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French cinema: All genres
Lignes de front (2010)
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice...
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Jean-Christophe Klotz
Lili et le baobab (2006)
Chantal Richard
Lili, a thirty-something photographer, accepts a commission to take some photographs of a town in Senegal. Here, she befriends a secretive local woman, Aminata and, despite the language barrier, Lili develops a liking for the country and its people...
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Chantal Richard
Le Lion des Mogols (1924)
Jean Epstein
For the past fifteen years, a holy city in Tibet has lived under the tyrannous rule of the Great Khan. A palace guard, Roundgito-Singh, is told by a fortune teller that he will become the city's beloved ruler, providing he is not diverted from his destiny by an untrue woman...
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Jean Epstein
Liste noire (1984)
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist...
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Alain Bonnot
Le Locataire diabolique (1909)
Georges Méliès
An old man with the air of a learned professor arrives at a boarding house and asks the concierge for a room. It so happens there is a room available, but it is unfurnished and in the process of being decorated...
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Georges Méliès
Le Locataire (1976)
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital... [More...]
La Loi du marché (2015)
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]
La Loi du survivant (1967)
José Giovanni
Kroll, alias Le Kalmouk, is an adventurer who made his fortune by digging up a fabulous treasure somewhere in Asia with two of his companions... [More...]
José Giovanni
Kroll, alias Le Kalmouk, is an adventurer who made his fortune by digging up a fabulous treasure somewhere in Asia with two of his companions... [More...]
Loin (2001)
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
Lola (1961)
Jacques Demy
Lola is a cabaret singer and dancer in the French port of Nantes. A prostitute, she is popular with the town's sailors, especially an American sailor named Frankie, who is madly in love with her... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Lola is a cabaret singer and dancer in the French port of Nantes. A prostitute, she is popular with the town's sailors, especially an American sailor named Frankie, who is madly in love with her... [More...]
Lola Montès (1955)
Max Ophüls
By the 1850s, Lola Montès is one of most notorious women of her time. Her love affairs with composers, kings and other men of distinction are legendary... [More...]
Max Ophüls
By the 1850s, Lola Montès is one of most notorious women of her time. Her love affairs with composers, kings and other men of distinction are legendary... [More...]
Louise Wimmer (2012)
Cyril Mennegun
Louise Wimmer is nearly fifty. She should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement but instead she has lost virtually everything she had - everything except her pride and her resilience... [More...]
Cyril Mennegun
Louise Wimmer is nearly fifty. She should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement but instead she has lost virtually everything she had - everything except her pride and her resilience... [More...]
Louise-Michel (2008)
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
Loulou (1980)
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
Lourdes (2009)
Jessica Hausner
Christine suffers from multiple sclerosis and has spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Tired of her solitary existence, she decides to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where she hopes she will find new friends and give her life a renewed sense of purpose... [More...]
Jessica Hausner
Christine suffers from multiple sclerosis and has spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Tired of her solitary existence, she decides to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where she hopes she will find new friends and give her life a renewed sense of purpose... [More...]
Les Louves (1957)
Luis Saslavsky
During the Second World War, two Frenchmen - Gervais Larauch and Bernard Pradalié - escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp where they are being detained and head back to France... [More...]
Luis Saslavsky
During the Second World War, two Frenchmen - Gervais Larauch and Bernard Pradalié - escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp where they are being detained and head back to France... [More...]
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Claude Berri
Lyon, 1943. In Nazi occupied France, Raymond Aubrac is a leading member of the French Resistance. Shortly after blowing up a German supply train, he is arrested, ostensibly for blackmarketeering... [More...]
Claude Berri
Lyon, 1943. In Nazi occupied France, Raymond Aubrac is a leading member of the French Resistance. Shortly after blowing up a German supply train, he is arrested, ostensibly for blackmarketeering... [More...]
Lucky Jo (1964)
Michel Deville
Lucky Jo is a crook for whom nothing ever seems to go right. He is an amiable sort of guy, always means to do good, but somehow the gods are never on his side - as his gang discovers when he wrecks their criminal exploits... [More...]
Michel Deville
Lucky Jo is a crook for whom nothing ever seems to go right. He is an amiable sort of guy, always means to do good, but somehow the gods are never on his side - as his gang discovers when he wrecks their criminal exploits... [More...]
Ludwig (1972)
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
La Lumière d'en face (1955)
Georges Lacombe
After a terrible road accident in which his fellow driver was killed, Georges Moreau had no choice but to give up his job as a long distance lorry driver... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
After a terrible road accident in which his fellow driver was killed, Georges Moreau had no choice but to give up his job as a long distance lorry driver... [More...]
Lumière d'été (1943)
Jean Grémillon
Michèle, a young dress designer from Paris, arranges to meet up with her boyfriend Roland, a temperamental artist, at a mountain resort in Provence... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Michèle, a young dress designer from Paris, arranges to meet up with her boyfriend Roland, a temperamental artist, at a mountain resort in Provence... [More...]
La Lune dans le caniveau (1983)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
In present day Marseille, a young dockworker named Gérard Delmas is haunted by the brutal death of his sister, who committed suicide with a razor after being raped in the street... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Beineix
In present day Marseille, a young dockworker named Gérard Delmas is haunted by the brutal death of his sister, who committed suicide with a razor after being raped in the street... [More...]
Ma Loute (2016)
Bruno Dumont
In the summer of 1910, as is their custom, the Van Peteghems, a wealthy family from Lille, come to Slack Bay in northern France for their holidays... [More...]
Bruno Dumont
In the summer of 1910, as is their custom, the Van Peteghems, a wealthy family from Lille, come to Slack Bay in northern France for their holidays... [More...]
Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening... [More...]
Ma petite entreprise (1999)
Pierre Jolivet
Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire... [More...]
Ma saison préférée (1993)
André Téchiné
Too old to live by herself, Berthe moves in with her daughter, Emile, who is married with grown-up children of her own. Emile's husband resents the intrusion, but the situation is aggravated when Emile's brother, Antoine visits for Christmas... [More...]
André Téchiné
Too old to live by herself, Berthe moves in with her daughter, Emile, who is married with grown-up children of her own. Emile's husband resents the intrusion, but the situation is aggravated when Emile's brother, Antoine visits for Christmas... [More...]
Ma vie en rose (1997)
Alain Berliner
The Fabre family moves into a new house in a respectable middle-class area. During a house-warming party, the youngest son, seven-year old Ludovic makes a grand entrance in a dress, make-up and jewellery... [More...]
Alain Berliner
The Fabre family moves into a new house in a respectable middle-class area. During a house-warming party, the youngest son, seven-year old Ludovic makes a grand entrance in a dress, make-up and jewellery... [More...]
Macadam (1946)
Jacques Feyder
The Hôtel Bijou in Montmartre, Paris, shares the seedy reputation of its owner, Madame Rose, a woman who killed her husband because he was too honest... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
The Hôtel Bijou in Montmartre, Paris, shares the seedy reputation of its owner, Madame Rose, a woman who killed her husband because he was too honest... [More...]
Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1939)
Jean Delannoy
In the late 1930s, China and Japan are locked in a fierce military conflict. Mireille, a French actress, is one of many hundreds of westerners who are desperately seeking a safe way out of war-torn China... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the late 1930s, China and Japan are locked in a fierce military conflict. Mireille, a French actress, is one of many hundreds of westerners who are desperately seeking a safe way out of war-torn China... [More...]
Madame de... (1953)
Max Ophüls
A wealthy Countess decides to sell her earrings to pay off a small debt, leading her husband, an important general, to believe that the jewels have been lost... [More...]
Max Ophüls
A wealthy Countess decides to sell her earrings to pay off a small debt, leading her husband, an important general, to believe that the jewels have been lost... [More...]