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French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Le Mouton enragé (1974)
Michel Deville
Nicolas Mallet is a modest bank employee whose lack of personal ambition is matched by a crippling lack of self-confidence...
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Michel Deville
Nationale 7 (2000)
Jean-Pierre Sinapi
After a full and active life, a middle-aged man, René, is struck by a muscle-wasting disease and finds himself in a care home for the mentally and physically disabled...
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Jean-Pierre Sinapi
Nettoyage à sec (1997)
Anne Fontaine
For the past 15 years a married couple, Jean-Marie and Nicole Kunstler, have run their own dry cleaning business in a French provincial town...
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Anne Fontaine
Nos batailles (2018)
Guillaume Senez
Olivier has enough to cope with at work for him to take on the additional responsibilities of fatherhood. Fortunately, he can rely on his wife Laura to shoulder most of the burden of raising their two young children, Elliot and Rose...
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Guillaume Senez
Nos enfants chéris (2003)
Benoît Cohen
One day, two ex-lovers, Martin and Constance, run into each other in a supermarket. After several years apart, they find they are now in their early thirties, are married and are just discovering the joys of parenthood...
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Benoît Cohen
Notre histoire (1984)
Bertrand Blier
Robert Avranche is sitting by himself on a train, contemplating the utter pointlessness of his existence, when an attractive young woman enters his compartment and tries to engage him in conversation... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Robert Avranche is sitting by himself on a train, contemplating the utter pointlessness of his existence, when an attractive young woman enters his compartment and tries to engage him in conversation... [More...]
Nous les gosses (1941)
Louis Daquin
Nicolas is playing football with his classmates in the school playground when he accidentally kicks the ball through a windowpane... [More...]
Louis Daquin
Nicolas is playing football with his classmates in the school playground when he accidentally kicks the ball through a windowpane... [More...]
Les Nouveaux messieurs (1929)
Jacques Feyder
Suzanne Verrier's dreams of becoming a star ballerina with the Paris Opéra ballet company are encouraged by her wealthy patron, Count Montoire-Grandpré... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
Suzanne Verrier's dreams of becoming a star ballerina with the Paris Opéra ballet company are encouraged by her wealthy patron, Count Montoire-Grandpré... [More...]
La Nuit américaine (1973)
François Truffaut
A film company is shooting the film Je vous présente Pamela in the south of France. The tensions and problems that arise during the filming greatly surpass the drama of the film being made... [More...]
François Truffaut
A film company is shooting the film Je vous présente Pamela in the south of France. The tensions and problems that arise during the filming greatly surpass the drama of the film being made... [More...]
La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
On connaît la chanson (1997)
Alain Resnais
In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated... [More...]
Les Otages (1938)
Raymond Bernard
For many years, the tranquillity of a rural French town has been disturbed by the on-going feud between the mayor Beaumont and the country gentleman Rossignol... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
For many years, the tranquillity of a rural French town has been disturbed by the on-going feud between the mayor Beaumont and the country gentleman Rossignol... [More...]
Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971)
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [More...]
Ouvert la nuit (2017)
Edouard Baer
Just before his latest show The Woman and the Ape is due to open, Parisian theatre manager Luigi finds himself up to his neck in trouble... [More...]
Edouard Baer
Just before his latest show The Woman and the Ape is due to open, Parisian theatre manager Luigi finds himself up to his neck in trouble... [More...]
Le Paltoquet (1986)
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Papa (2005)
Maurice Barthélémy
Louis would seem to have the best father a boy of his age could ask for - thoughtful, caring, always laughing. And yet, somehow, there seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between the two of them... [More...]
Maurice Barthélémy
Louis would seem to have the best father a boy of his age could ask for - thoughtful, caring, always laughing. And yet, somehow, there seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between the two of them... [More...]
Le Parc (2017)
Damien Manivel
One bright summer's day, a young man in his late teens is waiting for someone in a park. He is joined by a girl of about his age and it is apparent that they are on a first date... [More...]
Damien Manivel
One bright summer's day, a young man in his late teens is waiting for someone in a park. He is joined by a girl of about his age and it is apparent that they are on a first date... [More...]
Les Parents terribles (1948)
Jean Cocteau
Yvonne and Georges consider themselves a perfectly respectable bourgeois couple, although she is virtually a bedridden recluse and he occupies himself with his strange inventions... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Yvonne and Georges consider themselves a perfectly respectable bourgeois couple, although she is virtually a bedridden recluse and he occupies himself with his strange inventions... [More...]
Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)
Agnès Jaoui
It is with great reluctance that Agathe Villanova returns to her home town in the south of France. She had hoped she had seen the last of the region when she left it some years ago, to pursue a successful career as a feminist writer and activist... [More...]
Agnès Jaoui
It is with great reluctance that Agathe Villanova returns to her home town in the south of France. She had hoped she had seen the last of the region when she left it some years ago, to pursue a successful career as a feminist writer and activist... [More...]
Partie de campagne (1936)
Jean Renoir
In the summer of 1860, Monsieur Dufour, a successful Parisian shopkeeper, decides to spend a day in the country, in the company of his mother-in-law, his wife Juliette, his daughter Henriette and his future son-in-law Anatole... [More...]
Jean Renoir
In the summer of 1860, Monsieur Dufour, a successful Parisian shopkeeper, decides to spend a day in the country, in the company of his mother-in-law, his wife Juliette, his daughter Henriette and his future son-in-law Anatole... [More...]
Le Passe-montagne (1978)
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
Pauline à la plage (1983)
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Peau de pêche (1929)
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [More...]
Jean Benoît-Lévy
Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre... [More...]
Le Père Goriot (1945)
Robert Vernay
Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris. Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris. Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world... [More...]
Le Péril jeune (1994)
Cédric Klapisch
Former classmates Bruno, Alain, Momo and Léon find themselves reunited in a hospital several years after leaving school... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
Former classmates Bruno, Alain, Momo and Léon find themselves reunited in a hospital several years after leaving school... [More...]
Persepolis (2007)
Vincent Paronnaud
Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins... [More...]
Vincent Paronnaud
Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins... [More...]
Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944)
Marc Allégret
After his wife walked out on him, Frédéric Grimaud was left to bring up his four daughters single-handedly... [More...]
Marc Allégret
After his wife walked out on him, Frédéric Grimaud was left to bring up his four daughters single-handedly... [More...]
Les Petits mouchoirs (2010)
Guillaume Canet
A group of close friends are deeply shaken when a friend of theirs is badly injured in an accident, but they still decide to go ahead with their usual annual holiday by the sea... [More...]
Guillaume Canet
A group of close friends are deeply shaken when a friend of theirs is badly injured in an accident, but they still decide to go ahead with their usual annual holiday by the sea... [More...]
Les Petits ruisseaux (2010)
Pascal Rabaté
After the death of his wife, Emile now leads a peaceful file in contented retirement. He is happy to let the days slip by as he fishes peacefully on the verdant banks of the Loire with his good friend Edmond... [More...]
Pascal Rabaté
After the death of his wife, Emile now leads a peaceful file in contented retirement. He is happy to let the days slip by as he fishes peacefully on the verdant banks of the Loire with his good friend Edmond... [More...]
Le Plaisir (1952)
Max Ophüls
The writer Guy de Maupassant recounts three of his short stories to show that pleasure should not be confused with happiness... [More...]
Max Ophüls
The writer Guy de Maupassant recounts three of his short stories to show that pleasure should not be confused with happiness... [More...]