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French cinema: Drama (Page 1 of 72)

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 m² (2007)

Barthélémy Grossmann

José, Farouk and Réza are three young men from a rough area of Paris. For them, life is hard and increasingly precarious as they are drawn further and further into crime just to survive. One day, they attack an armoured van and run off with a sack load of cash. The robbery hasn’t gone quite as planned and the three friends end up taking refuge in a cramped hide out, where they intend to stay until things have quietened down... [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...]

24 heures de la vie d’une femme (2002)

Laurent Bouhnik

Louis, a disillusioned old man, returns to the French Riviera, the scene of his turbulent adolescence. By chance, he meets a young woman, Olivia, who, after a violent break up with her boyfriend, chooses to tag along with him. Louis recounts a story told to him, more than sixty years ago, by a Mrs Marie Collins Brown after his mother had run off with her lover... [More...]

24 mesures (2007)

Jalil Lespert

One Christmas Eve brings together four total strangers, for an evening that will mark their lives forever. Helly is a young prostitute who hopes that one day she can earn enough money to take back her son, who is currently with foster parents. Whilst looking for business, she meets Didier, a taxi driver who is at the end of his tether... [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 fillette (1988)

Catherine Breillat

Whilst on a camping holiday in Biarritz with her family, a 14 year old girl, Lili, becomes obsessed with losing her virginity. She meets a middle-aged playboy, Maurice, and alternately flaunts with him and taunts him. Although he is strongly attracted towards her, Lili is disgusted at the idea of losing her virginity to him, but she cannot stand being a virgin..... [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...]

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...]

Le 4ème pouvoir (1985)

Serge Leroy

Catherine Carré presents the French evening news with charm and an irreproachable professionalism. However, her personal ambitions and journalistic integrity come into conflict when news reporter Yves Dorget, an old flame of hers, uncovers evidence that the French government has been complicit in the illegal sale of arms to a developing country... [More...]

588 rue paradis (1993)

Henri Verneuil

Forty years have passed since Azad Zakarian arrived in Marseilles with his parents, fugitives from Armenia. Under the name Pierre Zakar, Azad has become a renowned writer, his plays performed across the world. He is happily married and enjoys both wealth and fame. Memories of his modest childhood are revived when, after the death of his father, he is reunited with his mother, Mayrig, memories that will provide the inspiration for his next play..... [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...]

9mm (2008)

Taylan Barman

A typical day in the life of a typical family in the north of France. Nadine, the mother, is an officer in the anti-drugs squad and is the first to leave the family home. Roger, the father, mopes about the house, depressed and unemployed after an accident. Laurent, the son, gives the impression of getting ready for school, although he in fact intends to bunk off and spend the day with his friends... [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 ce soir (2005)

Laure Duthilleul

When her husband, Manuel, dies suddenly, Nelly finds it hard to face up to the reality of a life without him. Barely into middle age, Nelly had not envisaged a future without her husband. She imagined that they would grow old together, watching their two children grow up and sharing what life has to offer... [More...]

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