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French cinema: Fantasy

Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
Alain Robbe-Grillet

A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp...   [More...]

Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
Raoul Ruiz

A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano...   [More...]

Un chant d'amour (1950)
Jean Genet

In a French prison, two inmates in solitary cells try to communicate with one another. One is young, clean and handsome; the other somewhat older, unshaved and unkempt...   [More...]

Un chien andalou (1929)
Luis Buñuel

One night, a man sharpens his cut-throat razor before using it to slice open a young woman's eye... Eight years later, the same woman invites a man into her apartment...   [More...]

Un homme de têtes (1898)
Georges Méliès

A well-dressed magician standing between two wooden tables casually pulls his head from his shoulders and places it on one of the tables, where it proceeds to chatter and move about of its own accord...   [More...]

Un soir, un train (1968)
André Delvaux

Mathias is professor of linguistics at a Belgian university. Although middle-aged, he is unmarried, but has a mistress, Anne...   [More...]

Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador

On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers...   [More...]

Les Visiteurs du soir (1942)
Marcel Carné

In the 15th century, two travelling musicians named Gilles and Dominique arrive at the castle of Baron Hugues, just as a party is in progress to celebrate the impending marriage of Hugues' daughter Anne to the brave knight Renaud...   [More...]

Le Voyage à travers l'impossible (1904)
Georges Méliès

A group of highly eminent scientists meet up to make preparations for a continent-spanning expedition, the like of which the world has never seen before...   [More...]

Le Voyage dans la lune (1902)
Georges Méliès

At a meeting of the astronomy club, Professor Barbenfouillis announces his next venture: to lead a manned expedition to the moon...   [More...]

Le Voyage imaginaire (1926)
René Clair

Jean, a modest bank clerk, is in love with his boss's secretary, Lucie, but he is too shy to impose his feelings on the angelic being who has stolen his heart...   [More...]

Les Yeux sans visage (1960)
Georges Franju

Professor Genessier, once a great surgeon, is now consumed with his overriding obsession - to restore the features of his beloved daughter Christiane...   [More...]

Zazie dans le métro (1960)
Louis Malle

During a two-day stay in Paris, 11-year old Zazie is foisted on her uncle, Gabriel, whilst her mother goes off with a new boyfriend...   [More...]


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