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French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Le Schpountz (1938)
Marcel Pagnol
Casimir and Irénée work in their uncle's grocer's shop in a Provençal village. Whilst Casimir sticks to his job, Irénée only dreams of becoming a film star...
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Marcel Pagnol
La Science des rêves (2006)
Michel Gondry
After the death of his father, Stéphane Miroux leaves his home in Mexico and returns to Paris to live with his mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child...
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Michel Gondry
Se souvenir des belles choses (2001)
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned...
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Zabou Breitman
Section spéciale (1975)
Costa-Gavras
In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer...
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Costa-Gavras
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1952)
Yves Allégret
At a busy fairground, a stallholder tries to drum up business by regaling passersby with stories illustrating each of the Seven Deadly Sins...
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Yves Allégret
Le Septième ciel (1997)
Benoît Jacquot
On the surface, Mathilde is a happily married young woman, working in her mother's law office whilst her husband pursues a successful career as a surgeon... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
On the surface, Mathilde is a happily married young woman, working in her mother's law office whilst her husband pursues a successful career as a surgeon... [More...]
Série noire (1979)
Alain Corneau
Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt... [More...]
Le Silence est d'or (1947)
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
Le Souffle au coeur (1971)
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923)
Germaine Dulac
Madame Beudet leads a melancholic and unfulfilled life, trapped in a loveless marriage to a draper who neglects and subjugates her... [More...]
Germaine Dulac
Madame Beudet leads a melancholic and unfulfilled life, trapped in a loveless marriage to a draper who neglects and subjugates her... [More...]
Sous le ciel de Paris (1951)
Julien Duvivier
In a small garret in Paris's sixth arrondissement, Mademoiselle Perrier lives with her numerous cats. To feed her treasured pets, the old woman needs to find 64 francs, so she sets out one morning to see if some kind soul will give her the money... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a small garret in Paris's sixth arrondissement, Mademoiselle Perrier lives with her numerous cats. To feed her treasured pets, the old woman needs to find 64 francs, so she sets out one morning to see if some kind soul will give her the money... [More...]
Souvenirs perdus (1950)
Christian-Jaque
Four forgotten objects in a lost property office each has a story to tell. An Egyptian statue was a present that Philippe once gave to his lover Florence... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Four forgotten objects in a lost property office each has a story to tell. An Egyptian statue was a present that Philippe once gave to his lover Florence... [More...]
Swing (2002)
Tony Gatlif
During the summer holidays, Max, a 10-year old boy, stays with his grandmother in the Alsace region of France. Frequently, he slips away to visit a community of Manouche gypsies, having befriended a young gypsy girl named Swing... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
During the summer holidays, Max, a 10-year old boy, stays with his grandmother in the Alsace region of France. Frequently, he slips away to visit a community of Manouche gypsies, having befriended a young gypsy girl named Swing... [More...]
Tandem (1987)
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
Le Témoin (1978)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [More...]
Le Temps de l'aventure (2013)
Jérôme Bonnell
Alix, an actress in her early forties, is performing in a play in Calais. When her paycheque fails to turn up she becomes anxious and takes the next train to Paris, hoping to hook up with her strangely elusive boyfriend... [More...]
Jérôme Bonnell
Alix, an actress in her early forties, is performing in a play in Calais. When her paycheque fails to turn up she becomes anxious and takes the next train to Paris, hoping to hook up with her strangely elusive boyfriend... [More...]
Le Temps de la kermesse est terminé (2010)
Frédéric Chignac
Alex had only intended to spend a few minutes in Kupala, just enough time to fill up his petrol tank. But when his car breaks down he ends up having to stay there for longer than he had planned... [More...]
Frédéric Chignac
Alex had only intended to spend a few minutes in Kupala, just enough time to fill up his petrol tank. But when his car breaks down he ends up having to stay there for longer than he had planned... [More...]
Thomas est amoureux (2000)
Pierre-Paul Renders
Thomas, 32, is the victim of chronic agoraphobia and hasn't left his apartment in eight years. His only contact with the outside world is via his visiophone, which keeps him in touch with his mother, his therapist and his insurance agent... [More...]
Pierre-Paul Renders
Thomas, 32, is the victim of chronic agoraphobia and hasn't left his apartment in eight years. His only contact with the outside world is via his visiophone, which keeps him in touch with his mother, his therapist and his insurance agent... [More...]
Tih Minh (1918)
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
After an expedition to Indochina, the French explorer Jacques d'Athys returns to his home in Nice, accompanied by Tih Minh, an attractive young woman he met on his travels and whom he intends to marry... [More...]
Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (2013)
Axelle Ropert
Boris and Dimitri Pizarnik are two doctors who share the same practice in the Chinese district of Paris. Brothers, they are inseparable, as devoted to each other as they are to the profession which occupies most of their waking hours... [More...]
Axelle Ropert
Boris and Dimitri Pizarnik are two doctors who share the same practice in the Chinese district of Paris. Brothers, they are inseparable, as devoted to each other as they are to the profession which occupies most of their waking hours... [More...]
Tomboy (2011)
Céline Sciamma
Laure is ten years old and delights in being something of a tomboy. Pretty dolls and fancy dresses have no interest for her... [More...]
Céline Sciamma
Laure is ten years old and delights in being something of a tomboy. Pretty dolls and fancy dresses have no interest for her... [More...]
Topaze (1936)
Marcel Pagnol
A modest teacher in a boys' school, Topaze does his utmost to instil in his pupils his creed that money can never buy happiness... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
A modest teacher in a boys' school, Topaze does his utmost to instil in his pupils his creed that money can never buy happiness... [More...]
Toto le héros (1991)
Jaco Van Dormael
In a retirement home, old Thomas looks back on his life, a life marred by hatred for one man: Alfred. As a boy, Thomas was convinced that he and Alfred, his next-door neighbour, were switched at birth... [More...]
Jaco Van Dormael
In a retirement home, old Thomas looks back on his life, a life marred by hatred for one man: Alfred. As a boy, Thomas was convinced that he and Alfred, his next-door neighbour, were switched at birth... [More...]
Tout est faux (2014)
Jean-Marie Villeneuve
Fred is a man alone in Paris. Every day, he goes through the same monotonous rituals at work. Then he wanders around the capital, mentally sifting through the components which make up the world that surrounds him... [More...]
Jean-Marie Villeneuve
Fred is a man alone in Paris. Every day, he goes through the same monotonous rituals at work. Then he wanders around the capital, mentally sifting through the components which make up the world that surrounds him... [More...]
Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp... [More...]
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp... [More...]
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Claude Autant-Lara
In Paris, during the Nazi occupation, Marcel Martin is forced to give up his job as a taxi driver, and makes a modest living as a blackmarket delivery boy... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
In Paris, during the Nazi occupation, Marcel Martin is forced to give up his job as a taxi driver, and makes a modest living as a blackmarket delivery boy... [More...]
Très bien, merci (2007)
Emmanuelle Cuau
Alex and Béatrice are an ordinary, law-abiding couple who enjoy a well-ordered life in the French capital. He is an accountant, she is a taxi driver... [More...]
Emmanuelle Cuau
Alex and Béatrice are an ordinary, law-abiding couple who enjoy a well-ordered life in the French capital. He is an accountant, she is a taxi driver... [More...]
Tristesse Club (2014)
Vincent Mariette
Bruno and Léon are two brothers, both in their thirties, who could not be more different. Bruno owns a successful dating website, but so far has had little success in his own love life... [More...]
Vincent Mariette
Bruno and Léon are two brothers, both in their thirties, who could not be more different. Bruno owns a successful dating website, but so far has had little success in his own love life... [More...]
Les Trois mousquetaires [TV] (1959)
Claude Barma
France, 1625. King Louis XIII reigns but it is the Cardinal de Richelieu who governs. As he is reprimanding Athos, Porthos and Aramis after being thrashed by the cardinal's men, Monsieur de Tréville is visited by the young Charles D'Artagnan, who is keen to serve as a musketeer... [More...]
Claude Barma
France, 1625. King Louis XIII reigns but it is the Cardinal de Richelieu who governs. As he is reprimanding Athos, Porthos and Aramis after being thrashed by the cardinal's men, Monsieur de Tréville is visited by the young Charles D'Artagnan, who is keen to serve as a musketeer... [More...]