Directed by Carmen Jaquier • Drama • With Lilith Grasmug, Sabine Timoteo • 2023 • 95 minutes

Nestled in a lush Swiss valley in the summer of 1900, 17-year-old Elisabeth is preparing to take her vows at a nunnery when her fate is abruptly altered as she is summoned home following the death of her...

Directed by Marc Allégret • Drama • With Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia, Yves Robert • 1955 • 96 minutes

Brigitte Bardot was only 20 when she starred in this adaptation of a 1920 Vicki Baum novel. She’s Sophie, one of a platoon of young music conservatory students in postwar Vienna, ...

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • Drama • With Lee Kang-sheng • 1992 • 106 minutes

Tsai Ming-liang emerged on the world cinema scene in 1992 with his groundbreaking first feature, Rebels of the Neon God. His debut already includes a handful of elements familiar to fans of subsequent work: a deceptiv...

Directed by Anne Fontaine • Drama • With Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng • 2015 • 99 minutes

In this vibrant seriocomic re-imagining of Flaubert’s literary classic Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her fur...

Directed by Valérie Donzelli • Drama • With Valerie Donzelli, Jeremie Elkalim • 2009 • 88 minutes

Thirty-something Adele is devastated following a painful breakup. With no close friends or family, her distant cousin, Rachel, reluctantly takes her in and graciously attempts to salvage Adele’s pro...

Directed by Micha Lewinsky • Drama • With Marie Leuenberger, Dominique Jann • 2009 • 90 minutes

Rahel Hubli is employed as a civil registrar. She hasn’t believed in the so-called “love of her life” in ages. But when a childhood friend, Ben, suddenly turns up, Rahel recalls again what it felt lik...

Directed by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze • Drama • With Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Brion • 1960 • 84 minutes

One of the founders of the epochal film magazine Cahiers du cinema, and therefore a prime mover of the French New Wave, Doniol-Valcroze joined all the upstart critics making films in the lat...

Directed by Lisa Azuelos • Drama • With Sophie Marceau, François Cluzet • 2014 • 81 minutes

A family man's encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination.

Directed by Bentley Dean, Martin Butler • Drama • With Marie Wawa, Mungau Dain • 2015 • 104 minutes

In one of the world's last tribal societies, a young girl breaks off an arranged marriage to run away with her lover, setting off a war that threatens the tribe's future.

Nominated for Best Forei...

Directed by Paul Negoescu • Drama • With Alexandru Papadopol, Radu Romaniuc, Nicoleta Lefter • 2018 • 100 minutes

A coming-of-middle age romantic comedy. Carefree college professor Petru (Alexandru Papadopol) is a 42-year-old man-child, in an open relationship with Irina (Nicoleta Lefter)....unt...

Directed by Sophie Dupuis • Drama • With Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud • 2024 • 101 minutes

Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is a rising star in Montreal’s drag scene performing lively disco pop numbers weekly at his local club. Friendly with his fellow drag queens and supported by his sister, who ...

Directed by Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan • Drama • With Céleste Brunnquell, Quentin Dolmaire • 2023 • 108 minutes

In Nancy, situated in eastern France, 15-year-old Sophie (Céleste Brunnquell) yearns to break free from her dysfunctional family. After one argument too many, she seizes an oppor...

Directed by Gianni di Gregorio • Drama • With Gianni di Gregorio, Stefania Sandrelli • 2023 • 91 minutes

Italian actor-director Gianni Di Gregorio (CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, THE SALT OF LIFE) returns to filmmaking with NEVER TOO LATE FOR LOVE, a tender and lighthearted romantic comedy set against t...

Directed by Georges Lacombe • Drama • With Marlene Dietrich, Jean Gabin • 1946 • 108 minutes

This tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the titular character, an unpretent...

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud • Drama • With Tony Leung, Jane March, Melvil Poulpaud, Jeanne Moreau • 1992 • 112 minutes

Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager (Jane March) meets a handsome Chinese playboy (Tony Leung Ka Fai) from a respectable family. Going agains...

Directed by Max Färberböck • Drama • With Juliane Köhler, Maria Schrader • 1999 • 125 minutes

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 of them, Lilly Wust (NOWHERE IN AFRICA’s Juliane Köhl...

Directed by Monia Chokri • Drama • With Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Monia Chokri, Francis-William Rhéaume • 2024 • 111 minutes

Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, has been in a stable and conventional marriage to Xavier for a decade. From gallery openings to endless di...

Directed by Leila Bouzid • Drama • 2022 • 103 minutes

Ahmed (Sami Outalbali), French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah (Zbeida Belhajamor), a young Tunisian woman, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of se...

Directed by Kateryna Gornostai • Drama • 2021 • 122 minutes

Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes – life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introve...

Directed by Tina Mascara, Guido Santini • Documentary • 2007 • 90 minutes

Chris & Don: A Love Story chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger lover, artist Don Bachardy. It combines present-day interviews, archival footage shot by the couple f...

Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • With Dagmara Dominczyk, Matthew Modine • 2022 • 108 minutes

A new award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in the bewildering world, "My Love Affair With Marriage" follows Zelma on her 23-year quest for perfect lo...

Directed by Lili Horvát • Drama • With Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó • 2021 • 94 minutes

After 20 years in the United States, a Hungarian neurosurgeon returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous with a fellow doctor she met at a conference. When the love of her life is nowhere to be seen, she trac...

Directed by Grégory Magne • Drama • With Emmanuelle Devos, Grégory Montel • 2021 • 100 minutes

Anne Walberg is a wildly successful master of perfumes. She has an incredible gift for creating fragrances, but is temperamental and a perfectionist. Guillaume, her new chauffeur, desperately needs the...