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French cinema: Romance (Page 1 of 34)

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...]

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 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...]

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...]

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 cause d’elle (1993)

Jean-Loup Hubert

In 1963, Antoine is 14. He lives at Rezé, near Nantes, one of four children in a low-income family. His father, a hotel maître d’, is often away from home. Whilst revising for his exams, Antoine is distracted by his first experience of love, which begins with an innocent exchange of glances with an attractive girl of his own age... [More...]

À coeur joie (1967)

Serge Bourguignon

Cécile, a fashion model, seems to be happy with her partner, Philippe. But one July 14th evening, she meets Vincent and she falls madly in love again. By chance, Cécile and Vincent see each other again in London, a short time later, when the former is presenting a new collection. They decide to give free rein to their amorous passion during a stay in Scotland, but both of them know that there is a ticket back home and a difficult choice will soon have to be made..... [More...]

À la belle étoile (1993)

Antoine Desrosières

Now that he is 17, Thomas senses that finally his life is his own, and he sets out to prove it by falling in love. Four women will take part in his sentimental education - Marion, Rebecca, Claire and finally Hannah, an apprentice tightrope walker from Poland... [More...]

À la folie (1994)

Diane Kurys

Alice is an aspiring artist living in Paris with her boyfriend, Franck, a boxer. Her life is upturned when her sister, Elsa, unexpectedly re-enters her life after several years of separation. Much to Franck’s chagrin, the kindly Alice allows Elsa to stay with her in her attic apartment, knowing that she has no desire to return to her cheating husband, Thomas... [More...]

À la folie... pas du tout (2002)

Laetitia Colombani

The film examines, from various points of view, the love of a highly-strung young artist (Audrey Tautou, Amelie ) for an unaffectionate but otherwise ideal older man, a doctor (Samuel Le Bihan, Venus Beauté (Institut))... [More...]

À la place du coeur (1998)

Robert Guédiguian

Clim and Bébé have been close friends since childhood, growing up together on the housing estates of Marseilles. Clim is white, Bébé is black. Aged 16 and 18 respectively, they discover they are in love and find a small place to live together. Shortly after Clim discovers she is pregnant, Bébé is arrested by a racist policeman and wrongly convicted of raping a tourist... [More...]

À ma soeur! (2001)

Catherine Breillat

Whilst on holiday with her family, 15 year old Elena meets an an older Italian student, Fernando. Elena is eager to fall in love and Fernando, a smooth-talking Don Juan type, persaudes her to have sex with him. This experience upsets Elena’s younger sister, Anaïs, who is overweight and has little chance of having an amorous encounter herself... [More...]

À nous deux (1979)

Claude Lelouch

The son of a notorious gangster, Simon Lacassaigne attempts to follow in his father’s footsteps – but only ends up in prison. He manages to escape and, thanks to his uncle, Tonton Musique, he finds a safe hideout in the country. He then has to share his hiding place with Françoise, who had a nice line in blackmail and helping married women divorce their husbands before she too had to go on the run... [More...]

À nous les petites Anglaises! (1976)

Michel Lang

France, 1959. When Jean-Pierre and Alain fail their high school exams, their parents cancel their summer holiday in St. Tropez and send them off to Ramsgate in England to study English. Far from being disheartened by the prospect of having to spend weeks in a wet, foggy land, learning an impossible language, the two lads are brimming with enthusiasm... [More...]

À tout de suite (2004)

Benoît Jacquot

Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident. All that is to change when she meets and falls in love with a handsome young man of North African origin. One evening, her lover calls her and tells her he is caught up in a bank robbery... [More...]

A+ Pollux (2002)

Luc Pagès

True love, when it comes to 30-something translator Halvard Sanz, arrives suddenly and with a wild intensity. The incomparable Pollux walks into Halvard’s dreary life just as she is putting a brutal end to one amorous relationship. From that first meeting, Halvard knows that Pollux is his soul mate – but she disappears from his life just as suddenly as she entered it... [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...]

Adolphe (2002)

Benoît Jacquot

19th century France. Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her young suitor’s unwanted advances, Ellénore soon yields to his charms and the two embark on a passionate love affair... [More...]

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