"Louis Malle"
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son’s lover.
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first…
Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles onto a scheme by some of the boss’s disgruntled misfit clients to rob…
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy…
Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown…
In Louis Malle’s lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected…
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
