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French cinema: Romance (Page 9 of 34)

Choses secrètes (2002)

Jean-Claude Brisseau

When two young women lose their jobs in an erotic night club, they decide to get even with the male sex. By flaunting their obvious assets, they manage to get office jobs in a prestigious company, where they set about their cruel vendetta without a moment’s hesitation. As the more experienced of the two girls, Nathalie, is away digging for incriminating information on the personnel database, the other, Sandrine, begins by seducing her fifty-year old boss... [More...]

Christian (2007)

Elisabeth Löchen

Lauranne has had little success with men. Patrick, her latest partner, exploits and abuses her, whilst pursuing an affair with her niece. When she discovers Patrick’s infidelity, Lauranne finally makes the decision to leave him. Christian, a young man who works with Patrick, reveals to Lauranne that he is in love with her... [More...]

Christine (1958)

Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Vienna, 1906. For some time, Franz Lobheiner, a lieutenant in the Austrian army, has been having a secret love affair with Lena, the wife of Baron Eggersdorf. Having grown tired of this affair, Frantz decides to end it and transfers his affections to Christine, an aspiring young opera singer who has an idealistic view of love... [More...]

Clair de femme (1979)

Costa-Gavras

With his wife dying a slow and undignified natural death, Michel prepares to leave France and catch a plane to Caracas. At the airport, he has second thoughts. Whilst walking the streets of Paris, he runs into Lydia, a middle-aged woman whose husband is brain damaged after a car accident in which her daughter died... [More...]

Clara et moi (2004)

Arnaud Viard

Antoine is 33, a struggling actor living in Paris. Outwardly, he appears happy and satisfied with his life; inwardly, he is tortured by solitude. One day, he gets up and decides to find a woman with whom he will start a family. The challenge proves to be a lot easier than he imagined. In the metro, he makes eye contact with an attractive young woman, Clara, who gives him her phone number... [More...]

Cliente (2008)

Josiane Balasko

50-something Judith is the host of a popular television shopping programme. After her divorce, she lives with her sister and closest confidante, Irène. Outwardly, Judith is self-assured, happy and well-adjusted, but she has a dark secret. She frequently makes use of male prostitutes, whom she picks out on the internet... [More...]

Coco avant Chanel (2009)

Anne Fontaine

In the 1890s, Gabrielle and her sister, two little orphan girls, find themselves in an austere convent school where they wait in vain for their father to collect them. The years pass and, now lively adolescents, they attempt to find work as singers in order to escape a life of drudgery as seamstresses... [More...]

Coco Chanel et Igor Stravinsky (2009)

Jan Kounen

In Paris, 1913, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is beginning to make a name for herself as a couturiere. Meanwhile, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky is staging his avant-garde ballet The Rite of Spring. Coco is greatly impressed by this production but the reaction of the other spectators is far from positive and the show ends in a noisy riot... [More...]

Le Coeur des hommes (2003)

Marc Esposito

Antoine, Jeff, Manu and Alex have been friends since they played in the same football team twenty years ago. Aged about 50, each is beset by some deep emotional crisis, around which the others attempt to rally with whatever support they can muster. Antoine has just walked out on his family when his wife admitted to being unfaithful to him... [More...]

Coeur fidèle (1923)

Jean Epstein

In the port of Marseille, Marie works as a serving girl in a shabby bar owned by her cruel adopted parents, Monsieur and Madame Honchon. She is in love with Jean, a sympathetic dockworker, but the Honchons intend that she should marry Petit Paul, a good-for-nothing thug with a violent nature. Submissively, Marie allows Petit Paul to drag her off to a fair where he claims her as his bride... [More...]

Coeurs (2006)

Alain Resnais

Estate agent Thierry is having a hard time trying to find an apartment for a problem couple, Dan and Nicole. Each evening, Dan, an unemployed ex-army man, spills his bucket load of sorrows into the ears of friendly barman Lionel, whose sole domestic preoccupation is looking after his cantankerous old father... [More...]

La Collectionneuse (1967)

Eric Rohmer

A young art dealer, Adrien, decides to take a holiday in the south of France. He shares a villa with an artist, Daniel, and a promiscuous younger woman, Haydée. When he realises that Haydée collects men like art enthusiasts collect works of art, Adrien becomes convinced that Haydée intends to seduce him... [More...]

Le Colonel Chabert (1994)

Yves Angelo

Colonel Chabert is mistaken for dead during the Napoleonic war with Russia. When he returns to Paris some years later, he finds that his wife, Anne, has married the Count Ferraud, and is using Chabert’s wealth to finance Ferraud’s social advancement. When his wife refuses to recognise him, Chabert approaches a lawyer, Derville, to reinstate his honour and his wealth... [More...]

Le Combat dans l’île (1962)

Alain Cavalier

Clément belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell. In a failed assassination attempt, Clément is betrayed by one of his comrades and he goes into hiding with his wife. They stay with a friend, Paul, who lives in the country. When he discovers which member of his gang betrayed him, Clément sets out to take his revenge... [More...]

Combien tu m’aimes? (2005)

Bertrand Blier

Late one evening, a man and a woman meet for the first time at a Pigalle nightclub. He is a shy, ordinary looking man who looks as if he can barely afford the price of a drink. She is a stunningly beautiful Italian prostitute, a true object of desire. The man, François, makes the woman, Daniela, an unexpected proposal... [More...]

Comme t’y es belle! (2006)

Lisa Azuelos

Isa, Alice, Léa and Nina are four Jewish friends who each has a complicated love life. 40-something Isa runs a beauty salon and has difficulty juggling her work with her children, ex-husband, babysitter and new boyfriend. Alice appears to be the model housewife who appears willing to put up with all of her husband’s caprices... [More...]

Comme tout le monde (2006)

Pierre-Paul Renders

After his triumph in a TV game show, Jalil unwittingly becomes the focus of attention for an important opinion poll organisation. Didier and Françoise, who run this company, have no scruples over equipping Jalil’s apartment with numerous hidden cameras and fixing him up with a bogus girlfriend... [More...]

Comme une étoile dans la nuit (2008)

René Féret

Marc and Anne are a young couple for whom life could not be more perfect. But when they decide to have a child, Marc is diagnosed with cancer. The family doctor, Camille Bamberger, is confident that Marc’s chance of survival is high, but he will have to undergo an extensive and painful treatment... [More...]

Comme une image (2004)

Agnès Jaoui

20-something Lolita Cassard has great ambitions as a concert singer and actress, but she is overly conscious of her dowdy appearance. To her surprise, her music teacher Sylvia Millet takes a close interest in her, not knowing that Sylvia has an ulterior motive. Lolita’s father, Étienne, is the head of a publishing house, whilst Sylvia’s husband is a struggling writer... [More...]

Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)

Arnaud Desplechin

Paul Dedalus realises that his life is a mess. He is approaching 30 and he is stuck in a part-time university teaching job that he hates whilst writing a PhD thesis he cannot finish. He is in a long-standing relationship with a woman he does not like. Then he falls in love with the girlfriend of his best friend... [More...]

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