2 Best Performing Arts Venues in Eastern Paris, Paris

This mecca for cinephiles brought up on Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, and Alain Resnais is known for its superb, and exhaustive, retrospectives of world cinema past and present. Its spectacular home—in the former American Center, designed by Frank Gehry—includes elaborate museum exhibitions plus three cinemas and a video library. British and American films are always screened in the original language with French subtitles.

This mammoth 18-screen complex is in the Bercy Village shopping area. For sound and seating, it's one of the best.