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Le Cactus (2005)

Gérard Bitton

Sami is the world’s biggest hypochondriac. He has only to hear or read about a rare and incurable disease to convince himself that he has caught it. Unable to find work, he sponges off his friend Patrick, a successful businessman who puts up with Sami only because he once saved his life. Certain that he is suffering from a brain disease, Sami goes for a head scan at his local hospital... [More...]

Cadet-Rousselle (1954)

André Hunebelle

France, 1789. Cadet-Rousselle is in love with Isabelle, but such a match is impossible: he is of peasant stock and she is the mayor’s daughter. Heading off for Paris and a new life, Cadet is attacked by bandits and left for dead. A group of gypsies discover him and he agrees to join them, taking part in their public entertainments... [More...]

La Cage aux folles II (1980)

Edouard Molinaro

In Nice, the flamboyant impresario Renato still manages the popular night club La Cage aux folles with his transvestite partner Albin. When Renato suggests he is too old to impersonate Marlene Dietrich for his stage act, Albin goes off in a huff and intends to prove he is still attractive to other men... [More...]

La Cage aux folles (1978)

Edouard Molinaro

Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act. Renato is appalled when he learns that his son, Laurent, (the product of a one-night stand twenty years ago) reveals that he is going to get married – to a young woman... [More...]

Le Caïd (1960)

Bernard Borderie

After a bloody hold-up at an oil refinery, a gangster named Toni takes flight with a vast sum of stolen money. In a train bound for Paris, Toni finds himself in the same compartment as Justin Mignonnet, an eminent philosophy professor who is on his way to a conference on metaphysics. At gunpoint, Justin allows Toni to hide the stolen money in his suitcase and agrees to hand over the money at a specified hotel the following day... [More...]

Camping (2006)

Fabien Onteniente

Every August for the last thirty years, Jacky and Laurette Pic have spent their summer holiday near the same stretch of French coast, pitching their caravan in exactly the same spot in the same camp site, Les Flots Bleus. Imagine then their incredulity when, one year, they arrive to find that, owing to a computer malfunction, the pitch they have always taken has been allocated to another couple, and a Dutch couple at that... [More...]

Camping 2 (2010)

Fabien Onteniente

Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put their relationship on hold, he changes his holiday plans and heads for the Flots Bleus camping site near Arcachon... [More...]

Camping à la ferme (2005)

Jean-Pierre Sinapi

Six juvenile delinquents from inner city Paris are offered an alternative to the usual short sharp shock of a prison sentence – a month in the country doing odd jobs for the community. Amar, the social worker in charge of the group, has his job cut out trying to keep the young rebels and social misfits in order – not an easy task when the countryside offers them few distractions and some of the locals provoke them with racist taunts... [More...]

Le Caporal épinglé (1962)

Jean Renoir

June, 1940. In a German prisoner-of-war camp in North-East France, three soldiers are united by their desire to escape and return to their ordinary civilian lives. They are a middle-class corporal, a myopic intellectual, Ballochet, and an ordinary working class man nicknamed Pater. After their first attempt fails, thanks to Ballochet losing his spectacles, the corporal and Pater try again – and again... [More...]

Les Caprices de Marie (1970)

Philippe de Broca

Angevine is a blissfully happy French village, thanks to Mayor Leopold Panneton’s efforts to conceal bad news from everyone. Panneton’s daughter, Marie, is selected as Miss Blue Waters in a beauty contest. Used to getting what she wants, Marie is disappointed when Gabriel, the local schoolteacher and the only man she loves, proves to be too shy to proclaim his love for her... [More...]

Les Carabiniers (1963)

Jean-Luc Godard

Two country peasants are recruited to join the army and serve in the war. They are promised wealth, fulfilment and freedom to do whatever they wish whilst in active service. In a crusade that takes in most of the world, the two new recruits indulge their passion for rape, killing and acquiring luxury cars... [More...]

Carambolages (1963)

Marcel Bluwal

A lowly groundfloor employee in a company specialising in leisure activities, Paul Martin is ambitious, and with good reason. His impending marriage to his fiancée Danielle and the fact that he has put his secretary Solange in the family way look set to place great demands on his wallet, so to pay his way he desperately needs a promotion... [More...]

Carnaval (1953)

Henri Verneuil

Dardamelle, an architect living in Aix-en-Provence, is blissfully aware that his wife, Francine, is having an affair with another man. When Dardamelle refuses to buy her a new dress, Francine reveals her secret – and is totally unprepared for her husband’s reaction. Instead of just taking offence, Dardamelle goes overboard to publicise the news, starting by buying a banner with the word "First class cuckold" which he hangs proudly from his balcony... [More...]

Casablanca Driver (2004)

Maurice Barthélémy

Casablanca Driver is convinced that he is destined to be the greatest boxer of all time. In fact he will go down in history as the worst... Through an improbable conspiracy of circumstances, Casa is put into the ring to face the champion Jimmy La Renta. If he survives one round, it will be a miracle... [More...]

Case départ (2011)

Lionel Steketee

Joël and Régis are two half-brothers whose only connection is the father they hardly know. Joël is unemployed and blames his inability to find work on his skin colour and French racism. Régis, by contrast, denies he is black and is fully integrated into French society. The two brothers are summoned to the death-bed of their father in Antilles... [More...]

Cash (2008)

Eric Besnard

When his brother, a small-time swindler, is killed by one of his former victims, Cash decides to take revenge by organising a swindle of his own. Unfortunately, he soon finds that he is up against an enemy more dangerous than he had imagined – and the tables are soon turned against him... ... [More...]

Casimir (1950)

Richard Pottier

Success may so far have eluded him in his chosen career but Casimir is certain that he will soon make enough money as a travelling salesman to allow him to marry his beloved fiancée. The reason for his confidence is the miniature vacuum cleaner – the answer to every housewife’s prayer... [More...]

Les Casse-pieds (1948)

Jean Dréville

A knowledgable lecturer sets out to enumerate all of the different kinds of nuisance which blight our everyday lives. There are the facetious know-alls, the excrescences that insist on ringing you up just when you have sat down to dinner, and the greatest pestilence of them all: women drivers... ... [More...]

Catherine et Cie (1975)

Michel Boisrond

Ensnared by the tender promises of a French journalist, Catherine leaves her home in Manchester and, a few hours later, finds herself at the Gard du Nord in Paris. When her beau idéal fails to keep his rendez-vous, Catherine realises that she has been taken in by yet another Don Juan. After a moment of panic, Catherine soon regains her composure and charms a stranger into giving her a bed for the night... [More...]

Cause toujours... tu m’intéresses! (1979)

Edouard Molinaro

After his divorce, François Perrin, a French radio journalist, finds his new solitary life increasingly unbearable. One evening, he picks up his telephone and dials a number at random. As luck would have it, the person on the other end of the line is not only of the opposite sex and of his age group, but she is also as desperately lonely as he is... [More...]

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