Watch Cleo from 5 to 7

Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.

Bresson's thief in Paris, filmed as hands and gestures, and the ending in the prison.

Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.

An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.

Juliette Binoche after the crash that killed her family; Kieslowski's trilogy begins with liberty.

Twenty-four hours in the Paris banlieue after a riot, in black and white; "so far, so good".