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French cinema: All genres
La Femme infidèle (1969)
Claude Chabrol
Charles Desvallées is a respectable insurance agent who lives with his younger wife Hélène and their son Michel at their comfortable villa in the leafy suburbs of Paris...
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Claude Chabrol
Les Femmes du 6ème étage (2011)
Philippe Le Guay
In the 1960s, Jean-Louis Joubert is a 40-something stockbroker who lives in an upmarket Parisian apartment block with his wife Suzanne...
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Philippe Le Guay
Femmes femmes (1974)
Paul Vecchiali
In their small Parisian apartment overlooking a cemetery, two over-the-hill actresses take solace in each other's company against a world which no longer appreciates their talents...
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Paul Vecchiali
La Ferme du pendu (1945)
Jean Dréville
The scene is the Vendée, an agricultural region of France in the 1930s. After the death of his father, François Raimondeau has one thought in mind - to prevent the family farm from being broken up and sold...
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Jean Dréville
La Fête à Henriette (1952)
Julien Duvivier
When the censor rejects their latest script two screenwriters set about developing the scenario for a new film. They soon decide on their main characters - a young Parisian dressmaker named Henriette and her fiancé, a photo-journalist named Robert...
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Julien Duvivier
Le Feu follet (1963)
Louis Malle
At a private clinic near to Paris, a burnt-out writer, Alain Leroy, is being treated for alcoholism. Despite being almost cured of his addiction, Alain, in his mid-thirties, has recurring bouts of depression and has resolved to kill himself in a few days' time... [More...]
Louis Malle
At a private clinic near to Paris, a burnt-out writer, Alain Leroy, is being treated for alcoholism. Despite being almost cured of his addiction, Alain, in his mid-thirties, has recurring bouts of depression and has resolved to kill himself in a few days' time... [More...]
Feu Mathias Pascal (1926)
Marcel L'Herbier
After the death of his father, Mathias Pascal learns that his family is in dire financial straits. He must abandon his dreams of an unfettered, carefree existence and finds work as an assistant librarian in the little town where he lives, Miragno... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
After the death of his father, Mathias Pascal learns that his family is in dire financial straits. He must abandon his dreams of an unfettered, carefree existence and finds work as an assistant librarian in the little town where he lives, Miragno... [More...]
Feux rouges (2004)
Cédric Kahn
At the start of a busy weekend on the roads, stressed insurance agent Antoine and his wife Hélène set out from Paris to collect their two children from a holiday colony in the south-west of France... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
At the start of a busy weekend on the roads, stressed insurance agent Antoine and his wife Hélène set out from Paris to collect their two children from a holiday colony in the south-west of France... [More...]
La Fiancée des ténèbres (1945)
Serge de Poligny
The composer Roland Samblaca returns to his home town Carcassonne in the South of France with his family. Whilst visiting an ancient castle, he meets and is enchanted by a young woman, Sylvie, who lives in the castle with her adoptive guardian, Monsieur Toulzac... [More...]
Serge de Poligny
The composer Roland Samblaca returns to his home town Carcassonne in the South of France with his family. Whilst visiting an ancient castle, he meets and is enchanted by a young woman, Sylvie, who lives in the castle with her adoptive guardian, Monsieur Toulzac... [More...]
La Fiancée du pirate (1969)
Nelly Kaplan
In a tightly knit rural community, Marie and her mother are outcasts, living in a small wood cabin. Marie is exploited and abused by both her employer, a lesbian landowner, and her oversexed male neighbours, who include the town's mayor and a seemingly respectable shopkeeper... [More...]
Nelly Kaplan
In a tightly knit rural community, Marie and her mother are outcasts, living in a small wood cabin. Marie is exploited and abused by both her employer, a lesbian landowner, and her oversexed male neighbours, who include the town's mayor and a seemingly respectable shopkeeper... [More...]
Fièvre (1921)
Louis Delluc
In the busy French port of Marseille, a rough Corsican named Topinelli runs a popular bar with his wife Sarah. A party of sailors recently returned from the Far East invade the bar, intent on an evening of carousing and dancing with the women of the town... [More...]
Louis Delluc
In the busy French port of Marseille, a rough Corsican named Topinelli runs a popular bar with his wife Sarah. A party of sailors recently returned from the Far East invade the bar, intent on an evening of carousing and dancing with the women of the town... [More...]
La Fille aux yeux d'or (1961)
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Henri Marsav is a 20-something fashion photographer who revels in hedonistic youth with his circle of equally debauched friends... [More...]
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Henri Marsav is a 20-something fashion photographer who revels in hedonistic youth with his circle of equally debauched friends... [More...]
La Fille de 15 ans (1989)
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
La Fille de l'air (1992)
Maroun Bagdadi
Brigitte lives with her boyfriend, Daniel, who is on the run having escaped from prison for a series of armed robbery offences... [More...]
Maroun Bagdadi
Brigitte lives with her boyfriend, Daniel, who is on the run having escaped from prison for a series of armed robbery offences... [More...]
La Fille de l'eau (1925)
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
La Fille du puisatier (1940)
Marcel Pagnol
France, 1939. Pascal Amoretti and his assistant Felipe earn an honest living by digging wells in their picturesque region of Provence... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
France, 1939. Pascal Amoretti and his assistant Felipe earn an honest living by digging wells in their picturesque region of Provence... [More...]
La Fille du puisatier (2011)
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
La Fille inconnue (2016)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
La Fille prodigue (1981)
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
Le Fils de Jean (2016)
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
Le Fils de l'épicier (2007)
Eric Guirado
When Antoine Sforza offers to lend some money to his best friend Claire he could not have imagined where this would lead... [More...]
Eric Guirado
When Antoine Sforza offers to lend some money to his best friend Claire he could not have imagined where this would lead... [More...]
Le Fils préféré (1994)
Nicole Garcia
Jean-Paul Mantegna is the 40-something owner of a hotel on the French Riviera. Saddled with debts, he desperately needs to raise a large sum of money to keep his business afloat, so he turns to the only members of his family who can help him - his brothers Francis and Philippe... [More...]
Nicole Garcia
Jean-Paul Mantegna is the 40-something owner of a hotel on the French Riviera. Saddled with debts, he desperately needs to raise a large sum of money to keep his business afloat, so he turns to the only members of his family who can help him - his brothers Francis and Philippe... [More...]
Le Fils (2002)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Olivier is a carpentry instructor at a vocational training centre that assists in the rehabilitation of convicted criminals... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Olivier is a carpentry instructor at a vocational training centre that assists in the rehabilitation of convicted criminals... [More...]
Fin août, début septembre (1998)
Olivier Assayas
Gabriel, in his early thirties, finds his life upended after separating from his partner Jenny and then discovering that his best friend Adrien, a writer, has a terminal illness... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
Gabriel, in his early thirties, finds his life upended after separating from his partner Jenny and then discovering that his best friend Adrien, a writer, has a terminal illness... [More...]
La Fin du jour (1939)
Julien Duvivier
After a final performance, the faded star Raphael Saint-Clair is ready to take up residence at the Abbaye de Saint-Jean-la-Rivière, a retirement home for actors who have fallen on hard times... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
After a final performance, the faded star Raphael Saint-Clair is ready to take up residence at the Abbaye de Saint-Jean-la-Rivière, a retirement home for actors who have fallen on hard times... [More...]
Finis terrae (1929)
Jean Epstein
The Ushant archipelago is a group of small islands situated off the coast of Brittany at the northwest extremity of France... [More...]
Jean Epstein
The Ushant archipelago is a group of small islands situated off the coast of Brittany at the northwest extremity of France... [More...]
Flandres (2006)
Bruno Dumont
Somewhere in the depths of rural Flanders, a young farmer named Demester is pursuing a torrid love affair with an attractive woman of his own age, Barbe... [More...]
Bruno Dumont
Somewhere in the depths of rural Flanders, a young farmer named Demester is pursuing a torrid love affair with an attractive woman of his own age, Barbe... [More...]
La Fleur du mal (2003)
Claude Chabrol
François Vasseur returns to his well-to-do family home in Bordeaux after a four year stay in the United States and finds little has changed... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
François Vasseur returns to his well-to-do family home in Bordeaux after a four year stay in the United States and finds little has changed... [More...]
Flic Story (1975)
Jacques Deray
Paris, 1947. Roger Borniche sees himself as the star cop of the Sûreté nationale, but he despises the brutal methods used by his colleagues... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Paris, 1947. Roger Borniche sees himself as the star cop of the Sûreté nationale, but he despises the brutal methods used by his colleagues... [More...]
Floride (2015)
Philippe Le Guay
Claude Lherminier may be eighty years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with. Lately, however, the retired industrialist has become increasingly forgetful and confused, his behaviour marked by alternately childish and aggressive interludes... [More...]
Philippe Le Guay
Claude Lherminier may be eighty years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with. Lately, however, the retired industrialist has become increasingly forgetful and confused, his behaviour marked by alternately childish and aggressive interludes... [More...]