A Love Story

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Max Färberböck

Cast

Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek

Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Maurice Pialat

Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire, Evelyne Ker

The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in ...

Runtime

5h

Director

Marcel Cravenne

Cast

Claude Jade, Jean-Paul Zehnacker, Yves Beneyton

Cécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the Beaux-Arts. Cécile lives with Mrs. Hanka, who reads horoscopes and surrounds herself with natal charts. She says she's known a lot about people for 30 years.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Anne Walter

Cast

Claude Jade, Gérard Barray, Jean-Claude Dauphin

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.

Runtime

3h 10m

Director

Marcel Carné

Cast

Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur