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French cinema: All genres
Olivier, Olivier (1992)
Agnieszka Holland
The Duvals are a typical French family, leading an apparently peaceful existence in the heart of rural France. But appearances can be deceptive...
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Agnieszka Holland
Omar m'a tuer (2011)
Roschdy Zem
On 24th June 1991, Ghislaine Marchal is found dead in the cellar of her villa at Mougins. The words "Omar killed me" are written in blood near the body...
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Roschdy Zem
L'Ombre des femmes (2015)
Philippe Garrel
Pierre is a filmmaker of modest means who makes documentaries on a shoestring budget with the help of his wife Manon. At the moment, they are making a film about the French Resistance, and this is how Pierre comes to meet Elisabeth, a trainee film archivist...
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Philippe Garrel
Ombre et lumière (1951)
Henri Calef
Isabelle Leiritz was a world class pianist before a nervous breakdown imposed a temporary break on her career. Leaving the rest home where she has spent the past few years convalescing, Isabelle visits her half-sister Caroline and contemplates her future...
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Henri Calef
On connaît la chanson (1997)
Alain Resnais
In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated...
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Alain Resnais
L'Or des mers (1932)
Jean Epstein
Hoëdic is one of the poorer islands in the Breton archipelago off the coast of northwestern France. It is a desolate expanse of rock inhabited by a hundred fishing families who, unable to work for half of the year, live in extreme poverty, dependent on alms supplied by their kindly rector... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Hoëdic is one of the poorer islands in the Breton archipelago off the coast of northwestern France. It is a desolate expanse of rock inhabited by a hundred fishing families who, unable to work for half of the year, live in extreme poverty, dependent on alms supplied by their kindly rector... [More...]
Les Orgueilleux (1953)
Yves Allégret
In a remote Mexican town, a coach deposits two strangers, an attractive young French woman Nelly and her visibly sick husband Tom... [More...]
Yves Allégret
In a remote Mexican town, a coach deposits two strangers, an attractive young French woman Nelly and her visibly sick husband Tom... [More...]
Orphée (1949)
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Oscar (1967)
Edouard Molinaro
Bertrand Barnier is a rich businessman whose pride and joy is his designer house in which he leads a tranquil life with his wife Germaine and daughter Colette... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Bertrand Barnier is a rich businessman whose pride and joy is his designer house in which he leads a tranquil life with his wife Germaine and daughter Colette... [More...]
OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006)
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII... [More...]
Les Otages (1938)
Raymond Bernard
For many years, the tranquillity of a rural French town has been disturbed by the on-going feud between the mayor Beaumont and the country gentleman Rossignol... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
For many years, the tranquillity of a rural French town has been disturbed by the on-going feud between the mayor Beaumont and the country gentleman Rossignol... [More...]
Où va la nuit (2011)
Martin Provost
Fed up with being a victim, Rose Mayer decides to take charge of her own destiny and murder the aggressive husband who has made her life hell... [More...]
Martin Provost
Fed up with being a victim, Rose Mayer decides to take charge of her own destiny and murder the aggressive husband who has made her life hell... [More...]
Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971)
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [More...]
Ouvert la nuit (2017)
Edouard Baer
Just before his latest show The Woman and the Ape is due to open, Parisian theatre manager Luigi finds himself up to his neck in trouble... [More...]
Edouard Baer
Just before his latest show The Woman and the Ape is due to open, Parisian theatre manager Luigi finds himself up to his neck in trouble... [More...]
La P... respectueuse (1952)
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
Le Pacha (1968)
Georges Lautner
Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort... [More...]
Le Paltoquet (1986)
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Panique (1947)
Julien Duvivier
Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground... [More...]
Panique au village (2009)
Stéphane Aubier
Cowboy and Indian live happily together in a house in the country with their friend Horse. To celebrate Horse's birthday, Cowboy and Indian agree to organise a barbecue, but instead of the 50 bricks they ordered on the internet they somehow end up with 50 trillion... [More...]
Stéphane Aubier
Cowboy and Indian live happily together in a house in the country with their friend Horse. To celebrate Horse's birthday, Cowboy and Indian agree to organise a barbecue, but instead of the 50 bricks they ordered on the internet they somehow end up with 50 trillion... [More...]
Papa (2005)
Maurice Barthélémy
Louis would seem to have the best father a boy of his age could ask for - thoughtful, caring, always laughing. And yet, somehow, there seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between the two of them... [More...]
Maurice Barthélémy
Louis would seem to have the best father a boy of his age could ask for - thoughtful, caring, always laughing. And yet, somehow, there seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between the two of them... [More...]
Papy fait de la résistance (1983)
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
Parade (1974)
Jacques Tati
An excited audience of men, women and children take their seats in a circus tent, eager for the spectacle to begin. The genial Monsieur Loyal greets everyone with an invitation that all are welcome to join in the show... [More...]
Jacques Tati
An excited audience of men, women and children take their seats in a circus tent, eager for the spectacle to begin. The genial Monsieur Loyal greets everyone with an invitation that all are welcome to join in the show... [More...]
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Jacques Demy
France, 1957. Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother's umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry... [More...]
Jacques Demy
France, 1957. Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother's umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry... [More...]
Parc (2009)
Arnaud des Pallières
Georges Clou is a prosperous businessman who is proud of his success. He lives with his family in the south of France, in an immaculate gated residential area named Le Parc, where only the best people live... [More...]
Arnaud des Pallières
Georges Clou is a prosperous businessman who is proud of his success. He lives with his family in the south of France, in an immaculate gated residential area named Le Parc, where only the best people live... [More...]
Le Parc (2017)
Damien Manivel
One bright summer's day, a young man in his late teens is waiting for someone in a park. He is joined by a girl of about his age and it is apparent that they are on a first date... [More...]
Damien Manivel
One bright summer's day, a young man in his late teens is waiting for someone in a park. He is joined by a girl of about his age and it is apparent that they are on a first date... [More...]
Les Parents terribles (1948)
Jean Cocteau
Yvonne and Georges consider themselves a perfectly respectable bourgeois couple, although she is virtually a bedridden recluse and he occupies himself with his strange inventions... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Yvonne and Georges consider themselves a perfectly respectable bourgeois couple, although she is virtually a bedridden recluse and he occupies himself with his strange inventions... [More...]
Le Parfum d'Yvonne (1994)
Patrice Leconte
A bewildered young man looks back into the embers of his past, trying to find some sense in what he has experienced. In 1958, he sought refuge in Switzerland to avoid the Algerian war, posing as a Russian count, Victor Chmara... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
A bewildered young man looks back into the embers of his past, trying to find some sense in what he has experienced. In 1958, he sought refuge in Switzerland to avoid the Algerian war, posing as a Russian count, Victor Chmara... [More...]
Paris 1900 (1947)
Nicole Védrès
A vibrant montage of moving image depicting life in Paris in the dying days of the Belle Époque, from the turn of the 20th century to the start of the First World War... [More...]
Nicole Védrès
A vibrant montage of moving image depicting life in Paris in the dying days of the Belle Époque, from the turn of the 20th century to the start of the First World War... [More...]
Paris nous appartient (1961)
Jacques Rivette
Paris, June 1957. Anne Goupil, a student from the provinces, is half-heartedly revising for her exams when she finds herself drawn into an intrigue revolving around the death of a Spanish musician named Juan... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Paris, June 1957. Anne Goupil, a student from the provinces, is half-heartedly revising for her exams when she finds herself drawn into an intrigue revolving around the death of a Spanish musician named Juan... [More...]