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French cinema: All genres
Le Cinéma de papa (1970)
Claude Berri
In 1946, 12-year-old Claude Langmann lives with his parents, Jewish immigrants, and newborn sister Arlette in a busy district of Paris...
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Claude Berri
Circonstances atténuantes (1939)
Jean Boyer
Two months into his retirement Gaëtan Le Sentencier, once a busy and highly respected judge, finds himself at a loose end...
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Jean Boyer
Le Clair de terre (1970)
Guy Gilles
Pierre Brumeu, 21, lives in Paris and has a strained relationship with his father, a widower who is still mourning the loss of his wife many years ago...
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Guy Gilles
Le Clan des Siciliens (1969)
Henri Verneuil
The Malanese family are one of Italy's most notorious criminal gangs, better know as the Sicilian Clan. Their latest criminal exploit will be the theft of a valuable collection of jewels as it is being shipped by air from Paris to New York...
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Henri Verneuil
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...
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Arnaud Viard
La Classe de neige (1998)
Claude Miller
Nicolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself... [More...]
Claude Miller
Nicolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself... [More...]
Classe tous risques (1960)
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
La Clé sur la porte (1978)
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Clean (2004)
Olivier Assayas
Emily Wang and Lee Hauser have been in a relationship for many years. He is a 40-something rock singer who is past his prime; she is his promoter, and is finding it increasingly difficult to find him work... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
Emily Wang and Lee Hauser have been in a relationship for many years. He is a 40-something rock singer who is past his prime; she is his promoter, and is finding it increasingly difficult to find him work... [More...]
Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961)
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1960. Cléo is an attractive younger singer who is anxiously awaiting the results of a medical examination. She has already convinced herself that she has cancer and will soon die from the disease, so she thinks morbid thoughts over the next two hours as she drifts without purpose around the capital... [More...]
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1960. Cléo is an attractive younger singer who is anxiously awaiting the results of a medical examination. She has already convinced herself that she has cancer and will soon die from the disease, so she thinks morbid thoughts over the next two hours as she drifts without purpose around the capital... [More...]
Club de femmes (1936)
Jacques Deval
A women-only boarding house in Paris provides an affordable sanctuary for impressionable young woman who wish to be protected from the corrupting influence of the male sex... [More...]
Jacques Deval
A women-only boarding house in Paris provides an affordable sanctuary for impressionable young woman who wish to be protected from the corrupting influence of the male sex... [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... [More...]
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... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Coeur animal (2009)
Séverine Cornamusaz
In a remote region of rural Switzerland, a farmer and his wife eke out a harsh existence, appearing to live in a century far removed from our own... [More...]
Séverine Cornamusaz
In a remote region of rural Switzerland, a farmer and his wife eke out a harsh existence, appearing to live in a century far removed from our own... [More...]
Le Coeur et l'argent (1912)
Louis Feuillade
Suzanne Mauguiot has fallen in love with a penniless ferryman named Raymond, but her father, a prosperous innkeeper, has decided she must marry the wealthy Monsieur Vernier... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Suzanne Mauguiot has fallen in love with a penniless ferryman named Raymond, but her father, a prosperous innkeeper, has decided she must marry the wealthy Monsieur Vernier... [More...]
Le Coeur fantôme (1996)
Philippe Garrel
Philippe, a middle-aged artist, leaves his wife and children when he learns that his wife has a lover. He consoles himself with the company of prostitutes until he meets Justine, a young woman who instantly falls in love with him... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
Philippe, a middle-aged artist, leaves his wife and children when he learns that his wife has a lover. He consoles himself with the company of prostitutes until he meets Justine, a young woman who instantly falls in love with 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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
Le Colonel Chabert (1943)
René Le Hénaff
Paris, 1817. The wealthy Countess Ferraud is distressed when she begins to receive letters from her husband, Colonel Chabert, who was reported to have died during the Napoleonic wars ten years before... [More...]
René Le Hénaff
Paris, 1817. The wealthy Countess Ferraud is distressed when she begins to receive letters from her husband, Colonel Chabert, who was reported to have died during the Napoleonic wars ten years before... [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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Le Comédien (1948)
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Comme un avion (2015)
Bruno Podalydès
Michel is a graphics designer in his fifties. He dreams of the French aviator Jean Mermoz when he takes to his scooter, and yet he has never piloted an aeroplane... [More...]
Bruno Podalydès
Michel is a graphics designer in his fifties. He dreams of the French aviator Jean Mermoz when he takes to his scooter, and yet he has never piloted an aeroplane... [More...]
Comme un cheveu sur la soupe (1957)
Maurice Régamey
Rejected by his beloved Wanda, depressed at his failure to find success as a songwriter, Pierre Cousin decides to commit suicide... [More...]
Maurice Régamey
Rejected by his beloved Wanda, depressed at his failure to find success as a songwriter, Pierre Cousin decides to commit suicide... [More...]
Comme un homme (2012)
Safy Nebbou
Louis, 16, is the son of the headmaster at the school which he attends and has no history of trouble. His friend Greg, by contrast, is always get himself into deep water on account of his aggressive and rebellious character... [More...]
Safy Nebbou
Louis, 16, is the son of the headmaster at the school which he attends and has no history of trouble. His friend Greg, by contrast, is always get himself into deep water on account of his aggressive and rebellious character... [More...]
Comment j'ai détesté les maths (2013)
Olivier Peyon
So you've always hated maths? You're not alone - it is a subject that has brought misery to countless schoolchildren and left irreparable scars... [More...]
Olivier Peyon
So you've always hated maths? You're not alone - it is a subject that has brought misery to countless schoolchildren and left irreparable scars... [More...]
Comment j'ai tué mon père (2001)
Anne Fontaine
Jean-Luc has made a successful career in private medicine, specialising in anti-ageing treatments. He appears to have it all: his own gerontology clinic at Versailles, which brings him wealth and esteem, and a beautiful young wife Isa... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
Jean-Luc has made a successful career in private medicine, specialising in anti-ageing treatments. He appears to have it all: his own gerontology clinic at Versailles, which brings him wealth and esteem, and a beautiful young wife Isa... [More...]
Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Les Compagnons de la marguerite (1967)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
An expert in restoring old manuscripts at the National Library, Jean-Louis Matouzec is not a happily married man, but his wife Françoise refuses to give him a divorce... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
An expert in restoring old manuscripts at the National Library, Jean-Louis Matouzec is not a happily married man, but his wife Françoise refuses to give him a divorce... [More...]
Compartiment de dames seules (1934)
Christian-Jaque
On the day of his wedding to Nicole, Robert de Merinville makes an extraordinary confession to his stepfather. Twenty years ago, whilst taking the train from Paris to Versailles, he took advantage of a young woman who was alone with him in his carriage... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
On the day of his wedding to Nicole, Robert de Merinville makes an extraordinary confession to his stepfather. Twenty years ago, whilst taking the train from Paris to Versailles, he took advantage of a young woman who was alone with him in his carriage... [More...]