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French cinema: Romance/Comedy

Gazon maudit (1995)
Josiane Balasko

Laurent, a successful estate agent, and his wife Loli have two children, a nice house in the South of France and appear to be the very model of a happily married couple...   [More...]

Gigi (1949)
Jacqueline Audry

Gigi is a girl on the threshold of womanhood, after being brought up in the protective cocoon of her wealthy grandmother, Mamita...   [More...]

Je crois que je l'aime (2007)
Pierre Jolivet

Lucas is 43, a successful businessman who is used to being in control and getting what he wants. He hasn't yet come to terms with his wife leaving him, so he his is far from ready to start another relationship...   [More...]

Je suis avec toi (1943)
Henri Decoin

As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair...   [More...]

Julietta (1953)
Marc Allégret

Whilst holidaying in Limoges, Madame Valender tries to marry her daughter Julietta to Hector d'Alpon, a wealthy prince, to make an impression on everyone...   [More...]

Ma Loute (2016)
Bruno Dumont

In the summer of 1910, as is their custom, the Van Peteghems, a wealthy family from Lille, come to Slack Bay in northern France for their holidays...   [More...]

Mademoiselle ma mère (1936)
Henri Decoin

In her search for the perfect husband, Jacqueline Vignolle is slowly driving her parents to distraction. After fourteen failed engagements, Jacqueline still hasn't found her beau idéal, and so she decides to marry the next eligible man she meets...   [More...]

Le Magnifique (1973)
Philippe de Broca

When a secret agent is eaten by a shark in a telephone box, ace spy Bob Saint-Clair is sent on a mission to Mexico, to confront his arch-enemy Karpof, assisted by his beautiful partner Tatiana… Thus begins the latest pulp fiction novel by François Merlin, a lonely middle-aged writer who dreams of having a love affair with his neighbour Christine and of getting his revenge on his odious publisher Charron - fantasies which he plays out in his novels...   [More...]

Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... (2004)
Laurent Tirard

Raphaël is a 30-something writer who earns a crust churning out insipid autobiographies for the latest trendy, empty-headed celebrities...   [More...]

Le Million (1931)
René Clair

A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair...   [More...]

Minne, l'ingénue libertine (1950)
Jacqueline Audry

Minnie is a flighty young woman who, bored with her mundane bourgeois existence, takes refuge in her childish fantasies. On her wedding night, she regales her husband Antoine with a lurid account of a passionate liaison she once had with a hoodlum...   [More...]

Mirages de Paris (1933)
Fyodor Otsep

Convinced that she has what it takes to become a great star of the stage Madeleine Duchanel runs away from her strictly run provincial boarding school and heads for the bright lights of Paris...   [More...]

Le Nom des gens (2010)
Michel Leclerc

Bahia Benmahmoud is an extroverted young woman who takes her political activism seriously. She has no scruples over sleeping with the enemy, not if she can convert him to her cause...   [More...]

Panique au village (2009)
Stéphane Aubier

Cowboy and Indian live happily together in a house in the country with their friend Horse. To celebrate Horse's birthday, Cowboy and Indian agree to organise a barbecue, but instead of the 50 bricks they ordered on the internet they somehow end up with 50 trillion...   [More...]

Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard

Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair...   [More...]

Les Randonneurs (1997)
Philippe Harel

Five 30-something friends decide to take a break from their busy Parisian lives and head off on an arduous walking tour in the beautiful mountains of Corsica...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
Claude Autant-Lara

Sylvie is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with a man in an old portrait - Alain de Francigny, her grandmother's lover, who died many years ago in a duel...   [More...]

Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (1976)
Yves Robert

Étienne, Simon, Daniel and Bouly are four friends in their forties who enjoy a shared passion for tennis. Another thing they have in common is that they are all nearing a point of crisis in their private lives; luckily they can count on the others' support to help them through...   [More...]

Une femme est une femme (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard

Angela is an attractive nightclub striptease artist who shares a small Parisian apartment with her boyfriend Emile. One day, on the spur of the moment, she decides that she must have a baby...   [More...]

La Valse de Paris (1950)
Marcel Achard

Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta...   [More...]

La Vie de château (1966)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Normandy, 1944. Jérôme is the proud owner of a large country estate, a man who is far more preoccupied with his orchards than with the fate of his country...   [More...]

Le Voyage imaginaire (1926)
René Clair

Jean, a modest bank clerk, is in love with his boss's secretary, Lucie, but he is too shy to impose his feelings on the angelic being who has stolen his heart...   [More...]


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