Jacques Demy

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

IMDb: 7.7
1964
91min

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy’s return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

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Donkey Skin

Donkey Skin

Donkey Skin

IMDb: 7.1
1970
90min

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won’t have to marry her father.

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Les sept péchés capitaux

Les sept péchés capitaux

Les sept péchés capitaux

IMDb: 7.3
1962
113min

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In “Anger,” a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In “Sloth,” a movie …

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Model Shop

Model Shop

Model Shop

IMDb: 7.4
1969
95min

While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a “model shop” (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). George spends his last twelve dollars to photograph her, and discovers that she is as unhappy as he.

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The Young Girls of Rochefort

The Young Girls of Rochefort

The Young Girls of Rochefort

IMDb: 7.7
1967
124min

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close… A film where the scenario is much less important than its feeling of euphory, according to the director Jacques Demy.

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