Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Barry (1949)
Richard Pottier
In 1880, in a French alpine village near the border with Italy, Angelina is passionately in love with Sylvain Bavoizet, not knowing that she has an equally fervent admirer in Théotime, an old friend of hers who is twenty years her senior...
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Richard Pottier
Bartleby (1976)
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement...
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Maurice Ronet
Les Bas-fonds (1936)
Jean Renoir
Having been dismissed from his official post for embezzlement, a baron gambles away the last of his fortune at the card table...
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Jean Renoir
La Bataille de l'eau lourde (1948)
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan...
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Jean Dréville
La Bataille du rail (1946)
René Clément
This episodic film recounts the exploits of French railway workers supporting the activities of the French Resistance during the Second World War...
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René Clément
Le Bataillon du ciel (1947)
Alexander Esway
Spring, 1944: a decisive moment in the Second World War. Colonel Rouvier, a respected soldier who lost an arm in combat in Tunisia, is put in charge of training a parachute regiment of the French Free Forces in England... [More...]
Alexander Esway
Spring, 1944: a decisive moment in the Second World War. Colonel Rouvier, a respected soldier who lost an arm in combat in Tunisia, is put in charge of training a parachute regiment of the French Free Forces in England... [More...]
Le Bateau d'Émile (1962)
Denys de La Patellière
Realising he is close to death, Charles-Edmond Larmentiel returns to his home town of La Rochelle to enact a cruel vengeance on his family... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Realising he is close to death, Charles-Edmond Larmentiel returns to his home town of La Rochelle to enact a cruel vengeance on his family... [More...]
Les Bâtisseurs (1938)
Jean Epstein
Dating from the late 12th century, Chartres Cathedral still dominates the skyline in its prime location to the southwest of Paris... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Dating from the late 12th century, Chartres Cathedral still dominates the skyline in its prime location to the southwest of Paris... [More...]
Le Battant (1983)
Alain Delon
A fortune in diamonds is stolen and the jeweller killed. Petty crook Jacques Darnay is jailed for the crime. Released on parole eight years later Darnay is well aware that he is being tailed by police and gangsters alike, both sides wanting to recover the loot... [More...]
Alain Delon
A fortune in diamonds is stolen and the jeweller killed. Petty crook Jacques Darnay is jailed for the crime. Released on parole eight years later Darnay is well aware that he is being tailed by police and gangsters alike, both sides wanting to recover the loot... [More...]
Battement de coeur (1940)
Henri Decoin
On leaving a reformatory, Arlette finds herself alone and penniless in Paris. An orphan, she has no one to stay with and nowhere to go... [More...]
Henri Decoin
On leaving a reformatory, Arlette finds herself alone and penniless in Paris. An orphan, she has no one to stay with and nowhere to go... [More...]
La Baule-les-Pins (1990)
Diane Kurys
July 1958. Two young sisters, Frédérique and Sophie, are packed off to the seaside, to spend their summer holidays under the care of their housemaid, Odette, whilst their mother Lena and father Michel stays at home in Lyon... [More...]
Diane Kurys
July 1958. Two young sisters, Frédérique and Sophie, are packed off to the seaside, to spend their summer holidays under the care of their housemaid, Odette, whilst their mother Lena and father Michel stays at home in Lyon... [More...]
Bazar (2009)
Patricia Plattner
Sixty-year-old Gabrielle is passionate about her work as an antiques dealer. It is her life, her raison d'être, and so she is understandably shaken when she is evicted from her shop... [More...]
Patricia Plattner
Sixty-year-old Gabrielle is passionate about her work as an antiques dealer. It is her life, her raison d'être, and so she is understandably shaken when she is evicted from her shop... [More...]
Beau fixe (1992)
Christian Vincent
One summer, a young medical student, Valérie, invites her three friends, Armelle, Frédérique and Carine, to study with her at her family villa in the coastal resort of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer... [More...]
Christian Vincent
One summer, a young medical student, Valérie, invites her three friends, Armelle, Frédérique and Carine, to study with her at her family villa in the coastal resort of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer... [More...]
Le Beau mariage (1982)
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children... [More...]
Le Beau monde (2014)
Julie Lopes-Curval
Alice is twenty and lives in Bayeux. She is a woolworker who makes clothes with dyes she has created herself. She is unsure what to do with her innate talent until she meets Agnès, a wealthy Parisian woman who helps her to gain admission to a prestigious school of applied arts... [More...]
Julie Lopes-Curval
Alice is twenty and lives in Bayeux. She is a woolworker who makes clothes with dyes she has created herself. She is unsure what to do with her innate talent until she meets Agnès, a wealthy Parisian woman who helps her to gain admission to a prestigious school of applied arts... [More...]
Le Beau Serge (1958)
Claude Chabrol
Stricken with tuberculosis, a young student named François returns to his home town of Sardent in the Creuse region of central France for a period of quiet convalescence... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Stricken with tuberculosis, a young student named François returns to his home town of Sardent in the Creuse region of central France for a period of quiet convalescence... [More...]
Beau travail (1999)
Claire Denis
As he struggles to adjust to civilian life, a former military man Galoup recalls his past life in the French Foreign Legion, in particular the incidents which led to his humiliating dismissal... [More...]
Claire Denis
As he struggles to adjust to civilian life, a former military man Galoup recalls his past life in the French Foreign Legion, in particular the incidents which led to his humiliating dismissal... [More...]
Beau-père (1981)
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants... [More...]
Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996)
Edouard Molinaro
In France of the 1770s, the reign of King Louis XV is drawing to an end. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clocksmith, enjoys fame and notoriety as a playwright and outspoken critic of the ruling elite... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
In France of the 1770s, the reign of King Louis XV is drawing to an end. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clocksmith, enjoys fame and notoriety as a playwright and outspoken critic of the ruling elite... [More...]
La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
Les Beaux gosses (2009)
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
Bébés à gogo (1956)
Paul Mesnier
Stéphane Petitbourgeois, an accountant at a large department store, shares his modest apartment with his wife Isabelle, daughter Pat, son-in-law Hubert, and the latters' brood of nine children... [More...]
Paul Mesnier
Stéphane Petitbourgeois, an accountant at a large department store, shares his modest apartment with his wife Isabelle, daughter Pat, son-in-law Hubert, and the latters' brood of nine children... [More...]
Bécassine (1940)
Pierre Caron
Bécassine, a young Breton girl, works as a maid for the Marquise de Grand-Air, who lives with her daughter Annie and Uncle Coretin in a grand house by the sea... [More...]
Pierre Caron
Bécassine, a young Breton girl, works as a maid for the Marquise de Grand-Air, who lives with her daughter Annie and Uncle Coretin in a grand house by the sea... [More...]
The Beekeeper (1986)
Theodoros Angelopoulos
After giving up his job as a schoolteacher 60-year-old Spiros needs a hobby to occupy him, so he decides to take up beekeeping... [More...]
Theodoros Angelopoulos
After giving up his job as a schoolteacher 60-year-old Spiros needs a hobby to occupy him, so he decides to take up beekeeping... [More...]
Bella ciao (2001)
Stéphane Giusti
As Italy falls under the control of the Fascists, Orféo Mancini, a life-long supporter of the Communist party, decides to leave his country, with his wife Nella and their two children, Oreste and Bianca... [More...]
Stéphane Giusti
As Italy falls under the control of the Fascists, Orféo Mancini, a life-long supporter of the Communist party, decides to leave his country, with his wife Nella and their two children, Oreste and Bianca... [More...]
Bellamy (2009)
Claude Chabrol
As is his custom, police commissioner Paul Bellamy takes his annual summer break in the south of France, staying with wife Francoise's family in Nimes... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
As is his custom, police commissioner Paul Bellamy takes his annual summer break in the south of France, staying with wife Francoise's family in Nimes... [More...]
La Belle Américaine (1961)
Robert Dhéry
The life of an ordinary factory worker Marcel is completely transformed when he manages to acquire an expensive new American car, a Cadillac convertible, for the price of a second-hand motorcycle... [More...]
Robert Dhéry
The life of an ordinary factory worker Marcel is completely transformed when he manages to acquire an expensive new American car, a Cadillac convertible, for the price of a second-hand motorcycle... [More...]
Belle de jour (1967)
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Belle épine (2010)
Rebecca Zlotowski
Prudence Friedman is 17 and is currently living alone in the family apartment in Paris. Her mother has just died, her father is away on a business trip to Canada, and her sister Frédérique has moved out... [More...]
Rebecca Zlotowski
Prudence Friedman is 17 and is currently living alone in the family apartment in Paris. Her mother has just died, her father is away on a business trip to Canada, and her sister Frédérique has moved out... [More...]
La Belle équipe (1936)
Julien Duvivier
France, 1936, Jean, Charles, Mario, Raymond and Jacques are five unemployed friends who are desperately looking for work and live in a squalid Parisian apartment block... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
France, 1936, Jean, Charles, Mario, Raymond and Jacques are five unemployed friends who are desperately looking for work and live in a squalid Parisian apartment block... [More...]