“The Connection” is the real-life story of the French Connection, as told from a French point of view and focusing around the city of Marseille, a center of drug trafficking in the 1970s. The French ...

Now, two new movies with a French connection - the animated comedy "The Tale of Despereaux" is about a curious French mouse who loves to read and the French-language drama "The Class" tells the story ...

William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director who helmed such classics as “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” died Aug. 7 from heart failure and pneumonia, his family said in a ...