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French cinema: Fantasy
L'Âge d'or (1930)
Luis Buñuel
A party of dignitaries arrive on the shore of an island to pay homage to some dead heroes but are outraged to see a couple making love on the beach...
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Luis Buñuel
Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse (1906)
Albert Capellani
Whilst his mother is busy sewing, a young man named Aladdin is happily dreaming that he is a rich man courting the Sultan's beautiful daughter...
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Albert Capellani
Amer (2010)
Hélène Cattet
At three key stages in her life, Ana is assailed by conflicting feelings of fear and desire. In childhood, she is seized with terror when she witnesses an old woman perform a bizarre death ritual whilst her parents yield themselves to a horrifying bestial act...
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Hélène Cattet
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Alain Resnais
The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad...
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Alain Resnais
L'Atlantide (1921)
Jacques Feyder
In the Sahara Desert, the unconscious body of Lieutenant Saint-Avit is discovered by fellow officers in his Spahi regiment...
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Jacques Feyder
Le Ballon rouge (1956)
Albert Lamorisse
One day, a solitary little boy named Pascal comes across a spherical red balloon tied to a lamppost. Without hesitating, the boy releases the balloon and it begins following him as he continues wandering around the streets of Paris... [More...]
Albert Lamorisse
One day, a solitary little boy named Pascal comes across a spherical red balloon tied to a lamppost. Without hesitating, the boy releases the balloon and it begins following him as he continues wandering around the streets of Paris... [More...]
Barbe-bleue (1901)
Georges Méliès
The wealthy Lord Bluebeard has had seven wives - all have died in mysterious circumstances. Despite his great age, he decides to marry an eighth time and invites many nobles to his court to present their daughters to him... [More...]
Georges Méliès
The wealthy Lord Bluebeard has had seven wives - all have died in mysterious circumstances. Despite his great age, he decides to marry an eighth time and invites many nobles to his court to present their daughters to him... [More...]
La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
Belle de jour (1967)
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
La Belle et la bête (1946)
Jean Cocteau
Once upon a time, there was an old merchant who, having fallen on hard times, lives with his three daughters and his son at their modest house in the country... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Once upon a time, there was an old merchant who, having fallen on hard times, lives with his three daughters and his son at their modest house in the country... [More...]
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974)
Jacques Rivette
It is in a park in Paris that Julie, a shy librarian, first makes the acquaintance of Céline, a stage magician. Intrigued by the other woman, Julie follows her around the city until she loses sight of her... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
It is in a park in Paris that Julie, a shy librarian, first makes the acquaintance of Céline, a stage magician. Intrigued by the other woman, Julie follows her around the city until she loses sight of her... [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... [More...]
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... [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..... [More...]
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..... [More...]
Le Chaudron infernal (1903)
Georges Méliès
In a creepy Gothic castle, a visibly terrified young woman is brought before a fierce-looking green-skinned demon. Ignoring the woman's frantic protestations, the malevolent demon hastily wraps her in a white sheet and bundles her into a burning cauldron... [More...]
Georges Méliès
In a creepy Gothic castle, a visibly terrified young woman is brought before a fierce-looking green-skinned demon. Ignoring the woman's frantic protestations, the malevolent demon hastily wraps her in a white sheet and bundles her into a burning cauldron... [More...]
La Chute de la maison Usher (1928)
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Les Conquérants (2013)
Xabi Molia
Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives... [More...]
Xabi Molia
Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Les Créatures (1966)
Agnès Varda
Still suffering from the trauma of a road accident, a writer named Edgar finds himself afflicted with a mild case of writer's block... [More...]
Agnès Varda
Still suffering from the trauma of a road accident, a writer named Edgar finds himself afflicted with a mild case of writer's block... [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... [More...]
Marc Caro
In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive... [More...]
Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)
Jacques Rivette
In modern day Paris, Leni, the Queen of the Night, and Viva, the Queen of the Sun, are locked in a private battle for possession of a diamond that has magical powers... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
In modern day Paris, Leni, the Queen of the Night, and Viva, the Queen of the Sun, are locked in a private battle for possession of a diamond that has magical powers... [More...]
L'Écume des jours (2013)
Michel Gondry
Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas... [More...]
Michel Gondry
Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas... [More...]
Emak-Bakia (1926)
Man Ray
A series of unidentifiable black and white images, flashing flakes, dancing pins… A neon sign broadcasts the day's news... [More...]
Man Ray
A series of unidentifiable black and white images, flashing flakes, dancing pins… A neon sign broadcasts the day's news... [More...]
Entr'acte (1924)
René Clair
Two men approach a canon and fire it. Rifle-range dummies sway in the wind. A dancing ballerina turns into a strange bearded man... [More...]
René Clair
Two men approach a canon and fire it. Rifle-range dummies sway in the wind. A dancing ballerina turns into a strange bearded man... [More...]
L'Étoile de mer (1928)
Man Ray
A window opens onto a quiet country lane, where a man and a woman are walking side-by-side. Transported by desire, they ascend a staircase and enter a room, where the man watches as the woman removes her clothes and stretches out on a bed... [More...]
Man Ray
A window opens onto a quiet country lane, where a man and a woman are walking side-by-side. Transported by desire, they ascend a staircase and enter a room, where the man watches as the woman removes her clothes and stretches out on a bed... [More...]
Évolution (2016)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
La Fiancée des ténèbres (1945)
Serge de Poligny
The composer Roland Samblaca returns to his home town Carcassonne in the South of France with his family. Whilst visiting an ancient castle, he meets and is enchanted by a young woman, Sylvie, who lives in the castle with her adoptive guardian, Monsieur Toulzac... [More...]
Serge de Poligny
The composer Roland Samblaca returns to his home town Carcassonne in the South of France with his family. Whilst visiting an ancient castle, he meets and is enchanted by a young woman, Sylvie, who lives in the castle with her adoptive guardian, Monsieur Toulzac... [More...]
Le Golem (1936)
Julien Duvivier
In the early years of the 17th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II rules Bohemia with an iron grip whilst pursuing the alchemists' dream of endowing inanimate matter with life... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In the early years of the 17th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II rules Bohemia with an iron grip whilst pursuing the alchemists' dream of endowing inanimate matter with life... [More...]
Goto, l'île d'amour (1969)
Walerian Borowczyk
Goto is an island nation that has been cut off from the rest of the world for over a century. Since the late 1800s, when a massive earthquake devastated the region, the indigenous population has lived in a totally closed society, governed by a succession of all-powerful despots, all named after this benighted land... [More...]
Walerian Borowczyk
Goto is an island nation that has been cut off from the rest of the world for over a century. Since the late 1800s, when a massive earthquake devastated the region, the indigenous population has lived in a totally closed society, governed by a succession of all-powerful despots, all named after this benighted land... [More...]
Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003)
Jacques Rivette
Julien is a middle-aged clock repairman who lives alone in a big house with only his cat for company. He has acquired some items which threaten a businesswoman, Madame X, who trades in fake fabrics, and begins to blackmail her... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Julien is a middle-aged clock repairman who lives alone in a big house with only his cat for company. He has acquired some items which threaten a businesswoman, Madame X, who trades in fake fabrics, and begins to blackmail her... [More...]
Histoires extraordinaires (1949)
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]