Most Viewed From Paradise Films

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Delphine Seyrig

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping...

Genre: Music

Cast: Aurore Clément

Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvie Testud

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chantal Akerman

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aurore Clément

Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Juliette Binoche

Documentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication, cinema, and Akerman's mother, seen in her Brussels...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

"Babel / Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium" narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Boris Lehman

A short documentary on the creation of the fresco by Alba Fabre Sacristán paying homage to Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du...

Genre: Documentary

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Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Natalia Chakhovskaia

Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Myriam Boyer

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Prantik Banerjee

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariadna Gil

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aurore Clément

Insomnies is an impressionistic look at the city at night, avoiding the clichés of commercial or tourist films and suggesting instead a...

Genre: Documentary

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A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stanislas Merhar

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Romen Avinian

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman