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French cinema: All genres
Paris qui dort (1925)
René Clair
Albert, the young keeper of the Eiffel Tower, awakes one morning and is at once struck by how quiet it is. From his vantage point on the third level of the tower he cannot help noticing that the whole of Paris is at a complete standstill...
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René Clair
Paris s'éveille (1991)
Olivier Assayas
19-year old Adrien leaves his mother in Toulouse after becoming mixed up in a theft. He heads for Paris where he hopes his estranged father, Clément, will offer him a helping hand...
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Olivier Assayas
Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)
Agnès Jaoui
It is with great reluctance that Agathe Villanova returns to her home town in the south of France. She had hoped she had seen the last of the region when she left it some years ago, to pursue a successful career as a feminist writer and activist...
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Agnès Jaoui
Les Particules (2019)
Blaise Harrison
In the Pays de Gex, a region of France on the border with Switzerland, Pierre-André (who prefers to be known as P.A.) is in his last year at school...
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Blaise Harrison
Partie de campagne (1936)
Jean Renoir
In the summer of 1860, Monsieur Dufour, a successful Parisian shopkeeper, decides to spend a day in the country, in the company of his mother-in-law, his wife Juliette, his daughter Henriette and his future son-in-law Anatole...
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Jean Renoir
Partir (2009)
Catherine Corsini
Suzanne has grown tired of her comfortable middle-class existence. Now she is forty she yearns for new challenges and decides to resume her old career as a physiotherapist... [More...]
Catherine Corsini
Suzanne has grown tired of her comfortable middle-class existence. Now she is forty she yearns for new challenges and decides to resume her old career as a physiotherapist... [More...]
Le Passage du Rhin (1960)
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
Les Passagers (1999)
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Men and women, like lost souls, drift across Paris, their journeys made easier and emptier by the new tramway system that carries them along with their solemn thoughts and sad remembrances... [More...]
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Men and women, like lost souls, drift across Paris, their journeys made easier and emptier by the new tramway system that carries them along with their solemn thoughts and sad remembrances... [More...]
La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)
Jacques Rouffio
Max Baumstein is the esteemed president of an international human rights organisation, so the world is shocked when he cold bloodedly kills the ambassador to Paraguay... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Max Baumstein is the esteemed president of an international human rights organisation, so the world is shocked when he cold bloodedly kills the ambassador to Paraguay... [More...]
Le Passé (2013)
Asghar Farhadi
Four years after their separation, Ahmad travels from Teheran to Paris at the request of his wife Marie so that they can formalise their divorce... [More...]
Asghar Farhadi
Four years after their separation, Ahmad travels from Teheran to Paris at the request of his wife Marie so that they can formalise their divorce... [More...]
Le Passe-montagne (1978)
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
In 1431, Joan of Arc is arrested and brought before a court of ecclesiastical judges on a charge of treason and heresy. The Church believes that Joan's visions are manifestations of the Devil, but she maintains they are messages from God and his saints... [More...]
Carl Theodor Dreyer
In 1431, Joan of Arc is arrested and brought before a court of ecclesiastical judges on a charge of treason and heresy. The Church believes that Joan's visions are manifestations of the Devil, but she maintains they are messages from God and his saints... [More...]
Pasteur (1923)
Jean Benoît-Lévy
For a man who was destined to change the world more than any other human being Louis Pasteur came from the humblest of origins... [More...]
Jean Benoît-Lévy
For a man who was destined to change the world more than any other human being Louis Pasteur came from the humblest of origins... [More...]
Patrie (1946)
Louis Daquin
Flanders in the late 16th century. With his country under occupation by the armies of the King of Spain, the nobleman Count Rysoor enters into a pact with William of Orange to lead a revolt that will free his people from Spanish rule... [More...]
Louis Daquin
Flanders in the late 16th century. With his country under occupation by the armies of the King of Spain, the nobleman Count Rysoor enters into a pact with William of Orange to lead a revolt that will free his people from Spanish rule... [More...]
Les Patriotes (1994)
Eric Rochant
Immediately after turning 18, Ariel Brenner, a Parisian Jew, leaves his comfortable middleclass home and family in France and sets out for Israel, to live in a kibbutz... [More...]
Eric Rochant
Immediately after turning 18, Ariel Brenner, a Parisian Jew, leaves his comfortable middleclass home and family in France and sets out for Israel, to live in a kibbutz... [More...]
Patrouille de choc (1957)
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Pattes blanches (1949)
Jean Grémillon
Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn... [More...]
Pauline à la plage (1983)
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Pauline et François (2010)
Renaud Fely
Pauline is a young woman, in her late twenties, who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. Seeking escape from her old life, she moves to the country, and it is here that she meets François, an introverted man who is about her age and who has his own share of woes... [More...]
Renaud Fely
Pauline is a young woman, in her late twenties, who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. Seeking escape from her old life, she moves to the country, and it is here that she meets François, an introverted man who is about her age and who has his own share of woes... [More...]
Le Pays sans étoiles (1946)
Georges Lacombe
After an accident in which he suffers a head injury, Simon Legouge, a modest notary's clerk, begins to experience a series of strange visions... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
After an accident in which he suffers a head injury, Simon Legouge, a modest notary's clerk, begins to experience a series of strange visions... [More...]
Peau d'âne (1970)
Jacques Demy
On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she... [More...]
Jacques Demy
On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she... [More...]
Peau de pêche (1929)
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [More...]
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [More...]
La Peau douce (1964)
François Truffaut
Pierre Lachenay is a world-renowned literary expert and publisher. He is married to Franca and lives in Paris with his young daughter Sabine... [More...]
François Truffaut
Pierre Lachenay is a world-renowned literary expert and publisher. He is married to Franca and lives in Paris with his young daughter Sabine... [More...]
Pension Mimosas (1935)
Jacques Feyder
In 1924, Louise Noblet and her husband Gaston run a small hotel, the Pension Mimosas, on the French Riviera. Their clients are mostly small-time gamblers hoping to strike it lucky at a nearby casino... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
In 1924, Louise Noblet and her husband Gaston run a small hotel, the Pension Mimosas, on the French Riviera. Their clients are mostly small-time gamblers hoping to strike it lucky at a nearby casino... [More...]
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Julien Duvivier
The French outlaw Pépé le Moko has gained a reputation as the most notorious gangster in Algiers, loyally served by his band of armed cohorts... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
The French outlaw Pépé le Moko has gained a reputation as the most notorious gangster in Algiers, loyally served by his band of armed cohorts... [More...]
Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time... [More...]
Le Père de mes enfants (2009)
Mia Hansen-Løve
Film producer Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want - a wife whom he worships, three adorable children, and a job that means everything to him... [More...]
Mia Hansen-Løve
Film producer Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want - a wife whom he worships, three adorable children, and a job that means everything to him... [More...]
Le Père Goriot (1945)
Robert Vernay
Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris. Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris. Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world... [More...]
Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Le Père tranquille (1946)
René Clément
Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre... [More...]
René Clément
Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre... [More...]