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A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute

King Arthur learns about his wifes, Queen Guinevere, affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthurs traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bressons Mouchette

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief stricken pawnbroker husband We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his Disgusted with his at

A Joan of Arcs trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English Filmed in a spare, low key fashion

Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is

Amidst a constant stream of hundreds of film clips, dozens of filmmakers voice their opinions on the titular question while primarily looking beyond the Hollywood mainstream to independent, experimental, documentar

A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment

Anne Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence, reluctant to tell her secret

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France

A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson

A documentary featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette and interviews with him off and in