With Films du Jeudi, Les (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger
Votes: 33,136
2. Immoral Women (1979)
114 min | Drama
Three women and three erotic tales. 1- Margherita: Did the great Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio die because of the cold he took in the ruins of Rome? Or was it out of pleasure? Only one... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Marina Pierro, Gaëlle Legrand, Pascale Christophe, François Guétary
Votes: 782
3. Lola Montès (1955)
Not Rated | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Votes: 5,646 | Gross: $0.11M
4. A Day in the Country (1946)
Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello
Votes: 6,686
5. Emilienne (1975)
95 min | Drama
A female artist is having an affair with a married man. He won't leave his wife, so she decides to meet her. However, she ends up liking and seducing the introvert wife, so they enter a ménage à trois. The wife explores her lesbian side.
Director: Guy Casaril | Stars: Betty Mars, Pierre Oudrey, Nathalie Guérin, Marc Ariche
Votes: 176
6. Private Collections (1979)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He ... See full summary »
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Just Jaeckin, Shûji Terayama | Stars: Roland Blanche, Laura Gemser, Catherine Gandois, Marpessa Djian
Votes: 363
7. La Chienne (1931)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama
Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Votes: 4,547
8. Manon (1949)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, Andrex
Votes: 1,079
9. Olivia (1951)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.
Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia, Yvonne de Bray
Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.01M
10. I, a Negro (1957)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga
Votes: 1,024
11. Erotissimo (1969)
100 min | Comedy
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Annie Girardot, Jean Yanne, Francis Blanche, Dominique Maurin
Votes: 241
12. Ô saisons ô chateaux (1958)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Walk around the Loire Valley castles 'shown in chronological order of construction' with commentaries, 16th-century poems, and gardeners' reflections.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Antoine Bourseiller, Danièle Delorme, Clotilde Joano, Nina Peinado
Votes: 307
13. L'eau à la bouche (1960)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Brion, Alexandra Stewart, Michel Galabru
Votes: 249
14. Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976)
R | 85 min | Comedy
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie. Unfortunately, the cast are all egomaniacs or incompetents, and the set manager is too shy to purchase any equipment from the sex shops. Nevertheless, they make do with what they have.
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Robert Castel, Nathalie Courval, Jean-Pierre Darras
Votes: 142
15. Act of Aggression (1975)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a businessman who decides to take his wife and daughter on a vacation. ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Philippe Brigaud
Votes: 437
16. Fool's Mate (1956)
28 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
When an unfaithful wife receives a fur coat from her lover as a gift, they must figure out a way to keep the husband from discovering the coat's true origins.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Virginie Vitry, Anne Doat, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 972
17. Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
20 min | Short, Drama
A jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anne Collette, Gérard Blain
Votes: 1,685
18. All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
21 min | Short, Comedy
Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Anne Collette, Nicole Berger
Votes: 2,418
19. How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
90 min | Comedy
Antoine Robineau is a beverage marketer. He succeeds in all his sales while whining about his fate.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Jean Carmet, Stéphane Audran, Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 434
20. The Suburbs Are Everywhere (1973)
91 min | Comedy
He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, Annie Cordy, Robert Castel
Votes: 158
21. Van Gogh (1948)
20 min | Documentary, Short
The biography of Dutch artist Van Gogh, illustrated only with images of his paintings and drawings, or details of those, and according dramatic musical score.
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Claude Dauphin
Votes: 458
22. A Story of Water (1961)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 1,583
23. All the Memory in the World (1956)
21 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 1,520
24. L'amour existe (1960)
21 min | Short, Documentary
A social commentary on post-war France's urban developments.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Star: Jean-Loup Reynold
Votes: 646
25. Fric-Frac (1939)
92 min | Comedy
Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow ... See full summary »
Directors: Maurice Lehmann, Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty, Hélène Robert
Votes: 504
26. Paris mil neuf cent (1947)
74 min | Documentary
Documentary limning the life of Paris and its citizens during "La Belle Epoque," the years between 1900 and 1914. Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the completion of the ... See full summary »
Director: Nicole Védrès | Stars: Claude Dauphin, René Alexandre, Guillaume Apollinaire, Régina Badet
Votes: 165
27. Guernica (1951)
13 min | Documentary, Short
On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais | Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Votes: 1,000
28. The Immoral Moment (1962)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A traitor considered a hero after WW2.
Director: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Françoise Brion, Nicole Berger, Sacha Pitoëff
Votes: 192
29. Dionysos (1984)
100 min | Comedy
An American theatre professor travels to the Sorbonne in Paris to complete his doctoral research on the effectiveness of Greek comedy on morale and motivation of factory workers at the local automobile plant. Lunacy erupts, mayhem ensues.
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Jean Monod, Hélène Puiseux, Cookie Chiapalone, Fifi Raliatou
Votes: 23
30. Mémoires pour Simone (1986)
61 min | Documentary
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: François Périer, Catherine Allégret, José Artur, Jean Becker
Votes: 60
31. Like a Pot of Strawberries (1974)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Director: Jean Aurel | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Nathalie Courval, Marcha Grant, Marianne Eggerickx
Votes: 30
32. Un coeur gros comme ça (1961)
105 min | Drama
Semi-documentary about a young black boxer named Abdoullah Faye and his life in Paris.
Director: François Reichenbach | Stars: Abdoulaye Faye, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Bouchard, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 38
33. Voyage au Congo (1927)
94 min | Documentary
A love partner of the writer André Gide, as well as his travel companion in their journey to the French colonies of Central Africa, Marc Allégret decided to film their 11-month wandering in... See full summary »
Director: Marc Allégret
Votes: 53
34. My Dear Subject (1988)
96 min | Drama, Musical
From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and always. And the men too, those they meet, those they love.
Director: Anne-Marie Miéville | Stars: Gaële Le Roi, Anny Romand, Hélène Roussel, Yves Neff
Votes: 58
35. Les chevaliers de la table ronde (1990)
230 min
Director: Denis Llorca | Stars: María Casares, Michel Vitold, Alain Cuny, Mireille Delcroix
Votes: 8
36. The Risk of Living (1980)
85 min | Documentary
Director: Gérald Calderon | Stars: André Langaney, Michael Lonsdale
37. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary
Paris 2002. Yellow cats appears on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq...).
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Bertrand Cantat, Dieudonné, Léon Schwartzenberg, Marina Vlady
Votes: 547
38. E-clip-se (1999)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Adults and children look at a solar eclipse through special glasses. There are brief moments of looking without the glasses. There is an owl. Some are entranced, while others are nonplussed.
Director: Chris Marker
Votes: 105
39. Toute une histoire (2003)
18 min | Romance, Short
Director: Jean Rousselot | Stars: Lionel Abelanski, Isabelle Carré, Danièle Lebrun, Christine Armani
Votes: 12
40. Confessions of a Newlywed (1937)
80 min | Comedy
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
Director: Léo Joannon | Stars: Raimu, André Alerme, Pierre Brasseur, Germaine Aussey
Votes: 75
41. Jouet joyeux (1979)
3 min | Short
A short colour animated film with musical accompaniment and no dialog. The images used are in the style of late 19th or early 20th century.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 51
42. Directing Actors by Jean Renoir (1969)
27 min | Short
A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.
Director: Gisèle Braunberger | Stars: Gisèle Braunberger, Jean Renoir
Votes: 39
43. La sixième face du pentagone (1968)
Not Rated | 28 min | Documentary, Short
On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Marker, François Reichenbach | Stars: William Sloane Coffin, N. Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, John Wilson
Votes: 326
44. The Stream (1938)
100 min | Drama
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
Directors: Maurice Lehmann, Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Gaby Sylvia, Ginette Leclerc
Votes: 33
45. Cat Listening to Music (1988)
3 min | Documentary, Short
Chris Marker films a cat reacting to the sound of a piano playing.
Director: Chris Marker | Star: Guillaume-en-Egypte
Votes: 321
47. Gauguin (1949)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jean Servais
Votes: 194
48. À la mémoire du rock (1963)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Rock'n roll and how it started changing everything.
Director: François Reichenbach | Stars: Les Chaussettes Noires, Johnny Hallyday, Eddy Mitchell, Vince Taylor
Votes: 12
49. The J3 (1946)
85 min | Comedy
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at selling cigarettes and silk stockings than at studying. But the day a new philosophy ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Richebé | Stars: Gérard Nery, Saturnin Fabre, Jean Aumont, Simone Barillier
50. An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl (1990)
3 min | Documentary, Short
A variety of owls look around. Sometimes they sleep. They seem to say something with their eyes. There are mice and young owls too.
Director: Chris Marker
Votes: 187