Classic, timeless, magic, unknown … The common point of these films? They are all worth watching before it is too late!
“Priscilla, crazy about the desert”, a deliciously eccentric tolerance that has become cult. Photo Screen Australia/Orion Pictures Corporation
Posted on August 14, 2025 at 5.30 p.m.
PRead that a few days to kiss incredible stories that will make the heart beat. The catalog of Arte.TV is enriched each month new treasures of French and international cinema, but not for life, diffusion rights oblige. So, before it is too late – some films are only available a few days – Telerama has selected for you the ten works offered by Arte that it would be “criminal” to miss just because they have not looked at them in time. By the end of the month, you can make an exceptional canvas for free every night. Solo or with others, with a Spritz or an icy tea, in a jersey or in polo shirt, let yourself be carried away by the magic of cinema!
History: “Lili Marleen”
Rialto films
Rainer Werner Fassbinder magnified Hanna Schygulla in this elegant war film all in songs on a German cabaret artist, which has become the darling of the Nazis.
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“Lili Marleen” on Arte: subtle, Fassbinder melodrama is above all the portrait of a cheated woman
Timeless: “The King and the Bird”
Photo COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL
A shepherdess in love with a chimney sweep, a tyrannical king and a philosopher bird … Grimault and Prévert are inspired by Andersen. A tender tribute that has the immortal magic of a masterpiece.
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“The King and the Bird”, by Paul Grimault: the declaration of love of a poet in the world
Disenchanted: “The duckler”
Malpaso Productions
Cimino’s first film: A beautiful Picaresque walk in very good company (Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges), between beers, prosecution and friendship in America in the 1970s.
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“Le Canonser”: Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges in an electrifying road movie
Remarkable: “Plan 75”
Happinet Phantom Studios/Loade
By imagining a generalized euthanasia plan for those over 75, this film brilliantly tackles a burning subject: the aging of the Japanese population. As delicate as it is terrifying and haloed by the special mention of the Golden Camera in Cannes in 2022.
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“Plan 75”: a dystopia on the end of life that is cold in the back
Classic: “Manon”
Alcina
1944: Desgrieux is a young FFI and Manon frequents brothels. We find the darkness and the complexity of the characters, typical of the style of Clouzot, between fascination, impulses and violence.
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“Manon”, by Henri-Georges Clouzot: perfectly successful modernization of the novel by Father Prévost
Mafieux: “Nostalgia”
Photo Mario Spada/Picomedia
Back in his Naples Natal, a man faces his memories, his shortcomings and camorra. A captivating film with mystical resonances.
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“Nostalgia” on Arte: Dolce Vita, delinquency and violence in Naples
Melancholic: “Don’t Come Knocking”
Wim Wenders Foundation
Twenty years later Paris, TexasWim Wenders was reconnecting with Sam Shepard for this shunned film when it was released and yet crossed by vibrant dialogues on the passage of time and the regrets that remain.
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“Don’t Come Knocking”, by Wim Wenders: Beautiful Road-Movie with twilight accents
Pictural : “Mr Turner”
Channel Four Television
Impressionist self-portrait of the artist in a grumpy pig: Turner (1775-1851), landscape painter carried little by little to the limits of the figurative, becomes for Mike Leigh the elegiac chronicler of a lost world. Timothy Spall is great.
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“Mr. Turner”, a film like a master canvas
Burning: “Les Amandiers”
Photo Jérome Prébois/Ad Vitam
Aspirant comedians, they burn the boards, and their life. The actress-cineastic revives the passion of her years of training for almond trees. Electrifying.
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“Les Amandiers”, or the passionate youth of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Wult: “Priscilla, Tow to the denert”
Screen Australia/Orion Pictures Corporation
Three Drag-Queens cross Australia by bus to participate in a review in a performance hall which is located in the middle of the desert. A real plea for tolerance and fantasy.
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“Priscilla, crazy desert”: a queer, kitsch and azimué road-movie
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