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La Haine (1995)

Mathieu Kassovitz

This film follows one day in the lives of three unemployed young men who live on a housing estate in a deprived suburb of Paris. They are Vinz, a Jew busting with pent-up anger, Saïd a talkative Arab obsessed with "getting laid" and Hubert, a well-built black man who dreams of being a professional boxer... [More...]

Hans le marin (1949)

François Villiers

The boat Alabama having arrived at the port of Marseilles, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar. Here, Eric falls under the spell of the prostitute Dolorès and spends the night with her. When he leaves the next morning, Eric is attacked with a knife by two thugs, Victor and Aimé, who make off with his money and identity papers... [More...]

Le Hasard et la violence (1974)

Philippe Labro

A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself... ... [More...]

Haut les coeurs (1999)

Sólveig Anspach

A young woman, Emma, decides to get pregnant without her boyfriend’s consent. This puts a strain on their relationship, but this is nothing to what they experience when Emma discovers that she has breast cancer. Her doctor tells her that she can be cured if she starts an immediate course of cancer treatment... [More...]

Les Hauts murs (2008)

Christian Faure

France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child. Aged 14, tired of being humiliated and locked up, Yves breaks out of his orphanage and goes on the run... [More...]

Hélas pour moi (1993)

Jean-Luc Godard

At a Swiss lakeside resort, a book publisher investigates a mysterious tale. The story goes that a god-like being entered the body of a man, Simon, to experience physical love with his wife, Rachel. Did this actually happen or is Rachel just covering up her infidelity to Simon? [More...]

Hell (2006)

Bruno Chiche

Ella, known as Hell to her friends, is an 18-year-old rich kid who abandons her studies to pursue a hedonistic lifestyle which consists of shopping in designer stores and get stoned in hot Parisian nightclubs. When she learns that she is pregnant – the result of an endless series of one-night stands – she buys herself an abortion... [More...]

L’Héritage (2006)

Géla Babluani

Jean, Céline and Pat arrive in the Georgian capital Tbilissi to take possession of their inheritance. On a bus which is taking them and their translator to their destination, they encounter an old man and his grandson, who are carrying an empty coffin. The latter are on their way to a rival clan which intends to sacrifice the old man to settle an old vendetta between the two families..... [More...]

Le Héros de la famille (2006)

Thierry Klifa

For many years, Gabriel Stern has managed the popular nightclub Le Perroquet Bleu in Nice. Although close to those who work for him, he remains a mysterious and unpredictable employer. His closest friend and collaborator is Nicky, a magician who once had a brilliant television career but who now performs in front of a dwindling audience at Gabriel’s nightclub... [More...]

Les Héros sont fatigués (1955)

Yves Ciampi

A former war-time pilot Michel Rivière arrives in the African town of Free City, hoping to find a buyer for some diamonds he found hidden in his aircraft after it crash-landed. He stays at the town’s only hotel, which is run by an alcoholic Frenchman named Séverin, a one-time Nazi collaborator... [More...]

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

Alain Resnais

A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second World War. Here, she has an affair with a Japanese architect, even though both of them are happily married. The actress admits that she will soon have to fly back home to Paris, but she spends one last night with her lover... [More...]

L’Histoire d’Adèle H. (1975)

François Truffaut

Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the celebrated French writer Victor Hugo, arrives in Nova Scotia in 1863. Living under an assumed name, she tracks down her former lover, an attractive young army officer, Lieutenant Pinson. Although Pinson insists that their affair is over and spurns her advances, Adèle clings to her love... [More...]

Histoire d’O (1975)

Just Jaeckin

To show her devotion to her boyfriend, René, a young woman named O allows him to take her to a country house where she is subjected to violent bondage and sado-masochistic sex with other men. As one further test of her fidelity, René asks O to yield herself to the every desire of a close friend of his, the mysterious Sir Stephen..... [More...]

Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003)

Jacques Rivette

Julien is a middle-aged clock repairman who lives alone in a big house with only his cat for company. He has acquired some items which threaten a businesswoman, Madame X, who trades in fake fabrics, and begins to blackmail her. Coincidentally, it is at this time that he renews an acquaintance with a young woman, Marie, with whom he had a brief affair a year ago... [More...]

L’Histoire de Richard O. (2007)

Damien Odoul

The cosy, reassuringly predictable life of a couple is not for Richard O. He wants to pursue his sensual yearnings to the very limits of what is possible. So, one summer, he abandons his partner and throws himself into an adventure of sexual excess. In one month, he will meet and bed thirteen women. But what will this experience teach him... [More...]

Histoires extraordinaires (1968)

Federico Fellini

Segment William Wilson (by Louis Malle):
In Italy in the 19th century, a young officer named William Wilson is driven to confess to a priest that he has had evil feelings since before he can remember. When he was a child, he tortured his classmates, and now the same vicious feelings take hold of him whenever he is playing cards... [More...]

L’Hiver dernier (2012)

John Shank

On a remote plateau, Johann struggles to keep going the farm that he has inherited from his father. As winter beckons, his business looks increasingly threatened. The young farmer begins to feel trapped by his inheritance but he tries his best to love the hard, solitary world that he now inhabits. Alas, the world is changing and Johann’s way of life is soon to become a thing of the past..... [More...]

Ho! (1968)

Robert Enrico

François Holin, known to his friend as Ho, loses his licence as a racing driver after an accident which resulted in the death of his partner. Unemployed, he finds works as a chauffeur for a band of gangsters, hoping that he can keep this from his girlfriend Benedite, a cover girl. In the course of a car robbery which goes horribly wrong, Ho is arrested, but manages to escape... [More...]

Homme au bain (2010)

Christophe Honoré

Between Gennevilliers and New York, gay lovers Omar and Emmanuel are prepared to go to any length to prove that they no longer love one another. [More...]

L’Homme blessé (1983)

Patrice Chéreau

Whilst waiting to see his sister off at a Paris railway station, Henri, a withdrawn adolescent, realises he is being watched by another man. He follows the stranger to the men’s toilets where he finds him being assaulted by another man, who spontaneously kisses Henri. The following evenings, Henri returns to the station to try to find the man who kissed him and eventually meets up with him... [More...]

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