A Left Bank stalwart, the Action group is renowned for screening new prints of old movies. It's heaven for anyone who's nostalgic for Tinseltown classics and quality US...

This 420-seat auditorium was designed by IM Pei, as part of the Mitterand-inspired renovation of the Louvre. Film screenings are often related to the exhibitions; silent movies...

The varied programme here features themed series, experimental and artists' films, and a weekly documentary session. This is also the venue for the Cinéma du Réel festival in...

Opened back in 1990, the Images d'Ailleurs cinema focuses on cinematic works from Africa and other rare movie treats.

A diverse array of documentaries, shorts, gay cinema and productions from developing nations are more common here than mainstream stuff.

Relocated to Frank Gehry's striking, spacious cubist building, the Cinémathèque Française now boasts four screens, a bookshop, a restaurant, exhibition space and the Musée du...

The IMAX cinema at the Cité des Sciences occupies a shiny geodesic sphere. The vast hemispheric screen lets you experience 3D plunges through natural scenery, and animated...

This glorious edifice is not, as local legend might have it, a block-by-block import, but a 19th-century replica of a pagoda by a French architect. Renovated in the late 1990s,...

Built in 1935 and boasting a mock ocean-liner foyer, Le Balzac scores highly for design and programming. Jean-Jacques Schpoliansky, the manager, is often found welcoming...

The two-screen Champo has been in operation for nearly seven decades, a venerable past recognised in 2000 when it was given historic monument status. In the 1960s it was a...

Done out to evoke the studios of old, this three-screen showcase of world cinema holds meet-the-director sessions and festivals of classic, foreign, gay and documentary films....

To celebrate its centenary in 2007, the city's oldest surviving movie house opened a tea room with interior design by Catherine Deneuve. It continues to screen new, often...