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"What struck me most was the freedom of speech. And the moral ambiguity it revealed."

Riad Sattouf on The Sorrow and the Pity by Marcel Ophüls: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyxcowiEWxY

Watch it on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/le-chagrin-et-la-pitie-marcel-ophuls-vod

"The film really talks about cinema, the madness of what it means to be a cinephile or a filmmaker."

Justine Triet on sex, lies, and videotape by Steven Soderbergh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NwdayHhXM

Watch it on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/sex-lies-and-videotape-steven-soderbergh-vod

"And it asks a much larger question, as old as humanity: 'Why do we fall in love?"

Ugo Bienvenu on Her directed by Spike Jonze: youtu.be/LbVNq7gNSps?si=ydbc9DRctzToB_

Watch Her on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/her-spike-jonze-vod

"There's the fairy tale, but there's also a bit of "gross" in it all the time."

Virginie Efira on Donkey Skin directed by Jacques Demy: youtu.be/OuNza0DvW60?si=fF1jBcxeRerC27Cl

Watch Donkey Skin on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/donkey-skin-jacques-demy-vod

“Sedation and screens: those are the key words of this fascist society.”

Nicolas Mathieu on Fahrenheit 451 directed by François Truffaut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_u7I-61Fw

Watch Fahrenheit 451 on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/fahrenheit-451-francois-truffaut-vod

“So the ring, as in a wedding ring, and the ring, as in the place where you fight.”

Albert Dupontel on The Ring directed by Alfred Hitchcock: youtu.be/bKYsWEndqTE?si=3yjT7dp8uwGv9kHV

Watch The Ring on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/the-ring-alfred-hitchcock-vod, and until April 30th on LaCinetek's online film club: www.lacinetek.com/fr/cine-club

“It’s the beginning, the very invention of the idea of adolescence.”

Rebecca Zlotowski on The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows directed by Jean Rouch: youtu.be/j7qK7Um_iiU?si=kq11JbJIa0LlIWyR

Watch The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/the-fifteen-year-old-widows-jean-rouch-vod

"In this context, there’s always the suspicion of pornography. What nonsense!"

Andreas Dresen on Intimacy by Patriche Chéreau : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLE25dpQVJ8

Watch Intimacy on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/intimite-patrice-chereau-vod

"He drinks, he lets himself go… He gets played, bounces back, and still believes…"

Patrice Leconte on The Big Lebowski directed by Joel Coen: youtu.be/rzSd2862bRA?si=4cgco9PtvAUmQjkG

Watch The Big Lebowski on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/the-big-lebowski-joel-coen-ethan-coen-vod

"As a testimony to what happened in those years, there is nothing better than Rossellini"

Albert Dupontel on Rome, Open City directed by Roberto Rossellini: youtu.be/Z3bjOk5tPco?si=UgM4zZQgKzwhRimQ

Watch Rome, Open City on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/rome-open-city-roberto-rossellini-vod

Leïla Slimani on Mr. Klein: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zTrQuI0e9I

Watch Mr. Klein on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/mr-klein-joseph-losey-vod

Lucile Hadzihalilovic on Dead Ringers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCs2Az3mi8

Watch Dead Ringers on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/dead-ringers-david-cronenberg-vod

Jacques Audiard on See How They Fall: youtu.be/hoUg1U6FAfU?si=1wn5ErApv-EFtlRM

Watch See How They Fall on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/see-how-they-fall-jacques-audiard-vod

Bertrand Bonello on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me: youtu.be/qudzet4URhM?si=icYvlHA2lJTp9RXO

Watch Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-david-lynch-vod

Vincent Macaigne on We All Loved Each Other So Much: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRbN1A0dKc

Watch We All Loved Each Other So Much on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/we-all-loved-each-other-so-much-ettore-scola-vod

Dominik Moll on Nosferatu by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-M8xiIzB8

Watch Nosferatu on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/nosferatu-friedrich-wilhelm-murnau-vod

Michel Legrand on Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjWPi0J2yII

Watch Beauty and the Beast on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/beauty-and-the-beast-jean-cocteau-vod

Beauty and the Beast is recommended by Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Pascale Ferran, Christophe Gans, Jerry Schatzberg, Agnès Jaoui, Jaco Van Dormael and Francis Veber.

Watch the greatest films handpicked by directors on LaCinetek.

Discover an exclusive video of Michel Hazanavicius on The Crowd by King Vidor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PqL-RWAw7Y

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Watch the greatest films handpicked by directors on LaCinetek.

Reda Kateb on Diabolique by Henri-Georges Clouzot: youtu.be/RJSmAxjRk1U?si=eQI7I9cTWIzjfOnw

Watch Diabolique on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/diabolique-henri-george-clouzot-vod

Guillaume Brac on Superbad by Greg Mottola: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYm0_CFQ

Watch Superbad on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/superbad-greg-mottola-vod

Alexandre Astier on Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg: youtu.be/dVGUmRZZ5d0?si=CAeCNHlVrxWp-xIx

Watch Jaws on LaCinetek:
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Alain Chabat on Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard directed by André Hunebelle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDXI_aSMEwk

Watch Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/fantomas-against-scotland-yard-andre-hunebelle-vod

Rebecca Marder on Elevator to the Gallows directed by Louis Malle:
youtu.be/6CU48UrAjKU?si=t41Sey2jKv0T1kFT

Watch Elevator to the Gallows on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/elevator-to-the-gallows-louis-malle-vod

Patricia Mazuy on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance directed by John Ford:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBaZQUlTe1Q&t=2s

Watch The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/the-man-who-shot-liberty-valance-john-ford-vod

Robert Guédiguian on The Straight Story directed by David Lynch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_QW8H4sNWM

Watch The Straight Story on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/une-histoire-vraie-david-lynch-vod

Sandrine Bonnaire on The Land of the Wandering Souls directed by Rithy Panh:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDMi7DbiHDY

Watch The Land of the Wandering Souls on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/la-terre-des-ames-errantes-rithy-pan-vod

Christophe Honoré on Mystery Train directed by Jim Jarmusch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQvrrohLeLE&list=PL63RdSN0DsV6bjjRHzjzUhh9fEvHdS1tR&index=198

Watch Mystery Train on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/mystery-train-jim-jarmusch-vod

Charlotte Gainsbourg on Belle de Jour directed by Luis Buñuel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FtUGHyF7Q4&t=21s

Watch Belle de Jour on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/belle-de-jour-luis-bunuel-vod

Park Chan-wook on Don't Look Now directed by Nicolas Roeg: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrKDVmqsB8

Watch Don't Look Now on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/don-t-look-now-nicolas-roeg-vod

Cédric Klapisch on Madadayo directed by Akira Kurosawa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=If79eFdWbaw

Watch Madadayo on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/madadayo-akira-kurosawa-vod

Léa Drucker on Peeping Tom directed by Michael Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxhXwbBYAI&list=PL63RdSN0DsV6bjjRHzjzUhh9fEvHdS1tR&index=21

Watch peeping Tom on LaCinetek:
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Alain Guiraudie on What Have I Done to Deserve This? directed by Pedro Almodóvar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfkZaKqmD0g

Watch What Have I Done to Deserve This? on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/what-have-i-done-to-deserve-this-pedro-almodovar-vod

Pascale Ferran on Every Man for Himself directed by Jean-Luc Godard:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=brozDjN66HY&t=268s

Watch Every Man for Himself on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/sauve-qui-peut-la-vie-jean-luc-godard-vod

Laurent Cantet was a founding member of LaCinetek.

Laurent Cantet on Cruel Story of Youth directed by Nagisa Ōshima:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG734hGEGDo

"For me, Lions Love is Varda's Sunset Boulevard."

Rebecca Zlotowski on Lions Love directed by Agnès Varda:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SIL8OQwnM

Watch Lions Love on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/lions-love-and-lies-agnes-varda-vod

Albert Dupontel on Hana-bi (Fireworks) directed by Takeshi Kitano:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBHuffvmVb0

Watch Hana-bi on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/en/film/hana-bi-takeshi-kitano-vod

Lucile Hadzihalilovic on The Clowns directed by Federico Fellini:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfq6C57TS5M

Watch The Clowns on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/les-clowns-federico-fellini-vod

Bertrand Bonello on The Fog directed by John Carpenter:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HceiQtsQUA0&list=PL63RdSN0DsV6bjjRHzjzUhh9fEvHdS1tR&index=206

Watch The Fog on LaCinetek :
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/fog-john-carpenter-vod

Béatrice Dalle on Accattone directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvu_KFjQcLw

Watch Accattone on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/accatone-pier-paolo-pasolini-vod

Joachim Trier on Mirror directed by Andreï Tarkovski:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQN7kf13PY&list=PL63RdSN0DsV5Vi6dkhILHjmXqcjNH9OI2&index=5

Watch Mirror on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/le-miroir-andrei-tarkovski-vod

Monica Bellucci on L'Avventura directed by Michelangelo Antonioni:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=byJOxaEVyng

Watch L'Avventura on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/l-avventura-michelangelo-antonioni-vod

Sophie Letourneur on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial directed by Steven Spielberg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJyTBAMXMTI

Watch E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr/film/et-l-extra-terrestre-steven-spielberg-vod

Vincent Lacoste on Punch-Drunk Love directed by Paul Thomas Anderson:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMzQtnCDHA

Watch Punch-Drunk Love on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/punch-drunk-love-ivre-d-amour-paul-thomas-anderson-vod

Jonás Trueba on Stromboli directed by Roberto Rossellini
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag30Cb09T0g

Watch Stromboli on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/stromboli-roberto-rossellini-vod

Noémie Lvosky on There Was a Father directed by Yasujiro Ozu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRue0a1wLE8

Watch There Was a Father on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/il-etait-un-pere-yasujiro-ozu-vod

Cédrick Klapisch on Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QElD7rY5noI

Watch Rear Window on LaCinetek :
www.lacinetek.com/film/fenetre-sur-cour-alfred-hitchcock-vod

Céline Sciamma on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg directed by Jacques Demy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAmBWSfglg0&list=PL63RdSN0DsV4x8z4k8krkBssjGSwK9oXR

Watch The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/les-parapluies-de-cherbourg-jacques-demy-vod

Park Chan-wook on Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWZHkrAj2Yk

Watch Taxi Driver on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/taxi-driver-martin-scorsese-vod

Paul Kircher on The Beautiful Person directed by Christophe Honoré :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMj1LY73PuE

Watch The Beautiful Person on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/la-belle-personne-christophe-honore-vod

Arthur Teboul on Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPGpNbz5Bj0&t=3s

Watch Persepolis on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/film/persepolis-marjane-satrapi-vincent-paronnaud-vod

Valérie Donzelli, French director and actress born in 1973 in Épinal.

Initially an actress, Valérie Donzelli gained attention in the early 2000s, particularly for her role in Martha... Martha by Sandrine Veysset. She then moved behind the camera and directed her first feature film, The Queen of Hearts, a quirky romantic comedy, in 2009. In 2011, she directed Declaration of War, an autofiction co-written with Jérémie Elkaïm that portrays the battle of two parents facing their young son's illness. The film was a major public and critical success.

She then adapted a screenplay by Jean Gruault, originally written for François Truffaut, into Marguerite & Julien. In 2021, she ventured into television with a feminist family saga, Nona et ses filles. Just the Two of Us won the César for Best Adaptation in 2024. In parallel, Donzelli works as a producer and continues her acting career, both in her own films and with directors such as Audrey Diwan, Sophie Fillières, and Bertrand Bonello.

Discover her list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/valerie-donzelli

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Ghostbusters
• Deliverance
• Annie
• Dumbo
• An Impudent Girl
• The Slap
• Clara and Chics Types
• Amadeus
• All Fired Up

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Kleber Mendonça Filho's influences through his list of 50 favorite films: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/kleber-mendonca-filho-45

Filmography: Critico (2008) – Neighboring Sounds (O Som Ao Redor, 2012) – Aquarius (2016) – Bacurau (2019) – Pictures of Ghosts (2023) - The Secret Agent (2025)

• Rio, 100 Degrees F°
• Barren Lives
• Black God, White Devil
• Antonio das Mortes
• Pixote
• Twenty Years Later
• Long Weekend
• Made in Britain
• Elephant
• Near Dark

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Michel Hazanavicius's influences through his list of 50 favorite films: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/michel-hazanavicius

Filmography : La Classe américaine (Le Grand détournement) (1993) – Mes amis (1999) – OSS 117: Cairo, nest of spies (2006) – OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2008) – The Artist (2011) – The Players (segment La Bonne conscience) (2012) – The Search (2014) – Le Redoutable (2017) – The Lost Prince (2020)

• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• The Terminator
• Raging Bull
• Fight Club
• Dirty Harry
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Boxer and Death
• Cookies
• We All Loved Each Other So Much
• A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

LaCinetek curates film selections recommended by directors from around the world, available on VOD in , , Belgium, Luxembourg, and Austria.

Discover Todd Haynes's influences through his list of 50 favorite films: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/todd-haynes-28

Filmography: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) – Poison (1991) – Safe (1995) – Velvet Goldmine (1998) – Far from Heaven (2002) – I’m Not There (2006) – Mildred Pierce (série TV) (2011) – Carol (2015) – Wonderstrucks (2017) – Dark Waters (2020) – The Velvet Underground (2021) - May December (2023)

• Le Plaisir
• Brief Encounter
• Imitation of Life
• The Crowd
• Nashville
• The Last Laugh
• Late Spring
• Citizen Kane
• Vertigo
• The Reckless Moment

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Japanese director, born in 1978.

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi worked as assistant director before he ed the Tokyo University of the Arts, where one of his professors was Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His graduation film, ion (2008), gets him immediate acclaim in Japan. He then co-directs a documentary trilogy in which he interviewed witnesses of the 2011 tsunami. He returns to feature film with Happy Hour, released in 2015. This movie, which was the fruit of an artistic residency with non-professional actors, granted him an international recognition that has continued to grow since then. His following movies received numerous awards, such as the 2022 Oscar for Best International Feature Film for for Drive My Car — adapted from a novel by Murakami — and the 2023 Grand Jury Prize in Venice for Evil Does Not Exist. Hamaguchi’s subtle exploration of human feelings tinged with melancholia established him as one of the most important Japanese directors of his time.

Discover his list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/ryusuke-hamaguchi
LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• Rue de l'Estrapade
• Ride Lonesome
• The Trial of Joan of Arc
• Too Late Blues
• The Bridesmaid
• Eastern Promises
• Abraham's Valley
• Trouble Every Day
• Day of Wrath
• Hereafter

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Cristian Mungiu's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/cristian-mungiu

Filmography : Occident (2002) – 4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) (2007) – Tales from the Golden Age (Amintiri Din Epoca de Aur) (2009) – Beyond the hills (După dealuri) (2012) – Graduation (2016) - R.M.N. (2022)

• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Stalker
• Reconstruction
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Tokyo Story
• Modern Times
• Sophie's Choice
• The General
• Bicycle Thieves
• The 400 Blows

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

David Cronenberg is the filmmaker of the month on LaCinetek!

Like his filmography (Videodrome, Dead Ringers, A History of Violence…), his list begins with horror and fear through an inventory of his favorite films, before expanding to include a few masterpieces, often marked by dark realism, from some of the greatest filmmakers in cinema.
To paraphrase William S. Burroughs, whose work runs through Cronenberg's, the whole selection reveals a strong taste for cinema that "rushes at us, crushes us with its leopard-man claws, tearing off fingers and toes like one does to opportunistic crabs."

Discover his list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/david-cronenberg-

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Peeping Tom
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Eyes Without a Face
• Night of the Living Dead
• Psycho
• Don't Look Now
• Hour of the Wolf
• Freaks
• Kwaidan

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sean Baker is the filmmaker of the month on LaCinetek!

American director born in New Jersey in 1971.

After studying cinema at New York University, Sean Baker directed his first film Four Letter Words in 2000, where he offers a humorous take on American youth. A figure in independent cinema, he writes, directs, and edits his early low-budget feature films, using a typical DIY [do it yourself] aesthetic.

Focusing on marginalized figures, he has made several portraits of immigrants and sex workers. He gained international recognition with Tangerine (2015), filmed entirely with 3 iPhones, which won the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival. In 2017, The Florida Project - starring Willem Dafoe - was included in the "Top 10 Films of the Year" list by the American Film Institute, followed by Red Rocket, which was selected for competition at Cannes in 2021, before Anora won the Palme d'Or in 2024.

Discover his list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/sean-baker

• Nights of Cabiria
• Christiane F.
• The Panic in Needle Park
• Dawn of the Dead
• The Sugarland Express
• Buffalo '66
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
• Miami Connection
• Claire's Knee
• Street of Shame

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Justine Triet's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2015: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/justine-triet-23

Filmography :

Feature Movies
Age of Panic (2013) – In Bed withVictoria (2016) – Sibyl (2019) - Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

Shorts
Sur Place (2007) – Solférino (2008) – Des ombres dans la maison (2009) – Two Ships (2011)

• Fedora
• The Gambler
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Five Easy Pieces
• Psycho
• Sybil
• Portrait of Jason
• Warrendale
• Grizzly Man
• Eyes Wide Shut

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

German director, born in Gera in 1963.

Growing up in the GDR, Andreas Dresen discovers his ion for film at an early age and starts making his first films as a teenager. He studied directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1986 to 1991 and has worked as a freelance writer and director since 1992. He rose to international fame with Grillpoint (2002), an improvised tragicomedy about two befriended couples. Together with the renowned screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, he worked on a total of three films (Summer in Berlin, Whiskey with Vodka, As We Were Dreaming). Cloud 9, with which he won the Prix Coup de Cœur in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes in 2008, deals with the taboo subject of love and sexuality among elderly people. Three years later, Stopped on Track was honored with the Prix Un Certain Regard, the highest award in this section. Gundermann (2018), a portrait of the GDR musician of the same name, received six Lolas at the German Film Awards, including Best Film. The Berlinale-nominated film From Hilde, with Love, a historical drama about resistance fighter Hilde Coppi, is released in cinemas in 2024.

Watch his favorites films on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/andreas-dresen

• The Last Laugh
• Down by Law
• The Match Factory Girl
• Solo Sunny
• After Winter Comes Spring
• Riff-Raff
• Head-On
• The Tin Drum
• Shine, Shine, My Star
• The Red Snowball Tree

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The 100 most selected films by directors on LaCinetek, ranked.

LaCinetek is the streaming platform dedicated to the greatest films in cinema history, chosen and presented by filmmakers from all around the world.

So far 136 directors have contributed their lists on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en?directors-lists

Discover the full list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/most-selected-films

1. Tokyo Story
2. Vertigo
3. The Rules of the Game
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
5. The Night of the Hunter
6. Pickpocket
7. The 400 Blows
8. Barry Lyndon
9. PlayTime
10. Taxi Driver

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

French director, born in 1968 in Eaubonne.

Initially a designer and then a stylist, Jean-Charles Hue began his filmmaking career in the early 2000s. He has dedicated several films to the communities of travelers, notably the Yeniches in La BM du Seigneur (2011). With Carne Viva (2009), he started a series of works set in the Mexican city on the U.S. border. His cinema explores the relationship between belief and reality, examining both physical and imaginary territories and creating a dialogue between the magical dimension that permeates our rituals and the illusionary power of cinema. Mange tes morts: Tu ne diras point won the Jean Vigo prize in 2014. He is currently finishing his next feature film Sang craché des lèvres belles as well as a television series in the gypsy universe: Malditos.

Discover his list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/jean-charles-hue

• The Searchers
• The Deer Hunter
• Raging Bull
• Taxi Driver
• Apocalypse Now
• Wanda
• Kids
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Attack

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world.

Discover Bong Joon-Ho's influences through his list of 50 favorite films: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/joon-ho-bong

Filmography : Barking Dog (플란다스의 개) (2000) – Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) (2003) – The Host (괴물) (2006) – Tokyo! (segment Shaking Tokyo) (2008) – Mother (마더) (2009) – Snowpiercer (설국열차) (2013) – Okja (옥자) (2017) – Parasite (2019)

• The Housemaid
• A City of Sadness
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• The Foul King
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Vengeance Is Mine
• Intentions of Murder
• Cure
• Face
• Insect Woman

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

French actress and filmmaker, born in 1964 in Dieppe.

After studying theater at the Rouen Conservatory, Valérie Lemercier gained recognition through Jean-Michel Ribes' series Palace in 1988, followed shortly by her first solo stage performance, which cemented her talents as a writer and comedic actress. Her role in Louis Malle's Milou en mai marked the beginning of her on-screen career, which she pursued with a wide range of filmmakers, including Jean-Marie Poiré, Claire Denis, Alain Chabat, Danièle Thompson, and Laurent Tirard. With films like Les Visiteurs and Le Petit Nicolas, she contributed to the success of popular comedies, elevating the genre to new heights.

In 1997, she stepped behind the camera with Quadrille (1997), an adaptation of Sacha Guitry's work. A multifaceted artist, she has since balanced careers as an actress, singer, and director. Her directorial projects include Le Derrière (1999), Palais Royal! (2007), and, more recently, Aline (2020), a heartfelt and daring tribute to singer Céline Dion. The latter earned her the César Award for Best Actress in 2021.

Discover her list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/valerie-lemercier-

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• The September Issue
• The Crying Game
• 25th Hour
• To Die For
• Breaking the Waves
• Young Adult
• Man Bites Dog
• Lady Chatterley
• L'Opération Corned Beef

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Discover Alice Rohrwacher's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/alice-rohrwacher

Filmography : Heavenly Body (2011) - The Wonders (2014) - Happy as Lazzaro (2018)

• Pather Panchali
• Aparajito
• Apur Sansar
• Falling Leaves
• Reconstruction
• The Outlaw and His Wife
• Strike
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Easy Street
• The Cure

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

French director born in 1955 in Paris.

Yolande Zauberman began her career alongside Amos Gitai before directing her first film, Classified People (1987). This documentary about apartheid, shot clandestinely in South Africa, already outlines the contours of her cinema: Zauberman has continually questioned the absurdity of oppressive political situations through their impact on the intimacy of individuals. Confronting taboos and silences—particularly in M, winner of the César for Best Documentary Film in 2019, where she addresses sexual abuse within the Orthodox Jewish community—she has created a body of work of profound humanity, broadcast and awarded worldwide. The relationships between communities or individuals living in the same space without sharing the same beliefs or views are at the heart of both her fiction and documentary films, from Moi Ivan toi Abraham (1993) to Would You Have Sex With an Arab? (2011). Her films are portraits of marginalized people, such as La Belle de Gaza (2024), which follows the journey of young Palestinian trans individuals in Tel Aviv.

Discover her list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/yolande-zauberman

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria)

• Dont Look Back
• The Skinny Alejandra
• Chronicle of a Summer
• The Wolfpack
• Diary
• Trial on the Road
• The Long Farewell
• All About Eve
• The Night of the Hunter
• A Woman Is a Woman

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Xavier Dolan's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/xavier-dolan

His list, all flash and fire, oscillates between introspection, blood and boiling feelings. There's a taste for tormented characters and heady ions, for complex portraits of the human soul, and for the intersection of independent cinema and pop culture. While New Hollywood takesa prominent place, contemporary cinema - from the 90s to 2010 - is also given pride of place.

His filmography : I Killed My Mother (2009) - Heartbeats (2010) - Laurence Anyways (2012) - Tom a the Farm (2013) - Mommy (2014) - It's Only the End of the World (2016) - The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018) - Matthias & Maxime (2019) - The Night Logan Woke Up (2022)

• Elephant
• Titanic
• The Hours
• In the Mood for Love
• Birth
• The Piano
• The Piano Teacher
• Mysterious Skin
• The Silence of the Lambs
• American Beauty

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Payal Kapadia, Indian filmmaker, was born in 1986 in Mumbai.

Payal Kapadia developed an early interest in cinema, particularly experimental cinema, which she discovered at film festivals in Mumbai.
While studying at the Film and Television Institute of India, she experienced her first political engagements. These experiences influenced her first feature film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, for which she received the Golden Eye award at Cannes in 2021, as well as a Special Mention at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival.
Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the film takes a freeform approach to question the state of the world, playing on the ambiguities of images, echoing the post-truth era. She continues to explore this hybridization in All We Imagine as Light, a diptych fiction infused with documentary elements and an impressionistic dimension.
This portrayal of India through the stories of three women won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 2024.

Discover her list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/payal-kapadia

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria)

• Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
• What Time Is It There?
• Embracing
• 66 Scenes from America
• A River Called Titas
• Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
• Our Beloved Month of August
• Intimate Lighting
• Daisies
• Stranger Than Paradise

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Austrian filmmaker, born in Munich in 1942.

The son of actor parents, Michael Haneke studied philosophy, psychology, and the dramatic arts at the University of Vienna. After his début in theatre, where he staged works by Goethe, Kleist, Strindberg, and Duras, he became a television director, then turned to film.

His first feature, The Seventh Continent (1989), inaugurated his Austrian trilogy known as “emotional glaciation”. The filmmaker’s style was already apparent through the X-ray vision of his almost clinical staging of human impulses and feelings. Later, he would endlessly and starkly reveal the violence of the contemporary world, all the better to explore the “ordinary evil” of our societies – from Funny Games to The Piano Teacher, Caché to The White Ribbon. His œuvre, richly endowed with a dozen films, has received the highest honours, including two Palmes d’or at Cannes. In 2012, with Amour, he gave Jean-Louis Trintignant one of his finest roles, who was at that time also at the zenith of his art.

Discover his list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/michael-haneke

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria)

• Melancholia
• Deconstructing Harry
• Magnolia
• Landscape in the Mist
• Red Desert
• The enger
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Winter Light
• The Silence
• Scenes from a Marriage

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

French filmmaker, was born in 1948 in Lyon.

After beginning her career as an actress, Diane Kurys turned to writing and directing in the late 1970s. Her first film, Peppermint Soda, which reflects on her high school years, won the Louis Delluc Prize and achieved great public success in 1977. Often autobiographical, her films frequently intertwine family history with larger historical contexts through the intimate journeys of her characters (Cocktail Molotov in 1980, Entre Nous in 1983, C'est la Vie in 1990, For a Woman in 2013). Her body of work, comprising around fifteen films that she wrote, directed, and produced, offers strong female characters portrayed by actresses such as Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Nathalie Baye, Juliette Binoche, Sylvie Testud, and Fanny Ardant. She has also portrayed literary figures like George Sand and Françoise Sagan.

Discover her list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/diane-kurys

• The 400 Blows
• The Madness of King George
• Peter Pan
• Hallelujah the Hills
• Letter to Brezhnev
• Maria's Lovers
• Oblomov
• A Thin Line
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Riding in Cars with Boys

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In 2018, Martin Scorsese sent a letter to Cédric Klapisch.

In it, the ever-ionate cinephile discusses the choices of films that make up his lists (yes, there are several), available on LaCinetek. He reflects on the challenges inherent in such an exercise, especially when it comes to expressing preferences in cinema.

Martin Scorsese gave LaCinetek two lists: a formative one and and this one, an alternative list just as extensive, eclectic and rich.

Read the full letter here: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/lacinetek/story/martin-scorseses-letter-to-cedric-klapisch/

• The Killers
• L'Atalante
• The Nun's Story
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Beauty and the Beast
• Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Station Six-Sahara
• The Magic Box
• The Good Girls
• Sunset Boulevard

...plus 83 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Spanish film director, born in Banyoles (Catalonia) in 1975.

After studying philology and literature at the University of Barcelona, Albert Serra switched to cinema. His works take an original approach and explore the great figures of the past, both literary and real, starting with Honor of the Knights (2006), a free adaptation of Don Quixote, followed by Birdsong (2009) and Story of my Death, which features a meeting between Casanova and Dracula (winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2013). For The Death of Louis XIV, a masterly chiaroscuro work starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, he won the Prix Jean Vigo, before directing Roi Soleil in 2018, an experimental variation on the same theme. The following year, Liberté, starring Helmut Berger, tells the story of libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI. In 2022, Pacifiction broke away from historical painting for a suspended dive into the political arcana of a Polynesian island. A great critical success, the film offered Benoît Magimel an extraordinary playground, which earned him the César for Best Actor in 2023

Discover his list on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/albert-serra

• Cutter's Way
• Trash
• Entranced Earth
• The Wheelchair
• Charley Varrick
• Indian Summer
• The Idiots
• Gone to Earth
• One-Eyed Jacks
• Brigadoon

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Amat Escalante's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/amat-escalante-67

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Filmography : Blood (2005) – The Bastards (2008) – Revolución – segment El cura Nicolas colgado (2010)
– Heli (2013) – The Untamed (2016)

• The Kid
• Los Muertos
• Stroszek
• Splendor in the Grass
• Chinatown
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Gummo
• The Devil, Probably
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• El Mariachi

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Christoph Hochhäusler’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/christoph-hochhausler

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• The War Is Over
• White Heat
• I Am Twenty
• The Apartment
• Anatomy of a Murder
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• L'Eclisse
• Manhattan
• The Long Goodbye
• Casque d'Or

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Patrice Leconte's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/patrice-leconte

Exclusive March list ! Each month LaCinetek reveals the influences of a director. His list for LaCinetek, like his filmography, crosses various genres. On the program: humor and eccentricity (one would expect nothing less from the collaborator of Le Splendid, author of the cult trilogy of French Fried Vacation), intimate dramas and thrillers.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Filmography : Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur (1976) - French Fried Vacation (1978) - French Fried Vacation 2 (1979) - Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine (1981) - Ma femme s'appelle reviens (1982) - Circulez y'a rien à voir (1983) - Les Spécialistes (1985) - Tandem (1987) - Monsieur Hire (1989) - The Haidresser's Husband (1990) - Contre l'oubli (1991) - Tango (1993) - Le Parfum d'Yvonne (1994) - Lumière and Compagny (1995) - Ridicule (1996) - Les Grands Ducs (1996) - Une chance sur deux (1998) - Girl on the Bridge (1999) - The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) - Félix et Lola (2001) - Rue des plaisirs (2002) - The Man on the Train (2002) - Intimate Strangers (2004) - Dogora : Ouvrons les yeux (2004) - French Fried Vacation 3 (2006) - My Best Friend (2006) - Beauties at War (2008) - Voir la mer (2011) - The Suicide Shop (2012) - A Promise (2013) - Do Not Disturb (2014) - Salauds de pauvres (2019) - Maigret (2022)

• What's Eating Gilbert Grape
• Shoot the Piano Player
• Duck Soup
• Family Diary
• The Big Lebowski
• Panic
• My Life as a Dog
• Pierrot le Fou
• The Birds
• The Band Wagon

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Philippe Garrel's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/philippe-garrel

This month, director Philippe Garrel has compiled a list of films that reflects his taste for the insurrectional breath of the youth and the intensity of the loving affects.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

His filmography : Marie pour mémoire (1967) - Le Révélateur (1968) - La Concentration (1968) - Actua 120 (1968) - Anémone (1968) - Le Lit de la Vierge (1969) - The Inner Scar (1971) - Les Hautes Solitudes (1973) - Un ange e (1975) - Le Berceau de cristal (1976) - Le Bleu des origines (1979) - L'Enfant secret (1982) - Liberty at Night (1983) - She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985) - Les Ministères de l'art (1988) - Les Baisers de secours (1989) - I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore (1991) - The Birth of Love (1993) - The Phantom Heart (1996) - Night Wind (1999) - Wild Innocence (2001) - Regular Lovers (2005) - Frontier of Dawn (2008) - A Burning Summer (2011) - Jealousy (2013) - In the Shadow of Women (2015) - Lover for a Day (2017) - The Salt of Tears (2020)

• The enger
• Chelsea Girls
• The Sacrifice
• Nanook of the North
• A Nos Amours
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Bay of Angels
• Renaldo and Clara
• My Night at Maud's
• The Duchess of Langeais

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Catherine Corsini's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/catherine-corsini-82

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Filmography : Poker (1988) – Interdit d’amour – TV (1992) – Lovers (1994) – The New Eve (1999) – Replay (2001) – The Very Merry Widows (2003) – Ambitious (2006) – Leaving (2009) – Three Worlds (2012) – Summertime (2015) – An Impossible Love (2018) – The Divide (2021)

• Wanda
• The Big City
• An Angel at My Table
• Simone Barbès or Virtue
• Life, and Nothing More…
• Some Like It Hot
• Victor/Victoria
• Trouble in Paradise
• The 39 Steps
• Suspicion

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Lucile Hadzihalilovic's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/lucile-hadzihalilovic

Her list, like her filmography, draws from the source of genre cinema and collects itself in the intimacy of the huis clos.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Her filmography: Short films: La Première Mort de Nono (1987) - La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996) - Good Boys Use Condoms (1998) - Nectar (2014) - De Natura (2018)
Feature films: Innocence (2005) - Évolution (2015) - Earwig (2021)

• The Stendhal Syndrome
• Dracula
• Inferno
• Black Narcissus
• Walkabout
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• The Serpent's Egg
• Veronika Voss
• The Clowns
• The Spirit of the Beehive

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Rebecca Zlotowski's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/rebecca-zlotowski

Her energetic, eclectic list is packed with never-before-seen films, including many that are sometimes unjustly relegated to the back burner of film history. In these films, identities are fluid, powerful and eccentric; bodies are sensual and fictions emancipatory (the margins are on fire: witchcraft, truancy, street school). And the wide variety of filmic forms are in tune with this freedom.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Her filmography: Belle Épine (2010) - Grand Central (2013) - Planetarium (2016) - An Easy Girl (2019) - Other People's Children (2022)

• The Meetings of Anna
• Diner
• Risky Business
• Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
• Peppermint Soda
• Gimme Shelter
• I Knew Her Well
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped
• My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
• Dangerous Love Affairs

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Guillaume Brac's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/guillaume-brac

Like his own films, his list places great emphasis on nature and youth, with a keen eye on the relationship between people and their environment, particularly their professional environment, as if to better explore the different faces of a society.

Her list blends a wide variety of cinematic genres and periods: there are recognized masterpieces and more discreet films, offbeat love stories and bittersweet comedies, as well as a certain predilection for under-represented characters. There's also a strong emphasis on contemporary cinema.

His filmography: Regarde-moi (le joli corps) (short film, 2004) - Le Funambule (short film, 2005) - Le Naufragé (short film, 2009) - Un monde sans femmes (2011) - Tonnerre (2014) - Le Repos des braves (short film, 2016) - July Tales (2017) - Treasure Island (2018) - À l'abordage (2020)

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• How Green Was My Valley
• A Day in the Country
• The 40 Year Old Virgin
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• A Place in the Sun
• Tokyo Story
• The Searchers
• Wild Strawberries
• The Apartment

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Dominik Moll's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010
www.lacinetek.com/fr/la-liste-de/dominik-moll

French director and screenwriter, born in 1962 in .

Dominik Moll's ion for cinema began when he discovered the films of Alfred Hitchcock. He studied at the City University of New York, where he made his first short films, and at IDHEC, where he met Gilles Marchand and Laurent Cantet. His second film, the thriller With a Friend Like Harry (2000), was a big hit with audiences and critics alike. In his subsequent films (Lemming, The Monk, News From Planet Mars, Only the Animals), Moll continued to explore, through different genres, the disruption of everyday life as it struggles with the irrational. He has also made two forays into the series, with The Tunnel (2013) and Eden (2019), in which he tackles the delicate subject of refugees. His latest film, The Night of the 12th, about an unresolved police investigation, was a favourite at the 2023 Césars awards. Most of the scripts for his films were written with Gilles Marchand, whom he also co-wrote for Black Heaven and Into the Forest.

• The Consequences of Feminism
• Nosferatu
• People on Sunday
• The Navigator
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• Modern Times
• Grand Illusion
• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Maltese Falcon
• To Be or Not to Be

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Discover Riad Sattouf's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/riad-sattouf-93

Filmography : The French Kissers (2009) – Mes Colocs (2010) – Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (2014) – Les Cahiers d'Esther (série animée) (2019)

• Three Colours: Blue
• Three Colours: Red
• Three Colours: White
• Chasing Amy
• Contempt
• RoboCop
• The Ballad of Narayama
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Conan the Barbarian
• This Is Spinal Tap

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Discover Nabil Ayouch's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/nabil-ayouch

Filmography : Mektoub (1997) – Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets 2000) – A Minute of Sun Less TV (2002) - Whatever Lola Wants (2007) – My Land (2011) – Horses of God (2021) – Much Loved (2015) – Razzia (2017) – Casablanca Beats (2021)

• Loulou
• Mystic River
• The Thin Red Line
• The Blue Angel
• The Barber of the Poor District
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Modern Times
• Contempt
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• 12 Angry Men

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Discover Emmanuelle Bercot's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/emmanuelle-bercot

Filmography : Short films : True Romanès (1995) – Les Vacances (1997) – Sweetie (1998)
Feature films : Le Choix d'Élodie (TV) (1998) – La Faute au vent (2000) – Clement (2001) – Quelqu'un vous aime... (2003) – À poil ! (2004) – Backstage (2004) – Tirez sur le caviste, collection Suite noire (TV) (2009) – Student Services (TV) (2009) – The Players - segment La Question (2012) – On My Way (2013) – Standing Tall (2015) – 150 Milligrams (2016) – Peaceful (2021)

• Beau Pere
• Bolero
• Madame Rosa
• Zabriskie Point
• The Encounter
• Time of the Gypsies
• The Turning Point
• Jesus of Nazareth
• Sweet Sixteen
• The Idiots

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Cédric Klapisch’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: www.lacinetek.com/director-list/cedric-klapisch-18

Cédric Klapisch is co-founder of LaCinetek

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Filmography : Maasaïïtis (1989) – Little nothings (1992) – Good old daze (1994) – Family resemblances (1996) – When the cat's away (1996) – Maybe (1999) – Pot Luck (2002) – Not for or Against... (2003) – The Russian Dolls (2005) – Paris (2008) – My piece of the pie (2011) – Chinese Puzzle (2013) – Back to Burgundy (2017) – Someone, Somewhere (2019)

• Duck Soup
• Big Deal on Madonna Street
• North by Northwest
• Close to Eden
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• La Dolce Vita
• Nights of Cabiria
• Seven Samurai
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• That Man from Rio

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Nicole Garcia's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005: whttps://www.lacinetek.com/director-list/nicole-garcia

Exclusive January's list !

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Filmography : Every Other Weekend (1990) - The Favourite Son (1994) - Place Vendôme (1998) - The Adversary (2002) - Charlie Says (2006) - A View of Love (2010) - Going Away (2014) - From the Land of the Moon (2016) - Lovers (2020)

• The Philadelphia Story
• Taking Off
• The Oak
• Rashomon
• My Favorite Season
• Cries and Whispers
• Pickpocket
• Tristana
• Gertrud
• Every Man for Himself

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Ira Sachs' influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/ira-sachs

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Filmography : The Delta (1996) – Underground Zero (segment Untitled) (2002) – Forty Shades of Blue (2005) – Married Life (2007) – Keep the Lights On (2012) – Love Is Strange (2014) – Brooklyn Village (2016)

• Charulata
• The Soft Skin
• Je Tu Il Elle
• Dancer in the Dark
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• The Good Girls
• News from Home
• Nashville
• Cold Water
• Au Hasard Balthazar

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Francis Veber, a French director and screenwriter born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1937.

After working as a journalist, Francis Veber dedicated himself entirely to writing. The public success of one of his early plays, "The Kidnapping" (1968), encouraged him to pursue this path. He then began a career as a screenwriter and penned numerous successful comedies, such as Yves Robert's The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) and Édouard Molinaro's A Pain in the Ass (1973). He soon transitioned to directing with The Toy (1976), and continued his fruitful collaboration with Pierre Richard in La Chèvre (1981) and The ComDads, where the actor formed a duo with Gérard Depardieu. In the 1980s, Francis Veber moved to the United States, working as a script doctor for Disney and directing the American remake of The Fugitives. Upon his return to , his play The Dinner Game and its film adaptation achieved immense success. In 1999, Jacques Villeret won the César Award for Best Actor for the role of François Pignon, Veber's signature character who appears throughout his filmography: a modern innocent, struggling to navigate the cruelty of the world around him.

His list of favorite films includes Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood, A Night at the Opera directed by Sam Wood and Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer.
Discover his complete list on LaCinetek:
www.lacinetek.com/director-list/francis-veber

• City Lights
• The Gold Rush
• A Night at the Opera
• The General
• Duel
• Jaws
• Psycho
• Some Like It Hot
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Apartment

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Xavier Beauvois' influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/xavier-beauvois

His list draws its strength from epic genres such as the western (classic or spaghetti), the war film or the adventure film. These films explore environments under tension, with deleterious systems of power and risk-taking characters in search of independence.

The vast territories explored by the list also include Normandy (from the D-Day beaches to the working-class countryside), the homeland of the director of Nord.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

His filmography: Le Matou (short film, 1986) - North (1991)- Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995) - To Matthieu (2000) - The Young Lieutenant (2005) - Notre ami Chopin (short film, 2009) - Of Gods and Men (2010) - The Price of Fame (2014) - Les Gardiennes (2017) - Albatros (2021)

• Mutiny on the Bounty
• The Deer Hunter
• Limelight
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Gloria
• Ran
• The Horse
• Naked Childhood
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Rules of the Game

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Alice Diop's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/alice-diop

This month, director Alice Diop has compiled a list of films that favours urban explorations, stories of wandering and autobiography. These are all forms that allow us to encounter reality, in its intimate and political aspects, armed with lucidity and poetry.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Her filmography : La Tour du monde (2005) - Clichy pour l'exemple (2005) - Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise (2007) - La Mort de Danton (2011) - La Permanence (2016) - Vers la tendresse (2016) - RER B (2017) - Nous (2021) - Saint Omer (2022)

• Sans Soleil
• Chronicle of a Summer
• The House Is Black
• The Sorrow and the Pity
• La Rabbia
• The Lorry
• Welfare
• Route One/USA
• In Vanda's Room
• Shoah

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Alexandre Astier's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/la-liste-de/alexandre-astier

For LaCinetek, Astier revisits the rogue history of French cinema: discover comedies and detective films shaped by Michel Audiard, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Louis de Funès and the Blier family, father and son. As for Hollywood, Astier takes us into the factory of rebellious heroes: shark hunters for Spielberg, astronauts, thriller investigators caught up in the turmoil of genre films or American political history. All of this with a marked taste for sharp dialogues and settings that give the actors a lot of credit.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• Jaws
• The Remains of the Day
• The Old Guard
• The Fugitive
• Amadeus
• Big Deal on Madonna Street
• The Inquisitor
• Mediterraneo
• A Monkey in Winter
• La Traversée de Paris

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Jonás Truebas influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/jonas-trueba

At LaCinetek, this young talent from the Iberian Peninsula guides us along delicate and sunny cinematic paths, woven with subtle romances, hypnotic documentaries, and genre films (westerns, comedies, pirate films...) sublimated into existential quests.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• The Jungle Book
• The Crimson Pirate
• Laura
• The Wild Child
• Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs
• The Princess Bride
• Belle Époque
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
• Groundhog Day
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Pedro Costa’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2010 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/pedro-costa

His list of 50 films surveys territories that are both powerfully poetic and anchored in reality, favouring works with parallel economies and assertive styles: from low-budget Hollywood film noir to neo-realist gestures, via the modern essays of Godard, Truffaut or Rivette, to the contemplative investigations of Naruse or Wang Bing.

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• Trás-os-Montes
• Island of Loves
• A Ilha de Moraes
• Past and Present
• A Portuguese Farewell
• Fortini/Cani
• From the Clouds to the Resistance
• The Death of Empedocles
• Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
• Numéro deux

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Elia Suleiman’s influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/elia-suleiman-

This month, director Elia Suleiman shares with us his tragi-comic cinephilia, where characters in search of their identity wander through strange universes: from cold Nordic humor to British nonsense, from period fables (Japanese, French or Italian) to the stylized worlds of modernity (from Antonioni to Claire Denis).

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

• Little Odessa
• Rebels of the Neon God
• The Enigma of Kaspar Ha
• Beau Travail
• The General
• Lancelot of the Lake
• Fireworks
• Songs from the Second Floor
• Come and Go
• Barry Lyndon

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Claire Simon's influences through her list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/claire-simon

This month, director Claire Simon has compiled a list of films that are resolutely humanistic and that shed light on the beauty of the world as well as its dangers.

Like her career, her 50 favorite films blur the line between fiction and documentary. The fictions are political and documented and the documentaries probe the myths and legends of ordinary life.

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Her focumentaries : Les Patients (1989) - Récréations (1992) - At all costs (1995) - 800 km de différence/Romance (2000) - Mimi (2002) - Géographie humaine (2013) - Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits (2016) - Le Concours (2016) - Premières solitudes (2018) - Le Fils de l'épicière, le Maire, le Village et le Monde (2020)

Her fiction movies : Sinon, oui (1997) - Ça, c'est vraiment toi (1999) - Ça brûle (2006) - Les Bureaux de Dieu (2008) -Gare du Nord (2013) - Vous ne désirez que moi (2021)

• A Beach Near Belfast
• Route One/USA
• Master, a Building in Copacabana
• Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
• Wall
• Aspen
• Profils paysans : l'approche
• Profils paysans : le quotidien
• Modern Life
• Them and Me

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Miguel Gomes's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/miguel-gomes

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Filmography : The Face You Deserve (2004) – Our Beloved Month of August (2008) – Tabu (2012) – Arabian Nights (2015) – The Tsugua Diaries (2021)

• Hatari!
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Hustler
• Detour
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Él
• Aniki-Bóbó
• The Hunt
• Acto da Primavera
• Doomed Love

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Corneliu Porumboiu's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/corneliu-porumboiu-27

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Filmography : 12h08 East of Bucharest (2006) – Police, adjective (2009) – When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013) – The Second Game (2013) – The Treasure (2015) – Football infini (2018) – The Whistlers (2019)

• Fargo
• The Birds
• Down by Law
• My Night at Maud's
• Dear Diary
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Full Moon in Paris
• M
• Tokyo Story
• The Third Man

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Yann Gonzalez's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/yann-gonzalez

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Filmography :

Short :
By the Kiss (2006) – Intermission (2007) – I Hate You Little Girls (2008) – Three Celestial Bodies (2009) – We Will Never Be Alone Again (2012) – Land of my dreams (2012) – Islands (2017) – Fou de Bassan (2021)

Feature Movies :
You and the Night (2013) – Knife+Heart (2018)

• Ms .45
• Starman
• Donnie Darko
• Mad Love
• The Rose King
• Four Nights of a Dreamer
• In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
• Equation to an Unknown
• Identification of a Woman
• Nowhere

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Alain Guiraudie's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/alain-guiraudie

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Filmography :

Medium-length film :
Sunshine for the Poor (2001) – That Old Dream That Moves (2001)

Feature film :
No Rest for the Brave (2003) – Voici venu le temps (2005) – The King of Escape (2009) – Stranger by the Lake (2013) – Staying Vertical (2016) – Nobody's Hero (2021)

• Beau Travail
• Videodrome
• Blue Velvet
• The Mass Is Ended
• Full Moon in Paris
• The Fly
• Antonio das Mortes
• Law of Desire
• The Great Silence
• Black God, White Devil

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Discover Gérard Krawczyk's influences through his list of 50 favorite films from before 2005 : www.lacinetek.com/director-list/gerard-krawczyk

LaCinetek gathers the recommendations of directors from all over the world to offer them on VOD (in , , Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria).

Filmography : I hate actors (1986) – Summer on a gentle slope (1987) – Héroïnes (1997) – Taxi 2 (2000) – Wasabi (2001) – Taxi 3 (2003) – Fanfan la Tulipe (2003) – It's Our Life! (2005) – Taxi 4 (2007) – The Red Inn (2007) – Taxi: Brooklyn (2014)

• Annie Hall
• Manhattan
• Z
• Dog Day Afternoon
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Celebration
• Interiors
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Groove Tube
• The Producers

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For Pride Month, LaCinetek and Culture invite you to cross the rainbow and celebrate love.

From the tentative loves in Céline Sciamma's or Todd Haynes' films, to the raw fantasies of João Pedro Rodrigues, the impossible loves of Chen Kaige, and the bloody ones in Alain Guiraudie's work, these films have brought to the big screen fantasies, practices, and characters that are rarely seen, while also sparking new cinematic imaginations.

The films to discover in the spotlight:

Fledgling Loves:
Olivia directed by Jacqueline Audry
Water Lilies directed by Céline Sciamma
The Wounded Man directed by Patrice Chéreau
Blue Is the Warmest Color directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Carol directed by Todd Haynes

Love Fantasies and Dreamlike Imagery:
Pink Narcissus directed by James Bidgood
O Fantasma directed by João Pedro Rodrigues
Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch
Tropical Malady directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Impossible Loves:
Funeral Parade of Roses directed by Toshio Matsumoto
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
A Special Day directed by Ettore Scola
Farewell My Concubine directed by Chen Kaige

Heart and Blood:
The Blood of a Poet directed by Jean Cocteau
Querelle directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Hunger directed by Tony Scott
High Heels directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Stranger by the Lake directed by Alain Guiraudie

Her list of favorite films includes Microbe and Gasoline by Michel Gondry, Courage fuyons by Yves Robert and Ghostbusters by Ivan Reitman.

Valérie Donzelli, French director and actress born in 1973 in Épinal.

Initially an actress, Valérie Donzelli gained attention in the early 2000s, particularly for her role in Martha… Martha by Sandrine Veysset. She then moved behind the camera and directed her first feature film, The Queen of Hearts, a quirky romantic comedy, in 2009. In 2011, she directed Declaration of War, an autofiction co-written with Jérémie Elkaïm that portrays the battle of two parents facing their young son's illness. The film was a major public and critical success.

She then adapted a screenplay by Jean Gruault, originally written for François Truffaut, into Marguerite & Julien. In 2021, she ventured into television with a feminist family saga, Nona et ses filles. Just the Two of Us won the César for Best Adaptation in 2024. In parallel, Donzelli works as a producer and continues her acting career, both in her own films and with directors such as Audrey Diwan, Sophie Fillières, and Bertrand Bonello.

Watch her favorites films on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/valerie-donzelli

Fifty years after his ing, LaCinetek pays tribute to Michel Simon, the legendary actor once hailed by Charlie Chaplin as “the greatest in the world.”

With nearly 145 screen credits to his name, Simon captivated audiences from the 1930s through the 1960s. He rose to fame through his unforgettable collaborations with Jean Renoir, and went on to work with cinema’s most visionary directors: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean Vigo, Marcel Carné, Sacha Guitry, Claude Berri, and many more.

Renowned for his range, from tragic intensity to burlesque comedy, Michel Simon remains one of the most singular and transformative actors of the 20th century. In 1967, his performance in The Two of Us (Le Vieil Homme et l’Enfant) earned him the Silver Bear for Best Actor in Berlin.

Explore a selection of his finest performances now on LaCinetek:
The ion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodor Dreyer –
La Chienne by Jean Renoir
Le Quai des brumes by Marcel Carné
Fric-Frac by Maurice Lehmann
La Vie d’un honnête homme by Sacha Guitry
Jean Renoir, le Patron – Episode 2: Michel Simon, la direction d’acteur by Jacques Rivette

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For the past 34 years, the Côté court Festival has been a launchpad for bold, singular voices in cinema. Dedicated to films under one hour, the festival uncovers filmmakers and artists who shape the future of cinema, visionaries like Emmanuel Mouret, Justine Triet, Solveig Anspach, and Alain Guiraudie.
To celebrate the 2025 edition (June 4–14 at Ciné 104 in Pantin), LaCinetek presents a special selection of features and shorts by filmmakers who once screened at Côté court—some at the very beginning of their journeys.

From intimate portraits to radical storytelling, dive into the work of:

Solveig Anspach – Haut les cœurs
Pierre Salvadori – Comme elle respire
Laurent Achard – Plus qu’hier, moins que demain
Laurent Cantet – Entre les murs
François Ozon – 8 Femmes
Emmanuelle Bercot – La Tête haute
Erick Zonca – La Vie rêvée des anges
Emmanuel Mouret – Un baiser s’il vous plaît
Alain Guiraudie – L’Inconnu du lac
Marina de Van – Alias
Michel Gondry – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Christophe Honoré – La Belle personne
Valérie Mréjen – La Défaite du rouge-gorge
Philippe Ramos – Ici-bas
Virgil Vernier – Mercuriales
Justine Triet – La Bataille de Solférino

Watch them now on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr/selection/cote-court-2025

Filmmaker Marcel Ophüls ed away on May 24. To honor his legacy, LaCinetek invites you to (re)discover The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), his landmark documentary on World War II.

A shock to audiences upon release, the film shattered the comforting Gaullist myth that “everyone was a resistant,” marking a clear break with national narratives and foreshadowing a major historiographical shift. Over time, it became one of the essential works on the subject.
Available to rent for just €2 (SD) or €3 (HD) until June 10.

Presented by Riad Sattouf.

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His list of favorite films includes Black God White Devil by Glauber Rocha, Scum by Alan Clarke and Blockade by Sergei Loznitsa.

An emblematic filmmaker from Brazil, Kleber Mendonça Filho took classes in journalism before becoming a film critic and programmer. From 1990 onwards, he signed short experimental videos with an inventive eye. In the 2000s, he created short films such as the fantastical film-novel Vinil Verde (presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2005) and Recife Frio (a 2009 mockumentary about the curious cooling of the climate). He then started making feature-length fiction films, with Neighbouring Sounds (2012), Aquarius (in official selection at Cannes in 2016), and Bacurau (Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Festival). An independent author-producer, Mendonça Filho affirms the political specificity of his gaze, probing the impact of global capitalism on his native region. Fuelled by an original and non-naturalist cinephilia, his work draws inspiration from the social movement of Cinema Novo and the revival of the genre film, such as burlesque, soap opera, the western, or Carpenter-style chimeric horror. In 2023, his documentary Pictures of Ghosts was presented at Cannes in the Séances spéciales section.

In 2025, his film The Secret Agent earned him the Best Director prize at Cannes, while Wagner Moura received the Best Actor award for his performance.

Watch his favorites on LaCinetek: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/kleber-mendonca-filho-45

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On the occasion of the centenary of the French Open tennis tournament, and to celebrate the start of Roland-Garros, LaCinetek draws a connection between tennis and cinema in a selection where the match is played both on the court and in the frame.

From the chic grass courts to the more humble grounds, tennis runs through films either humorously or with tension, through mimed matches, duels at a distance, or scenes with meticulously crafted dramaturgy. Realism is captured through reverse shots, bodies converse mid-air, and the direction, as taut as a net, makes its impact. Cinema captures the movement, the stakes... and sometimes the accident. Because a set is built through rebounds, breaks, and cuts. And often, everything changes with a backhand, a decisive point, a winning game.

The films to discover in the spotlight:

À propos de Nice directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman
Strangers on a Train directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday directed by Jacques Tati
Tea and Sympathy directed by Vincente Minnelli
Accident directed by Joseph Losey
Blow-Up directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis directed by Vittorio De Sica
The Gambler directed by Karel Reisz
Shampoo directed by Hal Ashby
Pardon Mon Affaire directed by Yves Robert
Dawn of the Dead directed by George A. Romero
The Woman Next Door directed by François Truffaut
A Room with a View directed by James Ivory
The Witches of Eastwick directed by George Miller

Watch them on LaCinetek.

"The film really talks about cinema, the madness of what it means to be a cinephile or a filmmaker."

sex, lies, and videotape by Steven Soderbergh is also recommended by Nabil Ayouch, Saeed Roustaee and Valérie Lemercier on LaCinetek.

Now available for a limited time with your LaCinetek subscription: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/sex-lies-and-videotape-steven-soderbergh-vod

As part of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, LaCinetek invites you to (re)discover the lists of filmmakers presenting their films in the festival's prestigious selections. 

Screening on 23/05 in Official Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Jeunes mères
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne' list of favorites includes:
Under the Sun of Satan directed by Maurice Pialat
Hands over the City directed by sco Rosi
All or Nothing directed by Mike Leigh

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/jean-pierre-dardenne-57
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Luc Dardenne' list of favorites includes:
The Son’s Room directed by Nanni Moretti
Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese
Blow Up My Town directed by Chantal Akerman

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/luc-dardenne
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Screening on 22/05 in Out of Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
La Venue de l'avenir
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Cédric Klapisch' list of favorites includes:
Memories of Murder directed by Bong Joon Ho
Looking for Eric directed by Ken Loach
The Lobster directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/cedric-klapisch
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Screening on 22/05 in Official Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Woman and Child
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Saeed Roustaee' list of favorites includes:
Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino
Rosetta directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
The White Ribbon directed by Michael Haneke

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/saeed-roustaee
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Screening on 21/05 in Official Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Affeksjonsverdi
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Joachim Trier' list of favorites includes:
All That Jazz directed by Bob Fosse
Days of Heaven directed by Terrence Malick
Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/joachim-trier
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Screening on 20/05 in Out of Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Vie privée
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Rebecca Zlotowski' list of favorites includes:
Age of Panic directed by Justine Triet
8½ directed by Federico Fellini
Out of Sight directed by Steven Soderbergh

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/rebecca-zlotowski
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Screening on 19/05 in Acid:
L’Aventura
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Sophie Letourneur' list of favorites includes:
Lawrence of Arabia directed by David Lean
La Promesse directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
The Secret of the Grain directed by Abdellatif Kechiche

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/sophie-letourneur
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Screening on 18/05 in Quinzaine:
Mirrors No. 3
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Christian Petzold' list of favorites includes:
The Magnificent Ambersons directed by Orson Welles
Nosferatu directed by F. W. Murnau
Summer with Monika directed by Ingmar Bergman

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Screening on 17/05 in Official Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Die, My Love
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Lynne Ramsay' list of favorites includes:
Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese
The 400 Blows directed by François Truffaut
Vagabond directed by Agnès Varda

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"And it asks a much larger question, as old as humanity: 'Why do we fall in love?"

Her by Spike Jonze is also recommended by Pascale Ferran on LaCinetek.

Watch it on LaCinetek: https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/her-spike-jonze-vod

Screening on 16/05 in Out of Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Arco directed by Ugo Bienvenu
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Screening on 16/05 in Out of Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Amrum
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Fatih Akin' list of favorites includes:
Three Monkeys directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
A Prophet directed by Jacques Audiard
Breaking the Waves directed by Lars von Trier

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Screening on 15/05 in Official Competition at the Palais des Festivals:
Case 137
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Dominik Moll' list of favorites includes:
The Wages of Fear directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Conversation directed by Francis Ford Coppola
ionless Moments directed by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee

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Screening on 14/05 in Quinzaine:
Enzo
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Robin Campillo' list of favorites includes:
Au Hasard Balthazar directed by Robert Bresson
Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) and Vancouver directed by Marguerite Duras
The Color of Pomegranates directed by Sergei Parajanov

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/robin-campillo
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Laurent Cantet (co-founder of LaCinetek) list of favorites includes:
Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rome, Open City directed by Roberto Rossellini
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg directed by Jacques Demy

(Re)Discover their full list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/laurent-cantet
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On the occasion of the Honorary Palme d'Or awarded to Robert De Niro for the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, LaCinetek invites you to (re)discover his filmography.
A cinematic icon and a figure of New Hollywood, Robert De Niro has consistently worked with the greatest filmmakers across several generations: Scorsese, of course, but also Coppola, Cimino, Penny Marshall, and Tarantino. Whether he’s Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, James Conway in Goodfellas, or Ace in Casino, De Niro is a chameleon actor who adapts to every genre that comes his way. His gestures and iconic lines make him one of the most unforgettable faces in the history of cinema.

The films to discover in the spotlight:

Mean Streets directed by Martin Scorsese
The Godfather Part II directed by Francis Ford Coppola
The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino
Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese
GoodFellas directed by Martin Scorsese
Angel Heart directed by Alan Parker
Awakenings directed by Penny Marshall
Casino directed by Martin Scorsese
Cop Land directed by James Mangold
Jackie Brown directed by Quentin Tarantino

Watch them on LaCinetek.

In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai is quoted by 12 filmmakers on LaCinetek: 

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Ira Sachs
Cristian Mungiu
Christian Rouaud
Bertrand Blier
Atom Egoyan
Todd Haynes
Lukas Dhont
Paul Schrader
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Xavier Dolan
Andreas Dresen

Watch great films handpicked by directors on LaCinetek.

"We are in the future. Here is tomorrow, which reigns today on Earth." - René Char

Looking at tomorrow with the eyes of yesterday—this is the strange time travel LaCinetek invites you to take this month.

Imagining the future has always been a way of observing the present from a singular perspective. From Metropolis (1927) to Her (2013), the films in our selection explore the relationships between humans and machines and question the transformations of both the human body and the social body. While giving pride of place to imagination, these works expand our perceptions of reality and project onto the screen the potentialities that the present holds. Even when we sometimes recognize ourselves in them with dread, these cinematic prophecies, even if they don't come true, fuel our representations of the future. Ten films to question the future or, better yet, face it.

Featured films:

Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang
Her directed by Spike Jonze
eXistenZ directed by David Cronenberg
Akira directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
The Last Man on Earth directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow
Tokyo! directed by Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry
Escape from New York directed by John Carpenter
Born in Flames directed by Lizzie Borden
La Jetée directed by Chris Marker
Take Shelter directed by Jeff Nichols

These films, and many more, are available with a LaCinetek subscription.
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On the occasion of the European Night of Museums, on Saturday, May 17, LaCinetek s forces with Culture to explore the second art in the seventh: sculpture in cinema.

Whether it populates museums, emerges from a creator's gesture, or witnesses a declining era, the statue on screen is always meaningful. Whether it opens or closes a film, whether it is political or decorative, it plays with the idea of a frozen image and the confusion it generates: an unsettling strangeness, between petrified characters and statues that come to life.

While waiting to visit the Rodin Museum like Jean-Pierre Léaud or the Archaeological Museum of Naples like Ingrid Bergman, LaCinetek invites you to contemplate statues through the storytelling and aesthetics of the filmmakers featured in its selection.

Sculpture, Museum, and Sculptors:
Journey to Italy directed by Roberto Rossellini
Two English Girls directed by François Truffaut
Camille Claudel directed by Bruno Nuytten

Living Statues:
Beauty and the Beast directed by Jean Cocteau
Last Year at Marienbad directed by Alain Resnais
After Hours directed by Martin Scorsese
Time Regained directed by Raúl Ruiz

Sculptures and Love:
La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini
Contempt directed by Jean-Luc Godard
The King and the Mockingbird directed by Paul Grimault
Heartbeats directed by Xavier Dolan

Political Statues:
City Lights directed by Charlie Chaplin
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington directed by Frank Capra
North by Northwest directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Man of Marble directed by Andrzej Wajda

Statues: An Unsettling Symbol of an End:
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein
La Jetée directed by Chris Marker
Don’t Look Now directed by Nicolas Roeg
Westworld directed by Michael Crichton

Watch them on LaCinetek.

The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin is quoted by 8 filmmakers on LaCinetek:

Akira Kurosawa
Aki Kaurismäki
Paul Verhoeven
Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
Pete Docter
Michael Haneke
Francis Veber

Watch great films handpicked by directors on LaCinetek.

"I think it almost invents another genre."

Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville is also recommended by Christoph Hochhäusler, Park Chan-wook, Bertrand Blier, Claude Lelouch, Bruno Podalydès, Riad Sattouf,Serge Bromberg, Joanna Hogg, Dominik Moll, John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Haneke on LaCinetek.

Watch it on LaCinetek: https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/film/army-of-shadows-jean-pierre-melville-vod