Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.

Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.

Two girls on the street: Two upwardly moblie working women-one a musician in an all-female band, the other a bricklayer- join forces in their attempts to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing fortunes, the advance of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love. Kalpana: A dancer is determined to open a cultural center and breathe new life into India's traditional artistic forms. Meanwhile, the evident adoration between...

A film star comes face to face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.

Director Jacques Rivette, in close collaboration with stars Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, rewrote the rules of cinema in the spirit of pure play and the result is one of the most inventive and utterly enchanting films of the French New Wave.

Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.

"Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting version of innocence lost. Connie, the fifteen-year old black sheep of her family, whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger"--Container.

Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines, and then communication stops.

"Based on E.M. Forster's novel of requited love. A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman ... is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey."--Container.

Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher, dream of big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape.