Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Une minute de silence (1998)
Florent-Emilio Siri
Two friends, Marek, a Polish immigrant, and Mimmo, an Italian, work in a coal mine in the town of Merlebach, near to the French-German border...
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Florent-Emilio Siri
Une nouvelle amie (2014)
François Ozon
A comfortably situated housewife, Claire falls into a deep depression when her best friend, Laura, is struck down by a terminal illness...
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François Ozon
Une nuit (2012)
Philippe Lefebvre
Simon Weiss's life as a dedicated cop in Paris's vice squad is mostly routine. Most nights are uneventful, more likely to arouse boredom than excitement...
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Philippe Lefebvre
Une nuit de folies (1934)
Maurice Cammage
Bored with her stuffy bourgeois married life, Jacqueline d'Ermont decides to enjoy a night of revelry in Paris with Anatole, a man who is besotted with her...
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Maurice Cammage
Une parisienne (1957)
Michel Boisrond
Brigitte Laurier, the remarkably good-looking daughter of the present Prime Minister of France, is used to getting her own way...
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Michel Boisrond
Une part d'ombre (2018)
Samuel Tilman
David is a family man who has everything he could ask for, including a devoted wife Julie and two children he adores. So far he has led an ordinary existence and there is no sign of the dramatic turn of events that are about to overtake him and his family as they return home after their holidays... [More...]
Samuel Tilman
David is a family man who has everything he could ask for, including a devoted wife Julie and two children he adores. So far he has led an ordinary existence and there is no sign of the dramatic turn of events that are about to overtake him and his family as they return home after their holidays... [More...]
Une part du ciel (2002)
Bénédicte Liénard
Claudine's days are spent folding pastries on a production line in a food processing factory. A militant trades union leader, she strives to get better pay and working conditions from her employers, but progressively her union's influence is diminishing... [More...]
Bénédicte Liénard
Claudine's days are spent folding pastries on a production line in a food processing factory. A militant trades union leader, she strives to get better pay and working conditions from her employers, but progressively her union's influence is diminishing... [More...]
Une partie de plaisir (1975)
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Une petite zone de turbulences (2010)
Alfred Lot
Jean-Pierre has only recently retired but already his plans for a trouble-free retirement appear to be in jeopardy. A manic hypochondriac, he naturally assumes that when he sees a spot on his right hip he is soon going to die from cancer... [More...]
Alfred Lot
Jean-Pierre has only recently retired but already his plans for a trouble-free retirement appear to be in jeopardy. A manic hypochondriac, he naturally assumes that when he sees a spot on his right hip he is soon going to die from cancer... [More...]
Une place sur la Terre (2013)
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Une pure affaire (2011)
Alexandre Coffre
David Pelame is a 40-something lawyer and family man who is stuck in the proverbial middle-aged rut. His career has become as dull and predictable as his home life... [More...]
Alexandre Coffre
David Pelame is a 40-something lawyer and family man who is stuck in the proverbial middle-aged rut. His career has become as dull and predictable as his home life... [More...]
Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981)
José Giovanni
Despite the best efforts of his lawyer, Florence Nath, Simon Risler is sentenced to death for killing a police officer. Risler manages to escape the guillotine by taking a hostage, although he is injured by a gunshot during his escape... [More...]
José Giovanni
Despite the best efforts of his lawyer, Florence Nath, Simon Risler is sentenced to death for killing a police officer. Risler manages to escape the guillotine by taking a hostage, although he is injured by a gunshot during his escape... [More...]
Une semaine de vacances (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
At the age of 31, Laurence feels she has arrived at a crossroads in her life. Once a dedicated school teacher, she now feels she isn't up to the job and contemplates starting a new profession... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
At the age of 31, Laurence feels she has arrived at a crossroads in her life. Once a dedicated school teacher, she now feels she isn't up to the job and contemplates starting a new profession... [More...]
Une semaine sur deux (et la moitié des vacances scolaires) (2009)
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
Yves Allégret
It is not the most welcoming of places - a barren stretch of coastline in northern France, made more inhospitable by the pounding rain and howling sea breeze... [More...]
Yves Allégret
It is not the most welcoming of places - a barren stretch of coastline in northern France, made more inhospitable by the pounding rain and howling sea breeze... [More...]
Une vie (2016)
Stéphane Brizé
In 1819, a young woman named Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds leaves the content where she has been educated since childhood and returns to live with her parents on the family estate in Normandy... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
In 1819, a young woman named Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds leaves the content where she has been educated since childhood and returns to live with her parents on the family estate in Normandy... [More...]
Une vie à t'attendre (2004)
Thierry Klifa
After the death of his mother, Alex gave up his career as an artist to take over the management of the family restaurant, which he runs with his friend Camille and his depressive brother Julien... [More...]
Thierry Klifa
After the death of his mother, Alex gave up his career as an artist to take over the management of the family restaurant, which he runs with his friend Camille and his depressive brother Julien... [More...]
Une vie meilleure (2012)
Cédric Kahn
Yann and Nadia are a couple who are deeply in love. They finally get to realise their dream of running their own business when they open a restaurant on the banks of a lake... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Yann and Nadia are a couple who are deeply in love. They finally get to realise their dream of running their own business when they open a restaurant on the banks of a lake... [More...]
Une vieille maîtresse (2007)
Catherine Breillat
Paris, 1835. High society awaits with some trepidation the impending marriage of Ryno de Marigny, a notorious libertine, with Hermangarde, the unsullied daughter of the Marquis de Flers... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Paris, 1835. High society awaits with some trepidation the impending marriage of Ryno de Marigny, a notorious libertine, with Hermangarde, the unsullied daughter of the Marquis de Flers... [More...]
Une vraie jeune fille (1976)
Catherine Breillat
When school breaks up for the summer holidays, Alice, a 14 year old girl, returns to her parents' home in the country. As she gradually becomes aware of her transition to womanhood, the young teenager starts to experience bizarre sexual fantasies... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
When school breaks up for the summer holidays, Alice, a 14 year old girl, returns to her parents' home in the country. As she gradually becomes aware of her transition to womanhood, the young teenager starts to experience bizarre sexual fantasies... [More...]
Uniformes et grandes manoeuvres (1950)
René Le Hénaff
Luc, a doorman at the Miramar nightclub, knows too well the perils of returning a mislaid object to its owner. He recalls the fateful day when playboy André Duroc left his cigarette case behind... [More...]
René Le Hénaff
Luc, a doorman at the Miramar nightclub, knows too well the perils of returning a mislaid object to its owner. He recalls the fateful day when playboy André Duroc left his cigarette case behind... [More...]
L'Union sacrée (1989)
Alexandre Arcady
Simon Atlan, a Jewish anti-narcotics cop, is teamed up with Karim Hamida, secret agent for an Arab government. Tensions between the two men run high as they investigate an international drugs ring operating in state schools... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
Simon Atlan, a Jewish anti-narcotics cop, is teamed up with Karim Hamida, secret agent for an Arab government. Tensions between the two men run high as they investigate an international drugs ring operating in state schools... [More...]
L'Univers de Jacques Demy (1995)
Agnès Varda
An engaging portrait of Jacques Demy, one of the France's most significant film directors, seen through the eyes of his widow, Agnès Varda... [More...]
Agnès Varda
An engaging portrait of Jacques Demy, one of the France's most significant film directors, seen through the eyes of his widow, Agnès Varda... [More...]
Les Uns et les autres (1981)
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Uranus (1990)
Claude Berri
Little by little, normality returns to a small French town after World War II. The town is as scarred by the petty recriminations between its inhabitants as by the very evident signs of bombings... [More...]
Claude Berri
Little by little, normality returns to a small French town after World War II. The town is as scarred by the petty recriminations between its inhabitants as by the very evident signs of bombings... [More...]
Urgence (1985)
Gilles Béhat
One night, Lyza sees her brother, the reporter Max Forestier, killed and narrowly escapes death herself at the hands of an unknown assailant... [More...]
Gilles Béhat
One night, Lyza sees her brother, the reporter Max Forestier, killed and narrowly escapes death herself at the hands of an unknown assailant... [More...]
Urgences (1988)
Raymond Depardon
The outward grandeur of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris betrays nothing of the human dramas being played out within its austere walls... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
The outward grandeur of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris betrays nothing of the human dramas being played out within its austere walls... [More...]
Va savoir (2001)
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
Va, vis et deviens (2005)
Radu Mihaileanu
In 1984, a humanitarian crisis descends on the Sudan as thousands of Africans fleeing famine swell the make-shift camps. Israel and the United States launch a vast operation to expatriate several thousand Jewish Ethiopians to Israel... [More...]
Radu Mihaileanu
In 1984, a humanitarian crisis descends on the Sudan as thousands of Africans fleeing famine swell the make-shift camps. Israel and the United States launch a vast operation to expatriate several thousand Jewish Ethiopians to Israel... [More...]