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French cinema: All genres
Un mauvais fils (1980)
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail...
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Claude Sautet
Un monde à nous (2008)
Frédéric Balekdjian
Marc and his young son Noé arrive in a new town, hoping to begin a new life. Noé starts a new school, where he makes new friends, but his father continues to put him through intensive training in combat sports...
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Frédéric Balekdjian
Un monde sans pitié (1989)
Eric Rochant
Better a dropout than a yuppie, that's the philosophy of Hippo, a young man who has turned his back on the entire capitalist system...
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Eric Rochant
Un papillon sur l'épaule (1978)
Jacques Deray
Arriving in Barcelona to meet up with his wife, Roland Fériaud checks into a hotel and is surprised to find a dead man in the room next to his...
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Jacques Deray
Un poison violent (2010)
Katell Quillévéré
This is the summer when everything changed for Anna. On her return from boarding school, she discovers that her father has left home...
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Katell Quillévéré
Un prophète (2009)
Jacques Audiard
Malik El Djebena is a 19-year-old troublemaker who suddenly finds himself in a concrete Hell that will change his life forever... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
Malik El Djebena is a 19-year-old troublemaker who suddenly finds himself in a concrete Hell that will change his life forever... [More...]
Un revenant (1946)
Christian-Jaque
Impresario Jean-Jacques Sauvage returns to his home town of Lyons, ostensibly to stage a new ballet production, but as he renews old acquaintances it is evident that he has darker motives in mind... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Impresario Jean-Jacques Sauvage returns to his home town of Lyons, ostensibly to stage a new ballet production, but as he renews old acquaintances it is evident that he has darker motives in mind... [More...]
Un roman policier (2008)
Stéphanie Duvivier
Lieutenant Emilie Carange leads a small police station in a suburban district with a high immigrant population. After one of her officers is killed in a raid, she is assigned a trainee cop, Jamil Messaouden, and she wastes no time in indoctrinating him in her less than orthodox police methods... [More...]
Stéphanie Duvivier
Lieutenant Emilie Carange leads a small police station in a suburban district with a high immigrant population. After one of her officers is killed in a raid, she is assigned a trainee cop, Jamil Messaouden, and she wastes no time in indoctrinating him in her less than orthodox police methods... [More...]
Un sac de billes (1975)
Jacques Doillon
Paris, 1941. Joseph and Maurice are two boys whose father, a Jew, owns a barber's shop. Joseph is 10, his brother is 12, and neither understands why it is a crime to be a Jew... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Paris, 1941. Joseph and Maurice are two boys whose father, a Jew, owns a barber's shop. Joseph is 10, his brother is 12, and neither understands why it is a crime to be a Jew... [More...]
Un secret (2007)
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, seven year old François feels estranged from his father Maxime and invents for himself a fictitious brother... [More...]
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, seven year old François feels estranged from his father Maxime and invents for himself a fictitious brother... [More...]
Un soir, un train (1968)
André Delvaux
Mathias is professor of linguistics at a Belgian university. Although middle-aged, he is unmarried, but has a mistress, Anne... [More...]
André Delvaux
Mathias is professor of linguistics at a Belgian university. Although middle-aged, he is unmarried, but has a mistress, Anne... [More...]
Un taxi mauve (1977)
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960)
Denys de La Patellière
Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot... [More...]
Un témoin dans la ville (1959)
Edouard Molinaro
In the course of a violent argument, businessman Pierre Verdier pushes his mistress Jeanne out of a moving train. Tried for murder, he is subsequently acquitted through lack of evidence... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
In the course of a violent argument, businessman Pierre Verdier pushes his mistress Jeanne out of a moving train. Tried for murder, he is subsequently acquitted through lack of evidence... [More...]
Une affaire de femmes (1988)
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]
Une affaire de goût (2000)
Bernard Rapp
Frédéric Delamont is a rich and powerful industrialist who takes an almost sadistic relish in exerting his power and influence over others... [More...]
Bernard Rapp
Frédéric Delamont is a rich and powerful industrialist who takes an almost sadistic relish in exerting his power and influence over others... [More...]
Une chambre en ville (1982)
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
L'Une chante, l'autre pas (1977)
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child... [More...]
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child... [More...]
Une étrange affaire (1981)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Louis Coline, a man in his early thirties, leads a comfortable but fairly routine life, working as a publicity officer for a large department store in Paris... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Louis Coline, a man in his early thirties, leads a comfortable but fairly routine life, working as a publicity officer for a large department store in Paris... [More...]
Une exécution ordinaire (2010)
Marc Dugain
In the autumn of 1952, a young woman doctor is working at a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. She is desperate to become pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist whose only reason for living is the love he has for his wife... [More...]
Marc Dugain
In the autumn of 1952, a young woman doctor is working at a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. She is desperate to become pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist whose only reason for living is the love he has for his wife... [More...]
Une femme de ménage (2002)
Claude Berri
Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression... [More...]
Claude Berri
Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression... [More...]
Une femme douce (1969)
Robert Bresson
Shortly after her husband has left their Parisian apartment, a young woman commits suicide by leaping from a balcony. As the smashed body of the dead woman lies before him, the bereaved husband recollects their shared history together in an attempt to understand what drove her to such a drastic act... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Shortly after her husband has left their Parisian apartment, a young woman commits suicide by leaping from a balcony. As the smashed body of the dead woman lies before him, the bereaved husband recollects their shared history together in an attempt to understand what drove her to such a drastic act... [More...]
Une femme est une femme (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard
Angela is an attractive nightclub striptease artist who shares a small Parisian apartment with her boyfriend Emile. One day, on the spur of the moment, she decides that she must have a baby... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Angela is an attractive nightclub striptease artist who shares a small Parisian apartment with her boyfriend Emile. One day, on the spur of the moment, she decides that she must have a baby... [More...]
Une femme mariée (1964)
Jean-Luc Godard
Married to Pierre, an airline pilot, Charlotte leads a settled middle-class existence and couldn't be happier. She has a son she adores, Nicolas, and has plenty to occupy her... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Married to Pierre, an airline pilot, Charlotte leads a settled middle-class existence and couldn't be happier. She has a son she adores, Nicolas, and has plenty to occupy her... [More...]
Une histoire simple (1978)
Claude Sautet
Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading... [More...]
Une nouvelle amie (2014)
François Ozon
A comfortably situated housewife, Claire falls into a deep depression when her best friend, Laura, is struck down by a terminal illness... [More...]
François Ozon
A comfortably situated housewife, Claire falls into a deep depression when her best friend, Laura, is struck down by a terminal illness... [More...]
Une nuit (2012)
Philippe Lefebvre
Simon Weiss's life as a dedicated cop in Paris's vice squad is mostly routine. Most nights are uneventful, more likely to arouse boredom than excitement... [More...]
Philippe Lefebvre
Simon Weiss's life as a dedicated cop in Paris's vice squad is mostly routine. Most nights are uneventful, more likely to arouse boredom than excitement... [More...]
Une part du ciel (2002)
Bénédicte Liénard
Claudine's days are spent folding pastries on a production line in a food processing factory. A militant trades union leader, she strives to get better pay and working conditions from her employers, but progressively her union's influence is diminishing... [More...]
Bénédicte Liénard
Claudine's days are spent folding pastries on a production line in a food processing factory. A militant trades union leader, she strives to get better pay and working conditions from her employers, but progressively her union's influence is diminishing... [More...]
Une partie de plaisir (1975)
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Une place sur la Terre (2013)
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]