Three great classics to watch for free in streaming on Arte.tv in February 2026

In the cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Patrick Dewaere, Philippe Noiret and Romy Schneider.

The Old Gun (1976), by Robert Enrico – Available until 02/28/2026

It is the first Best Film César in history, crowned at the very first French cinema ceremony in 1976. That year, it won almost everything: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Music… Philippe Noiret plays a broken doctor caught in a vengeful madness, in occupied France, after his wife and daughter were savagely executed by a group of German soldiers… And Romy Schneider, luminous, in flashback memory sequences.

Headbutt (1979), by Jean-Jacques Annaud – Available until 04/30/2026

In the wake of his Oscar for Best Foreign Film, won for his first feature film, Victory singing, the director launches into a social satire, centered on a football player who is as soupy as he is despised. To the point of being thrown in prison for an attempted rape that he did not commit… in order to cover for the star of the team, who will become a local hero thanks to his decisive goals. A lunar football thriller carried by the spectacular incarnation of Patrick Dewaere.

Beautiful dayby Luis Buñuel (1966) – Available until 05/31/2026

If it has lost its subversive and sulphurous side, sixty years later, Buñuel’s masterpiece, Golden Lion in Venice, remains the Spanish master’s greatest success in France (more than 2 million admissions) and one of Catherine Deneuve’s most striking roles. She plays Séverine Sérizy, a bourgeois woman who finds herself employed in a luxury brothel through Michel Piccoli. She is nicknamed “Belle de jour”, because she only works from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., in secret from her husband…