The Fire Within

A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and jo…

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works…

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer protection.

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was documented to electrifying effect in Werner Herzog’s 1999 portrait My Best Fiend. This documentary provides further fascinating insight into the…

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape …

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language…

Frank Capras opfølger til It Happened One Night scorede ham endnu en Bedste Instruktør Oscar. Der er tale om et af 30’ernes mest berømte lystspil. Jean Arthur spiller reporteren Babe Bennett, der skjuler sin identitet og profession og på de…

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question…

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheis…

Mitsuko, a young student, encounters a series of horrifying incidents set in alternate realities where people wind up dead in the most horrendous fashion.

Sangeren Danny var stor i 70'erne og lever stadig det vilde rockstjerneliv, selv om han efterhånden er blevet 64. Men da han modtager et brev skrevet til ham for 40 år siden af selveste John Lennon, beslutter han at lægge sit liv om. Han af…

I det feudale Japan, under en blodig krig mellem klaner, støder to kujonagtige og grådige bønder, soldater fra en besejret hær, på en mystisk mand, der fører dem til en fæstning skjult i bjergene.

Efter et sammenbrud indlogerer den fremtrædende komponist Gustav von Aschenbach sig på et luksushotel på Lidoen ud for Venedig. Her møder han den guddommelige, blonde Tadzio, der med sin på én gang engleagtigt rene og sensuelle udstråling s…

Der er kun en uge til Kate Mercers (Charlotte Rampling) 45-års bryllupsdag, og planlægningen af festen løber glat. Men så kommer der et brev til hendes mand, Geoff (Tom Courtenay). Liget af hans første kærlighed er blevet fundet, nedfrosset…

Louis Malles semibiografiske film fra 1987 om et skæbnesvangert venskab under den nazistiske besættelse af Frankrig var en stor publikumstræffer både i og uden for hjemlandet. Stedet er en katolsk kostskole ude på landet, hvor to af elevern…