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French cinema: All genres

Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser (2009)
Christophe Honoré

Since the break-up of her marriage, Léna has coped as best she may to bring up her two young children single-handedly...   [More...]

Nos batailles (2018)
Guillaume Senez

Olivier has enough to cope with at work for him to take on the additional responsibilities of fatherhood. Fortunately, he can rely on his wife Laura to shoulder most of the burden of raising their two young children, Elliot and Rose...   [More...]

Nos enfants chéris (2003)
Benoît Cohen

One day, two ex-lovers, Martin and Constance, run into each other in a supermarket. After several years apart, they find they are now in their early thirties, are married and are just discovering the joys of parenthood...   [More...]

Notre histoire (1984)
Bertrand Blier

Robert Avranche is sitting by himself on a train, contemplating the utter pointlessness of his existence, when an attractive young woman enters his compartment and tries to engage him in conversation...   [More...]

Notre-Dame de Paris (1911)
Albert Capellani

Paris, 1482. In the streets of the capital, the common folk are enthralled by the sight of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda as she performs exotic dances for their entertainment and for the few meagre coins they offer her in return...   [More...]

Nous irons à Paris (1950)
Jean Boyer

Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station...   [More...]

Nous les gosses (1941)
Louis Daquin

Nicolas is playing football with his classmates in the school playground when he accidentally kicks the ball through a windowpane...   [More...]

Nous n'irons plus au bois (1955)
Ivan Govar

Leaving a juvenile detention centre after serving a term for the accidental killing of his stepmother, Yan makes his way across country to his home village in Flanders, eager to make a fresh start...   [More...]

Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972)
Maurice Pialat

For the past six years, Jean, a struggling filmmaker in his forties, has been pursuing a turbulent love affair with a much younger woman, Catherine...   [More...]

Nous resterons sur Terre (2009)
Pierre Barougier

In the face of dramatic climate change and dwindling natural resources, we have almost reached the point at which the survival of our species is threatened unless we change our behaviour...   [More...]

Nous sommes tous des assassins (1952)
André Cayatte

During World War II, a series of chance incidents lead an ill-educated young man, René Le Guen, to be recruited by the French Resistance...   [More...]

Les Nouveaux messieurs (1929)
Jacques Feyder

Suzanne Verrier's dreams of becoming a star ballerina with the Paris Opéra ballet company are encouraged by her wealthy patron, Count Montoire-Grandpré...   [More...]

Nouvelles luttes extravagantes (1900)
Georges Méliès

Two attractive young women are transformed into two male wresters who begin an extravagant wrestling match with relish. One combatant throws his opponent into the air and, when he recovers, the second wrestler knocks the first over and pulls off his arms and legs...   [More...]

Nue propriété (2006)
Joachim Lafosse

Since her husband left her for another woman many years ago, Pascale has struggled to keep her family farm in Belgium going, with the support of her two sons, François and Thierry...   [More...]

La Nuit américaine (1973)
François Truffaut

A film company is shooting the film Je vous présente Pamela in the south of France. The tensions and problems that arise during the filming greatly surpass the drama of the film being made...   [More...]

Nuit de décembre (1940)
Curtis Bernhardt

In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a world-class pianist, falls in love with an attractive young woman named Anne, but after a night of passion she mysteriously walks out of his life, never to return...   [More...]

La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Ettore Scola

June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital...   [More...]

La Nuit du carrefour (1932)
Jean Renoir

At the Carrefour des Trois-Veuves, some thirty kilometres north of Paris, insurance agent Michonnet is surprised when his car is stolen...   [More...]

Nuit et brouillard (1955)
Alain Resnais

The Holocaust - two words forever etched on the consciousness of mankind. They resound in our minds like an implacable condemnation from a Celestial power, for a crime which rips the heart and soul out of man's moral purpose...   [More...]

Nuits blanches sur la jetée (2015)
Paul Vecchiali

A young man named Fédor is spending a solitary holiday in a small port on the Côte d'Azur. He idles away his evenings by walking alone on a pier stretching out into the Mediterranean...   [More...]

Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)
Eric Rohmer

Louise is a young designer who lives in the suburbs of Paris with her boyfriend Rémi. Whilst the two are deeply in love, they are temperamentally very different, and this is beginning to put a strain on their relationship...   [More...]

Les Nuits fauves (1992)
Cyril Collard

Jean is an aspiring filmmaker who leads a selfish and hedonistic life. He knows that he is HIV positive but he is determined not to let this take away his zest for life, so he continues living a wild and irresponsible life, enjoying meaningless liaisons with both men and women...   [More...]

Les Nuits moscovites (1934)
Alexis Granowsky

Moscow, 1916. To restore her family's wealth and reputation, Natasha Kovrine agrees to become engaged to the wealthy grain merchant Brioukhov, even though he is many years her senior...   [More...]

Nuits rouges (1974)
Georges Franju

A mysterious master criminal is determined to recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, but the one man who may be able to help him - the historian Maxime de Borrego - prefers death to giving away the secret...   [More...]

Objectif: 500 millions (1966)
Pierre Schoendoerffer

Paris, 1966. Richau, a former captain in the French paratroop regiment, has just been released from prison after serving a term for participating in an uprising during the Algerian War...   [More...]

L'Occitanienne (2008)
Jean Périssé

Who was L'Occitanienne, the mysterious woman that preoccupied the celebrated French writer René de Chateaubriand in his later years...   [More...]

Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1949)
Claude Autant-Lara

Paris, 1910. Spectators at the Palais Royal watch in anticipation as the curtain rises on a stage production of Georges Feydeau's play Occupe-toi d'Amélie...   [More...]

L'Oeil de Vichy (1993)
Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol assembles a montage of newsreel clips from the time of the Nazi Occupation to show France not how he saw it, but how the Vichy government wanted it to be seen...   [More...]

L'Oeil du malin (1962)
Claude Chabrol

Embittered by his failure to make a success of his career as a journalist, Albin Mercier enjoys nothing more than bringing misery to others, particularly those who have made something of their lives...   [More...]

Olivia (1951)
Jacqueline Audry

Victoire, the cook at a young women's institution, is charged with meeting Olivia, a young English student, at the station...   [More...]



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