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Abus de confiance (1938)

Henri Decoin

Lydia is a law student who, although she has many admirers, is struggling to make ends meet. With no family to help her, she turns to her friend Alice. The latter proposes a scheme that will allow Lydia to make some easy money. All she has to do is to pay a visit to the writer Jacques Ferny and pretend to be the daughter he has been looking for... [More...]

L’Accompagnatrice (1992)

Claude Miller

During the Nazi Occupation of France, Sophie Vasseur, a young pianist of humble origins, accompanies the great concert singer Irène Brice. Sophie is both fascinated and revolted by the world in which Irène lives, one in which privilege and patronage can be bought merely by aligning one’s sympathies with the Germans... [More...]

Action immédiate (1957)

Maurice Labro

The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money... [More...]

Adieu Philippine (1962)

Jacques Rozier

Michel is a young man who works as a trainee operator in television, a temporary job before his military service. He meets and becomes friendly with two young women, Liliane and Juliette, aspiring actresses who lack the talent to land roles in anything greater than mediocre TV ads. The three friends share a holiday in Corsica, which will be Michel’s last break before being drafted into the French army, most probably to fight in the war in Algeria... [More...]

Les Adieux à la reine (2012)

Benoît Jacquot

In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is starting to overtake Paris. When the royal court receives news of the taking of the Bastille, noblemen and servants take fright and the château soon begins to empty... [More...]

L’Adolescente (1979)

Jeanne Moreau

In the summer of 1939, on the eve of World War II, 13 year old Marie and her parents leave Paris to spend a holiday with her grandmother in a small provincial town. Overhearing frank discussion of sexual matters between the locals, Marie begins to discover her own womanhood and starts to develop a crush on the local doctor, who is nearly 20 years her senior... [More...]

L’Adversaire (2002)

Nicole Garcia

For the past fifteen years, Jean-Marc Faure has kept up the deception that he is a brilliant physician with a senior position in the World Health Organisation. No one – not his closest friends, his wife, even his parents – knows the truth, that he didn’t even graduate from medical school... [More...]

L’Affaire des poisons (1955)

Henri Decoin

The Marquise de Montespan is a scheming adventuress who hopes to become the favoured mistress to King Louis XIV of France to advance her social status. However, she is thwarted by the young Angélique de Fontanges, who is the King’s current favourite. Out of desperation, the Marquise de Montespan engages the services of a professional poisoner, the venomous La Voisin, to render her rival ugly... [More...]

L’Affaire Dominici (1973)

Claude Bernard-Aubert

In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death... [More...]

L’Affaire Farewell (2009)

Christian Carion

Moscow in the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system. He makes contact with Pierre Froment, a young French engineer stationed in Moscow. The highly sensitive information that Grigoriev begins feeding Froment soon attracts the interest of Western intelligence services..... [More...]

L’Affaire Maurizius (1954)

Julien Duvivier

Etzel, the son of prosecutor Wolf Andergast, discovers that eight years ago his father condemned Léonard Maurizius to a life sentence in prison for the murder of his wife Elisabeth. The case made Andergast famous but Etzel knows that Maurizius’s conviction depended on the dubious testimony of a witness named Grégoire Waremme... [More...]

Agent trouble (1987)

Jean-Pierre Mocky

One sunny winter’s morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed. But this is not a straightforward road accident; it is an execution authorised by someone high up in the interest of national security. The only witness to the mass killing is Victorien, who saw that the passengers were gassed before they drowned... [More...]

L’Agression (1975)

Gérard Pirès

Paul Varlin is driving to his holiday destination with his wife Hélène and their young daughter Patty. On the way, Varlin gets into a fierce argument with a group of motorcyclists. The latter take their revenge by violently attacking Varlin’s car. When he regains consciousness, Varlin discovers that both his wife and his daughter have been raped and murdered... [More...]

L’Aigle à deux têtes (1948)

Jean Cocteau

Natasha, the queen of an unhappy kingdom, lives in seclusion in her castle, still mourning the death of her husband, the king, who died ten years ago. One evening, a young man breaks into her quarters and falls at her feet. Struck by his resemblance to her husband, Natasha conceals him from the police who are searching for him... [More...]

Les Aiguilles rouges (2006)

Jean-François Davy

In 1960, a party of boy scouts, led by Patrick, arrives in the Chamonix valley. Known as the Eagles, the party consists of boys aged between 12 and 16, many of whom are poorly disciplined. Their assignment is to climb the Brévent, one of the highest mountains in the Mont Blanc range... ... [More...]

Aime ton père (2002)

Jacob Berger

Distinguished writer Léo Shepherd is to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Currently, Shepherd works on a farm in a mountain retreat with his partner and daughter. Hearing the good news, he sets off for Stockholm on his motorbike. Having failed to contact Shepherd by phone to congratulate him, his estranged son, Paul, manages to meet up with him at a petrol station... [More...]

L’Aîné des Ferchaux (1963)

Jean-Pierre Melville

After a series of match defeats, a young boxer named Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager and is forced to look for alternative employment to make ends meet. He is engaged as a secretary to a wealthy banker, Dieudonné Ferchaux, not realising that the latter has become implicated in a high-profile fraud and must flee the country to escape prosecution... [More...]

Ainsi soit-il (2000)

Gérard Blain

When a respectable businessman dies in mysterious circumstances, his family is thrown into a state of shock and turmoil. Can it be a coincidence that he was replaced by his boss’s son? Did he know about things which he should not have known? His son’s mission is two-fold – to avenge his death by exposing those who killed him and to restore harmony to his devastated family..... [More...]

L’Air de Paris (1954)

Marcel Carné

Once a professional boxer, Victor now has only one ambition: to coach a young amateur boxer to become a true champion. He immediately sees potential in a young railway worker, André, and, noting his enthusiasm for the sport, offers to train him. André accepts willingly, although he soon realises that Victor’s wife Blanche is not happy with the arrangement... [More...]

Alex (2005)

José Alcala

Alex is a thirty-something woman who has single-handedly restored a ruined building on the outskirts of a small village in the south of France. She earns as much as she needs by selling fruit and vegetables at market and by working on building sites, where she meets Karim. Her ambition is to regain custody of her 14-year-old son, who presently lives with his father..... [More...]

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