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French cinema: All genres
La Foire aux chimères (1946)
Pierre Chenal
Frank Davis is the unimpeachable director of a company that prints what he claims to be unforgeable banknotes. In his fifties, he is an object of ridicule on account of the facial disfigurement he acquired in an accident...
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Pierre Chenal
La Folie des grandeurs (1971)
Gérard Oury
Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights...
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Gérard Oury
Force majeure (1989)
Pierre Jolivet
Philippe is a promising student about to sit his exams and who is looking forward to a successful research career. Daniel is another young man who has a girl friend, a baby, and who enjoys his hedonistic freedom...
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Pierre Jolivet
Fortunat (1960)
Alex Joffé
With France under Nazi occupation, a young mother named Juliette finds that her own life is in danger when her husband, an active member of the French Resistance, is captured by the Germans...
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Alex Joffé
Fou d'amour (2015)
Philippe Ramos
In 1959, a young Catholic priest takes up his new position in an idyllic rural community and soon makes himself the most popular man in the area...
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Philippe Ramos
La Fracture du myocarde (1990)
Jacques Fansten
Traumatised by the idea that he might be put into an orphanage, 12 year old Martin tries to hide the sudden death of his mother... [More...]
Jacques Fansten
Traumatised by the idea that he might be put into an orphanage, 12 year old Martin tries to hide the sudden death of his mother... [More...]
Les Fragments d'Antonin (2006)
Gabriel Le Bomin
France, 1919. At a makeshift hospital in the country, Professor Labrousse is leading a study into the mental trauma experienced by former combatants of the war that has just ravaged most of Europe... [More...]
Gabriel Le Bomin
France, 1919. At a makeshift hospital in the country, Professor Labrousse is leading a study into the mental trauma experienced by former combatants of the war that has just ravaged most of Europe... [More...]
Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Frantz (2016)
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
Fred (1997)
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
French Cancan (1954)
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [More...]
Fric-Frac (1939)
Claude Autant-Lara
Marcel is an honest, perhaps too trusting, young man who works for a small firm of jewellers in Paris. His employer's daughter Renée has made up her mind to marry him but he shows her no interest and resents her attempts to control his life... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Marcel is an honest, perhaps too trusting, young man who works for a small firm of jewellers in Paris. His employer's daughter Renée has made up her mind to marry him but he shows her no interest and resents her attempts to control his life... [More...]
Le Furet (1949)
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Gadjo dilo (1997)
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Les Gaietés de l'escadron (1932)
Maurice Tourneur
Despite the best efforts of its commander, Captain Hurluret, the barracks of the 51st Rifles has yet to be acquainted with the notion of military discipline... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
Despite the best efforts of its commander, Captain Hurluret, the barracks of the 51st Rifles has yet to be acquainted with the notion of military discipline... [More...]
La Galerie des monstres (1924)
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Les Galettes de Pont-Aven (1975)
Joël Séria
Peacefully nestled in the Loire Valley in the west of France is the picturesque town of Samur. This is home to Henri Serin, a modest umbrella salesman who devotes his free time to his two main pleasures in life - women and painting... [More...]
Joël Séria
Peacefully nestled in the Loire Valley in the west of France is the picturesque town of Samur. This is home to Henri Serin, a modest umbrella salesman who devotes his free time to his two main pleasures in life - women and painting... [More...]
Le Gamin au vélo (2011)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
11-year-old Cyril does not understand why his father placed him in a children's home, so to find the answers he returns to his former apartment... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
11-year-old Cyril does not understand why his father placed him in a children's home, so to find the answers he returns to his former apartment... [More...]
Le Garçon sauvage (1951)
Jean Delannoy
Marie earns a comfortable living working as a prostitute in the French port of Marseilles. Now that she has some stability in her life, she decides to take charge of her twelve-year old son Simon, whom she has placed in the care of kindly shepherd... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Marie earns a comfortable living working as a prostitute in the French port of Marseilles. Now that she has some stability in her life, she decides to take charge of her twelve-year old son Simon, whom she has placed in the care of kindly shepherd... [More...]
Garçon stupide (2004)
Lionel Baier
Despite his lack of education, 20-year-old Loïc is convinced that one day he will make something of his life. In the meantime, he earns a subsistence wage in a chocolate factory and spends his evenings meeting up with older men for no-strings sex... [More...]
Lionel Baier
Despite his lack of education, 20-year-old Loïc is convinced that one day he will make something of his life. In the meantime, he earns a subsistence wage in a chocolate factory and spends his evenings meeting up with older men for no-strings sex... [More...]
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table (2013)
Guillaume Gallienne
Guillaume had a far from conventional childhood. When he was four or five, his mother would call him into dinner by shouting: "Boys and Guillaume, dinner's ready!" Guillaume knew there and then that he was different from other boys, but he could never tell how he was different... [More...]
Guillaume Gallienne
Guillaume had a far from conventional childhood. When he was four or five, his mother would call him into dinner by shouting: "Boys and Guillaume, dinner's ready!" Guillaume knew there and then that he was different from other boys, but he could never tell how he was different... [More...]
Garde à vue (1981)
Claude Miller
In a small French town, two young girls are found raped and murdered. The obvious suspect is a prominent lawyer, Jérôme Martinaud, who is known to have been in the vicinity of both killings when they took place... [More...]
Claude Miller
In a small French town, two young girls are found raped and murdered. The obvious suspect is a prominent lawyer, Jérôme Martinaud, who is known to have been in the vicinity of both killings when they took place... [More...]
Gardiens de phare (1929)
Jean Grémillon
Off the coast of Finistère, an old lighthouse keeper Brehan and his son Yvon commence their month-long stint in a lighthouse... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Off the coast of Finistère, an old lighthouse keeper Brehan and his son Yvon commence their month-long stint in a lighthouse... [More...]
Gazon maudit (1995)
Josiane Balasko
Laurent, a successful estate agent, and his wife Loli have two children, a nice house in the South of France and appear to be the very model of a happily married couple... [More...]
Josiane Balasko
Laurent, a successful estate agent, and his wife Loli have two children, a nice house in the South of France and appear to be the very model of a happily married couple... [More...]
Le Gendarme se marie (1968)
Jean Girault
The 1st of July marks the start of the summer holidays in France, and the commencement of a new campaign by the Saint-Tropez gendarmerie to clamp down on dangerous drivers... [More...]
Jean Girault
The 1st of July marks the start of the summer holidays in France, and the commencement of a new campaign by the Saint-Tropez gendarmerie to clamp down on dangerous drivers... [More...]
Le Genou de Claire (1970)
Eric Rohmer
A 35 year old diplomat, Jérôme, takes a summer holiday in the picturesque French lakeside resort where he spent his childhood... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
A 35 year old diplomat, Jérôme, takes a summer holiday in the picturesque French lakeside resort where he spent his childhood... [More...]
Les Gens du voyage (1938)
Jacques Feyder
Flora, a tough, strong-willed lion-tamer, is the star attraction at the Barlay travelling Circus. However, even she is ill-prepared when her former lover, Fernand, returns to her after twenty years... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
Flora, a tough, strong-willed lion-tamer, is the star attraction at the Barlay travelling Circus. However, even she is ill-prepared when her former lover, Fernand, returns to her after twenty years... [More...]
Germinal (1913)
Albert Capellani
In 1860s France, an unemployed railway worker, Étienne Lantier, arrives in the bleak mining town of Montsou in the north of France and finds work as a miner... [More...]
Albert Capellani
In 1860s France, an unemployed railway worker, Étienne Lantier, arrives in the bleak mining town of Montsou in the north of France and finds work as a miner... [More...]
Germinal (1993)
Claude Berri
During the 1870s, an unemployed machine-worker named Étienne Lantier arrives at Montsou, a small mining town in the north of France, looking for work... [More...]
Claude Berri
During the 1870s, an unemployed machine-worker named Étienne Lantier arrives at Montsou, a small mining town in the north of France, looking for work... [More...]
Gervaise (1956)
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]