• Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Midnight
  • The Awful Truth
  • His Girl Friday
  • Easy Living

Classic Hollywood comedy in 25 essential films, now showing at la Cinémathèque française

"Lubitsch, Hawks, Capra, Sturges, Wilder, Cukor, La Cava, and McCarey... But also Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Jean…

  • Greed
  • Gerry
  • The Inner Scar
  • Zabriskie Point
  • Lost Highway

6 films shot in Death Valley

Death Valley, with its vast arid lands stretching as far as the eye can see, its suffocating heat. A supreme…

  • A Woman's Face
  • Dark age
  • The Mirror Has Two Faces
  • Eyes Without a Face
  • The Awful Dr. Orlof

With a scalpel: 13 films about facial surgery

Facial surgery to repair visible scars or wounds of the soul. To rejuvenate, change identity, life, to escape, conquer, start…

  • L'amore
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • Blow Up My Town
  • The Man Who Sleeps
  • The Noah

Solo: 12 movies with a single performer

In a room, an apartment, a coffin, underground, in space, at sea, or on the Moon... After an accident, an…

  • Spies
  • Dishonored
  • The 39 Steps
  • Foreign Correspondent
  • Saboteur

Spy cinema, 42 essential films

To accompany the "Top Secret" exhibition, an exploration of the links between cinema and espionage, a program of varied films,…

  • The Bandit
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Bitter Rice
  • The Children Are Watching Us
  • Four Steps in the Clouds

20 Essential Neorealist Films

Filming "life as it is, and not as one would like it to be." Programmatic, Roberto Rossellini's manifesto encapsulates in…