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French cinema: All genres
L'Économie du couple (2016)
Joachim Lafosse
Marie and Boris have been together for fifteen years. They have two daughters and have enjoyed a loving relationship, in spite of their different social backgrounds...
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Joachim Lafosse
L'Écume des jours (2013)
Michel Gondry
Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas...
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Michel Gondry
Édouard et Caroline (1951)
Jacques Becker
Édouard and Caroline are a young couple who believe they have found lasting happiness, even though they come from very different milieus...
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Jacques Becker
L'Effet aquatique (2016)
Sólveig Anspach
Samir is a 40-something who lives in Montreuil and works as a crane operator. One day, he notices an attractive widow named Agathe in a bar and finds himself strongly drawn to her...
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Sólveig Anspach
L'Effrontée (1985)
Claude Miller
For Charlotte, a 13 year old girl living in a rural village in France, adolescence is proving to be a traumatic experience...
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Claude Miller
Les Égarés (2003)
André Téchiné
In June 1940, the German armies are poised to take France when a widowed schoolteacher, Odile, bundles her two infants, Philippe and Cathy, into her car and flees the capital... [More...]
André Téchiné
In June 1940, the German armies are poised to take France when a widowed schoolteacher, Odile, bundles her two infants, Philippe and Cathy, into her car and flees the capital... [More...]
Eldorado (2008)
Bouli Lanners
Yvan is a forty-something loner who buys and sells vintage cars. When a younger man, Elie, breaks into his house, Yvan has a good excuse to fly off the handle... [More...]
Bouli Lanners
Yvan is a forty-something loner who buys and sells vintage cars. When a younger man, Elie, breaks into his house, Yvan has a good excuse to fly off the handle... [More...]
Élève libre (2008)
Joachim Lafosse
Having failed his high school exams, 16-year-old Jonas pins his hopes on a career as a professional tennis player. Once again, his hopes are dashed but a friend of the people he is living with, 30-something Pierre, takes pity on him and offers to give him private tuition... [More...]
Joachim Lafosse
Having failed his high school exams, 16-year-old Jonas pins his hopes on a career as a professional tennis player. Once again, his hopes are dashed but a friend of the people he is living with, 30-something Pierre, takes pity on him and offers to give him private tuition... [More...]
Élise ou la vraie vie (1970)
Michel Drach
It is 1957 and France has been at war with Algeria for three years. Elise, a young woman in her early twenties, live in Bordeaux with her family in a cramped apartment... [More...]
Michel Drach
It is 1957 and France has been at war with Algeria for three years. Elise, a young woman in her early twenties, live in Bordeaux with her family in a cramped apartment... [More...]
Elle (2016)
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)
Michel Audiard
Through her work as a housecleaner, Germaine finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal... [More...]
Michel Audiard
Through her work as a housecleaner, Germaine finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal... [More...]
Elle et moi (1952)
Guy Lefranc
Jean Montaigu is a confirmed bachelor who loves the company of women but lives in mortal fear of getting snared in the matrimonial net... [More...]
Guy Lefranc
Jean Montaigu is a confirmed bachelor who loves the company of women but lives in mortal fear of getting snared in the matrimonial net... [More...]
Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Julia Jarmond is an American journalist and writer who has been living in France for the past twenty years with her husband Bertrand... [More...]
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Julia Jarmond is an American journalist and writer who has been living in France for the past twenty years with her husband Bertrand... [More...]
Éloge de l'amour (2001)
Jean-Luc Godard
A filmmaker Edgar is preparing to make a film about the four stages of love (meeting, passion, separation and reconciliation)... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
A filmmaker Edgar is preparing to make a film about the four stages of love (meeting, passion, separation and reconciliation)... [More...]
Emak-Bakia (1926)
Man Ray
A series of unidentifiable black and white images, flashing flakes, dancing pins… A neon sign broadcasts the day's news... [More...]
Man Ray
A series of unidentifiable black and white images, flashing flakes, dancing pins… A neon sign broadcasts the day's news... [More...]
Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002)
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
L'Émigrante (1940)
Léo Joannon
Christiane is the owner of a popular night club whose habitués includes Monrozat, a sad wreck of a man who is desperately looking for a woman to accompany him to South America to start a new life... [More...]
Léo Joannon
Christiane is the owner of a popular night club whose habitués includes Monrozat, a sad wreck of a man who is desperately looking for a woman to accompany him to South America to start a new life... [More...]
L'Emmerdeur (1973)
Edouard Molinaro
François Pignon is a man who has lost the will to live. After his wife Louise deserted him for her lover, this pathetic little salesman has only one thought: to hang himself... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
François Pignon is a man who has lost the will to live. After his wife Louise deserted him for her lover, this pathetic little salesman has only one thought: to hang himself... [More...]
Les Émotifs anonymes (2010)
Jean-Pierre Améris
Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Améris
Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear... [More...]
L'Emploi du temps (2001)
Laurent Cantet
When he is fired from his job as a high-powered consultant, Vincent hides the fact from his friends and family by pretending to have found a new job at the United Nations... [More...]
Laurent Cantet
When he is fired from his job as a high-powered consultant, Vincent hides the fact from his friends and family by pretending to have found a new job at the United Nations... [More...]
L'Empreinte (2008)
Safy Nebbou
After her husband left her, Elsa Valentin now leads a settled life in a pleasant suburb of Paris with her infant son, Thomas... [More...]
Safy Nebbou
After her husband left her, Elsa Valentin now leads a settled life in a pleasant suburb of Paris with her infant son, Thomas... [More...]
En avoir (ou pas) (1995)
Laetitia Masson
When she loses her job at a fish canning factory, Alice, a young woman from a socially deprived background, decides to make some major changes in her life... [More...]
Laetitia Masson
When she loses her job at a fish canning factory, Alice, a young woman from a socially deprived background, decides to make some major changes in her life... [More...]
En cas de malheur (1958)
Claude Autant-Lara
Yvette Maudet is a 23-year-old prostitute who leads a reckless and carefree life in Paris. One day, she and her friend Noémie attempt to hold up a jeweller, but the scheme backfires when an old woman enters the shop and Yvette knocks her unconscious in a moment of panic... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Yvette Maudet is a 23-year-old prostitute who leads a reckless and carefree life in Paris. One day, she and her friend Noémie attempt to hold up a jeweller, but the scheme backfires when an old woman enters the shop and Yvette knocks her unconscious in a moment of panic... [More...]
En haut des marches (1983)
Paul Vecchiali
On her return to Toulon in 1963 Françoise Canavaggia is confronted with the spectres of her past as she sets out to finally reconcile herself to a loss that has weighed on her heavily these past twenty years... [More...]
Paul Vecchiali
On her return to Toulon in 1963 Françoise Canavaggia is confronted with the spectres of her past as she sets out to finally reconcile herself to a loss that has weighed on her heavily these past twenty years... [More...]
En liberté! (2018)
Pierre Salvadori
Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work... [More...]
L'Enfance nue (1968)
Maurice Pialat
Abandoned by his own parents, François, a nine-year old boy, is placed in the care of Mr and Mrs Josselin, an ordinary working class family with a young daughter of their own... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Abandoned by his own parents, François, a nine-year old boy, is placed in the care of Mr and Mrs Josselin, an ordinary working class family with a young daughter of their own... [More...]
L'Enfant d'en haut (2012)
Ursula Meier
One winter, Simon, an enterprising 12 year old, makes good use of the cable car that connects the industrial town where he lives with his sister Louise and the opulent ski resort that overlooks it... [More...]
Ursula Meier
One winter, Simon, an enterprising 12 year old, makes good use of the cable car that connects the industrial town where he lives with his sister Louise and the opulent ski resort that overlooks it... [More...]
L'Enfant de Paris (1913)
Léonce Perret
Marie de Valen is devastated on receiving the news that her husband Pierre, an army officer, has been killed in his latest military exploit... [More...]
Léonce Perret
Marie de Valen is devastated on receiving the news that her husband Pierre, an army officer, has been killed in his latest military exploit... [More...]
L'Enfant sauvage (1970)
François Truffaut
Summer, 1798. In the forests of a rural area of southern France, a party of hunters discover and capture a 12 year old boy who appears to have spent his life living like a wild animal... [More...]
François Truffaut
Summer, 1798. In the forests of a rural area of southern France, a party of hunters discover and capture a 12 year old boy who appears to have spent his life living like a wild animal... [More...]
L'Enfant (2005)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Bruno, 20, and his girlfriend Sonia, 18, are both unemployed, but they manage to get by with welfare payments and a small income from Bruno's petty crimes... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Bruno, 20, and his girlfriend Sonia, 18, are both unemployed, but they manage to get by with welfare payments and a small income from Bruno's petty crimes... [More...]