Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute
A Gentle Creature (1969)
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief stricken pawnbroker husband We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his Disgusted with his attempts to dominat
LArgent (1983)
A forged 500 franc note is passed from person to person until carelessness leads to tragedy
Proces de Jeanne dArc (1962)
A Joan of Arcs trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English Filmed in a spare, low key fashion
Public Affairs (1934)
Bressons first film is, totally uncharacteristically, a slapstick comedy, centred around two neighbouring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching
Angels of Sin (1943)
Anne Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence reluctant to tell her secret
Au hasard Bresson (1967)
A documentary featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette and interviews with him off and in
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
King Arthur learns about his wifes, Queen Guinevere, affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthurs traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life
Mouchette (1967)
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man
The Devil, Probably (1977)
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bressons Mouchette
The Road to Bresson (1984)
A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
The dreamer is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as shes contemplating suicide on the Pont Neuf in Paris They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night Gradually, he discovers that her lover p