Bay of Angels 1963  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet, Andre Certes, Nicole Chollet, Conchita Parodi, Georges Alban, Jacques Moreau, Jean-Pierre Lorrain
Young bank clerk Jean (Claude Mann) is talked into gambling by a friend and comes out a winner at the roulette tables. Meanwhile, gambling addict Jackie (Jeanne Moreau) routinely leaves her husband and child behind to visit the casino in Nice. She meets Jean at the tables and latches on to him as a good luck charm. But Jackie continues to lose, and Jean must make decisions concerning their relationship.
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Donkey Skin 1970 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Fantasy
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig, Micheline Presle, Fernand Ledoux, Henri Cremieux, Sacha Pitoeff, Pierre Repp, Jean Servais, Louise Chevalier
When the queen (Catherine Deneuve) died, she made the king (Jean Marais) promise to marry a woman as beautiful as she, and he chooses his own daughter (also played by Catherine Deneuve). The daughter is not happy with this match, and a fairy (Delphine Seyrig) offers advice and helps her to escape. But, it is a prince (Jacques Perrin) who finally comes to the rescue.
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Lola 1961 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel, Elina Labourdette, Alan Scott, Annie Duperoux, Jacques Harden, Margo Lion, Catherine Lutz, Corinne Marchand, Yvette Anziani
In post-war France, Lola (Anouk Aimee), a carefree single mother and cabaret dancer, continues to hope that her child's father will return from the U.S.–even after a seven-year absence. Meanwhile, she is being courted by an old childhood friend, Roland (Marc Michel), as well as by an American sailor, Frankie (Alan Scott), but she cannot seem to get over her past love.
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Paris Belongs to Us 1962 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery / Thriller
aka: Paris Is Ours
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Francoise Prevost, Daniel Crohem, Francois Maistre, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Marie Robain, Brigitte Juslin, Paul Bisciglia, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, Jean Martin, Henri Poirier
As a literature student in Paris during the 1950s, Anne Goupil (Betty Schneider) takes part in Shakespeare's play "Pericles" and tries to help theater director Gerard Lenz (Giani Esposito) after he confides to Anne that their Spanish activist friend Juan was murdered by an organization plotting a totalitarian takeover and that he is now on their death list.
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The Pied Piper 1972 G, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Donovan, John Hurt, Michael Hordern, Jack Wild, Roy Kinnear, Peter Vaughan, Diana Dors, Cathryn Harrison, Keith Buckley, Roger Hammond, Peter Eyre, Hamilton Dyce, Andre Van Gyseghem, John Falconer
This is a chilling version of the Grimm Brothers' story about the mysterious piper (Donovan) who is hired to rid the squalid town of Hamelin of rats in the 14th century. When payment is not made, he leads the children out of town. Despite its 1972 "G" rating, this movie is not for children.
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A Slightly Pregnant Man 1973  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Claude Melki, Marisa Pavan, Mireille Mathieu, Andre Falcon, Maurice Biraud, Alice Sapritch, Raymond Gerome, Madeleine Barbulee, Tonie Marshall
Marco (Marcello Mastroianni) visits his girlfriend's (Catherine Deneuve) doctor (Micheline Presle) and is told that he is four months pregnant. A media frenzy ensues, and Marco is hired to model maternity clothes–until he finds out that the diagnosis was for his girlfriend.
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 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel, Anne Vernon, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey
This beautifully photographed and scored love story involves a woman who–finding herself pregnant by her lover away fighting in the war–marries another man. All dialog is sung, which causes the dubbed version to suffer compared to the subtitled one. Three musical Academy Award nominations were received as well as a nomination for Best Foreign Film.
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The Young Girls of Rochefort 1968 G, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Francoise Dorleac, Jacques Riberolles, Grover Dale, Genevieve Thenier, Henri Cremieux, Pamela Hart, Leslie North, Patrick Jeantet, Rene Bazart
Every word is sung and every step is choreographed in this film about sisters Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange (Francoise Dorleac). They help their mother Madam Yvonne (Danielle Darrieux) with her cafe in the Town Square and run a music and ballet school in Rochefort, France, in their spare time. Although happy while entertaining on stage, Delphine and Solange lack romance in their real lives. Now, the town's annual fair attracts new romantic possibilities in the form of painter Maxence (Jacques Perrin) and tourist Andy Miller (Gene Kelly) as songs and dancing fill the screen.
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| 1. Bay of Angels (1963)
2. Donkey Skin (1970)
3. Lola (1961)
4. Paris Belongs to Us (1962)
aka: Paris Is Ours
5. The Pied Piper (1972)
6. A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1968)
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