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IN THEATERS IN SPRING 2026, BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

TWO PIANOS

| 2026 – 115′ – Drama,  Romance, Music & Dance.
Written by: Arnaud Desplechin, Kamen Velkovsky. Anne Berest.
Directed by: Arnaud Desplechin.
Starring: François Civil, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Charlotte Rampling, Hippolyte Girardot, Alba Gaia Bellugi, Anne Kessler, Jeremy Lewin, Marianne Pommier, Valentin Picard.
Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival (2025), San Sebastian International Film Festival (2025), Rendez-vous With French Cinema in New York (2026).
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a concert. In a park, an encounter with a child who looks just like him will lead him to Claude, the woman he once loved.

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L’ENFANT (THE CHILD)

| 2005 – 100′ –  A Belgium/France Co-Production. Drama, Crime, Romance, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
Directed by: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
Starring: Jean-Michel Balthazar, Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard, Stéphane Bissot, Olivier Gourmet, Mireille Bailly, Anne Gérard, Frédéric Bonson.
Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 2005 (Winner Palme d’Or), Toronto International Film Festival 2005. Césars Awards 2006: 4 nominations (Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Directors, Best Promising Actress for Déborah François).
In French and in Italian with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

A gritty, modern day love story about desperation, love and redemption. A young impoverished Belgian couple, Bruno and Sonia, must deal with the consequences when Bruno sells their newborn baby for cold hard cash. After Rosetta, the Dardenne brothers won their second Palme d’Or with L’Enfant at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. 

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TESS

| 1980 (Digital restoration 2012) – 185′ –  Classic,  PERIOD & HISTORY, DRAMA, ROMANCE, FILMS & LITERATURE
Written by: Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski.
Based on the Book by: Thomas hardy.
Directed by: Roman Polanski.
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin, Carolyn Pickles, Suzanna Hamilton, Caroline Embling
Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 1979 and 2012. Toronto International Film Festival 2012. 5 Academy Awards Nominations 1981 including Best Director. Winner Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costumes). 3 César Awards Winner 1980 (Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Director).
In English.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

In the Victorian period, a rural clergyman tells John Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d’Urberville family — now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d’Uberville living in a manor house less than a day’s carriage ride away. Alec d’Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful “cousin” and seduces her with strawberries and roses. Actually, Alec has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Tess also takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love Angel Claire.

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WOMEN AT WAR

| 2025 – 8 x 52′ –  Series – Drama, War, Period & History, Romance.
Created by: Cécile Lorne, Camille Treiner.
Written by: Cécile Lorne, Camille Treiner, José Caltagirone, Iris Ducorps, Cécile Lorne, Sophie Hiet, Hélène Le Gal.
Directed by: Alexandre Laurent.
Starring: Audrey Fleurot, Julie de Bona, Camille Lou, Sofia Essaïdi, Sandrine Bonnaire, Tchéky Karyo, Laurent Gerra, Tom Leeb, Yannick Choirat,Grégoire Colin, Vincent Rottiers, Florence Loiret Caille.
In French with English subtitles.
A Walter Presents / PBS release. |

September 1914. For several weeks, the fighting has been raging. In a small village in eastern France, a few kilometers from the German area, four women find themselves thrown into the heart of the horror: Marguerite (Audrey Fleurot), a Parisian prostitute as mysterious as she is flamboyant, who is suspected of being a spy; Caroline (Sofia Essaïdi), wife of Victor Dewitt, owner of a car factory, who has left for the front. She finds herself at the head of the family business, a colossal and unprecedented challenge for a woman at the beginning of the century; Agnès (Julie de Bona), Mother Superior of a convent requisitioned and transformed into a military hospital. Overwhelmed by the influx of wounded, Agnès is increasingly tormented and questions her life choices; and Suzanne (Camille Lou), a young feminist nurse on the run since an abortion gone wrong…

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COMING SOON TO THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

COLORS OF TIME

| 2026 – 126′ –  Drama, Romance, Paris, Films & Arts, Period & History, TAFFF Awards Winners.
Written by: Cédric Klapisch, Santiago Amigorena.
Directed by: Cédric Klapisch.
Starring: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne, Julia Piaton, Zinedine Soualem, Paul Kircher, Vassili Schneider, Sara Giraudeau, Cécile de France, François Berléand, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Olivier Gourmet, Raïka Hazanavicius.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2025. 3 nominations César Awards 2026.
Official Competition TAFFF 2025 (US Premiere, Winner Audience Award 2025)
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release. |

A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, are gathered in Normandy. The town would like to purchase her long-abandoned property, and four “cousins” are tasked with overseeing the transaction. Thus begins a genealogical journey into the past, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink of an industrial and cultural revolution. Aptly entitled “The Coming of the Future” in French, Colors of Time literally plunges us into a moment in time when Parisian creativity is at its apex… when not only electricity and technology, but photography and Impressionism in painting and music are creating a spark that’s about to erupt into a movement far beyond anyone’s expectations. Cédric Klapisch‘s endearing new comedy is nothing less than a soul-stirring, time-traveling – at times, hallucinogenic – trip for lovers of the arts everywhere.

 

 

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NEXT TO YOU

| 2025 – 4 x 52′ –  Series – Drama, Romance.
Created by: Fabienne Lesieur, Johanne Rigoulot.
Written by: Fabienne Lesieur, Johanne Rigoulot.
Directed by: Christophe Lamotte.
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Charlie Dupont, Lannick Gautry, Marie Zabukovec, Déborah Krey, Lilas-Rose Gilberti, Juliette Navis, Abel Memmi.
In French with English subtitles.
A Walter Presents / PBS Masterpiece release. |

Seemingly perfect, a family becomes endangered when the mother Agathe (Virginie Ledoyen) starts getting threats after a murder occurs at the hotel where her husband works. A bodyguard is hired to protect her family, but she develops an attraction to him, jeopardizing her marriage and saf

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NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS. COMING SOON TO DIGITAL.

DRACULA

| 2026 – 129′ –  Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Film & Literature.
Written by: Luc Besson.
Based on the Book By: Bram Stoker
Directed by: Luc Besson.
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bleu, Matilda De Angelis, Ewens Abid, Guillaume de Toncquedec, Jassem Mougari, Bertrand-Xavier Corbi.
In English.
A Vertical release. |

When a 15th-century prince (Caleb Landry Jones) denounces God after the devastating loss of his wife (Zoë Bleu), he inherits an eternal curse: he becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies fate and death itself, guided by a single hope — to be reunited with his lost love. From the Writer/Director of Leon, The Big Blue, Lucy and The Fifth Element.

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CONTEMPT

| 1964 – 105′ – Drama, Romance, Classic, Films & Literature, Films About Cinema.
Written by: Jean-Luc Godard.
Based on the Book By: Alberto Moravia.
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard.
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Gorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard, Linda Veras.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2023 (Cannes Classics).
Official Selection TAFFF 20224 (Digitally restored version. Homage to Jean-Luc Godard).
In French with English subtitles.
A Rialto Pictures / BFI Player Classic release. |

Based on Moravia’s novel, Jean-Luc Godard’s sardonic look at the world of filmmaking boasts superb performances by Michel Piccoli as a compromised writer, Brigitte Bardot as his bored wife, Jack Palance as a manipulative producer and Fritz Lang as himself, about to film Homer’s Odyssey in Cinecittà and Capri. Raoul Coutard’s camerawork and Georges Delerue’s music enhance the beauty and poignancy.

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AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

| 1956 – 90′ – Drama, Romance, Classic.
Written by: Roger Vadim.
Directed by: Roger Vadim.
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Donovan Leitch Jr., Gary Goetzman, Kenny Ortega, Jane Marken, Jean Tissier, Georges Poujouly.
In French with English subtitles.
A HBO Max release. |

In St. Tropez, Juliette Hardy (Brigitte Bardot) is an eighteen-year-old orphan, sexually liberated and ahead of her time, who is strongly desired by the wealthy, middle-aged man Eric Carradine. She has a crush on Antoine Tardieu, the eldest son of a poor family that owns a modest shipyard in Toulon, but he is only interested in a one-night stand. When Juliette’s foster parents decide to send her back to the orphanage due to her bad reputation in town, Antoine’s younger brother, Michel Tardieu, proposes marriage, and she accepts. Over time, she begins to fall in love with him. However, when the Tardieu family plans to sell the shipyard to Eric and Antoine returns to St. Tropez, Juliette’s desire for him resurfaces—leading to a foretold tragedy. The film that created Brigitte Bardot’s myth.

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PLEASE, NOT NOW!

| 1961 – 86′ – Comedy, Romance, Classic.
Written by: Roger Vadim, Jean Aurel, Claude Brulé.
Directed by: Roger Vadim, Jean Aurel.
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Subor, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Jacques Riberolles, Claude Berri, Serge Marquand, Jean Tissier.
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

Brigitte Bardot stars in this madcap romantic comedy, seen through the fetishizing lens of Roger Vadim (Barbarella, …And God Created Woman). When Sophie, a photographer’s model (Bardot), is jilted by her boyfriend (Jacques Riberolles), she becomes convinced she is the victim of a family curse, and takes shotgun in hand to eliminate her romantic rival (Joséphine James). Meanwhile, a young bachelor (Michel Subor) attempts to defuse Sophie’s rage, and win the slightly demented blonde for himself. Borrowing from the commedia all’italiana and nouvelle vague, Please, Not Now! is a cinematic delight, flavored with clever sight gags, exotic locations, and laced with sexual innuendo.

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