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French cinema: Romance
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...
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Marion Vernoux
Remorques (1941)
Jean Grémillon
André Laurent is the captain of a salvage boat and lives in the Brittany port of Brest with his wife Yvonne. Concealing a serious illness, Yvonne pleads with her husband to give up his hazardous job and start a new life with her in another town, but, loyal to his employees, André refuses...
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Jean Grémillon
Rendez-vous (1985)
André Téchiné
Nina is a young woman from the provinces who has just arrived in Paris with the hope of making a career as an actress. Her first priority is to find a place to live, and this is how she comes to meet Paulot, a trainee estate agent...
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André Téchiné
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...
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Jacques Becker
Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
Daniel Vigne
Early in the 1500s, there is a mood of celebration in the small village of Artigat in the Ariège region of southwest France...
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Daniel Vigne
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 à faire (1999)
Marion Vernoux
An unemployed working class woman, Marie, has difficulty filling her empty days until one day she meets Pierre at a supermarket checkout... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
An unemployed working class woman, Marie, has difficulty filling her empty days until one day she meets Pierre at a supermarket checkout... [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...]
Le Roman de ma femme (2011)
Jamshed Usmonov
Ève, a wealthy young woman, is devastated when her husband Paul goes missing, leaving her with a mountain of debt... [More...]
Jamshed Usmonov
Ève, a wealthy young woman, is devastated when her husband Paul goes missing, leaving her with a mountain of debt... [More...]
Le Roman de Werther (1938)
Max Ophüls
The setting is the German city of Wetzlar, towards the end of the 18th century. Werther is a young man of a romantic temperament, a poet and musician who occupies an important position at the town hall... [More...]
Max Ophüls
The setting is the German city of Wetzlar, towards the end of the 18th century. Werther is a young man of a romantic temperament, a poet and musician who occupies an important position at the town hall... [More...]
Romuald et Juliette (1989)
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [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...]
Les Roseaux sauvages (1994)
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [More...]
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [More...]
La Roue (1923)
Abel Gance
Sisif, a widowed railway worker, rescues a young girl named Norma from the wreckage of a train crash. Realising her mother died in the crash, Sisif decides to bring the girl up as his own, along with his son Elie, whose mother died bringing him into the world... [More...]
Abel Gance
Sisif, a widowed railway worker, rescues a young girl named Norma from the wreckage of a train crash. Realising her mother died in the crash, Sisif decides to bring the girl up as his own, along with his son Elie, whose mother died bringing him into the world... [More...]
Le Rouge et le noir (1954)
Claude Autant-Lara
Before a court of law, Julien Sorel confesses to the attempted murder of the woman he loved and asks that he be condemned to death... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Before a court of law, Julien Sorel confesses to the attempted murder of the woman he loved and asks that he be condemned to death... [More...]
Le Sauvage (1975)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France... [More...]
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France... [More...]
La Science des rêves (2006)
Michel Gondry
After the death of his father, Stéphane Miroux leaves his home in Mexico and returns to Paris to live with his mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child... [More...]
Michel Gondry
After the death of his father, Stéphane Miroux leaves his home in Mexico and returns to Paris to live with his mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child... [More...]
Se souvenir des belles choses (2001)
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned... [More...]
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned... [More...]
Le Secret de Mayerling (1949)
Jean Delannoy
In the early hours of 30th January 1889, the Archduke Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, is found dead in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, lying on his bed beside his 17-year-old lover Marie Vetsera... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the early hours of 30th January 1889, the Archduke Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, is found dead in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, lying on his bed beside his 17-year-old lover Marie Vetsera... [More...]
Selon Matthieu (2000)
Xavier Beauvois
Matthieu and Éric are brothers who work at the same factory in Le Havre as their 53-year-old father. It on the night of Éric's wedding that Matthieu learns that his father has just been sacked on the most trivial of grounds - for smoking a cigarette inside the factory... [More...]
Xavier Beauvois
Matthieu and Éric are brothers who work at the same factory in Le Havre as their 53-year-old father. It on the night of Éric's wedding that Matthieu learns that his father has just been sacked on the most trivial of grounds - for smoking a cigarette inside the factory... [More...]
La Séparation (1994)
Christian Vincent
Pierre and Anne are a young couple in their thirties who have been together for several years. They have enjoyed a harmonious and loving relationship for some time, living together in their cosy apartment with their two-year-old son Loulou... [More...]
Christian Vincent
Pierre and Anne are a young couple in their thirties who have been together for several years. They have enjoyed a harmonious and loving relationship for some time, living together in their cosy apartment with their two-year-old son Loulou... [More...]
Sept jours ailleurs (1969)
Marin Karmitz
Jacques is a 30-something musician who is married, has a young daughter, but is far from fulfilled. Trapped in a sterile marriage, he welcomes the opportunity to spend seven days on tour with a modern dance company in the south of France... [More...]
Marin Karmitz
Jacques is a 30-something musician who is married, has a young daughter, but is far from fulfilled. Trapped in a sterile marriage, he welcomes the opportunity to spend seven days on tour with a modern dance company in the south of France... [More...]
Shéhérazade (2018)
Jean-Bernard Marlin
Zachary is a 17-year-old delinquent living in one of the roughest neighbourhoods of north Marseille. His petty criminal exploits have earned him a spell in a juvenile detention centre, but on leaving the centre he finds he has no home to return to... [More...]
Jean-Bernard Marlin
Zachary is a 17-year-old delinquent living in one of the roughest neighbourhoods of north Marseille. His petty criminal exploits have earned him a spell in a juvenile detention centre, but on leaving the centre he finds he has no home to return to... [More...]
Le Silence est d'or (1947)
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
La Sirène du Mississippi (1969)
François Truffaut
Louis Mahé, the wealthy owner of a tobacco plantation on the island of Réunion, decides to get married - to Julie Roussel, a woman he found through the personal ads pages of his newspaper... [More...]
François Truffaut
Louis Mahé, the wealthy owner of a tobacco plantation on the island of Réunion, decides to get married - to Julie Roussel, a woman he found through the personal ads pages of his newspaper... [More...]
Six et demi, onze (1927)
Jean Epstein
Jérôme de Ners is a renowned doctor who lives with his younger brother Jean after their parents' death. Recently, Jérôme has been aware of his brother's agitation and is concerned when, one day, he suddenly disappears without leaving a clue as to his whereabouts... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Jérôme de Ners is a renowned doctor who lives with his younger brother Jean after their parents' death. Recently, Jérôme has been aware of his brother's agitation and is concerned when, one day, he suddenly disappears without leaving a clue as to his whereabouts... [More...]
Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
Le Souffle au coeur (1971)
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
Sous le sable (2000)
François Ozon
Marie Drillon, a woman in her early fifties, lectures in English literature at Paris university and has been happily married for twenty-five years... [More...]
François Ozon
Marie Drillon, a woman in her early fifties, lectures in English literature at Paris university and has been happily married for twenty-five years... [More...]
Sous les toits de Paris (1930)
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]