Godard's hugely influential debut went on to inspire a new wave of French cinema and this is the film which epitomised the iconoclasm of the early Nouvelle Vague. Belmondo is the hip gangster, modelled on Bogart, whose escapades, including shooting a cop, leave him and his girlfriend on the run from both the cops and his enemies. The insolent casual style and cool moods make this the ultimate film noir.

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The story of a French actress and a Japanese man's brief affair in Hiroshima, stirring up painful memories for them both, for her wartime 'collaboration' and, for him, the bomb which quite literally destroyed everything he had known. Resnais's film is now seen as revolutionary for its time an a must for film study courses. Sadly haunting. find out more...

It is 1962 and a young newspaper editor, Chow, is finding his marital partner is rarely around to share his life; Lonely and lost Chow finds friendship with his neighbour, Li-zhen, whose husband is as absent as his wife. Into this increasingly charged relationship comes a discovery that could release the two of them, but may ironically part them forever. In The Mood For Love is a breathtakingly beautiful film, visually and emotionally faultless. find out more...

Resnais's controversial attempt at collaboration with avant garde author Alain Robbe-Grillet. The film sets up a puzzle that is never resolved, a man meets a woman in a rambling hotel and believes he may have had an affair with her the previous year at Marienbad - or did he? Or was it somewhere else? Deliberately scrambling chronology to the point where past, present and future become meaningless, Resnais creates a vaguely unsettling mood by means of stylish composition, long, smooth tracking sh find out more...

In 1930s North China, a young girl is given to a 50-year-old leper in exchange for a mule, but as she's carried to him through the wilderness she is saved from bandits by a handsome young peasant. Later the leper mysteriously dies and the peasant returns and the pair settle down to make the traditional red sorghum wine. The film shifts from fable to realism when Japanese troops invade the area, destroying the fields with forced labour from the vineyard until the workers revolt against them. find out more...

Stephane is deeply unfulfilled in his job, but in his dream world things just couldn't be better….and he dreams a lot. What Stephane needs to do is find some kind of middle ground between fantasy and reality, an opportunity that may just present itself if he can steel himself to approach his beautiful next door neighbour. Michel Gondry's follow up to ‘Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' is equally as weird and wonderful as its predecessor, but lacks the rich multi-layered genius of Kaufman's writing find out more...