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1 Journée (2009)

Jacob Berger

Serge, a radio presenter, begins his daily routine by leaving his family apartment at the crack of dawn so that he can pay his mistress a brief call before setting out for work. On his way, he is convinced that he has knocked someone over. He stops his car, explores the area, but can find no sign of an injured person, so he resumes his journey to his office, somewhat shaken... [More...]

125 rue Montmartre (1959)

Gilles Grangier

Pascal scrapes a modest living selling newspapers in the streets of Paris. Although a little rough around the edges, he has a good heart, so that when he sees a man jump into the Seine, he does not hesitate to come to his aid. The suicide, Didier, is on the brink of a nervous breakdown after his wife Catherine’s attempts to seize his fortune from him... [More...]

13 Tzameti (2005)

Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple. When the man dies from a drugs overdose, the woman informs Sébastien that she cannot pay him for his work. Overhearing a conversation, Sébastien learns that his employer had just received a letter containing instructions for a job that would earn him a large sum of money... [More...]

17 fois Cécile Cassard (2002)

Christophe Honoré

Traumatised by the tragic death of her husband, Cécile Cassard asks her friend Edith to take care of her infant son whilst she tries to piece her life back together. Following a suicide attempt, she finds herself in the seedier area of Toulouse. As she wanders the streets without purpose she encounters young men who are attracted towards her, but she is incapable of starting a relationship with anyone... [More...]

3 hommes et un couffin (1985)

Coline Serreau

Pierre, Jacques and Michel are three free-living bachelors who share a luxury flat in Paris. Their routine is abruptly disrupted when a baby girl is deposited on their door step. Whilst Pierre, the unwitting father, enjoys a three week holiday in Thailand, his flatmates are left holding the fort, taking turns to look after the baby... [More...]

La 317e section (1965)

Pierre Schoendoerffer

In 1954, at the height of the Indochina War, a French platoon comprising four French soldiers and around forty Laotians is instructed to abandon Luong Ba, an outpost on the border with Laos, and relieve Lao Tsaï, a town 150 kilometres to the south. The platoon is led by the young lieutenant Torrens and his adjutant, Willsdorff, who served in the German army during the Second World War... [More...]

35 rhums (2008)

Claire Denis

Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver. They have lived a peaceful but withdrawn life together - Lionel thinks only of his daughter, and she thinks only of him... [More...]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)

Olivier Marchal

For several months, a gang of ruthless crooks have been getting away with a series of daring and increasingly violent robberies in Paris. Police chief Robert Mancini summons two of his best men, Léo Vrinks and Denis Klein, and offers them an unusual challenge. Whichever of them manages to bring the gang to justice will succeed him upon his retirement... [More...]

36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup (2009)

Jacques Rivette

Just as a small circus company is about to begin its summer season, its owner suddenly dies. To save their jobs, the circus troupe contacts Kate, the eldest daughter of their former boss, and plead with her to take her father’s place. To everyone’s surprise, Kate accepts and agrees to drop everything to resume the life that she abandoned many years ago... [More...]

37°2 le matin (1986)

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Zorg and Betty eke out an existence maintaining seaside holiday bungalows in the South of France. After a dispute with Zorg’s boss, the two return to Paris to start a new life. Having chanced upon the manuscript of a novel that Zorg wrote before meeting her, Betty is convinced that her lover has a promising career as a writer and pushes him to submit his novel for publication... [More...]

38 témoins (2012)

Lucas Belvaux

On her return from a business trip in China, Louise discovers that the street where she lives has been the scene of a crime. There were no witnesses; everyone was asleep when the incident happened. Her husband Pierre was away working, at sea. Or so it seems. The police and the press are both investigating the crime... [More...]

5x2 (2004)

François Ozon

After several years together, Marion and Gilles finally decide to put an end to their marriage. Their divorce ceremony over, they meet for one last time in a hotel room. It is one final opportunity to relive former happy moments but it only manages to extinguish forever their passion for one another... [More...]

7 ans (2007)

Jean-Pascal Hattu

When her husband Vincent is sent to prison for seven years, Maïté visits him twice weekly to speak with him and collect his laundry, which she washes and irons assiduously. On one of these visits, Maïté encounters a stranger, Jean, who offers her a lift in his car. Maïté accepts and before she knows what is happening she has embarked on a passionate love affair with a man about whom she knows nothing... [More...]

La 7ème cible (1984)

Claude Pinoteau

A retired journalist, Bastien Grimaldi, finds himself the victim of unknown assailants. First he is ambushed and beaten up one evening; then he begins to receive threatening phone calls. Neither he nor his entourage can understand this. Bastien has no known enemies and is hardly a political target. He reports this to the police but they prove ineffectual... [More...]

8 femmes (2002)

François Ozon

In the 1950s, a beautiful society lady, Gaby, lives with her husband Marcel, a wealthy industrialist, in a remote country mansion – along with her mother, spinster sister Augustine, teenage daughters Suzon and Catherine, and maids Louise and Madame Chanel. One winter’s day, Gaby returns to her house with her daughter Suzon to find that her husband has been murdered – he is lying dead in his bed with a knife in his back... [More...]

99 francs (2007)

Jan Kounen

Octave Parango is a high-powered advertising consultant who prides himself on the knowledge that he decides what people will want to buy and how they will live their lives. He is more powerful than the President of the United States! Working for Ross & Witchcraft, the world’s largest advertising agency, Octave’s life is a riot of hedonistic excess punctuated by moments of creative genius... [More...]

À bout de souffle (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook who is on the run after having shot dead a policeman. Hoping to recover some money he is owed by some shady associates of his, Michel returns to Paris. Here, he meets up with Patricia, a young student and aspiring journalist with whom he had enjoyed a brief affair in Nice... [More...]

À bout portant (2010)

Fred Cavayé

Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child. But then it all went wrong, just because Samuel happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Nadia is kidnapped under his impotent gaze, Samuel knows that his life will never be the same again... [More...]

À l’est de moi (2009)

Bojena Horackova

In 2008, Marta takes a train journey through the former Eastern Bloc countries to Moscow, the Moscow that still haunts her and which she could not have escaped from whilst the tanks were still there. As she speaks to the people she meets in this post-Communist country, she recalls the difficult times when, in the early 1980s, she left Prague for Paris... [More...]

À l’origine (2009)

Xavier Giannoli

Philippe Miller is a small time crook who, one day, comes across an abandoned road works. The new road would have brought prosperity to the region but its construction was halted by the intervention of a group of beetle-loving environmentalists. Seeing an opportunity to make easy money, Philippe hires some men to resume work on the road and passes himself off as the site foreman... [More...]

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