Strange humor, quiet dramas, and truths that slowly rise to the surface. In Central Europe, nothing is just what it seems.

Based on real events and one of the darkest, most controversial chapters in modern Belgian history, this gripping series explores - with narrative precision and moral complexity - how violence and fear become arenas of ideological confrontation.

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As a wave of bloody attacks shocks Belgium, three young people who grew up together find themselves on opposing sides of the state apparatus and political militancy. Their choices will shape not only their own futures, but that of an entire country.

1985

Normal

The third part of the "Four Seasons" cycle is dedicated to summer, the season which became synonymous with Éric Rohmer's work, and is full of youth, carelessness and... emotional confusion.

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An shy indecisive math student takes a holiday in Dinard, waiting for his girlfriend to spend their summer vacation together. However, his meeting with two more girls will complicate things.

A Summer's Tale

Deconstructing the television myth of the superhero doctor and focusing on human uncertainty within a system collapsing under pressure, the series captures with urgency and immediacy the clash between the idealistic urge to care and the harsh realities of bureaucracy and understaffing.

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A group of young medical interns begin their careers at a public hospital in Paris, where difficult decisions are demanded from the very first day. Amid personal mistakes, punishing shifts, and relentless superiors, they learn what it means to care for others without losing themselves.

Interns

The film that was destined to be the culmination of Kieslowski's worldview, as well as his swan song, is a hymn to friendship and to anything that inexplicably and almost magically can unite lives and destinies.

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A photo model in Zurich meets a lonely retired judge who spends his hours eavesdropping on his neighbors' phone calls in the last of the 3 films in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Color Trilogy.

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Nominated for Best Director | Oscars | 1995 
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1995
Nominated for Best Cinematography | Oscars | 1995
Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1994

Three Colors: Red

An example of passion at its fullest as we know it in the French cinema, through an emotional torrent that was awarded with the Film Director Award at Cannes for Andre Techine and turned Juliette Binoche into a star overnight.

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A young girl arrives in Paris determined to become an actress and experience love. Her path in life and art will be stormy and completely different from what she imagined at the beginning.

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Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1985

Rendez-vous

It was meant to be the cinematic event of the 60s. Instead, three weeks into filming, the project gets abandoned, leaving behind an unfinished masterpiece. Completed in 2009 as a mix of fiction and documentary, this “Inferno” is a film jewel and a glance to a parallel world of beauty.

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In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot picks Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani to star in “Inferno”. The enigmatic project would focus on a hotel manager possessed by the demons of jealousy, and was meant to be the biggest cinematic event of the decade, with Clouzot being given carte blanche and a large budget. However, during filming everything goes wrong, the project gets abandoned, and something that was meant to make history is left unfinished.

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Best Documentary Award | César Awards | 2010
International Jury Award for Best Documentary | Sao Paolo International Film Festival | 2009

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

A fascinating “what-if” story, coming out of an almost childish revenge plan in one of the most beloved European films of the ‘90s. A Golden Camera Award at Cannes, for Jaco Van Dormael’s (The Brand New Testament) debut film.

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Thomas and Alfred were born at exactly the same moment. A fire at the maternity ward had nurses run to save them. Growing up, Thomas believes he should have had Alfred’s luck to be raised by a rich family, and obsesses over the idea that they were switched at birth. His own misery must belong to Alfred, whether that is the death of his sister as well as his failure to date madame Evelyn. So, he comes up with a plan to get revenge.

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Golden Camera | Cannes Film Festival | 1991
Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 1992

Toto the Hero

The film that changed and redefined the rules for depicting a robbery on screen, popularized the term “rififi” for dozens of real-life heists, and remains thrilling to this day - especially in its nighttime execution sequence. A landmark in the career of Jules Dassin, and in the film noir genre as a whole.

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A burglar is released from prison and agrees to his young protégé’s proposal for a quick strike on a famous jewelry store—on one condition: they leave nothing behind. With a meticulous plan and the help of a master safe-cracker, their chances of success are high. But pulling off the heist may be the easy part; they still have to escape, find fences, stay out of sight, and above all, keep their past from catching up with them.

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Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1955
Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1955

Rififi

Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre depict the absurd and inhumane professional environment in which Adèle Exarchopoulos embodies, with gravity and irreverence, the existential wanderings of a young woman in flight.

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Cassandre, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. By fully embracing her flight-to-flight and party-after-party lifestyle, she stays faithful to her Tinder username "Carpe Diem". An unattached existence by the means of forging ahead without care is apparently fulfilling to her, until a mishap forces her to reconnect with the world. Will Cassandre be able to confront her buried pain and return to those she has left on the ground?

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Official Selection - Critic's Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2021

Zero Fucks Given

If Aftersun were set in the Corsican mafia clans, it would look like this explosive film about the complex relationship between a father and daughter who are forced to deal with the extreme violence of the region.

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Corsica, 1995. It is Lesia's first summer as a teenager. One day a man invades her life and takes her to a secluded villa, where she finds her father hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war breaks out. The noose tightens around them. Forced to flee, father and daughter will learn to confront, understand and love each other.

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Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2024

The Kingdom

A shocking animation capturing a path of hope away from Franco's Spain, leading hundreds of thousands of people to another impasse. When a gorgeous cartoon is combined with historical recording. Official Selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.

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February 1939. The French government is inundated with Spanish people trying to escape Franco's dictatorship. Its solution is to place them in concentration camps where refugees have no choice but to build their own barracks, feed on the horses that transported them out of their country and die due to lack of hygiene and water. In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbed wire, will become friends. One is a police officer, the other is Josep Bartoli, a designer and anti-Franco fighter.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2020
Best Screenplay | Athens International Film Festival | 2020
Audience Award | Athens International Film Festival | 2020

Josep

The director of "Serial Bad Weddings" welcomes those who want to see a hilarious French comedy with a social conscience, which criticizes and, at the same time, plays around with stereotypes about social classes and philanthropy.

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A well-known intellectual leftist advocates the need to offer asylum to those who need it. When the host of a TV show corners him about the existing Roma Gypsy problem, he takes on a challenge: to open his house and play host to a Roma family.

With Open Arms

Luscious images of gastronomic porn, garnished with class-conscious commentary, in a film that pays tribute to the French tradition of crowd-pleasers and leaves every kind of cinephile satisfied - devoted foodies and the less gastronomically inclined alike.

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On the eve of the French Revolution, gastronomy in France is the exclusive domain of the aristocracy. When the highly skilled chef Manceran is dismissed for serving a dish his master did not approve, he resolves to strike out on his own, opening the very first restaurant to offer gourmet cuisine to people of the lower classes.

Delicious

The cinematic farewell of Antoine Doinel, alter ego of the legendary Francois Truffault, in a wonderful retrospection of important moments in the inspirational character’s journey. He, who always fights, believes and ultimately wins. The echo of immortal youth.

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Antoine Doinel returns for the last time. His marriage survived his first infidelity, but eventually he got divorced. He works as a text editor, is finally writing his autobiographical novel and he falls in love with a woman who sells records. He meets Colette, his teenage love, and they read his book together on a train journey. Colette, along with his ex-wife, will play a central role in his quest for happiness.

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Official Selection | Berlin International Film Festival | 1979
César Award Best Music | | 1980

Love on the Run

The holder of two Foreign-Language Oscars, Asghar Farhadi, travels to Spain to portray, in a new cultural context, his reflection on the moral dilemmas within a family circle, with the help of the excellent triad of Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin.

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A 40-year-old woman arrives from Argentina to her father's house in Spain for her sister's wedding. During the reception however, her teenage daughter will be kidnapped. An agonizing search begins and family secrets and uncomfortable truths will come to light.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

Everybody Knows

Five female directors present five beautiful, poetic and humorous adventures, which through the art of animation generously share the magic of Christmas.

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In a festive and fairytale atmosphere, animals from all over the world gather to celebrate Christmas and winter.

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Official Selection | Annecy Film Festival | 2024

Animal Tales of Christmas Magic

The Cannes Palme d’Or was awarded to "Dheepan" for the film’s authentic, heartrending and deeply humane look at the experiences of 21st-century refugees, as faced by its electrifying protagonist. A cinematic punch to the gut.

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A Tamil Tiger warrior becomes a deserter in order to leave Sri Lanka, where a civil war is raging. He comes across a young woman and a girl who also need to escape from their homeland; although unrelated, they form a makeshift family and reach Paris by using a dead man's passport. French immigration officers take them to a suburban apartment complex that looks like a prison. There, instead of making a fresh start, the three have to contend with the violence of local thugs and drug dealers.

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Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2015

Dheepan

With outstanding performances from its leading duo and marked by subtle irony and underlying tension, Leon Prudovsky delivers a disarmingly bittersweet film that explores memory, obsession, and the need for justice in a world eager to forget.

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Colombia, 1960. A lonely Jewish Holocaust survivor spends his days in isolation until a mysterious German moves in next door. When he learns that Eichmann had lived in hiding for years in Argentina, he begins to suspect that his new neighbor might be Adolf Hitler, who also escaped to South America.

My Neighbor Adolf

Worthy of Cousteau’s fascinating personality, this biopic is brimming with magnificent underwater scenes and dramatic tensions. The depths of the ocean rival the depths of human souls. Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou and Lambert Wilson in the role of the legendary explorer, equally shine in diving them.

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1946. Cousteau dives with his son, Philippe, into the beautiful waters of the Mediterranean. Cousteau buys a boat, Calypso, and starts traveling while his sons are in boarding school. 10 years later, Philippe finds his father changed: he is a famous director and chief of a huge operation, whose life consists of conferences, trade agreements, projects. He can't see how ever-increasing pollution by humans is threatening the world he introduced them to. But Philippe can.

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Best Sound Award | César Awards | 2017

The Odyssey

Gaspar Noé presents the film that taught us in the most shocking way that "Time destroys everything" tests its endurance in straight storytelling. Does its sweeping impact change at all?

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The infamous film of the evergreen provocateur Gaspar Noé, which went down in history, among other things, for the reverse narration from the end to the beginning, is presented here in reverse, i.e... normally.

Irreversible: The Straight Cut

The fear of middle age is turned on its head to create a sense of freedom. Jane Birkin once confessed to Agnes Varda that turning 40 terrified her, so the director decided to create her portrait. A playful and original film and an exploration of the sacred bond between director and actor.

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A kaleidoscopic examination and study of the actress as a woman, mother, muse, idol. The scenes of the "real" Jane Birkin, makeup-free and expressing a desire to be seen "as if I were as transparent, as anonymous as everyone else", are edited with cinematic fantasies of both the actress and director, in the form of renaissance portraits, comedies, thrillers.

Jane B. for Agnes V.

Is happiness cumulative? Shortly before the May ‘68 riots, Agnes Varda -in a masterpiece replete with colors, movement, glances and the looming presence of death- explores the possibilities of romantic threesomes.

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A young carpenter lives a comfortable, tranquil life, married to a lovely wife with whom he shares two wonderful children. Although their marriage is a happy one, he initiates an extramarital affair with a woman he meets on a business trip. When his wife observes that he is unusually joyful, he, unable to lie to her, reveals his infidelity, but says that nothing has changed between them.

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Special Prize of the Jury | Berlin International Film Festival | 1965

Le Bonheur

Michael Haneke's magnum opus is a multidimensional study on the causes and birth of fascism, a film that travels into the past to highlight urgent and timelessly topical concerns about violence and all forms of terrorism, a pure and undisputed masterpiece.

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Germany, just before the First World War. A series of unexplained events disrupt the daily social life of a Protestant village, centred on a group of young children.

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Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2010
Nomination for Best Cinematography | Oscars | 2010
Golden Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2009
Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globes | 2010
FIPRESCI Prize | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2009

The White Ribbon

Truffaut created a film that wasn’t just a breakthrough in the context of the Nouvelle Vague, but a real milestone in the history of cinema. It explores the cruelty of youth and administers “blows” of pure cinema exhilaration that leave you wanting more.

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We meet Antoine Doinel for the first time, an unruly boy growing up in Paris in 1950, playing truant and stealing. His teacher torments him and his family doesn’t understand him. After getting arrested, he spends a night in a cell. The court decides to send him to a juvenile reformatory, where a psychologist assesses the reasons why he is unhappy. One day, during football practice, Antoine escapes by jumping over the fence; he runs to the ocean, a place he always wanted to visit.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1959
Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1959
OCIC Award | Cannes Film Festival | 1959

The 400 Blows

The biggest box-office hit in France for 30 years, until Titanic came along, and still the fifth most successful film to date, this ageless classic remains sharp, biting, and hilarious, with Louis de Funès and Bourvil lead a group of brave but bumbling misfits trying to escape the Nazis in occupied France.

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During World War II, a British allied plane is shot down by the Germans and crashes in Nazi-occupied Paris. A high-strung orchestra conductor (Louis de Funès) and a kind-hearted house painter (André Bourvil) come to the rescue of the crew, and together they set out on a chaotic mission to escape to England.