Film Dictionary

Alain Resnais's last film.

Bizarre film by Alain Resnais about actors who appeared in earlier stagings of Jean Anouilh’s “Eurydice” to evaluate a young company’s new i...

Bizarre French film about a man becoming obsessed with a woman whose purse he has found.

Un film choral realise par Alain Resnais.

Meandering, seriously overrated French pic about boring Parisian neurotics. Frequently interrupted by non-sequitur musical numbers, in which...

A movie about simple decisions that might have a crucial impact on one's life. A woman lights a cigarette, a man makes a date wi...

A compilation of 30 short films pleading on behalf of a political prisoner.

An American cartoonist tries to find his daughter while attending an art exhibition in Paris. Screamingly funny comedy written by Jules Feif...

An adaptation of a popular French play. 

Alain Resnais' most difficult film, and that's saying something about the director of "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad" (...

Gerard Depardieu stars in this intelligent film directed by Alain Resnais.

Alain Resnais' first English-language film.

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the infamous French crook, whose frauds led to political unrests in 1934.

Probably Alain Resnais' worst film, though "La Vie est un roman" (1983) and "L'Amour a mort" (1984) are als...

Uneven, but fascinating French film about the Vietnam War. The most memorable segment has Jean-Luc Godard trying to explain to himself why t...

Typical modernist film by Alain Resnais - almost impossible to follow narratively, but stylistically outstanding.

Difficult, pretentious, but visually mesmerizing art movie directed by Alain Resnais. The ultimate in Euro-chic cinematic snobbery, but e...