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French cinema: All genres
Deux amis (1946)
Dimitri Kirsanoff
1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. Paris is under siege and food is so scarce that its inhabitants are forced to eat their household pets and any rats they can catch...
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Dimitri Kirsanoff
Les Deux amis (2015)
Louis Garrel
Clément is a film extra who is obsessively in love with Mona, a young woman who works in a sandwich bar at the Gare du Nord station in Paris...
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Louis Garrel
Les Deux Anglaises et le continent (1971)
François Truffaut
Paris, 1899. It is whilst pursuing her studies in sculpture that Anne Brown, a dark-haired English woman who is not yet 20, falls under the spell of Claude Roc, a bourgeois French student of her own age...
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François Truffaut
Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
Jean-Pierre Melville
When Fèvre-Berthier, an important French diplomat, goes missing in New York, a French journalist, Moreau, is sent to investigate what became of him...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Les Deux orphelines (1933)
Maurice Tourneur
On the eve of the French Revolution, two orphan girls, Henriette and Louise, make their way to Paris. Henriette is kidnapped by a libertine marquis to participate in a debauched party, leaving her blind sister at the mercy of an unscrupulous hag, La Frochard...
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Maurice Tourneur
Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
Paris is a city that is in a state of constant evolution, and so are the people who live there. It has many visages, many guilty secrets, many illusions - and so have the people who live there... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Paris is a city that is in a state of constant evolution, and so are the people who live there. It has many visages, many guilty secrets, many illusions - and so have the people who live there... [More...]
Le Deuxième souffle (1966)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]
Dheepan (2015)
Jacques Audiard
In a refugee camp in the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger acquires not only a passport that gives him a new identity, Dheepan, but also a makeshift family, in the form of a young woman Yalini and a small girl Illayaal... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
In a refugee camp in the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger acquires not only a passport that gives him a new identity, Dheepan, but also a makeshift family, in the form of a young woman Yalini and a small girl Illayaal... [More...]
Le Diable au coeur (1927)
Marcel L'Herbier
The Bucailles are a poor, slovenly family who live in a small town on the coast of Normandy. Lacking parental discipline, the mischievous daughter Ludivine and her two younger brothers misbehave constantly, with the result that their household is in a constant state of mess and pandemonium... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
The Bucailles are a poor, slovenly family who live in a small town on the coast of Normandy. Lacking parental discipline, the mischievous daughter Ludivine and her two younger brothers misbehave constantly, with the result that their household is in a constant state of mess and pandemonium... [More...]
Le Diable au corps (1947)
Claude Autant-Lara
Marthe Grangier, a nurse in a military hospital during the First World War, is pressurised into getting married by her parents... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Marthe Grangier, a nurse in a military hospital during the First World War, is pressurised into getting married by her parents... [More...]
Le Diable boiteux (1948)
Sacha Guitry
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born in Paris on 2nd February 1754. Afflicted with a game leg (which earned him the nickname Le Diable boiteux or Lame Devil), he was unable to follow his father in pursuit of military honours and instead opted for an ecclesiastical career... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born in Paris on 2nd February 1754. Afflicted with a game leg (which earned him the nickname Le Diable boiteux or Lame Devil), he was unable to follow his father in pursuit of military honours and instead opted for an ecclesiastical career... [More...]
Le Diable probablement (1977)
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Les Diables (2002)
Christophe Ruggia
Since they were found abandoned in the street as small children, Joseph and Chloé have spent most of their lives in care homes or with foster parents... [More...]
Christophe Ruggia
Since they were found abandoned in the street as small children, Joseph and Chloé have spent most of their lives in care homes or with foster parents... [More...]
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher... [More...]
Diabolo menthe (1977)
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
La Diagonale du fou (1984)
Richard Dembo
In the early 1980s, the Russian grandmaster Akiva Liebskird is set to defend his title as world chess champion at a highly publicised tournament in Geneva... [More...]
Richard Dembo
In the early 1980s, the Russian grandmaster Akiva Liebskird is set to defend his title as world chess champion at a highly publicised tournament in Geneva... [More...]
Dialogue avec mon jardinier (2007)
Jean Becker
After the break-up of his marriage, a fifty-something painter decides to swap his hectic life in Paris for the peace and quiet of the countryside... [More...]
Jean Becker
After the break-up of his marriage, a fifty-something painter decides to swap his hectic life in Paris for the peace and quiet of the countryside... [More...]
Le Dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
Philippe Agostini
May, 1789. In Compiègne, a town in northern France, two young women enter a Carmelite convent, each determined to devote their lives to the service of Christ... [More...]
Philippe Agostini
May, 1789. In Compiègne, a town in northern France, two young women enter a Carmelite convent, each determined to devote their lives to the service of Christ... [More...]
Le Diamant noir (1913)
Alfred Machin
Luc Ogier is dismissed by his employers when a valuable black diamond mysteriously goes astray. Dishonoured and rejected by his fiancée, he accompanies the explorer Santher on an expedition to the Congo... [More...]
Alfred Machin
Luc Ogier is dismissed by his employers when a valuable black diamond mysteriously goes astray. Dishonoured and rejected by his fiancée, he accompanies the explorer Santher on an expedition to the Congo... [More...]
Dieu seul me voit (1998)
Bruno Podalydès
Albert, a shy absent-minded sound engineer, is coming to a mid-life crisis. Despite his best attempts, he still has not found the woman of his dreams - but that looks set to change... [More...]
Bruno Podalydès
Albert, a shy absent-minded sound engineer, is coming to a mid-life crisis. Despite his best attempts, he still has not found the woman of his dreams - but that looks set to change... [More...]
La Dilettante (1999)
Pascal Thomas
On the spur of the moment, Pierette Dumortier abandons her husband and her comfortable middle-class life in Switzerland and takes the train to Paris... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
On the spur of the moment, Pierette Dumortier abandons her husband and her comfortable middle-class life in Switzerland and takes the train to Paris... [More...]
Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962)
Serge Bourguignon
A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught... [More...]
Serge Bourguignon
A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught... [More...]
Le Dindon (1951)
Claude Barma
Paris, in the 1890s. Monsieur Pontagnac, an inveterate womaniser, is making overtures to Lucienne when her husband Vatelin appears unexpectedly... [More...]
Claude Barma
Paris, in the 1890s. Monsieur Pontagnac, an inveterate womaniser, is making overtures to Lucienne when her husband Vatelin appears unexpectedly... [More...]
Le Dîner de cons (1998)
Francis Veber
Every week, a group of successful Parisian businessmen attend a dinner party to which they each invite someone who appears to be an idiot... [More...]
Francis Veber
Every week, a group of successful Parisian businessmen attend a dinner party to which they each invite someone who appears to be an idiot... [More...]
Diplomatie (2014)
Volker Schlöndorff
It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital... [More...]
Volker Schlöndorff
It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital... [More...]
La Discrète (1990)
Christian Vincent
Antoine, an unsuccessful writer, is taken aback when his girlfriend, Solange, leaves him for another man. Usually, it is he who ends a relationship, not his partner... [More...]
Christian Vincent
Antoine, an unsuccessful writer, is taken aback when his girlfriend, Solange, leaves him for another man. Usually, it is he who ends a relationship, not his partner... [More...]
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1938)
Christian-Jaque
In the college of St-Agil, three boys, Baume, Sorgue and Macroy, form a secret society "Les Chiche-capons". Each night, they sneak away from their dormitory and meet up in the science room to have an illicit smoke and plan a clandestine voyage to America, under the watchful gaze of their mascot, Martin the Skeleton... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
In the college of St-Agil, three boys, Baume, Sorgue and Macroy, form a secret society "Les Chiche-capons". Each night, they sneak away from their dormitory and meet up in the science room to have an illicit smoke and plan a clandestine voyage to America, under the watchful gaze of their mascot, Martin the Skeleton... [More...]
Le Distrait (1970)
Pierre Richard
Pierre Malaquet is a likeable young man but he is hopelessly absent-minded and cannot sustain a train of thought for more than a few seconds... [More...]
Pierre Richard
Pierre Malaquet is a likeable young man but he is hopelessly absent-minded and cannot sustain a train of thought for more than a few seconds... [More...]
Diva (1981)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jules, a young Parisian postman, illegally records a concert performance given by the world famous opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jules, a young Parisian postman, illegally records a concert performance given by the world famous opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises... [More...]
La Divine croisière (1929)
Julien Duvivier
In a village on the rugged coast of Brittany the wealthy ship owner Claude Ferjac has a reputation as a mean-spirited tyrant... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a village on the rugged coast of Brittany the wealthy ship owner Claude Ferjac has a reputation as a mean-spirited tyrant... [More...]