La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais

On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome...   [More...]

Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
Claude Berri

In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, a Jewish couple decide to send their young son, Claude, to live in the country, where they hope he will be safe from arrest...   [More...]

La Vieille dame indigne (1965)
René Allio

Madame Berthe is 70 years old when her husband dies. She has two children, Albert and Gaston, who work nearby in Marseilles...   [More...]

Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador

On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers...   [More...]

La Voie lactée (1969)
Luis Buñuel

Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James...   [More...]

Week End (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard

One perfectly ordinary weekend, a perfectly ordinary married couple get into their car and head off to the country for an ordinary family get-together...   [More...]

Western (1997)
Manuel Poirier

When a Spanish sales rep Paco Cazale gives a lift to a Russian hitch-hiker, Nino, his life takes an unexpected turn. First he is stranded when Nino drives off with his car...   [More...]

Yoyo (1965)
Pierre Étaix

A reclusive millionaire is languishing in boredom in his opulent château when, one day, amidst a travelling circus, he recognises an old flame...   [More...]

Yuki et Nina (2009)
Hippolyte Girardot

When Yuki, a 9-year-old Franco-Japanese girl, learns that her parents are about to separate, she realises that she must accompany her mother to Japan...   [More...]

Zéro de conduite (1933)
Jean Vigo

The summer holidays over, a troupe of young boys return downheartedly to their boarding school, where they will no doubt have to endure another gruelling term of sanctions and punishments at the hands of their cruel teachers...   [More...]

Zim and Co. (2005)
Pierre Jolivet

20-year-old Victor Zimbietrovski, known to his friends as Zim, lives in the suburbs of Paris and ekes out a living doing odd jobs...   [More...]