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French cinema: All genres
Jusqu'à la garde (2018)
Xavier Legrand
Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce...
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Xavier Legrand
Jusqu'au dernier (1957)
Pierre Billon
After a successful hold-up, Fernand Bastia betrays his gangster friends and flees with the booty, taking refuge in a travelling circus where his sister Marcella works...
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Pierre Billon
Juste avant la nuit (1971)
Claude Chabrol
Charles Masson is a successful advertising executive who has a devoted wife, Hélène, and two adorable children...
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Claude Chabrol
Justin de Marseille (1935)
Maurice Tourneur
In 1930s Marseille, Justin makes a dishonest living as the town's most respected gangster. Loyal to those who serve him well, Justin has few enemies and he rules the town unopposed - until he gets into a deadly feud with an unscrupulous Italian rival, Esposito...
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Maurice Tourneur
Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
Louis Feuillade
Police Inspector Juve has good reason to think that his formidable archenemy Fantômas is up to his old tricks when the body of a woman, badly disfigured, is found at the private residence of Dr Chaleck...
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Louis Feuillade
Kameradschaft (1931)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine... [More...]
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine... [More...]
La Kermesse héroïque (1935)
Jacques Feyder
1616. In the small Flemish village of Boom, the burgomaster is preparing a banquet for his daughter's wedding to the local butcher... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
1616. In the small Flemish village of Boom, the burgomaster is preparing a banquet for his daughter's wedding to the local butcher... [More...]
La Kermesse rouge (1947)
Paul Mesnier
Paris in the 1890s. When Agnès Bonnardet falls in love with a struggling Montmartre painter, Claude Sironi, her aristocratic relatives waste no time in acting to thwart a mésalliance that will bring disgrace on the family... [More...]
Paul Mesnier
Paris in the 1890s. When Agnès Bonnardet falls in love with a struggling Montmartre painter, Claude Sironi, her aristocratic relatives waste no time in acting to thwart a mésalliance that will bring disgrace on the family... [More...]
Khamsa (2008)
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Ki lo sa? (1985)
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
L.627 (1992)
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Lac aux dames (1934)
Marc Allégret
Éric Heller, an unemployed engineer, finds work as a swimming instructor at a popular Austrian resort beside the alluring Lac-aux-dames lake... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Éric Heller, an unemployed engineer, finds work as a swimming instructor at a popular Austrian resort beside the alluring Lac-aux-dames lake... [More...]
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Lady Chatterley (2006)
Pascale Ferran
England, 1921. Lady Constance Chatterley is a prisoner in a dead, passionless marriage. She is still devoted to her husband, Clifford, now a ruin of a man, paralysed by the injuries he sustained on the Flanders battlefields... [More...]
Pascale Ferran
England, 1921. Lady Constance Chatterley is a prisoner in a dead, passionless marriage. She is still devoted to her husband, Clifford, now a ruin of a man, paralysed by the injuries he sustained on the Flanders battlefields... [More...]
Lady Jane (2008)
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Robert Bresson
Their number reduced through countless skirmishes in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, weary and defeated... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Their number reduced through countless skirmishes in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, weary and defeated... [More...]
Landru (1963)
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]
La Lectrice (1988)
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Léon (1994)
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
Jean-Pierre Melville
With France under Nazi occupation, life goes on as usual in a small provincial town, the only novelty being the presence of German soldiers in the streets... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
With France under Nazi occupation, life goes on as usual in a small provincial town, the only novelty being the presence of German soldiers in the streets... [More...]
Let My People Go! (2011)
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Les Lettres de mon moulin (1954)
Marcel Pagnol
Alphonse Daudet, purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of rural France, so that he can write a series of short stories about country folk... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Alphonse Daudet, purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of rural France, so that he can write a series of short stories about country folk... [More...]
Leur dernière nuit (1953)
Georges Lacombe
Newly qualified to work as a teacher Madeleine Marsan, a single woman in her early thirties, leaves her home in Limoges and heads for Paris to look for a teaching post... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
Newly qualified to work as a teacher Madeleine Marsan, a single woman in her early thirties, leaves her home in Limoges and heads for Paris to look for a teaching post... [More...]
Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)
Roger Vadim
In modern day France, Juliette de Merteuil is a well-regarded society belle who is happily married to the Vicomte de Valmont, a distinguished diplomat... [More...]
Roger Vadim
In modern day France, Juliette de Merteuil is a well-regarded society belle who is happily married to the Vicomte de Valmont, a distinguished diplomat... [More...]
Liberté (2010)
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Liberté-Oléron (2001)
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Les Liens du sang (2008)
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Le Lieu du crime (1986)
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
La Ligne de démarcation (1966)
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]