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French cinema: All genres

Sunny et l'éléphant (2008)
Frédéric Lepage

Sunny, a teenage orphan, lives and works with elephants in the forests of Thailand. His dream is to become a cornac, an elephant driver, but this is unlikely to become reality as he belongs to the wrong tribe...   [More...]

Superlove (1999)
Jean-Claude Janer

The Holy Mother is very selective in whom she chooses to show herself to these days. Not one for the celebrity phenomenon that plagues our modern era, she tends to keep herself to herself, putting in the odd appearance now and again just to keep the old faith alive and reassure her believers that they are on the right lines...   [More...]

Sur la piste du Marsupilami (2012)
Alain Chabat

When Dan Geraldo, a reporter looking for his next scoop, arrives in the South American country of Palombia, he can have no idea of the adventures that lie in store for him...   [More...]

Sur le banc (1955)
Robert Vernay

Two middle-aged tramps, La Hurlette and Carmen, meet up every day on the same park bench in Paris. La Hurlette enjoys the life of the vagabond but he is more than willing to give this up when, one day, he discovers that he has inherited a fortune...   [More...]

Sur le plancher des vaches (1940)
Pierre-Jean Ducis

Jean Durand is a modest office clerk who is tired of being treated as an object of ridicule by his boss and colleagues. He cannot believe his good fortune when he wins a lottery prize, but is less heartened when he discovers that his prize in an aeroplane...   [More...]

Sur les rails (1912)
Léonce Perret

Pierre, a young railway worker, is in love with Augustine, the owner of a café. Neither knows that Jacques, a colleague and supposed friend of Pierre, also has amorous designs on Augustine...   [More...]

Sur mes lèvres (2001)
Jacques Audiard

Carla works for a property development company where, on account of her partial deafness, she is teased and abused by her male office colleagues...   [More...]

Sur ta joue ennemie (2008)
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

Julien has paid the debt he owes society: thirteen years in prison for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. Now, on the day of his release, he hopes to make a clean break...   [More...]

Sur un air d'autoroute (2000)
Thierry Boscheron

Jeff, a man in his late thirties, is desperate to be near to his former girlfriend, Périnne. As she works at a toll booth on a busy stretch of road, he finds himself a job as a motorway maintenance worker...   [More...]

Sur un air de Charleston (1927)
Jean Renoir

It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war...   [More...]

Sur un arbre perché (1971)
Serge Korber

The ruthless industrialist Henri Roubier could not be happier. He has just signed a contract for a major road construction project with an Italian, Mazzini, and stands to make himself a small fortune...   [More...]

Les Surprises de la radio (1940)
Marcel Aboulker

The Bontemps are an ordinary French family who, like all of the other residents in the peaceful little village of Coussy la Chapelle, are chronically addicted to the radio...   [More...]

Sursis pour un vivant (1959)
Víctor Merenda

Not long after Jean Monnier, a successful writer, narrowly escapes death in a car accident he is visited in hospital by a man who offers him an unusual service...   [More...]

Survivre avec les loups (2008)
Véra Belmont

Eight-year-old Misha lives with her Jewish parents in Brussels. It is 1942 and the country is under Nazi occupation. Daily, scores of Jews are arrested by German soldiers and loaded onto trains destined for concentration camps in the East...   [More...]

Sushi Sushi (1991)
Laurent Perrin

Forty-something university arts lecturer Maurice Hartmann has grown tired of his predictable life and longs for a change...   [More...]

Les Suspects (1957)
Jean Dréville

In France, a mysterious network of political agitators are organising a campaign of terror, which they announce over the airwaves through a series of clandestine radio broadcasts...   [More...]

Sweet Valentine (2010)
Emma Luchini

Sonia is a young girl from the provinces who has barely been in Paris five minutes before Cupid strikes his fatal blow. As soon as she claps eyes on Ivan she knows at once that this divine creature is the man she has been waiting for all her life...   [More...]

Swimming Pool (2003)
François Ozon

Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France...   [More...]

Swing (2002)
Tony Gatlif

During the summer holidays, Max, a 10-year old boy, stays with his grandmother in the Alsace region of France. Frequently, he slips away to visit a community of Manouche gypsies, having befriended a young gypsy girl named Swing...   [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...]

La Symphonie fantastique (1942)
Christian-Jaque

In Paris circa 1825, Hector Berlioz is a reluctant medical student who shows more interest in music than human anatomy. Convinced that his future lies as a composer, the young Berlioz abandons his studies and devotes himself to his musical compositions, encouraged by his friend Antoine Charbonnel...   [More...]

La Symphonie pastorale (1946)
Jean Delannoy

The young pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her...   [More...]

Symphonie pour un massacre (1963)
Jacques Deray

Paoli, Clavet, Jabeke and Valoti run a gambling club which is, in truth, a cover for their illicit activities. Repellini, a notorious Marseilles gangster, offers to sell them a large quantity of drugs, which they can sell for twice the price he is asking...   [More...]

T'aime (2000)
Patrick Sébastien

In a rural town, a party is being thrown in honour of its most celebrated resident, Paul Gontier. The festivities are disrupted by Gontier's former wife, Christine, an alcoholic who resents no longer having care of their daughter, Marie...   [More...]

La Table aux crevés (1952)
Henri Verneuil

Returning to his farm, Urbain Coindet is surprised to find his wife Aurélie hanging by her neck from the ceiling in her kitchen...   [More...]

La Table tournante (1988)
Paul Grimault

The acclaimed animator Paul Grimault returns to his workshop where he is greeted by a small cartoon clown who is curious to know everything about life and cartoons...   [More...]

Tais-toi! (2003)
Francis Veber

This is the story of Quentin, an empty headed buffoon whose ambition is to run a small bistro, and Ruby, a ruthless crook who will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his girlfriend...   [More...]

Tamara (2016)
Alexandre Castagnetti

Tamara is a 15-year-old girl who is just a little too conscious of the fact that she is carrying a few kilos too many. Her rotundity makes her the object of her classmates' cruel humour so she decides to get her own back...   [More...]

Tandem (1987)
Patrice Leconte

For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family...   [More...]

Tango (1993)
Patrice Leconte

When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a stunt pilot, Vincent, kills both his wife and her lover, but - to his surprise - he is acquitted of the murder...   [More...]



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