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French cinema: All genres

Le Bon roi Dagobert (1963)
Pierre Chevalier

Bébert Pelletan is a schoolboy who has a habit of daydreaming in class instead of paying attention. His teacher is so appalled that he knows nothing about the medieval king of France Dagobert that he gives the boy an essay to write on that very subject...   [More...]

Bon voyage (2003)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Paris, 1940. A few days before France falls to German occupation, a famous actress, Viviane Denvers, triggers a series of events that will irrevocably change the lives of herself and those around her...   [More...]

Le Bonheur est dans le pré (1995)
Étienne Chatiliez

Francis Bergeade is heading for a mid-life crisis. The workers in his factory which manufactures toilet accessories are up in arms when he announces cut backs...   [More...]

Le Bonheur (1934)
Marcel L'Herbier

Clara Stuart, star of music hall and cinema, arrives in Paris, to great public acclaim. She has everything - fame, wealth, and - through her aristocratic husband - a title...   [More...]

Le Bonheur (1965)
Agnès Varda

François has an idyllic life and cannot imagine how he could be happier. He enjoys working as a carpenter with his older brother...   [More...]

Boniface somnambule (1951)
Maurice Labro

Monsieur Boniface finds that his services are much in demand after he brings a notorious gang of crooks to justice. Hired as a store detective, his latest mission is simply to keep an eye on the jewellery on display in an upmarket department store...   [More...]

Bonjour l'angoisse (1988)
Pierre Tchernia

Michaud is a timid 50-something who works for Stopalarm, a company that specialises in high-tech alarm systems. Despite his 32 years of loyal service, Michaud is threatened with early retirement...   [More...]

Bonjour sourire (1955)
Claude Sautet

Monte-Marino is a thriving principality whose main export is musical instruments. Despite her country's prosperity, the Princess Aline cannot bring herself to smile...   [More...]

La Bonne année (1973)
Claude Lelouch

Simon is released from prison after having served a seven year stretch for an audacious jewel robbery at Cannes in 1966. He returns to Paris, hoping to meet up with his accomplice, Charlot (who managed to escape with the stolen jewels) and a young antique dealer, Françoise, with whom he is hoping to start a new life...   [More...]

Bonne chance (1935)
Sacha Guitry

Marie Muscat is a young and attractive laundress who lives with her mother in a modest Parisian apartment. She is engaged to marry Prosper, a fairly dim young man who is away at the moment on his military training...   [More...]

La Bonne étoile (1943)
Jean Boyer

Auguste, known to his friends as Guste, ekes out a modest living as a fisherman in a small Mediterranean port in the south of France...   [More...]

La Bonne soupe (1964)
Robert Thomas

Marie Paule lives for the moment in Cannes and has a regular place at the casino, where she squanders what little remains of her money...   [More...]

La Bonne tisane (1958)
Hervé Bromberger

After spending several years abroad, gangster boss René Leconte returns to France to resume his criminal exploits...   [More...]

Bonnes à tuer (1954)
Henri Decoin

Crowds of on-lookers on Paris's most famous thoroughfare, the Champs-Elysées, gather around the crushed body of a man who has just plunged to his death from a great height...   [More...]

Les Bonnes causes (1963)
Christian-Jaque

Paul Dupré dies at the hands of his nurse Gina Bianchi when she administers his daily injection. His wife Catherine accuses the nurse of murdering her husband but Gina insists that she is innocent...   [More...]

Les Bonnes femmes (1960)
Claude Chabrol

Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives...   [More...]

Bons baisers... à lundi (1974)
Michel Audiard

Three small-time hoodlums, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri, are convinced they can make a mint by holding-up a soiree hosted by showbiz king Frankie Strong at his Paris apartment...   [More...]

Les Bons vivants (1965)
Gilles Grangier

Three tales concerning the strange history of a brothel lantern. In La Fermeture, Monsieur Charles and Madame Blanche are forced to close their popular brothel in Paris when, just after the war, the government brings in new legislation outlawing such establishments...   [More...]

Bonsoir (1994)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

After having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society...   [More...]

Boomerang (2015)
François Favrat

Having just turned forty, Antoine meets up with his sister Agathe for a meal in a restaurant. Antoine needs something to distract him from his recent messy divorce and Agathe wants to remember their mother, who died exactly thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances...   [More...]

Bord de mer (2002)
Julie Lopes-Curval

In summer, Cayeux-sur-mer is the perfect picture postcard seaside resort, a haven for holidaymakers who flock here in their thousands to take advantage of the rolling stretch of beach...   [More...]

Border Line (1992)
Danièle Dubroux

Hélène, a middle-aged woman who has been married for over 20 years, decides to visit her former lover. She learns that he has recently died and that his son, Julien, is living in his apartment...   [More...]

Borsalino (1970)
Jacques Deray

Marseille, 1930. After completing a six month stretch in prison, Roch Siffredi returns to his girlfriend to find her in the company of another man, François Capella...   [More...]

Borsalino & Co. (1974)
Jacques Deray

France, 1934. Over the past few years, Roch Siffredi and François Capella were two of the most notorious gangsters in Marseille...   [More...]

Le Bossu (1944)
Jean Delannoy

France, 1699. Philippe de Gonzague kills the Duke of Nevers in the hope of stealing both his wife and his fortune. Having failed to save the Duke's life, the swordmaster Henri de Lagardère flees to Spain with his infant daughter Aurore, swearing that one day he will have his revenge...   [More...]

Le Bossu (1960)
André Hunebelle

In the dying days of the reign of Louis XIV, the scheming prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to murder his cousin, Philippe de Nevers, so that he can take both his fortune and his wife, Isabelle de Caylus...   [More...]

Le Bossu (1997)
Philippe de Broca

Philippe the Duke of Nevers is in love with Blanche de Caylus, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, and he is over the moon when he learns that she has given him a child outside wedlock...   [More...]

Botta e risposta (1950)
Mario Soldati

Suzy, a well-known singer, is on her way to Rome to attend an audience with the Pope. During the train journey from Paris, her costume and jewels are stolen...   [More...]

La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic

When her mother tries to kill herself, nine-year-old Mini is left in a highly traumatised state. Until her mother is well enough to leave hospital, the little girl must stay with her aunt, Solange, in a tiny apartment that is barely big enough for one...   [More...]

Le Boucher (1970)
Claude Chabrol

After serving in both the Indochina and Algerian wars, Paul Thomas returns to his home village in a provincial backwater of France and takes over his father's butcher's shop...   [More...]



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