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Moi, Pierre Rivière... (1976)
René Allio
The third of June 1835 was an eventful day in the life of the twenty-year old Normandy peasant Pierre Rivière. On this day, he chose to slit the throats of his mother, his sister and his younger brother with a hand scythe...
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René Allio
Molière (1909)
Léonce Perret
Paris, 1642. In his father's upholstery shop, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is reading his first comic verses to his brothers and sisters...
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Léonce Perret
La Môme (2007)
Olivier Dahan
In 1959, an internationally renowned singer falls ill during her highly publicised tour of America. In the early 1920s, a young girl lives through the most harrowing of childhoods, rejected by her mother, reared in a brothel, and then earning a meagre crust by singing in the streets of Paris...
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Olivier Dahan
Mon ange (2004)
Serge Frydman
Colette is a prostitute who prefers to make her own way in life after breaking up with her boyfriend. One evening, she receives a phone call from a friend who pleads with her to take charge of her teenage son, Billy...
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Serge Frydman
Mon colonel (2006)
Laurent Herbiet
In the mid-1990s, Raoul Duplan, a retired colonel, is found dead at his home in Paris, shot through the head. Not long afterwards, some anonymous letters and pages torn from a diary are sent to the investigators in the police and army who are looking into the murder...
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Laurent Herbiet
Mon fils à moi (2007)
Martial Fougeron
Julien is adored by his mother. He is the centre of her world. Nothing can rival the love that she has for him. But too much love can be a dangerous thing..... [More...]
Martial Fougeron
Julien is adored by his mother. He is the centre of her world. Nothing can rival the love that she has for him. But too much love can be a dangerous thing..... [More...]
Mon oncle (1958)
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot rents a modest rooftop apartment in an old part of Paris, where traders sell their goods in the streets and young boys play games on unsuspecting passers-by... [More...]
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot rents a modest rooftop apartment in an old part of Paris, where traders sell their goods in the streets and young boys play games on unsuspecting passers-by... [More...]
Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Alain Resnais
Henri Laborit is a world-renowned biologist who conjectures that human beings exhibit virtually identical patterns of behaviour to other animals in stress situations... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Henri Laborit is a world-renowned biologist who conjectures that human beings exhibit virtually identical patterns of behaviour to other animals in stress situations... [More...]
Mon père, ce héros (1991)
Gérard Lauzier
After separating from his wife Irina, 40-something André becomes obsessively preoccupied with his teenage daughter Véronique, who is growing up much faster than he would like... [More...]
Gérard Lauzier
After separating from his wife Irina, 40-something André becomes obsessively preoccupied with his teenage daughter Véronique, who is growing up much faster than he would like... [More...]
Le Monde tremblera (1939)
Richard Pottier
With capital supplied by the unscrupulous banker Emil Lasser, Dr Jean Durand succeeds in creating a machine that can predict, to the nearest minute, when an individual will die... [More...]
Richard Pottier
With capital supplied by the unscrupulous banker Emil Lasser, Dr Jean Durand succeeds in creating a machine that can predict, to the nearest minute, when an individual will die... [More...]
Monsieur Coccinelle (1938)
Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
Alfred Coccinelle is a humdrum civil servant who leads a humdrum middle class existence with his wife Mélanie and old maiden aunt Aurore... [More...]
Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
Alfred Coccinelle is a humdrum civil servant who leads a humdrum middle class existence with his wife Mélanie and old maiden aunt Aurore... [More...]
Monsieur Fabre (1951)
Henri Diamant-Berger
Avignon, 1861. When he is not fulfilling his duties as a schoolmaster and family man, Jean-Henri Fabre occupies himself in the study of insects, his main passion in life... [More...]
Henri Diamant-Berger
Avignon, 1861. When he is not fulfilling his duties as a schoolmaster and family man, Jean-Henri Fabre occupies himself in the study of insects, his main passion in life... [More...]
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Patrice Leconte
Monsieur Hire is a respectable middle-aged man who lives alone in the suburbs where he runs his own business as a tailor... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Monsieur Hire is a respectable middle-aged man who lives alone in the suburbs where he runs his own business as a tailor... [More...]
Monsieur Klein (1976)
Joseph Losey
Paris, January 1942. Robert Klein is an art dealer who has grown rich by trading in valuable art treasures sold by Jews who are desperate to raise cash to escape deportation to Nazi Germany... [More...]
Joseph Losey
Paris, January 1942. Robert Klein is an art dealer who has grown rich by trading in valuable art treasures sold by Jews who are desperate to raise cash to escape deportation to Nazi Germany... [More...]
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Maurice Cloche
In the early 1600s, during the reign of King Louis XIII, Vincent de Paul gives up his privileged position as a private tutor to the aristocratic Gondy family, so that he can devote himself to the needs of the poor and infirm... [More...]
Maurice Cloche
In the early 1600s, during the reign of King Louis XIII, Vincent de Paul gives up his privileged position as a private tutor to the aristocratic Gondy family, so that he can devote himself to the needs of the poor and infirm... [More...]
Monte Cristo (1929)
Henri Fescourt
On the day of his marriage to Mercèdes, the navigator Edmond Dantès is arrested, wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist conspirator... [More...]
Henri Fescourt
On the day of his marriage to Mercèdes, the navigator Edmond Dantès is arrested, wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist conspirator... [More...]
Montmartre-sur-Seine (1941)
Georges Lacombe
In Montmartre, Paris, Michel is in love with Lily, but she only has eyes for Maurice, a handsome shop assistant. Unaware of Lily's interest in him, Maurice loves Juliette, but the arrival of another man, Claude, threatens his budding romance... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
In Montmartre, Paris, Michel is in love with Lily, but she only has eyes for Maurice, a handsome shop assistant. Unaware of Lily's interest in him, Maurice loves Juliette, but the arrival of another man, Claude, threatens his budding romance... [More...]
Montparnasse 19 (1958)
Jacques Becker
In the Montparnasse district of Paris in 1919, a young Italian painter, Amedeo Modigliani, struggles to make a living as an artist... [More...]
Jacques Becker
In the Montparnasse district of Paris in 1919, a young Italian painter, Amedeo Modigliani, struggles to make a living as an artist... [More...]
Mor vran (1931)
Jean Epstein
For those who eke out an existence on Sein, one of the smaller islands in the Breton archipelago, life is unremittingly hard... [More...]
Jean Epstein
For those who eke out an existence on Sein, one of the smaller islands in the Breton archipelago, life is unremittingly hard... [More...]
Mort d'un pourri (1977)
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
La Mort en ce jardin (1956)
Luis Buñuel
The setting is a small village on the Brazilian border. An adventurous young man named Shark arrives here at the same time as a party of diamond prospectors who are preparing to attack a small government garrison... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
The setting is a small village on the Brazilian border. An adventurous young man named Shark arrives here at the same time as a party of diamond prospectors who are preparing to attack a small government garrison... [More...]
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Le Mort qui tue (1913)
Louis Feuillade
The journalist Fandor is left to lament the death of his courageous friend and ally Inspector Juve after the latter perished in an explosion in the course of their most recent dramatic tussle with the evil master of crime Fantômas... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
The journalist Fandor is left to lament the death of his courageous friend and ally Inspector Juve after the latter perished in an explosion in the course of their most recent dramatic tussle with the evil master of crime Fantômas... [More...]
Mortelle randonnée (1983)
Claude Miller
Haunted by a past that he does his best to bury, fifty-something Louis Beauvoir leads a solitary life in which there is no place for sentiment or intimate human contact... [More...]
Claude Miller
Haunted by a past that he does his best to bury, fifty-something Louis Beauvoir leads a solitary life in which there is no place for sentiment or intimate human contact... [More...]
Mouchette (1967)
Robert Bresson
Mouchette, a 14 year old girl, lives a miserable existence in a rural French village. Bullied by her father, compelled to look after her dying mother and her baby sibling, she has been robbed of her childhood... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Mouchette, a 14 year old girl, lives a miserable existence in a rural French village. Bullied by her father, compelled to look after her dying mother and her baby sibling, she has been robbed of her childhood... [More...]
Mourir d'aimer (1971)
André Cayatte
In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives... [More...]
André Cayatte
In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives... [More...]
La Moustache (2005)
Emmanuel Carrère
One evening, whilst getting ready for a dinner date, Marc takes the momentous decision to shave off his moustache. To his surprise, his wife Agnès fails to see any change in his appearance, and neither do the two friends they spend the evening with... [More...]
Emmanuel Carrère
One evening, whilst getting ready for a dinner date, Marc takes the momentous decision to shave off his moustache. To his surprise, his wife Agnès fails to see any change in his appearance, and neither do the two friends they spend the evening with... [More...]
Le Mouton à cinq pattes (1954)
Henri Verneuil
Trézignan is a sleepy little town in the southeast of France. Anxious to raise the profile of the town and draw in more visitors, the mayor decides to hold a celebratory fête in honour of a set of quintuplets who were born in the town exactly forty years ago... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Trézignan is a sleepy little town in the southeast of France. Anxious to raise the profile of the town and draw in more visitors, the mayor decides to hold a celebratory fête in honour of a set of quintuplets who were born in the town exactly forty years ago... [More...]
Le Mouton enragé (1974)
Michel Deville
Nicolas Mallet is a modest bank employee whose lack of personal ambition is matched by a crippling lack of self-confidence... [More...]
Michel Deville
Nicolas Mallet is a modest bank employee whose lack of personal ambition is matched by a crippling lack of self-confidence... [More...]
Muriel (1963)
Alain Resnais
Hélène lives in the French sea town of Boulogne with her step-son Bernard, running an antiques business from her apartment... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Hélène lives in the French sea town of Boulogne with her step-son Bernard, running an antiques business from her apartment... [More...]