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French cinema: All genres
La Ballade des Dalton (1978)
René Goscinny
The Wild West has its fair share of desperados, but few are as desperate as the Dalton brothers, the sad bunch of despicable outlaws who are now just a few days into their two and half thousand year long prison sentence...
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René Goscinny
Ballade pour un voyou (1963)
Claude-Jean Bonnardot
Recently released from prison, juvenile delinquent Vincent Vivant tries to make a fresh start as a garage mechanic. Tempted by easy money, he agrees to act as a courier for a spy named Stéphane, his errand being to take a mysterious suitcase to its intended owner...
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Claude-Jean Bonnardot
Le Ballon rouge (1956)
Albert Lamorisse
One day, a solitary little boy named Pascal comes across a spherical red balloon tied to a lamppost. Without hesitating, the boy releases the balloon and it begins following him as he continues wandering around the streets of Paris...
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Albert Lamorisse
La Bande à Bonnot (1968)
Philippe Fourastié
In 1911, a group of hard-line anarchists - including Raymond-la-science, Garnier, Carouy, Soudy and Marie la Belge - give up their peaceful struggle against the bourgeoisie and, led by Jules Bonnot, become a gang of desperate armed criminals...
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Philippe Fourastié
Bande à part (1964)
Jean-Luc Godard
Odile is a young woman who lives in Paris, working as a housekeeper for her aunt, Madame Victoria. She tells Franz, a fellow student at the language school she attends, that her neighbour, Mr Stoltz, keeps a huge stash of money in an unlocked cupboard...
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Jean-Luc Godard
La Bandera (1935)
Julien Duvivier
Pierre Gilieth finds himself a fugitive from justice after killing a man in a Montmartre bar. He evades arrest by fleeing to Barcelona, where, penniless and desperate, he decides to enlist in the Foreign Legion... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Pierre Gilieth finds himself a fugitive from justice after killing a man in a Montmartre bar. He evades arrest by fleeing to Barcelona, where, penniless and desperate, he decides to enlist in the Foreign Legion... [More...]
Baptême (1989)
René Féret
A mining town in northern France, 1935. Aline, a young waitress in a café, falls in love with one of her customers, Pierre, and persuades her reluctant parents to let him marry her... [More...]
René Féret
A mining town in northern France, 1935. Aline, a young waitress in a café, falls in love with one of her customers, Pierre, and persuades her reluctant parents to let him marry her... [More...]
Bar des rails (1991)
Cédric Kahn
Richard leads a humdrum existence in a typically dull French provincial town. He is 16 and lives with his mother, who makes enough money to support them on her income as a dressmaker... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Richard leads a humdrum existence in a typically dull French provincial town. He is 16 and lives with his mother, who makes enough money to support them on her income as a dressmaker... [More...]
Barbe-bleue (1901)
Georges Méliès
The wealthy Lord Bluebeard has had seven wives - all have died in mysterious circumstances. Despite his great age, he decides to marry an eighth time and invites many nobles to his court to present their daughters to him... [More...]
Georges Méliès
The wealthy Lord Bluebeard has had seven wives - all have died in mysterious circumstances. Despite his great age, he decides to marry an eighth time and invites many nobles to his court to present their daughters to him... [More...]
Les Barbouzes (1964)
Georges Lautner
After the death of an eminent armaments manufacturer Constantin Benard Shah, four ruthless secret agents nicknamed Les Barbouzes are assigned to recover the plans for a revolutionary thermonuclear device that are hidden amongst the deceased's personal effects... [More...]
Georges Lautner
After the death of an eminent armaments manufacturer Constantin Benard Shah, four ruthless secret agents nicknamed Les Barbouzes are assigned to recover the plans for a revolutionary thermonuclear device that are hidden amongst the deceased's personal effects... [More...]
Bartleby (1976)
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement... [More...]
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement... [More...]
Les Bas-fonds (1936)
Jean Renoir
Having been dismissed from his official post for embezzlement, a baron gambles away the last of his fortune at the card table... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Having been dismissed from his official post for embezzlement, a baron gambles away the last of his fortune at the card table... [More...]
La Bataille de l'eau lourde (1948)
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan... [More...]
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan... [More...]
La Bataille du rail (1946)
René Clément
This episodic film recounts the exploits of French railway workers supporting the activities of the French Resistance during the Second World War... [More...]
René Clément
This episodic film recounts the exploits of French railway workers supporting the activities of the French Resistance during the Second World War... [More...]
Le Bataillon du ciel (1947)
Alexander Esway
Spring, 1944: a decisive moment in the Second World War. Colonel Rouvier, a respected soldier who lost an arm in combat in Tunisia, is put in charge of training a parachute regiment of the French Free Forces in England... [More...]
Alexander Esway
Spring, 1944: a decisive moment in the Second World War. Colonel Rouvier, a respected soldier who lost an arm in combat in Tunisia, is put in charge of training a parachute regiment of the French Free Forces in England... [More...]
Battement de coeur (1940)
Henri Decoin
On leaving a reformatory, Arlette finds herself alone and penniless in Paris. An orphan, she has no one to stay with and nowhere to go... [More...]
Henri Decoin
On leaving a reformatory, Arlette finds herself alone and penniless in Paris. An orphan, she has no one to stay with and nowhere to go... [More...]
Le Beau mariage (1982)
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children... [More...]
Le Beau Serge (1958)
Claude Chabrol
Stricken with tuberculosis, a young student named François returns to his home town of Sardent in the Creuse region of central France for a period of quiet convalescence... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Stricken with tuberculosis, a young student named François returns to his home town of Sardent in the Creuse region of central France for a period of quiet convalescence... [More...]
Beau travail (1999)
Claire Denis
As he struggles to adjust to civilian life, a former military man Galoup recalls his past life in the French Foreign Legion, in particular the incidents which led to his humiliating dismissal... [More...]
Claire Denis
As he struggles to adjust to civilian life, a former military man Galoup recalls his past life in the French Foreign Legion, in particular the incidents which led to his humiliating dismissal... [More...]
Beau-père (1981)
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants... [More...]
Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996)
Edouard Molinaro
In France of the 1770s, the reign of King Louis XV is drawing to an end. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clocksmith, enjoys fame and notoriety as a playwright and outspoken critic of the ruling elite... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
In France of the 1770s, the reign of King Louis XV is drawing to an end. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clocksmith, enjoys fame and notoriety as a playwright and outspoken critic of the ruling elite... [More...]
La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
Les Beaux gosses (2009)
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
The Beekeeper (1986)
Theodoros Angelopoulos
After giving up his job as a schoolteacher 60-year-old Spiros needs a hobby to occupy him, so he decides to take up beekeeping... [More...]
Theodoros Angelopoulos
After giving up his job as a schoolteacher 60-year-old Spiros needs a hobby to occupy him, so he decides to take up beekeeping... [More...]
Bellamy (2009)
Claude Chabrol
As is his custom, police commissioner Paul Bellamy takes his annual summer break in the south of France, staying with wife Francoise's family in Nimes... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
As is his custom, police commissioner Paul Bellamy takes his annual summer break in the south of France, staying with wife Francoise's family in Nimes... [More...]
Belle de jour (1967)
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Belle épine (2010)
Rebecca Zlotowski
Prudence Friedman is 17 and is currently living alone in the family apartment in Paris. Her mother has just died, her father is away on a business trip to Canada, and her sister Frédérique has moved out... [More...]
Rebecca Zlotowski
Prudence Friedman is 17 and is currently living alone in the family apartment in Paris. Her mother has just died, her father is away on a business trip to Canada, and her sister Frédérique has moved out... [More...]
La Belle équipe (1936)
Julien Duvivier
France, 1936, Jean, Charles, Mario, Raymond and Jacques are five unemployed friends who are desperately looking for work and live in a squalid Parisian apartment block... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
France, 1936, Jean, Charles, Mario, Raymond and Jacques are five unemployed friends who are desperately looking for work and live in a squalid Parisian apartment block... [More...]
La Belle et la bête (1946)
Jean Cocteau
Once upon a time, there was an old merchant who, having fallen on hard times, lives with his three daughters and his son at their modest house in the country... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Once upon a time, there was an old merchant who, having fallen on hard times, lives with his three daughters and his son at their modest house in the country... [More...]
La Belle meunière (1948)
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]