realising their error, the Thevenots invite Madame Senechal to dine with them at a restaurant... [More...]

La Charrette fantôme (1939)

Julien Duvivier

He who hears the wheels of the Ghost Wagon knows he is soon going to die. Every year on New Year’s Eve, the Wagon, driven by Death himself, comes to claim someone at midnight... Overtaken by sickness, David Holm becomes a wicked person. He beats his wife and children and drinks himself into a blind stupor at the inn with his friend Georges... [More...]

Le Chaudron infernal (1903)

Georges Méliès

In a dark Gothic castle, a green-skinned demon places a women and then two courtiers into a burning cauldron. He performs an incantation and three spirits suddenly appear from the flames, before dancing above his head. Frolicking in Hellish joy, the demon watches as the three spirits burn up and fall to earth... [More...]

Choses secrètes (2002)

Jean-Claude Brisseau

When two young women lose their jobs in an erotic night club, they decide to get even with the male sex. By flaunting their obvious assets, they manage to get office jobs in a prestigious company, where they set about their cruel vendetta without a moment’s hesitation. As the more experienced of the two girls, Nathalie, is away digging for incriminating information on the personnel database, the other, Sandrine, begins by seducing her fifty-year old boss... [More...]

La Chute de la maison Usher (1928)

Jean Epstein

As his beloved wife Madeleine succumbs to a mysterious illness, Sir Roderick Usher invites his old friend Allan to his castle to comfort him. Allan has difficulty finding someone to drive him to the Usher homestead; the locals appear to be terrified of the name Usher, as though it bore the imprint of an ancient curse... [More...]

La Cité des enfants perdus (1995)

Marc Caro

On an isolated disused sea rig live the remnants of a mad scientist’s experiments into creating alternative life forms. These include Irvin, a brain in a fish tank, six identical clones of the inventor himself, and Krank, a Frankensteinesque monster who ages prematurely because he cannot dream... [More...]

Combat d’amour en songe (2000)

Raoul Ruiz

Nine bizarre stories are interwoven as a visual fantasy. A jewel is stolen from a "living" painting; a mirror has the power to steal whatever it reflects; a young man’s future is foreseen by an internet website; a seminary student dresses up as a priest so that he can listen to confessions; a Catholic man discovers that he is really a Jew; brothers fight as they search for some rings; and a treasure hunt leads to..... [More...]

Le Concile de pierre (2006)

Guillaume Nicloux

Whilst working as an interpreter in Mongolia, Laura adopts a small boy named Liu-San. She notices a strange mark on the boy’s chest and becomes concerned when she and Liu-San begin to share a series of terrifying nightmares. When she has to leave the country, Laura decides to leave Liu-San with Sybille Weber, the neurologist who raised the boy since his parents died... [More...]

La Coquille et le clergyman (1928)

Germaine Dulac

A clergyman experiences a bizarre sequence of fantasies that torment him and test his faith to the limit. He has fallen for a beautiful woman, the wife of a proud general, and this obsession provokes image after image in his increasingly heated brain. He sees himself kill the general; he sees himself chase after the beautiful woman... [More...]

Les Couloirs du temps: Les Visiteurs 2 (1998)

Jean-Marie Poiré

Returning to his own time, 12th Century France, Comte Godefroy de Montmirail discovers that his marriage to Frénégonde is forbidden by his future father-in-law. A sacred relic, along with a store of priceless jewels, has disappeared, and the marriage cannot go ahead until these are recovered... [More...]

Le Créateur (1999)

Albert Dupontel

After the success of his first play, writer Darius ends up in a hospital to cure him of his alcoholism. When he returns to Paris six months later, his producer immediately demands his next play, which is about to go into rehearsal. Unable to write, totally depressed, and have killed his neighbour’s cat by accident, Darius takes an overdose of sleeping tablets... [More...]

Les Créatures (1966)

Agnès Varda

After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. His wife, however, has lost her voice and can only communicate through written notes... [More...]

Dante 01 (2008)

Marc Caro

Dante 01 is the notorious space prison orbiting the hostile planet Dante. Its six detainees, all dangerous criminals, serve as unwilling guinea-pigs in some highly illegal experiments. One of them, the psychopath César, is determined to escape and plans to lead a rebellion. His schemes are upset by the arrival of a new prisoner, Saint Georges, who was condemned for murdering his entire crew on a space mission... [More...]

Delicatessen (1991)

Marc Caro

In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. On the ground floor of a dilapidated apartment block, Monsieur Clapet runs a butcher’s shop which is sourced by the building’s tenants. Unemployed circus clown Louison turns up in response to Clapet’s ad for an odd-job man... [More...]

Derrière les murs (2011)

Julien Lacombe

In 1922, a young writer named Suzanne decides to hide herself away in the French countryside so that she can work on her next novel. Not long after arriving at her Auvergne retreat, Suzanne is visited by disturbing nightmares and visions. Meanwhile, several young girls go missing from the village... ... [More...]

Les Deux mondes (2007)

Daniel Cohen

Rémy Bassano is an ordinary kind of guy. He lives in Paris, is married, has two children, and earns his living by restoring works of art. His future will be anything but ordinary. On the day his wife tells him that she is going to leave him, his workshop is flooded and Rémy finds himself in the firing line of his irate clients and insurers... [More...]

Deuxième vie (2000)

Patrick Braoudé

Vincent, a 30 year-old misfit, is unable to decide what to do with his life. Should he marry his girlfriend Laurie and take over his father’s shop? The decision is made for him when he crashes his car into a roadside display column. Regaining consciousness, he finds he that has aged 16 years, is married to a shop assistant he only met the day before, has two children and, most surprisingly, is the chairman of a hugely successful recycling corporation... [More...]

Didier (1997)

Alain Chabat

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for an important match, on which his career rests... [More...]

Écoute le temps (2007)

Alanté Kavaïté

Charlotte, a young sound engineer, is shocked when she learns that her mother has been murdered at her home in the country. Realising that she knew nothing of her mother’s life, Charlotte moves into her farmhouse, hoping to find some trace of the woman who brought her into the world. Whilst experimenting with her sound recording equipment, she makes an extraordinary discovery... [More...]

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