Philippe Morier-Genoud

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Dir. Louis Malle · With Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau · With Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

Dir. François Truffaut · With Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Dir. François Truffaut · With Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin

Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.

Dir. Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie · With Max Renaudin, Simon Abkarian, Vernon Dobtcheff

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott