Girl on the Bridge

Patrice Leconte

'Girl on the Bridge' is one of director Patrice Leconte’s ('The Hairdresser’s Husband') most intoxicating romances. Shot in gorgeous B&W, it follows the whirlwind courtship of carnival knife thrower Gabor (Daniel Auteuil, 'Caché') and lonesome wanderer Adele (Vanessa Paradis, 'Half a Chance'). Despairing of her future, Adele leaps into the Seine before being rescued by Gabor, and unexpectedly becomes the new assistant, and target, for his act. He flings knives at her across Europe, their love growing with each death-defying act. Living so close to the edge, how long can the luck of these lovers hold out?


Yvonne’s Perfume

Patrice Leconte

From acclaimed director Patrice Leconte ('Girl on the Bridge', 'The Hairdresser’s Husband'), 'Yvonne’s Perfume' is a mysterious and romantic drama of desire. In the early 1950s, on the shores of a lake wedged between France and Switzerland, a trio of holiday travelers meet, clash, and fall in and out of friendship and love. Adapted from the novel Ville Triste by Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano, it follows Victor (Hippolyte Girardot, 'The French Dispatch') a deserter escaping his past who lusts after the beautiful actress Yvonne (Sandra Majani). Their push-pull flirtation attracts the attention of gay bon vivant Dr. Meinthe (Jean-Pierre Marielle, 'The Da Vinci Code'), who can’t help but insert himself into their tryst. But their idyllic holiday can’t last forever.


The Hairdresser’s Husband

Patrice Leconte

A newly restored masterpiece from famed director Patrice Leconte ('Girl on the Bridge', 'Yvonne’s Perfume'), 'The Hairdresser’s Husband' is a wildly erotic ode to wedded bliss. Starring the legendary Jean Rochefort ('Man on the Train') and the incandescent Anna Galiena ('Jamón Jamón'), it follows the life of young Antoine, who was obsessed with the bewitching beautician who cut his hair. Since then, his single ambition in life has been to marry a hairdresser. As an adult, Antoine (Rochefort) meets a woman (Galiena) who seems to be the perfect incarnation of his childhood fantasies. He promptly marries her, then spends most of his daylight hours sitting in her shop, watching her every move. They are so crazy in love that some days they close up early to be alone. As time passes the shop becomes their entire world.


Monsieur Hire

Patrice Leconte

Cohen Film Collection presents a new 4K restoration of this erotic thriller. A young girl is brutally murdered. The prime suspect is a cold and reclusive man who is obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. He spends his nights watching her through his window, but when she discovers that she is being spied on, she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.This gripping and stylish murder mystery, winner of the French Film Critics Award for Best Feature, has been hailed as "The most elegant and intelligent erotic film to have come out of France in years." by the Detroit News. Adapted from the book by Georges Simenon, MONSIEUR HIRE is a film of gorgeously muted widescreen color and "funereal beauty" (The Washington Post) that coolly unpacks sexual obsession and romantic love with an intelligence and understated intensity.


Love Street

Patrice Leconte

1945. The Oriental Palace, a Paris brothel, is about to be closed down. It's the will of the era. Marion is one of the Oriental Palace girls. She dreams of vaudeville, love and companionship. Petit Louis is the Oriental Palace's handyman and general factotum. He's madly in love with Marion, but he knows she will never be his, so he goes out to find the man who will make her happy.


Felix and Lola

Patrice Leconte

Felix owns and operates the bumper cars in an amusement park. One day, he is intrigued by a silent girl riding around the track all alone, letting herself get bumped and knocked about by the other cars. A strange girl, seemingly remote from the ordinary fun of the fair. She is elsewhere, in a world of her own. Her name is Lola. That's all she says. Before he knows it, Felix has fallen in love with her, touched by the sadness in her eyes, he goes after her, wanting to understand and help her. But Lola slips away, comes back, disappears again...She is here, but never completely. She seems tied to a mysterious past - a past that Felix will have to confront. How far can a person go when he's in love? As far as killing somebody?


Paolo Conte: It's wonderful

Giorgio Verdelli

Paolo Conte has been compared to Tom Waits and Randy Newman by the New York Times and is one of the greatest singers in the world. A musical journey with unreleased materials and exclusive interviews.


French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

Patrice Leconte

In 1978, Popeye, Gigi, Jerome, Bernard, Nathalie and Jean Claude met on the Ivory Coast in a holiday camp that shall be nameless called the Club Med. Sun, sea and seduction. One year later, the friends met up again in Val d'Isère. Ski-tows, snowballs and slippery slopes. Since Club Med and the skiing holiday, they’ve been in and out of touch constantly, stealing time together for holidays from their deadly dull civilian lives. For the last few years they’ve been getting together for a week every summer at the Prunus Resort, a luxury seaside hotel run in a hit or miss fashion by Popeye and owned by his wife, Graziella Lespinasse, the heiress to one of the largest fortunes in Italy. So what’s become of the BRONZES over the last 25 years? They’re just the same, but worse, comes the hasty reply.


A Promise

Patrice Leconte

Alan Rickman stars in this simmering early 20th-century love story about a triangle between an aging factory owner, his young bride (Rebecca Hall) and his handsome protégé (Game of Thrones' Richard Madden).


My Best Friend

Patrice Leconte

MY BEST FRIEND stars the great Daniel Auteuil as a middle-aged antiques dealer with a stylish apartment and a fabulous life. But at a dinner with his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually likes him. He's arrogant and self-centered, and they don't believe he knows the meaning of friendship. Business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce a best friend, she’ll let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it's hers. Francois tears through his address book, trying to shoehorn an increasingly unlikely series of contacts into the all-important role. He encounters a big-hearted cabbie named Bruno (France’s beloved star Dany Boon) whose chatty, lowbrow ways grate against Francois's designer temperament, but he covets the other man's easy way with people.


Intimate Strangers

Patrice Leconte

William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist’s down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna find a bond developing between them, one that only true strangers can have, even after she finds out who he really is…or is not! Masterfully directed by French film legend Patrice Leconte (Man on the Train, Girl on the Bridge, The Widow of St. Pierre ), Intimate Strangers takes you on a journey into the depths of human relationships and shows just how intimate strangers can be.


Man On the Train

Patrice Leconte

In this "elegantly polished film" (Richard Schickel, Time magazine), a mysterious stranger is the lone passenger disembarking from a train in a sleepy French village. His name is Milan (French rock icon Johnny Hallyday), a criminal intent on knocking over the local bank. Upon his arrival, he is befriended by Manesquier (acclaimed French actor Jean Rochefort), a retired poetry teacher. Through their unexpected friendship, both men come to realize they have been given the opportunity to look back on their lives--complete with dashed hopes and unfulfilled dreams. At the same time, both are given the momentary chance to explore the road not taken. Directed by celebrated filmmaker Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Girl On The Bridge), the dazzling Man On The Train captivated audiences at the 2002 Venice Film Festival, where it won the coveted audience awards for both Best Picture and Best Actor (Rochefort).