Sans Soleil(Sans soleil)

Breathless
(À bout de souffle)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1960
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude
• Genre Drama, Crime
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy

When you discover the dirty truth about the person you love...

Cléo from 5 to 7
(Cléo de cinq à sept)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1962
• Director Agnès Varda
• Cast Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, Michel Legrand, José Luis de Vilallonga
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, TCM, HBO Max, DIRECTV, Kanopy

A young singer awaiting her medical results embarks on a journey of self-discovery and personal rebellion.

La Jetée

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1962
• Director Chris Marker
• Cast Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu
• Genre Romance, Science Fiction
• Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video

The story of a post-nuclear war experiment with time travel, constructed almost entirely from still photos.

Night and Fog
(Nuit et brouillard)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1956
• Director Alain Resnais
• Cast Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Julius Streicher
• Genre History, Documentary, War
• Available on Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, Amazon Video

Elevator to the Gallows
(Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1958
• Director Louis Malle
• Cast Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Lino Ventura, Iván Petrovich
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Plex

Frantic for life and love - frantic for excitement

Vivre Sa Vie
(Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1962
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Kanopy

A young Parisian woman’s existential crisis — and eventual turn to sex work.

Last Year at Marienbad
(L'Année dernière à Marienbad)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1961
• Director Alain Resnais
• Cast Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy

The mysterious story of a man and woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.

Masculin Féminin
(Masculin féminin)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Sweden • 1966
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Evabritt Strandberg
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Jean-Luc Godard's swinging look at youth and love in Paris

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(Hiroshima mon amour)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Japan • 1959
• Director Alain Resnais
• Cast Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
• Genre Drama, History, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube

The story of a young French actress and her affair with a Japanese man while on assignment in Hiroshima.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
(Les parapluies de Cherbourg)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, West Germany • 1964
• Director Jacques Demy
• Cast Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perrey, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy

A film for all the young lovers of the world.

A Man Escaped
(Un condamné à mort s'est échappé)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1956
• Director Robert Bresson
• Cast François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau
• Genre Drama, Thriller, War
• Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video

During World War II, a French Resistance fighter tries to escape a Nazi prison before his execution.

Late Spring
(晩春)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1949
• Director Yasujirō Ozu
• Cast Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki, Jun Usami
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Plex

Widower Shukichi feels obligated to marry off his only daughter.

House
(ハウス)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1977
• Director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
• Cast Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Satoh
• Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video

A group of Japanese schoolgirls discover there is more to their vacation house than meets the eye.

The Earrings of Madame de...
(Madame de…)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1953
• Director Max Ophüls
• Cast Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Jean Galland, Mireille Perrey
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Amazon Video

It was her vanity that destroyed her.

A Matter of Life and Death

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1946
• Director Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
• Cast David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Robert Coote
• Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
• Available on Classix

Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!

I Am Cuba
(Soy Cuba)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Cuba, Soviet Union • 1964
• Director Mikhail Kalatozov
• Cast Sergio Corrieri, Luz María Collazo, José Gallardo, Jean Bouise, Raúl García, Celia Rodriguez
• Genre Drama
• Available on Kanopy

My Night at Maud's
(Ma nuit chez Maud)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1969
• Director Éric Rohmer
• Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger
• Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

A Grin Without a Cat
(Le fond de l'air est rouge)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1977
• Director Chris Marker
• Cast Laurence Guvillier, Davos Hanich, François Maspero, Yves Montand, François Périer, Sandra Scarnati
• Genre Documentary, War, History
• Available on OVID

An essay film documenting the rise of the New Left in France and development of socialist movements in Latin America.

Level Five

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1997
• Director Chris Marker
• Cast Catherine Belkhodja, Nagisa Ōshima, Chris Marker
• Genre Documentary, Romance, War
• Available on Hoopla, OVID, Amazon Video

A project on the Battle of Okinawa makes a french computer programmer reflect on her life.

The Lovely Month of May
(Le Joli Mai)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1963
• Director Pierre Lhomme
• Cast Yves Montand, Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Edgar Morin, Alain Resnais
• Genre Documentary
• Available on Hoopla, OVID, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy

Just after the end of the Algerian war, Lhomme interviews Parisians on happiness, their city, and more.