A filmmaker makes a film about a young woman who baths in a public fountain, casting herself in the role.

1950 short film portrait of the octogenarian folk artist. Nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Short Subject, One-reel".

This Warner Bros. short reviews in an often humorous way the impact of the automobile on the United States. By 1900, the horseless carriage was...

Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished. Preserved by the Academy Film...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form....

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form....

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

A documentary focusing on the independent punk band Contact.

Documentary about an unlikely youth chess team from Indianapolis who went on surprise the chess world with their success. The team, made up of young...

A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test...

As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both...

A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the...

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays...

Isabell and Rafael are going on holiday. On their trip, they pick up young Lisa, who is completely unaware of Rafael’s violent vein, and of his...

A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou.

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his...

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual...