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French cinema: All genres
Gribiche (1926)
Jacques Feyder
12-year-old Antoine Belot, nicknamed Gribiche, lives with his mother, a war widow, in modest but comfortable lodgings in Paris...
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Jacques Feyder
Grosse fatigue (1994)
Michel Blanc
Actor-director Michel Blanc is going through a rough time. He is unable to get his next film off the ground, women no longer find him as irresistible as they should, and, to cap it all, he is unjustly arrested for the rape of Josianne Balasko...
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Michel Blanc
Le Guérisseur (1954)
Yves Ciampi
Stricken with a sudden heart attack, Madame Mériadec, a woman in her fifties, is as good as dead until Pierre Laurent shows up at her bedside and applies his unique method of treatment...
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Yves Ciampi
Guernica (1950)
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War...
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Alain Resnais
La Guerre des boutons (1962)
Yves Robert
Longueverne and Velrans are two quaint little French villages that have been at war for generations. It is a peculiar kind of war because it is prosecuted only by the boys of the two villages, but this isn't to say that the war is not fiercely fought...
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Yves Robert
La Guerre des polices (1979)
Robin Davis
In the early hours of the morning, police superintendent Ballestrat is about to arrest Hector Sarlat, the most wanted criminal in France, when a rival police squad led by Jacques Fush puts in an unexpected and unwelcome appearance... [More...]
Robin Davis
In the early hours of the morning, police superintendent Ballestrat is about to arrest Hector Sarlat, the most wanted criminal in France, when a rival police squad led by Jacques Fush puts in an unexpected and unwelcome appearance... [More...]
La Guerre est déclarée (2011)
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
La Guerre sans nom (1992)
Bertrand Tavernier
In this documentary, Patrick Rotman interviews around thirty former French combatants of the Algerian War and allows them to tell their own story of a conflict that lasted eight years and ended in a humiliating defeat for France... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
In this documentary, Patrick Rotman interviews around thirty former French combatants of the Algerian War and allows them to tell their own story of a conflict that lasted eight years and ended in a humiliating defeat for France... [More...]
Gueule d'amour (1937)
Jean Grémillon
France, 1936. Military man Lucien Bourrache is not only a credit to the Spahi regiment but also the idol of every woman he meets... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
France, 1936. Military man Lucien Bourrache is not only a credit to the Spahi regiment but also the idol of every woman he meets... [More...]
Les Guichets du Louvre (1974)
Michel Mitrani
Paris, 16th July 1942. Paul, a young student, has just been tipped off that the French police are about to begin a massive round up of Jews in the Saint-Paul district of the capital... [More...]
Michel Mitrani
Paris, 16th July 1942. Paul, a young student, has just been tipped off that the French police are about to begin a massive round up of Jews in the Saint-Paul district of the capital... [More...]
L'Habit vert (1937)
Roger Richebé
The Duke of Maulévrier belongs to one of the oldest families in France, so it is right and proper that he should be a member of the Académie française, the noblest of France's institutions... [More...]
Roger Richebé
The Duke of Maulévrier belongs to one of the oldest families in France, so it is right and proper that he should be a member of the Académie française, the noblest of France's institutions... [More...]
Hadewijch (2009)
Bruno Dumont
A mother superior is so shocked by the manic faith of one of her novices that she has no choice but to expel her from the convent... [More...]
Bruno Dumont
A mother superior is so shocked by the manic faith of one of her novices that she has no choice but to expel her from the convent... [More...]
La Haine (1995)
Mathieu Kassovitz
This film follows one day in the lives of three unemployed young men who live on a housing estate in a deprived suburb of Paris... [More...]
Mathieu Kassovitz
This film follows one day in the lives of three unemployed young men who live on a housing estate in a deprived suburb of Paris... [More...]
Hans le marin (1949)
François Villiers
Once the US navy ship Alabama has docked at the port of Marseille, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar... [More...]
François Villiers
Once the US navy ship Alabama has docked at the port of Marseille, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar... [More...]
La Hantise (1912)
Louis Feuillade
At a soirée, Madame Trévoux encounters the fashionable palmist Josepha de Delphes and allows her to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
At a soirée, Madame Trévoux encounters the fashionable palmist Josepha de Delphes and allows her to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000)
Dominik Moll
Michel, a young teacher, is driving his wife and three young daughters to their country home. During a stop at a petrol station, he meets another man, Harry, who recognises him as a fellow schoolmate... [More...]
Dominik Moll
Michel, a young teacher, is driving his wife and three young daughters to their country home. During a stop at a petrol station, he meets another man, Harry, who recognises him as a fellow schoolmate... [More...]
Les Hauts murs (2008)
Christian Faure
France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child... [More...]
Christian Faure
France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child... [More...]
Le Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
Les Herbes folles (2009)
Alain Resnais
Marguerite is out shopping when a street thief suddenly snatches her handbag and hurries away. Georges later finds the discarded handbag when he comes to collect his car in an underground car park... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Marguerite is out shopping when a street thief suddenly snatches her handbag and hurries away. Georges later finds the discarded handbag when he comes to collect his car in an underground car park... [More...]
Hercule (1938)
Alexander Esway
In the sunny Provençal village of Cadignan the locals are busy gathering in the wine harvest when old timer Monsieur Maffre suffers what he believes to be a fatal injury... [More...]
Alexander Esway
In the sunny Provençal village of Cadignan the locals are busy gathering in the wine harvest when old timer Monsieur Maffre suffers what he believes to be a fatal injury... [More...]
Le Hérisson (2009)
Mona Achache
Renée Michel is not the uncultivated concierge that she pretends to be, but a fifty-something woman with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a passion for great works of literature... [More...]
Mona Achache
Renée Michel is not the uncultivated concierge that she pretends to be, but a fifty-something woman with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a passion for great works of literature... [More...]
Les Héros sont fatigués (1955)
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
L'Heure d'été (2008)
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
L'Heure zéro (2007)
Pascal Thomas
Just what was Guillaume Neuville thinking when he invited his ex-wife Aude and his latest wife Caroline to his Aunt Camilla's home in Brittany... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
Just what was Guillaume Neuville thinking when he invited his ex-wife Aude and his latest wife Caroline to his Aunt Camilla's home in Brittany... [More...]
Heureux qui comme Ulysse (1970)
Henri Colpi
Antonin is an ageing farmhand who leads a peaceful existence in a small village in Provence. One day, his employer gives him an errand that he would rather not discharge - to take his old farm horse Ulysse to Arles, to end his days in the bullring... [More...]
Henri Colpi
Antonin is an ageing farmhand who leads a peaceful existence in a small village in Provence. One day, his employer gives him an errand that he would rather not discharge - to take his old farm horse Ulysse to Arles, to end his days in the bullring... [More...]
L'Hirondelle et la mésange (1920)
André Antoine
Assisted by his wife Griet and sister-in-law Marthe, Pierre van Groot earns a modest wage shipping coal and building materials between northern France and Belgium on his two barges, L'Hirondelle and La Mésange... [More...]
André Antoine
Assisted by his wife Griet and sister-in-law Marthe, Pierre van Groot earns a modest wage shipping coal and building materials between northern France and Belgium on his two barges, L'Hirondelle and La Mésange... [More...]
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Alain Resnais
In the summer of 1957, an aspiring French actress travels to Hiroshima in Japan to work on an anti-war film. The city was totally destroyed when the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on it at the end of the Second World War, but now it has been rebuilt and shows little sign of the past devastation... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In the summer of 1957, an aspiring French actress travels to Hiroshima in Japan to work on an anti-war film. The city was totally destroyed when the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on it at the end of the Second World War, but now it has been rebuilt and shows little sign of the past devastation... [More...]
L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)
François Truffaut
A young woman arrives in Halifax, the capital city of Nova Scotia, in 1863, and immediately sets about looking for the man she has lost her heart to... [More...]
François Truffaut
A young woman arrives in Halifax, the capital city of Nova Scotia, in 1863, and immediately sets about looking for the man she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003)
Jacques Rivette
Julien is a middle-aged clock repairman who lives alone in a big house with only his cat for company. He has acquired some items which threaten a businesswoman, Madame X, who trades in fake fabrics, and begins to blackmail her... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Julien is a middle-aged clock repairman who lives alone in a big house with only his cat for company. He has acquired some items which threaten a businesswoman, Madame X, who trades in fake fabrics, and begins to blackmail her... [More...]
Histoires extraordinaires (1949)
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]