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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chantal Akerman

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

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

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

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

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

Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guilaine Londez

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Natalia Chakhovskaia

Belgian director Chantal Akerman avoids her usual "real time" technique in Histoires d'Amérique. The anecdotal nature of the subject matter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Amitin

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

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nathalie Baye

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...

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

"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

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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Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman