How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.

A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.

Normandy, 1944. Albert vows never to drink again if he and his wife survive the war. The reformed alcoholic must now face the difficulty of keeping his promise, especially after befriending Gabriel, a

Three short stories about pleasure.

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of

An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of

An old friendship between three men is shaken when one starts dating the 20-year-old daughter of another.

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine hi

A young woman named Marie, facing oppression and exploitation, begins selling her body, shaking the male-dominated capitalist society of Tellier.