Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Week End (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
One perfectly ordinary weekend, a perfectly ordinary married couple get into their car and head off to the country for an ordinary family get-together...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Week-end à Zuydcoote (1964)
Henri Verneuil
Early in June 1940, the battle for France is all but lost. Overwhelmed by the superiority of the German armies, French and English troops are driven back towards the Normandy coastline...
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Henri Verneuil
Welcome (2009)
Philippe Lioret
Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish man, arrives illegally at Calais, hoping to swim across the Channel to England. If he succeeds, he intends to look for the girlfriend he hasn't seen for a long time and train to become a footballer...
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Philippe Lioret
Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe? (2001)
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Having completed a stretch in prison for drugs trafficking, Kamel, an illegal immigrant, returns to his Algerian family in the rundown suburbs of Paris and tries to make a fresh start...
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Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Western (1997)
Manuel Poirier
When a Spanish sales rep Paco Cazale gives a lift to a Russian hitch-hiker, Nino, his life takes an unexpected turn. First he is stranded when Nino drives off with his car...
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Manuel Poirier
White Material (2010)
Claire Denis
Somewhere in Africa, in a region plagued by civil war, Maria refuses to abandon her coffee plantation before the end of the harvest... [More...]
Claire Denis
Somewhere in Africa, in a region plagued by civil war, Maria refuses to abandon her coffee plantation before the end of the harvest... [More...]
Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? (1996)
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]
Les Yeux cernés (1964)
Robert Hossein
When Vollmer, the owner of a sawmill, is shot dead in a small Austrian town, there is no shortage of suspects. Friedrich, the inspector leading the police investigation, learns that Vollmer, a tough and ruthless man, was hated by just about everyone, including his estranged wife... [More...]
Robert Hossein
When Vollmer, the owner of a sawmill, is shot dead in a small Austrian town, there is no shortage of suspects. Friedrich, the inspector leading the police investigation, learns that Vollmer, a tough and ruthless man, was hated by just about everyone, including his estranged wife... [More...]
Les Yeux de l'amour (1959)
Denys de La Patellière
In the spring of 1944, France remains under Nazi occupation and prisoners are still being taken by the Germans, who have yet to discover that the war is already lost... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
In the spring of 1944, France remains under Nazi occupation and prisoners are still being taken by the Germans, who have yet to discover that the war is already lost... [More...]
Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles (2014)
Cécile Telerman
This is the story of two sisters who could not be more different. Joséphine, a historian who specialises in the twelfth century, is struggling to cope with life's challenges... [More...]
Cécile Telerman
This is the story of two sisters who could not be more different. Joséphine, a historian who specialises in the twelfth century, is struggling to cope with life's challenges... [More...]
Les Yeux sans visage (1960)
Georges Franju
Professor Genessier, once a great surgeon, is now consumed with his overriding obsession - to restore the features of his beloved daughter Christiane... [More...]
Georges Franju
Professor Genessier, once a great surgeon, is now consumed with his overriding obsession - to restore the features of his beloved daughter Christiane... [More...]
Yoyo (1965)
Pierre Étaix
A reclusive millionaire is languishing in boredom in his opulent château when, one day, amidst a travelling circus, he recognises an old flame... [More...]
Pierre Étaix
A reclusive millionaire is languishing in boredom in his opulent château when, one day, amidst a travelling circus, he recognises an old flame... [More...]
Yuki et Nina (2009)
Hippolyte Girardot
When Yuki, a 9-year-old Franco-Japanese girl, learns that her parents are about to separate, she realises that she must accompany her mother to Japan... [More...]
Hippolyte Girardot
When Yuki, a 9-year-old Franco-Japanese girl, learns that her parents are about to separate, she realises that she must accompany her mother to Japan... [More...]
Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
Jalil Lespert
Paris, 1957. Yves Saint Laurent is only 21 when he takes over the running of the prestigious fashion house founded by the recently deceased Christian Dior... [More...]
Jalil Lespert
Paris, 1957. Yves Saint Laurent is only 21 when he takes over the running of the prestigious fashion house founded by the recently deceased Christian Dior... [More...]
Zazie dans le métro (1960)
Louis Malle
During a two-day stay in Paris, 11-year old Zazie is foisted on her uncle, Gabriel, whilst her mother goes off with a new boyfriend... [More...]
Louis Malle
During a two-day stay in Paris, 11-year old Zazie is foisted on her uncle, Gabriel, whilst her mother goes off with a new boyfriend... [More...]
Le Zèbre (1992)
Jean Poiret
Hippolyte and Camille have been married for 15 years and although they still love each other Hippolyte is anxious that the passion in their relationship is waning... [More...]
Jean Poiret
Hippolyte and Camille have been married for 15 years and although they still love each other Hippolyte is anxious that the passion in their relationship is waning... [More...]
Zéro de conduite (1933)
Jean Vigo
The summer holidays over, a troupe of young boys return downheartedly to their boarding school, where they will no doubt have to endure another gruelling term of sanctions and punishments at the hands of their cruel teachers... [More...]
Jean Vigo
The summer holidays over, a troupe of young boys return downheartedly to their boarding school, where they will no doubt have to endure another gruelling term of sanctions and punishments at the hands of their cruel teachers... [More...]
Zig Zag Story (1983)
Patrick Schulmann
A drop of water falling from the guttering of a building causes a chain reaction ending in a traffic jam which allows Gil Darmon, an aspiring painter, to meet Cat, a radio presenter... [More...]
Patrick Schulmann
A drop of water falling from the guttering of a building causes a chain reaction ending in a traffic jam which allows Gil Darmon, an aspiring painter, to meet Cat, a radio presenter... [More...]
Zim and Co. (2005)
Pierre Jolivet
20-year-old Victor Zimbietrovski, known to his friends as Zim, lives in the suburbs of Paris and ekes out a living doing odd jobs... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
20-year-old Victor Zimbietrovski, known to his friends as Zim, lives in the suburbs of Paris and ekes out a living doing odd jobs... [More...]
La Zizanie (1978)
Claude Zidi
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions... [More...]
Zone libre (2007)
Christophe Malavoy
During the Second World War, Simon, a French Jew, succeeds in smuggling his family from Nazi-occupied France into the Free Zone... [More...]
Christophe Malavoy
During the Second World War, Simon, a French Jew, succeeds in smuggling his family from Nazi-occupied France into the Free Zone... [More...]
Zone rouge (1986)
Robert Enrico
One summer evening, on a quiet road on the outskirts of Lyon, some tins of paint fall from a lorry. It's hard to imagine that such an innocuous event could have such devastating consequences..... [More...]
Robert Enrico
One summer evening, on a quiet road on the outskirts of Lyon, some tins of paint fall from a lorry. It's hard to imagine that such an innocuous event could have such devastating consequences..... [More...]
Zonzon (1998)
Laurent Bouhnik
Franky and Rico find themselves in prison after yet another criminal exploit turns sour. Franky, a hardened criminal who has lost just about everything he possesses, including his family, ends up sharing a cell with two less seasoned convicts, Grandjean and Kader... [More...]
Laurent Bouhnik
Franky and Rico find themselves in prison after yet another criminal exploit turns sour. Franky, a hardened criminal who has lost just about everything he possesses, including his family, ends up sharing a cell with two less seasoned convicts, Grandjean and Kader... [More...]
Zouzou (1934)
Marc Allégret
Zouzou and Jean, two orphans, are raised as brother and sister by circus artiste Père Mélé. Many years later, they live together in Paris, Zouzou working as a laundress, Jean as an electrician for a musical theatre, the Folies... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Zouzou and Jean, two orphans, are raised as brother and sister by circus artiste Père Mélé. Many years later, they live together in Paris, Zouzou working as a laundress, Jean as an electrician for a musical theatre, the Folies... [More...]