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French cinema: Comedy/Drama
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...
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Henri Colpi
Holy Lola (2004)
Bertrand Tavernier
Pierre and Géraldine Ceyssac are a French couple who, unable to have children of their own, head off to Cambodia in the hope of adopting an orphan...
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Bertrand Tavernier
Holy Motors (2012)
Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides.....
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Leos Carax
Home (2008)
Ursula Meier
Marthe, Michel and their three children have been living in perfect harmony for ten years. Their house is in the most peaceful spot, miles from anywhere beside a stretch of motorway that was never completed...
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Ursula Meier
L'Homme aux clefs d'or (1956)
Léo Joannon
Antoine Fournier is a teacher in a college, a kind man who spends his free timing raising funds for a good cause. One day, Rémy Bellanger, one of his students, is caught by Fournier whilst stealing money in his office...
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Léo Joannon
L'Homme du train (2002)
Patrice Leconte
One evening, a stranger, Milan, arrives in a small French town and enters a pharmacy to buy some aspirin. There, he meets Manesquier, a retired teacher who lives alone in a huge house... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
One evening, a stranger, Milan, arrives in a small French town and enters a pharmacy to buy some aspirin. There, he meets Manesquier, a retired teacher who lives alone in a huge house... [More...]
L'Homme fidèle (2018)
Louis Garrel
Abel, a journalist in his early thirties, has been in a settled relationship with his girlfriend Marianne for three years... [More...]
Louis Garrel
Abel, a journalist in his early thirties, has been in a settled relationship with his girlfriend Marianne for three years... [More...]
L'Homme qui a perdu son ombre (1991)
Alain Tanner
Suffering from a creative block, a writer, Paul, walks away from his wife and job and hides away in a remote Spanish resort in the hope of regaining his inspiration... [More...]
Alain Tanner
Suffering from a creative block, a writer, Paul, walks away from his wife and job and hides away in a remote Spanish resort in the hope of regaining his inspiration... [More...]
L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)
François Truffaut
Before his abrupt, tragic and somewhat farcical death in his mid-forties, Bernard Morane was the most inveterate of skirt chasers... [More...]
François Truffaut
Before his abrupt, tragic and somewhat farcical death in his mid-forties, Bernard Morane was the most inveterate of skirt chasers... [More...]
Huis clos (1954)
Jacqueline Audry
On leaving an elevator, a diverse group of people find themselves in the lobby of what looks like a plush hotel. The receptionist deals with the new arrivals with a cold professionalism and, one by one, they are directed to their rooms... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
On leaving an elevator, a diverse group of people find themselves in the lobby of what looks like a plush hotel. The receptionist deals with the new arrivals with a cold professionalism and, one by one, they are directed to their rooms... [More...]
Huit fois debout (2010)
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
Xabi Molia
Elsa tries to get by doing odd-jobs whilst looking for a real job that will allow her to take custody of her son. Mathieu, her next-door neighbour, is also busy job hunting, but is proving to be just as unsuccessful at finding suitable employment... [More...]
Le Huitième jour (1996)
Jaco Van Dormael
Harry is a high-powered communications officer for a leading multinational bank. He is comfortably off, well-respected and an incurable workaholic... [More...]
Jaco Van Dormael
Harry is a high-powered communications officer for a leading multinational bank. He is comfortably off, well-respected and an incurable workaholic... [More...]
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Alain Resnais
An ageing American cartoonists, Joey Wellman, makes a visit to Paris to attend an exhibition of his work. He plans to meet up with his daughter, Elsie, who is studying at the Sorbonne, but she has little respect for her father and fails to keep the rendez-vous... [More...]
Alain Resnais
An ageing American cartoonists, Joey Wellman, makes a visit to Paris to attend an exhibition of his work. He plans to meet up with his daughter, Elsie, who is studying at the Sorbonne, but she has little respect for her father and fails to keep the rendez-vous... [More...]
Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004)
Yvan Attal
Vincent and Georges are two 40-somethings who are both beginning to hanker after a more exciting love life. Each man feels he is trapped in a long-term relationship with a woman who, on the face of it, would appear to be his ideal partner... [More...]
Yvan Attal
Vincent and Georges are two 40-somethings who are both beginning to hanker after a more exciting love life. Each man feels he is trapped in a long-term relationship with a woman who, on the face of it, would appear to be his ideal partner... [More...]
L'Inconnu du lac (2013)
Alain Guiraudie
A secluded beach beside a placid lake provides a haven for a handful of men who feel the need to strip off and surrender themselves to the sun's rays and the admiring gaze of others... [More...]
Alain Guiraudie
A secluded beach beside a placid lake provides a haven for a handful of men who feel the need to strip off and surrender themselves to the sun's rays and the admiring gaze of others... [More...]
Les Invités de mon père (2010)
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
Anne Le Ny
Lucien Paumelle has dedicated his life to humanitarian causes. Now in his eighties and retired, he devotes his energies to helping illegal immigrants... [More...]
Irma Vep (1996)
Olivier Assayas
A once great film director, René Vidal, attempts a come back by remaking Louis Feuillade's classic crime serial, Les Vampires... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
A once great film director, René Vidal, attempts a come back by remaking Louis Feuillade's classic crime serial, Les Vampires... [More...]
J'ai horreur de l'amour (1997)
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Annie, a 30-something divorcee, is a doctor with her own medical practice in Paris. One summer, her working days feel as empty and uneventful as her love life - until two men enter her surgery and her life... [More...]
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Annie, a 30-something divorcee, is a doctor with her own medical practice in Paris. One summer, her working days feel as empty and uneventful as her love life - until two men enter her surgery and her life... [More...]
J'ai tué ma mère (2009)
Xavier Dolan
Hubert Minel is a 16-year-old French Canadian student who lives in Montreal with his mother, Chantale. Since her husband walked out on her nine years ago, Chantale has struggled to bring up her son single-handedly, but he shows her little gratitude for her efforts... [More...]
Xavier Dolan
Hubert Minel is a 16-year-old French Canadian student who lives in Montreal with his mother, Chantale. Since her husband walked out on her nine years ago, Chantale has struggled to bring up her son single-handedly, but he shows her little gratitude for her efforts... [More...]
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
Agnès Varda
In the late 1930s, 8-year-old Jacques Demy lives with his father, a garage mechanic, and mother, a hairdresser, in a small town near to the large seaport of Nantes... [More...]
Agnès Varda
In the late 1930s, 8-year-old Jacques Demy lives with his father, a garage mechanic, and mother, a hairdresser, in a small town near to the large seaport of Nantes... [More...]
Jean de la Lune (1931)
Jean Choux
Jeff is a poet and dreamer, nicknamed 'Jean de la lune' because of his child-like innocence. He is madly in love with Marceline and marries her, completely unaware of her wayward nature which compels her to chase after any man that catches her eye... [More...]
Jean Choux
Jeff is a poet and dreamer, nicknamed 'Jean de la lune' because of his child-like innocence. He is madly in love with Marceline and marries her, completely unaware of her wayward nature which compels her to chase after any man that catches her eye... [More...]
Jeu de massacre (1967)
Alain Jessua
The author of a series of comic books, Pierre Meyrand is suffering from a severe case of writer's block. When he receives an invitation to the house of Bob Neuman, a great admirer of his work, in Switzerland he cautiously accepts, accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, who illustrates his books... [More...]
Alain Jessua
The author of a series of comic books, Pierre Meyrand is suffering from a severe case of writer's block. When he receives an invitation to the house of Bob Neuman, a great admirer of his work, in Switzerland he cautiously accepts, accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, who illustrates his books... [More...]
Jofroi (1934)
Marcel Pagnol
Jofroi, an ageing peasant, sells his orchard to one of his neighbours, Fonse. When the trees fail to produce any fruit, Fonse decides he will cut them down... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Jofroi, an ageing peasant, sells his orchard to one of his neighbours, Fonse. When the trees fail to produce any fruit, Fonse decides he will cut them down... [More...]
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964)
Luis Buñuel
In the early 1930s, a young woman named Célestine leaves Paris to take up the post of a house maid with the Monteils, a bourgeois family living in rural France... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
In the early 1930s, a young woman named Célestine leaves Paris to take up the post of a house maid with the Monteils, a bourgeois family living in rural France... [More...]
La Journée de la jupe (2009)
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Sonia Bergerac is a teacher in an ordinary inner city high school on the outskirts of Paris. She is about to start a lesson on Molière when her class is disrupted by unruly pupils... [More...]
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Sonia Bergerac is a teacher in an ordinary inner city high school on the outskirts of Paris. She is about to start a lesson on Molière when her class is disrupted by unruly pupils... [More...]
Les Jours venus (2015)
Romain Goupil
On realising he is now sixty, the filmmaker Romain Goupil decides it is time to take stock of his life. The former militant Troskyist has long given up wanting to change the world... [More...]
Romain Goupil
On realising he is now sixty, the filmmaker Romain Goupil decides it is time to take stock of his life. The former militant Troskyist has long given up wanting to change the world... [More...]
Judex (1916)
Louis Feuillade
Robert Moralés, an ex-convict, has entered into a partnership with the beautiful but treacherous adventuress Diana Monti... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Robert Moralés, an ex-convict, has entered into a partnership with the beautiful but treacherous adventuress Diana Monti... [More...]
Ki lo sa? (1985)
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
Landru (1963)
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
La Lectrice (1988)
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]