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French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie (2008)
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life....
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Rémi Bezançon
La Première fois que j'ai eu 20 ans (2004)
Lorraine Levy
In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music...
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Lorraine Levy
Les Premiers outrages (1955)
Jean Gourguet
In her exercise book, Bichette, a girl in her mid-teens, records her first amorous experience. The object of her juvenile infatuation was a handsome lad named Kiki, the son of the innkeeper in the little village where she spent her summer holidays...
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Jean Gourguet
Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978)
Bertrand Blier
Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her...
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Bertrand Blier
Le Pressentiment (2006)
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Charles Bénesteau is a barrister who has given up everything - his family, his mistress and his father's inheritance - to live in a poor working class district of Paris...
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Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Prête-moi ta main (2006)
Eric Lartigau
Ever since an adolescent love affair ended in a humiliating break-up, Luis Costa has remained a dedicated bachelor, devoted to his career as a perfumer... [More...]
Eric Lartigau
Ever since an adolescent love affair ended in a humiliating break-up, Luis Costa has remained a dedicated bachelor, devoted to his career as a perfumer... [More...]
Quand la mer monte... (2004)
Yolande Moreau
Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show... [More...]
Yolande Moreau
Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show... [More...]
Quatorze Juillet (1933)
René Clair
Anna, a modest flower seller, is in love with Jean, a Paris taxi driver. They plan to spend the evening of the 14th of July in each other's arms, dancing the night away at an open air ball... [More...]
René Clair
Anna, a modest flower seller, is in love with Jean, a Paris taxi driver. They plan to spend the evening of the 14th of July in each other's arms, dancing the night away at an open air ball... [More...]
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971)
Robert Bresson
One night, a young painter, Jacques comes across a young woman, Marthe, who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris... [More...]
Robert Bresson
One night, a young painter, Jacques comes across a young woman, Marthe, who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris... [More...]
Le Quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois (2007)
Laure Marsac
Louise Coleman is a 30-year-old Parisian who is desperately looking for a new direction in her life. A hopeless daydreamer, she finds it hard to keep up with the pace of modern living... [More...]
Laure Marsac
Louise Coleman is a 30-year-old Parisian who is desperately looking for a new direction in her life. A hopeless daydreamer, she finds it hard to keep up with the pace of modern living... [More...]
Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune? (2000)
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
Chris Vander Stappen
Sacha Kessler is a young Belgian woman who is in a terrible quandary. Her lesbian lover Odile has given her an ultimatum: unless she comes out of the closet, and tells her family that she is in a settled relationship with another woman, the affair will be over... [More...]
Queen of Montreuil (2013)
Sólveig Anspach
Agathe, a woman in her thirties, returns to France with the ashes of her husband, recently deceased in a road accident. As she passes through customs at the airport in Paris she makes the acquaintance of an older Icelandic woman, Anna, and her 25-year-old son Úlfur... [More...]
Sólveig Anspach
Agathe, a woman in her thirties, returns to France with the ashes of her husband, recently deceased in a road accident. As she passes through customs at the airport in Paris she makes the acquaintance of an older Icelandic woman, Anna, and her 25-year-old son Úlfur... [More...]
La Raison du plus faible (2006)
Lucas Belvaux
Patrick, Robert and Jean-Pierre are three friends who pass their empty days playing cards, unable to find work in the industrial Belgian town where they live... [More...]
Lucas Belvaux
Patrick, Robert and Jean-Pierre are three friends who pass their empty days playing cards, unable to find work in the industrial Belgian town where they live... [More...]
Le Rayon vert (1986)
Eric Rohmer
The start of July marks the beginning of the summer holidays for Delphine, a young secretary living in Paris, but her plans are ruined when her fiancé Jean-Pierre breaks off their engagement... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
The start of July marks the beginning of the summer holidays for Delphine, a young secretary living in Paris, but her plans are ruined when her fiancé Jean-Pierre breaks off their engagement... [More...]
Regain (1937)
Marcel Pagnol
One by one, the inhabitants of a remote little village in Haute-Provence depart, until only the poacher Panturle remains... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
One by one, the inhabitants of a remote little village in Haute-Provence depart, until only the poacher Panturle remains... [More...]
La Règle du jeu (1939)
Jean Renoir
The aviator André Jurieux returns to France after a record-breaking flight, but is heart-broken when the woman he loves, Christine de la Chesnaye, is not there to meet him... [More...]
Jean Renoir
The aviator André Jurieux returns to France after a record-breaking flight, but is heart-broken when the woman he loves, Christine de la Chesnaye, is not there to meet him... [More...]
Reines d'un jour (2001)
Marion Vernoux
One day in December, four people living in the same region of Paris are about to embark on day of emotional turmoil. Marie loses her job in a photo-shop when a customer complains she ruined her wedding photos... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
One day in December, four people living in the same region of Paris are about to embark on day of emotional turmoil. Marie loses her job in a photo-shop when a customer complains she ruined her wedding photos... [More...]
Le Renard et l'enfant (2007)
Luc Jacquet
One crisp autumnal morning, a ten-year-old girl on her way to school strays from her path and encounters a wild fox. The girl's fascination for the magnificent creature overrides her instinct to run away and she is impelled to try to get nearer to it... [More...]
Luc Jacquet
One crisp autumnal morning, a ten-year-old girl on her way to school strays from her path and encounters a wild fox. The girl's fascination for the magnificent creature overrides her instinct to run away and she is impelled to try to get nearer to it... [More...]
Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)
Jacques Becker
In his early 20s, Lucien Bonnard has made up his mind to become a celebrated explorer, but his bourgeois parents are insistent that he abandons these wild delusions and instead settle for a more conventional career like banking... [More...]
Jacques Becker
In his early 20s, Lucien Bonnard has made up his mind to become a celebrated explorer, but his bourgeois parents are insistent that he abandons these wild delusions and instead settle for a more conventional career like banking... [More...]
Réussir sa vie (2012)
Benoit Forgeard
An underground filmmaker is struggling to complete his latest film when he is visited by the characters of his previous films... [More...]
Benoit Forgeard
An underground filmmaker is struggling to complete his latest film when he is visited by the characters of his previous films... [More...]
Ridicule (1996)
Patrice Leconte
France, 1780. Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy is a country aristocrat and engineer who has committed himself to a drainage project that will vastly improve the lives of the poor people of his region... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
France, 1780. Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy is a country aristocrat and engineer who has committed himself to a drainage project that will vastly improve the lives of the poor people of his region... [More...]
Rien de personnel (2009)
Mathias Gokalp
A large pharmaceuticals company arranges a lavish reception for its employees, ostensibly to launch a new product. In the course of the evening it becomes apparent to the attendees that this is in fact a training exercise for the company's managers... [More...]
Mathias Gokalp
A large pharmaceuticals company arranges a lavish reception for its employees, ostensibly to launch a new product. In the course of the evening it becomes apparent to the attendees that this is in fact a training exercise for the company's managers... [More...]
Rien sur Robert (1999)
Pascal Bonitzer
A middle-aged film critic's life is turned upside down when his younger wife leaves him to start an affair with a TV director... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
A middle-aged film critic's life is turned upside down when his younger wife leaves him to start an affair with a TV director... [More...]
Le Roi de coeur (1966)
Philippe de Broca
October 1918. With the allied forces sweeping across France, a German battalion is ordered to retreat from a rural French town... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
October 1918. With the allied forces sweeping across France, a German battalion is ordered to retreat from a rural French town... [More...]
Rois et reine (2004)
Arnaud Desplechin
Nora, the manager of a Parisian art gallery, is about to marry for a third time. Her first husband, Pierre, is dead, her second, Ismaël, has recently been committed, against his will, to a psychiatric establishment... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Nora, the manager of a Parisian art gallery, is about to marry for a third time. Her first husband, Pierre, is dead, her second, Ismaël, has recently been committed, against his will, to a psychiatric establishment... [More...]
Le Rôle de sa vie (2004)
François Favrat
Claire Rocher is a freelance journalist for a fashion magazine who lacks the confidence to make a success of her career and her love life... [More...]
François Favrat
Claire Rocher is a freelance journalist for a fashion magazine who lacks the confidence to make a success of her career and her love life... [More...]
La Ronde (1950)
Max Ophüls
An all-knowing master of ceremonies guides us through a series of brief love affairs that take place in Vienna of 1900, using a carousel as a metaphor for the revolving series of liaisons which he nudges along... [More...]
Max Ophüls
An all-knowing master of ceremonies guides us through a series of brief love affairs that take place in Vienna of 1900, using a carousel as a metaphor for the revolving series of liaisons which he nudges along... [More...]
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque (2005)
Coline Serreau
Middle-aged schoolteacher Clara and her two brothers, chief executive Pierre and alcoholic layabout Claude, absolutely hate one another... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Middle-aged schoolteacher Clara and her two brothers, chief executive Pierre and alcoholic layabout Claude, absolutely hate one another... [More...]
La Salamandre (1971)
Alain Tanner
Pierre, a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul, to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde, was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle... [More...]
Alain Tanner
Pierre, a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul, to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde, was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle... [More...]
Sans laisser d'adresse (1951)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Emile Gauthier is a Parisian taxi driver. One day, at the Gare de Lyon, he picks up a young woman named Thérèse and her baby... [More...]
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Emile Gauthier is a Parisian taxi driver. One day, at the Gare de Lyon, he picks up a young woman named Thérèse and her baby... [More...]