Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
Louis Malle

France, 1944, during the Nazi Occupation. The Christmas holidays over, 12-year-old Julien Quentin must leave his comfortable middleclass home in Paris and return to his Catholic boarding school in the country...   [More...]

Das Boot (1981)
Wolfgang Petersen

October 1941. The crew of U-boat U-96 is preparing to leave their base in La Rochelle and head out for patrols in the North Atlantic...   [More...]

Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Ingmar Bergman

December 1907. The once-famous actress Helena Ekdahl welcomes her family to her home to celebrate Christmas. Her sons - Gustav Adolf, Carl and Oscar arrive with their wives and children...   [More...]

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Werner Herzog

In the late 19th Century, Brian Fitzgerald has a dream - to build a grand opera house in Iquitos, a thriving new city inhabited by the nouveaux riches of Peru...   [More...]

From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Ingmar Bergman

One evening, successful businessman Peter Egermann pays a visit to a brothel where he meets and kills a prostitute. What could have driven such a seemingly well-adjusted young man to perform this random act of brutality...   [More...]

La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier

Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person...   [More...]