SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER

| 1960  – 82′ – Drama, Comedy, Classic, Film Noir, Films & Literature.
Written by: François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy.
Based on the Book by: David Goodis.
Directed by: François Truffaut.
Starring: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Boby Lapointe, Alice Sapritch, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard.
In French with English subtitles.
A HBO Max / The Criterion Collection release. |

François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague.

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MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

| 1970  – 123′ – Drama, Thriller, Classic, Film Noir, Films & Literature.
Written by: François Truffaut.
Based on the Book by: Cornell Woolrich.
Directed by: François Truffaut.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Yves Drouhet.
In French with English subtitles.
A MGM+ release. |

Lonely on the island of Réunion, tobacco planter Louis Mahe (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides to wed a mail-order bride. Although the woman who arrives off the ship, Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve), looks nothing like her picture, she’s still gorgeous. Their marriage seems to be going fine until Julie empties his bank accounts and disappears. This should be the end of Louis’ obsession — but then he spots Julie in the south of France and falls under her spell once more.

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PARIS BY NIGHT

| 2012 – 100′ – Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film Noir, Paris.
Written by: Simon Michaël, Philippe Isard.
Directed by: Philippe Levebvre.
Starring: Roschdy Zem, Sara Forestier, Samuel Le Bihan, Grégory Fitoussi, Jean-Pierre Martins, Jean-Paul Muel, Sophie Broustal, Gérald Laroche.
Official Selection Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York 2012.
Official Competition COLCOA 2012.
In French with English subtitles.
A Under The Milky Way release. |

Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far.

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THE NIGHT CLERK

| 2011 – 104′ – Drama, Thriller, Film Noir.
Written by: Lise Macheboeuf, Raphaël Jacoulot.
Directed by: Raphaël Jacoulot.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Rottiers, Ludmila Mikaël, Sylvie Testud, Céline Sallette, François Perrot, Xavier Robic, India Hair.
Official Competition COLCOA 2011. 
In French with English subtitles.
A Under The Milky Way release. |

Frederic works in a large luxury hotel in the mountains. One day, while doing his rounds, he overhears Jacques, his boss, having a conversation with his son, Paul. Frederic understands that Paul accidently killed the Spanish guest in room 17 while running an errand for his father. He decides to protect his boss, the man who gives the affection he never had…

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THREE DAYS AND A LIFE

| 2019 – 120′ – Drama, Crime, Thriller, Film Noir, Films & Literature.
Written by: Pierre Lemaitre, Perrine Margaine.
Based on the Book by: Pierre Lemaitre.
Directed by: Nicolas Boukhrief.
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Pablo Pauly, Charles Berling, Jeremy Senez, Margot Bancilhon, Philippe Torreton, Dimitri Storoge, Arben Bajraktaraj.
Official Competition COLCOA 2019 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Under The Milky Way release. |

Director Nicolas Boukhrief exhibits extraordinary elegance and psychological restraint in bringing master crime writer Pierre Lemaitre’s own adaptation of his haunting 2016 novel to the screen. His talented cast only amplifies that same judiciousness in breathing life into a series of well-drawn, complex characters. Their story opens on Christmas day 1999, in a small Belgian village, at the apex of three tumultuous days in the life of 12-year-old Antoine. Three days that will impact the trajectory of his entire life. A taut, suspenseful character study, Three Days and One Life is a heartbreaking, gripping thriller about missteps and terrible secrets, and the enormous toll they take on one boy’s life.

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ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS

| 1958 – 92′ – Drama, Classic, Film Noir, Crime.
Written by: Louis Malle, Roger Nimier.
Directed by: Louis Malle.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Jean Wall, George Poujouly, Lauri Bertin, Lino ventura.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

In his mesmerizing debut feature, twenty-four-year-old director Louis Malle brought together the beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the camerawork of Henri Decae, and a now legendary score by Miles Davis. A touchstone of the careers of both its star and director, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS is a richly atmospheric thriller of murder and mistaken identity unfolding over one restless Parisian night.

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THROUGH THE NIGHT

| 2025 – 108′ – Drama, Thriller, Film Noir, Courtroom. A Belgium/France/Canada Co-production.
Written by: Delphine Girard.
Directed by: Delphine Girard.
Starring: Selma Alaoui, Veerle Baetens, Guillaume Duhesme, Anne Dorval, Gringe, Adèle Wismes, Erico Salomone, Florence Janas.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2022 (Winner Audience Award – Giornate degli Autori).
Official Competition TAFFF 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Under The Milky Way release. |

Late one night, Aly calls police emergency services. She’s in danger. Anna takes the call. Dary is arrested. Years pass. And Aly, Anna and Dary confront the reverberations of a terrifying night they can’t leave behind. A follow-up to her Oscar-nominated short, A Sister, Delphine Girard‘s debut feature opens as a kind of thriller, but quickly segues into a psychological study of the aftermath of a crime and the lifelong impact it leaves on those in its wake. It also delves into the gray area of consent and the ripple effect of violence on various secondary characters and family members. While the judicial system and law enforcement institutions grapple with how to deal with “victimhood” and the seemingly incomprehensible responses we make when faced with violence and emotional trauma, Through the Night ultimately finds resilience and healing in a kind of sisterhood of mutual love and unconditional support.

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MONSIEUR HIRE

| 1989 (New Release: 2022) – 80′ – Digitally restored -Thriller, Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Classic.
Written by: Patrice Leconte, Patrick Dewolf.
Based on the Book by: Georges Simenon.
Directed by: Patrice Leconte.
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms, Eric Bérenger, Philippe Dormoy, Marie Gaydu, Cristiana Réali.
Official Selection: Cannes International Film Festival 1989.
Official Competition TAFFF 2022 (International Premiere Digitally restored version).
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

Michel Blanc’s nuanced performance, Patrice Leconte‘s refined visual style, and Denis Lenoir’s moody cinematography are perfectly in sync with George Simenon’s elegant prose in this beautiful adaptation of the author’s 1933 detective novel, Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire.  More an in-depth study of loneliness, longing and betrayal than a murder mystery, the film is made up of minute, carefully-observed details, placing its central character — a fastidious, reclusive tailor with an inclination toward voyeurism — under a veritable microscope.  Its telling manages to be simultaneously sensual and austere… and finally, heartbreaking.  Unapologetically romantic, Monsieur Hire is very different from the searing social indictment of Julien Duvivier’s 1946 adaptation of the same story, Panic, or of the original novel itself.  Leconte has chosen, instead, to paint a restrained portrait of vulnerability and unrequited love, set to the lush, rhapsodic phrases of Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor.

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ONLY THE ANIMALS

| 2021 – 117′ – Drama, Thriller, Film Noir
Written by: Gilles Marchand, Dominik Moll, Colin Niel.
Directed by: Dominik Moll.
Starring: Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Bastien Bouillon.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

Following the disappearance of glamourous housewife Evelyne Ducat (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in the French highlands, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case. Elegantly structured and darkly funny, Dominik Moll’s seamy thriller reveals the secret connections of a lonely farmer, an unfaithful husband and wife, a lovelorn waitress and an African con artist to expose a world of greed, lust, betrayal, desperation and murder spanning the wintery French highlands to the sun kissed streets of Sierra Leone. With his finest cast to date, including an astonishing performance by Denis Ménochet (Inglorious Bastards), Only The Animals finds Dominik Moll at the height of his filmmaking powers as he masterfully exposes the secret connections that lie at the underbelly of Evelyne’s disappearance.

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BLACK BOX

2021 – 129′ –  Thriller, Film Noir
Written by: Yann Gozlan, Nicolas Bouvet, Jérémie Guez, Simon Moutairou.
Directed by: Yann Gozlan.
Starring: Pierre Niney, Lou de Laâge, André Dussollier, Sébastien Pouderoux, Olivier Rabourdin, André Marcon.
Official Competition COLCOA 2021.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release.|

Following in the tradition of Antonioni’s Blowup or Coppola’s The Conversation, writer/director Yann Gozlan — and an excellent cast led by the ever-impeccable Pierre Niney — crafts a taut, suspenseful intrigue, unraveling the events behind a tragic incident, this time in the aeronautics industry. Matthieu, a brilliant young black-box analyst with an extraordinarily acute ear is charged with investigating a deadly plane crash. Progressively obsessed by inexplicable evidence that doesn’t add up, and spiraling further and further into the realm of paranoia, he gradually loses credibility at the BEA, the bureau that investigates aviation safety in France. So he’s forced to go rogue, risking both career and life, but determined to uncover the sordid truth.

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