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French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Femmes femmes (1974)
Paul Vecchiali
In their small Parisian apartment overlooking a cemetery, two over-the-hill actresses take solace in each other's company against a world which no longer appreciates their talents...
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Paul Vecchiali
Feu Mathias Pascal (1926)
Marcel L'Herbier
After the death of his father, Mathias Pascal learns that his family is in dire financial straits. He must abandon his dreams of an unfettered, carefree existence and finds work as an assistant librarian in the little town where he lives, Miragno...
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Marcel L'Herbier
La Fiancée du pirate (1969)
Nelly Kaplan
In a tightly knit rural community, Marie and her mother are outcasts, living in a small wood cabin. Marie is exploited and abused by both her employer, a lesbian landowner, and her oversexed male neighbours, who include the town's mayor and a seemingly respectable shopkeeper...
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Nelly Kaplan
Le Fils de l'épicier (2007)
Eric Guirado
When Antoine Sforza offers to lend some money to his best friend Claire he could not have imagined where this would lead...
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Eric Guirado
La Fin du jour (1939)
Julien Duvivier
After a final performance, the faded star Raphael Saint-Clair is ready to take up residence at the Abbaye de Saint-Jean-la-Rivière, a retirement home for actors who have fallen on hard times...
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Julien Duvivier
La Fleur du mal (2003)
Claude Chabrol
François Vasseur returns to his well-to-do family home in Bordeaux after a four year stay in the United States and finds little has changed... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
François Vasseur returns to his well-to-do family home in Bordeaux after a four year stay in the United States and finds little has changed... [More...]
Floride (2015)
Philippe Le Guay
Claude Lherminier may be eighty years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with. Lately, however, the retired industrialist has become increasingly forgetful and confused, his behaviour marked by alternately childish and aggressive interludes... [More...]
Philippe Le Guay
Claude Lherminier may be eighty years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with. Lately, however, the retired industrialist has become increasingly forgetful and confused, his behaviour marked by alternately childish and aggressive interludes... [More...]
Fortunat (1960)
Alex Joffé
With France under Nazi occupation, a young mother named Juliette finds that her own life is in danger when her husband, an active member of the French Resistance, is captured by the Germans... [More...]
Alex Joffé
With France under Nazi occupation, a young mother named Juliette finds that her own life is in danger when her husband, an active member of the French Resistance, is captured by the Germans... [More...]
Fou d'amour (2015)
Philippe Ramos
In 1959, a young Catholic priest takes up his new position in an idyllic rural community and soon makes himself the most popular man in the area... [More...]
Philippe Ramos
In 1959, a young Catholic priest takes up his new position in an idyllic rural community and soon makes himself the most popular man in the area... [More...]
La Fracture du myocarde (1990)
Jacques Fansten
Traumatised by the idea that he might be put into an orphanage, 12 year old Martin tries to hide the sudden death of his mother... [More...]
Jacques Fansten
Traumatised by the idea that he might be put into an orphanage, 12 year old Martin tries to hide the sudden death of his mother... [More...]
Gadjo dilo (1997)
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Les Galettes de Pont-Aven (1975)
Joël Séria
Peacefully nestled in the Loire Valley in the west of France is the picturesque town of Samur. This is home to Henri Serin, a modest umbrella salesman who devotes his free time to his two main pleasures in life - women and painting... [More...]
Joël Séria
Peacefully nestled in the Loire Valley in the west of France is the picturesque town of Samur. This is home to Henri Serin, a modest umbrella salesman who devotes his free time to his two main pleasures in life - women and painting... [More...]
Les Gens du voyage (1938)
Jacques Feyder
Flora, a tough, strong-willed lion-tamer, is the star attraction at the Barlay travelling Circus. However, even she is ill-prepared when her former lover, Fernand, returns to her after twenty years... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
Flora, a tough, strong-willed lion-tamer, is the star attraction at the Barlay travelling Circus. However, even she is ill-prepared when her former lover, Fernand, returns to her after twenty years... [More...]
La Gloire de mon père (1990)
Yves Robert
In the late 1890s, Joseph Pagnol, a schoolteacher and staunch atheist, lives with his wife Augustine in a district of Marseille... [More...]
Yves Robert
In the late 1890s, Joseph Pagnol, a schoolteacher and staunch atheist, lives with his wife Augustine in a district of Marseille... [More...]
Goto, l'île d'amour (1969)
Walerian Borowczyk
Goto is an island nation that has been cut off from the rest of the world for over a century. Since the late 1800s, when a massive earthquake devastated the region, the indigenous population has lived in a totally closed society, governed by a succession of all-powerful despots, all named after this benighted land... [More...]
Walerian Borowczyk
Goto is an island nation that has been cut off from the rest of the world for over a century. Since the late 1800s, when a massive earthquake devastated the region, the indigenous population has lived in a totally closed society, governed by a succession of all-powerful despots, all named after this benighted land... [More...]
Goupi mains rouges (1943)
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
Le Goût des autres (2000)
Agnès Jaoui
Castella is a successful businessman, but he is coarse and uneducated and he finds himself increasingly alone and unfulfilled... [More...]
Agnès Jaoui
Castella is a successful businessman, but he is coarse and uneducated and he finds himself increasingly alone and unfulfilled... [More...]
Le Grand alibi (2008)
Pascal Bonitzer
During a weekend break at the country estate of Senator Henri Pages, Pierre Collier is murdered. The obvious culprit is his wife, Claire, who is found at the scene of the crime holding a gun... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
During a weekend break at the country estate of Senator Henri Pages, Pierre Collier is murdered. The obvious culprit is his wife, Claire, who is found at the scene of the crime holding a gun... [More...]
Le Grand chemin (1987)
Jean-Loup Hubert
In the summer of 1959, a coach arrives in a small village in rural Brittany, bringing a pregnant mother Claire and her nine-year-old son Louis... [More...]
Jean-Loup Hubert
In the summer of 1959, a coach arrives in a small village in rural Brittany, bringing a pregnant mother Claire and her nine-year-old son Louis... [More...]
Le Grand soir (2012)
Gustave de Kervern
Not and Jean-Pierre are two brothers who could not be more different. In his forties, Not is proud to be the oldest street punk in Europe, happy to live off the detritus of a diseased society in the company of his faithful dog... [More...]
Gustave de Kervern
Not and Jean-Pierre are two brothers who could not be more different. In his forties, Not is proud to be the oldest street punk in Europe, happy to live off the detritus of a diseased society in the company of his faithful dog... [More...]
La Grande illusion (1937)
Jean Renoir
1916. During World War I, two French aviators, Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu, are shot down by German artillery whilst on a reconnaissance mission... [More...]
Jean Renoir
1916. During World War I, two French aviators, Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu, are shot down by German artillery whilst on a reconnaissance mission... [More...]
Les Grandes personnes (2008)
Anne Novion
To celebrate his daughter Jeanne's 17th birthday, Albert, a divorced librarian, takes her to the Swedish island Styrsö for their summer holiday... [More...]
Anne Novion
To celebrate his daughter Jeanne's 17th birthday, Albert, a divorced librarian, takes her to the Swedish island Styrsö for their summer holiday... [More...]
Gribiche (1926)
Jacques Feyder
12-year-old Antoine Belot, nicknamed Gribiche, lives with his mother, a war widow, in modest but comfortable lodgings in Paris... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
12-year-old Antoine Belot, nicknamed Gribiche, lives with his mother, a war widow, in modest but comfortable lodgings in Paris... [More...]
La Guerre des boutons (1962)
Yves Robert
Longueverne and Velrans are two quaint little French villages that have been at war for generations. It is a peculiar kind of war because it is prosecuted only by the boys of the two villages, but this isn't to say that the war is not fiercely fought... [More...]
Yves Robert
Longueverne and Velrans are two quaint little French villages that have been at war for generations. It is a peculiar kind of war because it is prosecuted only by the boys of the two villages, but this isn't to say that the war is not fiercely fought... [More...]
La Guerre est déclarée (2011)
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
Le Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
Les Herbes folles (2009)
Alain Resnais
Marguerite is out shopping when a street thief suddenly snatches her handbag and hurries away. Georges later finds the discarded handbag when he comes to collect his car in an underground car park... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Marguerite is out shopping when a street thief suddenly snatches her handbag and hurries away. Georges later finds the discarded handbag when he comes to collect his car in an underground car park... [More...]
Le Hérisson (2009)
Mona Achache
Renée Michel is not the uncultivated concierge that she pretends to be, but a fifty-something woman with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a passion for great works of literature... [More...]
Mona Achache
Renée Michel is not the uncultivated concierge that she pretends to be, but a fifty-something woman with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a passion for great works of literature... [More...]
L'Heure d'été (2008)
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
Heureux qui comme Ulysse (1970)
Henri Colpi
Antonin is an ageing farmhand who leads a peaceful existence in a small village in Provence. One day, his employer gives him an errand that he would rather not discharge - to take his old farm horse Ulysse to Arles, to end his days in the bullring... [More...]
Henri Colpi
Antonin is an ageing farmhand who leads a peaceful existence in a small village in Provence. One day, his employer gives him an errand that he would rather not discharge - to take his old farm horse Ulysse to Arles, to end his days in the bullring... [More...]