La Traversée de Paris

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Gérard Jugnot

Cast

Jules Sitruk, Michèle Garcia, Jean-Paul Rouve

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Joseph Losey

Cast

Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Runtime

1h 22m

Director

Gérard Krawczyk

Cast

Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast

Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they ...

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Olivier Marchal

Cast

Gérard Lanvin, Tchéky Karyo, Daniel Duval

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music. Tough-as-boots workers struggling to keep the line clear are ...

Runtime

8m

Director

Geoffrey Jones

"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss. There was a facing-up to the increasing need for a big modernisation drive. Full and speedy electrification, or the wider promotion of diesel-power on remaining lines, became a matter of to...

Runtime

14m

Director

Geoffrey Jones

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

Runtime

16m

Director

Geoffrey Jones

Directed by Geoffrey Jones.

Runtime

2m

Director

Geoffrey Jones

Directed by Geoffrey Jones.

Director

Geoffrey Jones