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French cinema: Romance
Ce soir ou jamais (1961)
Michel Deville
Laurent is a poster designer who is about to begin rehearsals for his first stage play, a musical comedy. To celebrate this auspicious event, he holds a party at his apartment, to which his best friends are all invited...
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Michel Deville
César (1936)
Marcel Pagnol
Twenty years after her first sweetheart Marius abandoned her to seek adventure on the high seas, Fanny is still married to Panisse and her son Césariot remains ignorant as to the identity of his real father...
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Marcel Pagnol
César et Rosalie (1972)
Claude Sautet
After her divorce, 30-something Rosalie decides to live with César, a wealthy scrap-metal dealer who is prone to violent bursts...
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Claude Sautet
Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)
Luis Buñuel
Shortly after boarding a train in Seville, a respectable old man pours a bucket of water over a young woman standing on the platform...
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Luis Buñuel
Ceux qui restent (2007)
Anne Le Ny
On one of his frequent visits to the hospital where his wife is being treated for breast cancer, Bertrand meets a young woman, Loraine, whose partner is also seriously ill...
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Anne Le Ny
Chacun cherche son chat (1996)
Cédric Klapisch
Chloé is a young make-up assistant living in Paris. She shares an apartment with a gay friend Michel and her treasured cat Gris-Gris... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
Chloé is a young make-up assistant living in Paris. She shares an apartment with a gay friend Michel and her treasured cat Gris-Gris... [More...]
La Chambre verte (1978)
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage... [More...]
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage... [More...]
Changement d'adresse (2006)
Emmanuel Mouret
David, a young musician, arrives in Paris hoping to start a new and exciting chapter in his life. First he needs somewhere to stay and it is indeed providential that he should happen to run into someone who not only has a flat to share but also is a music lover... [More...]
Emmanuel Mouret
David, a young musician, arrives in Paris hoping to start a new and exciting chapter in his life. First he needs somewhere to stay and it is indeed providential that he should happen to run into someone who not only has a flat to share but also is a music lover... [More...]
Chanson d'Armor (1934)
Jean Epstein
A hopeless scholar, Jean-Marie is sent away from his Catholic boarding school and must return to the farm in the country run by his parents... [More...]
Jean Epstein
A hopeless scholar, Jean-Marie is sent away from his Catholic boarding school and must return to the farm in the country run by his parents... [More...]
Les Chansons d'amour (2007)
Christophe Honoré
Ismaël and Julie are a young couple living in Paris. To spice up their ailing love life, they invite another young woman, Alice, to share their bed... [More...]
Christophe Honoré
Ismaël and Julie are a young couple living in Paris. To spice up their ailing love life, they invite another young woman, Alice, to share their bed... [More...]
La Chartreuse de Parme (1948)
Christian-Jaque
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo returns to Parma, his home town, after having completed his studies in Naples... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo returns to Parma, his home town, after having completed his studies in Naples... [More...]
Le Château de verre (1950)
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
La Chatte (1958)
Henri Decoin
Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A patrol of German soldiers raid a house from which illicit radio transmissions are being sent... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A patrol of German soldiers raid a house from which illicit radio transmissions are being sent... [More...]
Chéri (1950)
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Le Chignon d'Olga (2002)
Jérôme Bonnell
Julien and Emma are a teenage brother and sister who live in Beauce, a picturesque semi-rural region of Northern France. They are still living in the house in which they were born, along with their father Gilles, who gets by as a writer... [More...]
Jérôme Bonnell
Julien and Emma are a teenage brother and sister who live in Beauce, a picturesque semi-rural region of Northern France. They are still living in the house in which they were born, along with their father Gilles, who gets by as a writer... [More...]
Le Chrysanthème rouge (1912)
Léonce Perret
A young woman is courted by two men who are prepared to do anything to win her hand in marriage. Unable to decide between the two men, the woman sets them a challenge: she will surrender her heart to the man who gives to her the flower that she treasures the most... [More...]
Léonce Perret
A young woman is courted by two men who are prepared to do anything to win her hand in marriage. Unable to decide between the two men, the woman sets them a challenge: she will surrender her heart to the man who gives to her the flower that she treasures the most... [More...]
La Cigarette (1919)
Germaine Dulac
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is the latest addition to a museum of oriental art curated by the esteemed academic Pierre Guérande... [More...]
Germaine Dulac
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is the latest addition to a museum of oriental art curated by the esteemed academic Pierre Guérande... [More...]
Clara et moi (2004)
Arnaud Viard
Antoine is 33, a struggling actor living in Paris. Outwardly, he appears happy and satisfied with his life; inwardly, he is tortured by solitude... [More...]
Arnaud Viard
Antoine is 33, a struggling actor living in Paris. Outwardly, he appears happy and satisfied with his life; inwardly, he is tortured by solitude... [More...]
La Clé sur la porte (1978)
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Coco avant Chanel (2009)
Anne Fontaine
In the 1890s, Gabrielle and her sister, two little orphan girls, find themselves in an austere convent school where they wait in vain for their father to collect them... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
In the 1890s, Gabrielle and her sister, two little orphan girls, find themselves in an austere convent school where they wait in vain for their father to collect them... [More...]
Coco Chanel et Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Jan Kounen
In Paris, 1913, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is beginning to make a name for herself as a couturiere. Meanwhile, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky is staging his avant-garde ballet The Rite of Spring... [More...]
Jan Kounen
In Paris, 1913, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is beginning to make a name for herself as a couturiere. Meanwhile, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, Igor Stravinsky is staging his avant-garde ballet The Rite of Spring... [More...]
Le Coeur et l'argent (1912)
Louis Feuillade
Suzanne Mauguiot has fallen in love with a penniless ferryman named Raymond, but her father, a prosperous innkeeper, has decided she must marry the wealthy Monsieur Vernier... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Suzanne Mauguiot has fallen in love with a penniless ferryman named Raymond, but her father, a prosperous innkeeper, has decided she must marry the wealthy Monsieur Vernier... [More...]
Le Coeur fantôme (1996)
Philippe Garrel
Philippe, a middle-aged artist, leaves his wife and children when he learns that his wife has a lover. He consoles himself with the company of prostitutes until he meets Justine, a young woman who instantly falls in love with him... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
Philippe, a middle-aged artist, leaves his wife and children when he learns that his wife has a lover. He consoles himself with the company of prostitutes until he meets Justine, a young woman who instantly falls in love with him... [More...]
Coeur fidèle (1923)
Jean Epstein
In the port of Marseille, Marie works as a serving girl in a shabby bar owned by her cruel adopted parents, Monsieur and Madame Honchon... [More...]
Jean Epstein
In the port of Marseille, Marie works as a serving girl in a shabby bar owned by her cruel adopted parents, Monsieur and Madame Honchon... [More...]
Coeurs (2006)
Alain Resnais
Estate agent Thierry is having a hard time trying to find an apartment for a problem couple, Dan and Nicole. Each evening, Dan, an unemployed ex-army man, spills his bucket load of sorrows into the ears of friendly barman Lionel, whose sole domestic preoccupation is looking after his cantankerous old father... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Estate agent Thierry is having a hard time trying to find an apartment for a problem couple, Dan and Nicole. Each evening, Dan, an unemployed ex-army man, spills his bucket load of sorrows into the ears of friendly barman Lionel, whose sole domestic preoccupation is looking after his cantankerous old father... [More...]
Le Colonel Chabert (1994)
Yves Angelo
Colonel Chabert is mistaken for dead during the Napoleonic war with Russia. When he returns to Paris some years later, he finds that his wife, Anne, has married the Count Ferraud, and is using Chabert's wealth to finance Ferraud's social advancement... [More...]
Yves Angelo
Colonel Chabert is mistaken for dead during the Napoleonic war with Russia. When he returns to Paris some years later, he finds that his wife, Anne, has married the Count Ferraud, and is using Chabert's wealth to finance Ferraud's social advancement... [More...]
Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Complices (2010)
Frédéric Mermoud
The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation... [More...]
Frédéric Mermoud
The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation... [More...]