Paradise Films Movies

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star.

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and...

Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she...

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily...

Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old...

A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.

A burnt-out New York psychoanalyst exchanges apartments with a Parisian woman. When his patients arrive, they talk to her and then pay. He returns...

In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by...

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and...

Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the...

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This...

Jack and Julie live in a bare Parisian flat. By day, they make love; by night, Jack is a taxi driver while Julie wanders the city. One day, Julie...

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman...

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in...

A poor boy befriends a girl from a rich family who disapprove their relationship.

A married biology professor goes back to her ex boyfriend who is still in love with her. When a secret is revealed, she cannot decide between...

In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings. Akerman journeys...

In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.

Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of...

An exploration of Jewish American identity in a multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. A series of first-person addresses delivered by a...