Édith Scob

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

Dir. Georges Franju · With Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Édith Scob

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

Dir. Hugo Gélin · With François Civil, Joséphine Japy, Benjamin Lavernhe

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.

Dir. Leos Carax · With Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Grüber

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.

Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

Dir. Leos Carax · With Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Eva Mendes

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve · With Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

Dir. Anne Fontaine · With Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Fabrice Luchini

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...

Dir. Pitof · With Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Inés Sastre

Josephine and Iris, sisters with opposite personalities, have their relationship radically transformed while working on a book.

Dir. Cécile Telerman · With Emmanuelle Béart, Julie Depardieu, Patrick Bruel

Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family. Violette, a forty-year-old full of energy, is threatened with eviction and is afraid she'll lose custody of her two children. Paul-André then proposes a totally above the board contract to rent the family in exchange for him paying off Violette's debts. For better and for worse..

Dir. Jean-Pierre Améris · With Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira, François Morel