
Modern Times
(1936)It is man vs machine in Charlie Chaplin’s beloved classic and his final film featuring his famous tramp character.

In the Mood for Love
(2000)Friends turn into lovers and affairs abound when two couples move into a new apartment building around the same time in the 1960s.

Three Colors: Red
(1994)An accident creates a relationship between a model and a retired judge who spies on his neighbors.

It Happened One Night
(1934)When a brash reporter starts trailing a runaway heiress on her bus trip from Florida to New York for a big scoop, can love be far behind?

The Piano Teacher
(2001)Erika is a music teacher in Vienna living a hermetic, love-hate existence with her overbearing mother, escaping only to visit porn cinemas and peepshows. When she meets clean-cut, charismatic student Walter, Erika’s carefully calibrated lifestyle is threatened. Control trades hands between student and teacher, as Erika’s masochistic tendencies are inflicted upon Walter during a torrid affair.

Lola
(1961)Roland, a bored young man, meets Lola, a woman he was in love with during his teens. Now a cabaret dancer and a devoted single mother, Lola hopes the father of her child, who deserted during her pregnancy, will return. Roland finds himself falling back in love with her.

My American Uncle
(1980)To illustrate his theory on the complexities of human behavior, Professor Laborit selects three destinies: Jean, a careerist middle class man, Janine, an actress of humble origins, and René, a farmer’s son who manages his own textile company. All face difficult choices in life-changing situations.

Phantom Thread
(2017)In this lustrous drama, master craftsman Paul Thomas Anderson handles the sumptuous fabric of a passionate courtship between headstrong lovers. Hand in glove with that feverish romance, Jonny Greenwood’s rippling piano melodies climb to the heavens and sigh at the triumph of tenderness over regimen.

The Mother and the Whore
(1973)
The Soft Skin
(1964)Pierre, a renowned writer and editor, is caught up between his wife, Franca and his mistress Nicole. Things take a turn when Franca asks for a divorce.

Lola
(1981)A government official falls in love with a woman leading a double life.

Love Affair
(1939)A French playboy and an American singer fall in love aboard a ship. While each engaged to others, they plan to reunite atop the Empire State Building.

Pépé le Moko
(1937)On the run in Algiers, a notorious gangster takes refuge among friends in the Casbah. But love tempts him to risk everything and emerge from hiding.

Summer Interlude
(1951)
Chikamatsu Monogatari
(1954)
La Ronde
(1950)Ophuls’ exquisite, imaginative adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s play about a carousel of erotic encounters involving characters of different social status.

Le Plaisir
(1952)Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure. Featuring a stunning cast of French stars (including Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, and Simone Simon), Le plaisir pinpoints the cruel ironies and happy compromises of life with a charming and sophisticated breeziness.

Lola Montès
(1955)When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.

Léon Morin, Priest
(1961)As the Germans take over France during World War II, widowed mother Barny (Emmanuelle Riva) becomes increasingly anxious about her half-Jewish daughter. She decides to hide the girl on a nearby farm and have her baptized as a cover. The ceremony reminds Barny of the absurdity of religion, and inspires her to pick a fight with parish priest Leon (Jean-Paul Belmondo). She's surprised to learn that he shares a great many of her views, and the two begin a chaste yet deep relationship.