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A 'gang' of five young women spend their days shoplifting, hitchhiking and having orgies.

A César award-winning short animation inspired by the Japanese artist Toshio Saeki, about a young schoolgirl's dreams and nightmares.

This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what he is up to without hurting her too much, hypersensitive as she is. All means are good: big words, cajolery, denial, lies. As for the woman, who senses that this is the end, she desperately tries to win him back, passing from tenderness to passion, from the threat of attempted suicide to calm, from regret to outbursts of violence.

Jean Rouch’s camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and talks us through the famous Shah Mosque in Esfehan. While guiding him and answering his questions, Ghaffari makes Rouch discover the beauties of the architecture of the mosque and its impact on the city. Throughout the tour, they discuss Islam’s complex relationship with death, sex and cinema.

Our story is set in the small village of Frankenstein, in the German region of Pfalz. A hapless young man runs out of gas, which unfortunate accident leads him to the heart of this village. Is it the late hour, between the dog and wolf, or his arrival which is the cause of the strange events in which he is to participate? The fact remains that it is thanks to the benevolence of a young and pretty woman that he succeeds in the early morning to leave the accursed place. Nevertheless, since his short stay in the village of Frankenstein, not a soul has seen the young man again.

Marcel Trillat traveled to the slums of Aubervilliers and Nanterre, to meet immigrants of Portuguese and African origin. Composed of images taken on the spot and testimonies, this film forcefully denounces the policy then followed by France in terms of immigration. On the night of December 31, 1969 to January 1, 1970, five black workers died of asphyxiation in a home in Aubervilliers. In the post-68 context, this drama will experience national repercussions, both politically and in the media. Marcel Trillat and Frédéric Variot then produced Étranges Étrangers, a documentary that candidly shows the slums and hovels of Aubervilliers and Saint-Denis.

Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.

A stripper takes an old lover back to her apartment and tells him the sordid history of her own bed.

Claude is in his last year of high-school, but he doesn't care much for school. Instead all his thoughts circle around girls and getting laid. But since he doesn't look very studly, he has a hard time realizing his fantasies. When he's finally got an invitation to a steamy afternoon by Carole, his father intercepts the letter...

Wings white, she's red, wings scream, she sings, wings fly, she moans, wings rise, she hides, wings move, she teaches me. Leila, night name, exhumates my childhood memories and introduces me to the marvelous.

"A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory, films some of the privileged moments of his teaching. This film, co-directed with Denise Tual, also shows Messiaen as a devotee, an ornithologist, and a synaesthete, evoking the fundamental concepts of his inspiration with an often sparkling ease (the musician imitating certain bird songs in a manner reminiscent of Rouch recreating the cries of wizards for certain films). In this way, the film boldly collides sequences with visual or sound correspondences, the directors succeeding in dragging us into the world of mystery and dreams dear to the musician." (François Waledisch)

Jean, a musician living in exile in Paris, returns to his hometown of Sète to bury his mother. This intimate film traces the journey of four friends under the sun of the peninsula.

Portrait of French filmmaker Raymonde Carasco shot in Hyères (France) on September 3, 1978 at 2:30 PM.

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

In an old castle, Johnny de Winter-Smythe gives shelter to a mad painter, whom he martyrizes, helped by a hunchback butler. A traveler then arrives, drawn to the castle by the spectral apparition of a woman...

Fascinated by the idea of ​​being able to create life through science, a count produces a monster from corpses. Does the creature have a soul?

Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.

Made-for-TV film based on a short story by Claude Chevalier Hapert.

In 1837, in Quebec, against a historical backdrop of rebellion against the English, we follow the sentimental drama of Simon de Bellefeuille and Julie, the chosen one of his heart, destined for another.

A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.

French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).

A 1978 episode of the French television program Ciné regards, featuring critics Michel Ciment and Georges Perec, that looks back on Ozu’s career.

Bernard Roué records an exhibit of Michel Journiac's piece of the same name.

This film, which represents 7 years of shots on 5 continents, shows both the wonders of the wild world and the drama of its systematic destruction by man. Dramatic fights, scenes of tenderness and love, mingle with gags and documents never before presented on a screen.

A former music hall singer, Amanda lives day by day while remaining optimistic. Short of money, she wants to publish her memoirs. But her ex-husband Philippe, minister-in-office, wants to dissuade her ...

Inspired by a Voltaire tale, a satire of society and its values through the astonished and critical eyes of a newly arrived "ingénue" who ridicules all customs in order to marry the woman of his heart.

The railway advertisement To Have A Good Trip Let’s Take The Train, had given me the idea of a speedy violent film with plenty of information, the intensity and speed of which cannot be perceived complacently by the spectator. All this gives an aggression to the film not unlike the actual transport system… the train was a pretext and I started to shoot as though I were using a gun-machine, trains and pseudo amusements becoming all mixed up.

Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness.

Sarah Maldoror’s camera roams the famous flagstones and foliage of Père Lachaise, visiting its nooks and cats, to the sound of poems such as Liberté, by Paul Éluard.

Portrait of Greek filmmaker Katerina Thomadaki, shot in Paris (France) on March 16, 1978 at 11:00 AM.

Action for Michel Journiac.

Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearances who intend to marry off their children. Labiche exposes the social rivalry between the two families through tyrannical female characters and submissive husbands, whose only concern is to create illusions in society.

A César nominated short drama looking at the impact of prison life on an incarcerated nine year old boy.

A cheeky political pamphlet.

Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.

After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.

In this French-language film, Albin is a mercenary soldier. Sure, he's paid to kill, but he only agrees to jobs where he's killing those who need to be killed. Anyway, he trusts his buddies, and they trust him: in this case with a big haul of money they found in a jungle shoot-out. When he returns to France one of the first things he does, quite by chance, is to go see the act of Le Grande Magic Circus. The circus keeps coming into his life for the rest of the movie, as he tries to live a "regular" life.

Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970.