The Things of Life(Les Choses de la vie)

Stolen Kisses
(Baisers volés)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1968
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel

Antoine knows what he wants to do ... his problem is doing it.

Contempt
(Le Mépris)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1963
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube

A vivid display of conflict between passion and art.

In the Mood for Love
(花樣年華)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Hong Kong, China • 2000
• Director Wong Kar-wai
• Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Kelly Lai Chen, Siu Ping-Lam, Mama Hung
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Longing and loneliness collide in this understated romance.

2046

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Hong Kong, China, France • 2004
• Director Wong Kar-wai
• Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Takuya Kimura, Zhang Ziyi, Carina Lau
• Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
• Available on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel

Reality and fiction blend for a grieving sci-fi writer desperate to understand — and forget.

Jules and Jim
(Jules et Jim)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1962
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Sabine Haudepin, Vanna Urbino
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max

Close friends Jules and Jim both fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

The Last Metro
(Le Dernier Métro)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1980
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard
• Genre Drama, Romance, War
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, HBO Max

A story of love and conflict in Nazi-occupied Paris.

The Piano Teacher
(La Pianiste)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Austria, France, Germany • 2001
• Director Michael Haneke
• Cast Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, HBO Max, YouTube

Perversion --- at its absolute best.

Shoot the Piano Player
(Tirez sur le pianiste)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1960
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard
• Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Classix, HBO Max

The Young Girls of Rochefort
(Les demoiselles de Rochefort)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1967
• Director Jacques Demy
• Cast Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Michel Piccoli
• Genre Music, Romance, Drama, Comedy
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Vudu, HBO Max

They're singing and dancing in the streets.

Cesar and Rosalie
(César et Rosalie)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy, West Germany • 1972
• Director Claude Sautet
• Cast Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Bernard Le Coq, Isabelle Huppert, Eva Maria Meineke
• Genre Romance, Drama, Comedy
• Available on Apple iTunes, Cinessance, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy

A woman and her former lover run away together, leaving her current lover in the dust.

Max and the Junkmen
(Max et les ferrailleurs)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1971
• Director Claude Sautet
• Cast Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Bernard Fresson, François Périer, Georges Wilson, Boby Lapointe
• Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
• Available on Cinessance, Kino Now, Kanopy

Going Places
(Les Valseuses)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1974
• Director Bertrand Blier
• Cast Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Christian Alers, Brigitte Fossey
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Jean de Florette

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Switzerland, Italy • 1986
• Director Claude Berri
• Cast Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Ernestine Mazurowna
• Genre Drama
• Available on Amazon Video

When Jean de Florette inherits land in Provence, he decides to take up farming. But his scheming neighbors have other plans…

Manon of the Spring
(Manon des Sources)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Switzerland, Italy, France • 1986
• Director Claude Berri
• Cast Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Rocco and His Brothers
(Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1960
• Director Luchino Visconti
• Cast Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Alessandra Panaro, Spiros Focás
• Genre Crime, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, OVID, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

DARING in its realism. STUNNING in its impact. BREATHTAKING in its scope.

The Barbarian Invasions
(Les Invasions barbares)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Canada, France • 2003
• Director Denys Arcand
• Cast Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel
• Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.

The Woman Next Door
(La Femme d'à côté)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1981
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool, Véronique Silver
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel

Camping 2

• ✭ ✭
• France • 2010
• Director Fabien Onteniente
• Cast Franck Dubosc, Richard Anconina, Mathilde Seigner, Antoine Duléry, Claude Brasseur, Mylène Demongeot
• Genre Comedy
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
(Vincent, François, Paul et les autres)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1974
• Director Claude Sautet
• Cast Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Serge Reggiani, Umberto Orsini, Stéphane Audran
• Genre Drama
• Available on Cinessance, Kanopy, fuboTV

Poetry
(시)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Korea • 2010
• Director Lee Chang-dong
• Cast Yoon Jeong-hee, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-ra, Ahn Nae-sang, Kim Yong-taek, Park Myung-shin
• Genre Drama
• Available on Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, Tubi TV

A Korean grandmother enrolls in a poetry class, where she finds solace amid the chaos of her personal life.

Beloved
(Les bien-aimés)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic • 2011
• Director Christophe Honoré
• Cast Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Miloš Forman, Paul Schneider
• Genre Drama, Music, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Plex, YouTube

A mother and a daughter navigate their respective romances together.