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French cinema: All genres
La Chambre verte (1978)
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage...
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François Truffaut
Changement d'adresse (2006)
Emmanuel Mouret
David, a young musician, arrives in Paris hoping to start a new and exciting chapter in his life. First he needs somewhere to stay and it is indeed providential that he should happen to run into someone who not only has a flat to share but also is a music lover...
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Emmanuel Mouret
Chanson d'Armor (1934)
Jean Epstein
A hopeless scholar, Jean-Marie is sent away from his Catholic boarding school and must return to the farm in the country run by his parents...
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Jean Epstein
Les Chansons d'amour (2007)
Christophe Honoré
Ismaël and Julie are a young couple living in Paris. To spice up their ailing love life, they invite another young woman, Alice, to share their bed...
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Christophe Honoré
Charly (2007)
Isild Le Besco
Nicolas, a 14-year-old boy living with foster parents, is inexplicably disturbed when he sees a postcard of Belle-Île-en-Mer...
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Isild Le Besco
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
La Charrette fantôme (1939)
Julien Duvivier
He who hears the wheels of the Ghost Wagon knows he is soon going to die. Every year on New Year's Eve, the Wagon, driven by Death himself, comes to claim someone at midnight..... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
He who hears the wheels of the Ghost Wagon knows he is soon going to die. Every year on New Year's Eve, the Wagon, driven by Death himself, comes to claim someone at midnight..... [More...]
La Chartreuse de Parme (1948)
Christian-Jaque
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo returns to Parma, his home town, after having completed his studies in Naples... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo returns to Parma, his home town, after having completed his studies in Naples... [More...]
Le Chat et la souris (1975)
Claude Lelouch
Madame Richard entertains the prospect of murdering her husband when he, a successful architect, begins an extra-marital affair with an actress of erotic movies... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Madame Richard entertains the prospect of murdering her husband when he, a successful architect, begins an extra-marital affair with an actress of erotic movies... [More...]
Le Chat (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Julien and Clémence Bouin have been living together as man and wife for over twenty-five years. He is a retired typographer, she is a former trapeze artist who is now partly crippled after an accident... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Julien and Clémence Bouin have been living together as man and wife for over twenty-five years. He is a retired typographer, she is a former trapeze artist who is now partly crippled after an accident... [More...]
Le Château de ma mère (1990)
Yves Robert
After his previous summer, 11-year-old Marcel is so in love with the countryside of Provence that he can scarcely bear to be separated from it... [More...]
Yves Robert
After his previous summer, 11-year-old Marcel is so in love with the countryside of Provence that he can scarcely bear to be separated from it... [More...]
Le Château de verre (1950)
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
Les Chatouilles (2018)
Andréa Bescond
Odette is a happy eight-year-old girl whose one dream is to become a successful dancer. One day, a friend of her parents, Gilbert, a 40-something father of two, persuades her to take part in a seemingly harmless little game in which he begins by tickling her... [More...]
Andréa Bescond
Odette is a happy eight-year-old girl whose one dream is to become a successful dancer. One day, a friend of her parents, Gilbert, a 40-something father of two, persuades her to take part in a seemingly harmless little game in which he begins by tickling her... [More...]
La Chatte (1958)
Henri Decoin
Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A patrol of German soldiers raid a house from which illicit radio transmissions are being sent... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A patrol of German soldiers raid a house from which illicit radio transmissions are being sent... [More...]
Le Chaudron infernal (1903)
Georges Méliès
In a creepy Gothic castle, a visibly terrified young woman is brought before a fierce-looking green-skinned demon. Ignoring the woman's frantic protestations, the malevolent demon hastily wraps her in a white sheet and bundles her into a burning cauldron... [More...]
Georges Méliès
In a creepy Gothic castle, a visibly terrified young woman is brought before a fierce-looking green-skinned demon. Ignoring the woman's frantic protestations, the malevolent demon hastily wraps her in a white sheet and bundles her into a burning cauldron... [More...]
Chéri (1950)
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1914)
Albert Capellani
Paris, 1793. After four years of turmoil, the French Revolution has reached its bloodiest phase with the execution of King Louis XVI, the old monarchy replaced by a reign of terror... [More...]
Albert Capellani
Paris, 1793. After four years of turmoil, the French Revolution has reached its bloodiest phase with the execution of King Louis XVI, the old monarchy replaced by a reign of terror... [More...]
La Chèvre (1981)
Francis Veber
When his daughter Maria goes missing shortly after her arrival in Acapulco, wealthy businessman Alexandre Bens engages private detective Campana to find her... [More...]
Francis Veber
When his daughter Maria goes missing shortly after her arrival in Acapulco, wealthy businessman Alexandre Bens engages private detective Campana to find her... [More...]
La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Les Chiens (1979)
Alain Jessua
Not long after arriving in a small provincial town, a young doctor, Henri Ferret, is struck by the mood of fear that pervades the region... [More...]
Alain Jessua
Not long after arriving in a small provincial town, a young doctor, Henri Ferret, is struck by the mood of fear that pervades the region... [More...]
Le Chignon d'Olga (2002)
Jérôme Bonnell
Julien and Emma are a teenage brother and sister who live in Beauce, a picturesque semi-rural region of Northern France. They are still living in the house in which they were born, along with their father Gilles, who gets by as a writer... [More...]
Jérôme Bonnell
Julien and Emma are a teenage brother and sister who live in Beauce, a picturesque semi-rural region of Northern France. They are still living in the house in which they were born, along with their father Gilles, who gets by as a writer... [More...]
La Chinoise (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
One summer, whilst living together in an apartment lent to them by a wealthy friend, five students discuss how they can apply the teachings of Mao Tse-tung to their own lives... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
One summer, whilst living together in an apartment lent to them by a wealthy friend, five students discuss how they can apply the teachings of Mao Tse-tung to their own lives... [More...]
Le Choix des armes (1981)
Alain Corneau
Three criminals break out of prison and go on the run. In a bloody shootout, one of them is wounded. His punk accomplice, Mickey, takes him to a remote country house belonging to a former gangland boss, Noël Durieux... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Three criminals break out of prison and go on the run. In a bloody shootout, one of them is wounded. His punk accomplice, Mickey, takes him to a remote country house belonging to a former gangland boss, Noël Durieux... [More...]
Les Choses de la vie (1970)
Claude Sautet
Pierre Bérard, a 40-year-old architect, is on his way to a business appointment when his car collides with a lorry on a quiet country road... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Pierre Bérard, a 40-year-old architect, is on his way to a business appointment when his car collides with a lorry on a quiet country road... [More...]
Chronique d'un été (1961)
Edgar Morin
Paris, 1960. The sociologist Edgar Morin and ethnologist filmmaker Jean Rouch embark on a study to probe the psyche of ordinary Parisians... [More...]
Edgar Morin
Paris, 1960. The sociologist Edgar Morin and ethnologist filmmaker Jean Rouch embark on a study to probe the psyche of ordinary Parisians... [More...]
Le Chrysanthème rouge (1912)
Léonce Perret
A young woman is courted by two men who are prepared to do anything to win her hand in marriage. Unable to decide between the two men, the woman sets them a challenge: she will surrender her heart to the man who gives to her the flower that she treasures the most... [More...]
Léonce Perret
A young woman is courted by two men who are prepared to do anything to win her hand in marriage. Unable to decide between the two men, the woman sets them a challenge: she will surrender her heart to the man who gives to her the flower that she treasures the most... [More...]
La Chute de la maison Usher (1928)
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Le Ciel est à vous (1944)
Jean Grémillon
Pierre Gauthier is proud of the fact that, during WWI, he was employed as a mechanic to the celebrated aviator Georges Guynemer... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Pierre Gauthier is proud of the fact that, during WWI, he was employed as a mechanic to the celebrated aviator Georges Guynemer... [More...]
Cigalon (1935)
Marcel Pagnol
Cigalon is the proud owner of a restaurant in a small town in Haute-Provence that is reputed to be one of the best in the region... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Cigalon is the proud owner of a restaurant in a small town in Haute-Provence that is reputed to be one of the best in the region... [More...]
La Cigarette (1919)
Germaine Dulac
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is the latest addition to a museum of oriental art curated by the esteemed academic Pierre Guérande... [More...]
Germaine Dulac
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is the latest addition to a museum of oriental art curated by the esteemed academic Pierre Guérande... [More...]