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French cinema: All genres

Un week-end sur deux (1990)
Nicole Garcia

Camille Valmont is a committed actress who has sacrificed everything, including her family, for her career. This is why she ended up being divorced by her husband Adrien and why she is only allowed to see her two young children - Gaëlle and Vincent - every other weekend...   [More...]

Un, deux, trois, soleil (1993)
Bertrand Blier

Victorine is an imaginative teenage girl who is having a hard time growing up in the rough suburbs of Marseille. Her alcoholic father, a Greek immigrant, is too fond of the pastis to show much interest in her, and her mother makes up for this neglect by constantly imposing herself on her...   [More...]

Une affaire d'état (2009)
Eric Valette

Nora Chayd is a redoubtable police inspector who has more on her plate than she bargained for when she begins investigating the murder of a prostitute in the Pigalle district of Paris...   [More...]

Une affaire de femmes (1988)
Claude Chabrol

During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home...   [More...]

Une affaire de goût (2000)
Bernard Rapp

Frédéric Delamont is a rich and powerful industrialist who takes an almost sadistic relish in exerting his power and influence over others...   [More...]

Une affaire qui roule (2003)
Eric Veniard

Frustrated by his job as a chef in a mundane restaurant, Jean-Jacques hands in his apron and sets about trying to find the money he needs to open his own high-class eatery...   [More...]

Une autre vie (2014)
Emmanuel Mouret

Jean is an electrician who makes a living installing household alarms in the south of France. In the course of his work he meets Aurore, a famous concert pianist who is recovering from a breakdown at her home in the country...   [More...]

Une balle dans le canon (1958)
Michel Deville

Dick and Tony are two veterans of the war in Indochina who have turned to trafficking to make a living. They accept a commission from a gangster known as Le Maltais to deliver 25 million francs...   [More...]

Une belle fille comme moi (1972)
François Truffaut

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist who is writing a thesis on criminal women (which, we are told, is never published)...   [More...]

Une bouteille à la mer (2012)
Thierry Binisti

Tal is a young French woman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. She is 17 and has reached the age of her first adult experiences - her first love, her first cigarette, her first terrorist attack...   [More...]

Une chambre en ville (1982)
Jacques Demy

Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike...   [More...]

L'Une chante, l'autre pas (1977)
Agnès Varda

Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child...   [More...]

Une corde, un Colt (1969)
Robert Hossein

Hostilities between the three Caine brothers and the Rogers clan escalate into a murderous feud when the former steal some horses belonging to the latter...   [More...]

Une enfance (2015)
Philippe Claudel

In a small industrial town in the east of France, 13-year-old Jimmy has already put his childhood behind him as he takes charge of his impoverished household...   [More...]

Une époque formidable... (1991)
Gérard Jugnot

When Michel Berthier loses his executive job with American Bed he is unable to tell his family that he is now unemployed...   [More...]

Une étrange affaire (1981)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Louis Coline, a man in his early thirties, leads a comfortable but fairly routine life, working as a publicity officer for a large department store in Paris...   [More...]

Une exécution ordinaire (2010)
Marc Dugain

In the autumn of 1952, a young woman doctor is working at a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. She is desperate to become pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist whose only reason for living is the love he has for his wife...   [More...]

Une famille à louer (2015)
Jean-Pierre Améris

Paul-André is a shy and introverted forty-year-old. He has money but he is bored beyond belief and ends up concluding that what he needs most in the world is a family...   [More...]

Une femme d'extérieur (2000)
Christophe Blanc

Françoise and Jacques have been together fifteen years and appear perfectly settled in their comfortable middle-class life...   [More...]

Une femme de ménage (2002)
Claude Berri

Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression...   [More...]

Une femme douce (1969)
Robert Bresson

Shortly after her husband has left their Parisian apartment, a young woman commits suicide by leaping from a balcony. As the smashed body of the dead woman lies before him, the bereaved husband recollects their shared history together in an attempt to understand what drove her to such a drastic act...   [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...]

Une femme mariée (1964)
Jean-Luc Godard

Married to Pierre, an airline pilot, Charlotte leads a settled middle-class existence and couldn't be happier. She has a son she adores, Nicolas, and has plenty to occupy her...   [More...]

Une fille sur la route (1952)
Jean Stelli

To escape the hoards of female admirers that are constantly haranguing him, singer Carlos Cortez heads for the Côte d'Azur, hoping to spend a quiet holiday under his real name, Jacques Gary...   [More...]

Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (2001)
Christian Carion

Tired of her stressful job as a computer expert in Paris, 30 year old Sandrine decides to make a new life as a farmer. After a two-year training course, she acquires a remote farm in the Rhones-Alps region of France, where she intends to make goats' cheese and run a holiday home for visitors...   [More...]

Une histoire simple (1978)
Claude Sautet

Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading...   [More...]

Une java (1939)
Claude Orval

For wounding a police officer, petty criminal Yann is sent to prison for five years after his former girlfriend Gaby testifies against him...   [More...]

Une liaison pornographique (1999)
Frédéric Fonteyne

She is a woman in her mid-forties who wants a man to enact her sexual fantasies with her. She has in no interest in finding love...   [More...]

Une manche et la belle (1957)
Henri Verneuil

Philippe Delaroche is a modest bank employee whose attempt to swindle some easy money out of a rich widow, Betty Farnwell, ends with an unexpected proposal of marriage...   [More...]

Une mère (2015)
Christine Carrière

Forty-something Marie has a hard time trying to bring up her troublesome 16-year-old son Guillaume by herself. A vicious tearaway easily drawn into a life of crime, the teenager is prone to violent outbursts and looks destined for a spell in prison unless he can change his ways...   [More...]



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