Film Index

French cinema: All genres

Le Chemin des écoliers (1959)
Michel Boisrond

Paris, 1943. With the country still under Nazi occupation and commodities severely rationed, ordinary French people muddle through as best they can...   [More...]

Chercher le garçon (2012)
Dorothée Sebbagh

Emilie is 35, lives in Marseille, and still hasn't found the man who is right for her. One New Year's Eve, she decides to take matters in hand by enrolling on an internet dating site named Meet Me...   [More...]

Cherchez Hortense (2012)
Pascal Bonitzer

Damien, an expert in Chinese civilisation, is married to Iva, a theatre director. The passion has long since gone out of the couple's marriage and their relationship has been in a rut for many years...   [More...]

Chère inconnue (1980)
Moshé Mizrahi

Gilles and Louise are a brother and sister who have lived all their lives together in a remote house by the sea not far from Quimper in Brittany...   [More...]

Chéri (1950)
Pierre Billon

Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes...   [More...]

Chéri-Bibi (1938)
Léon Mathot

A fugitive from justice, Chéri-Bibi is captured after being denounced by his girlfriend Ginette and ends up on a convict ship bound for Guiana, to serve out a long sentence of hard labour...   [More...]

Le Cheval d'orgueil (1980)
Claude Chabrol

Pierre-Jakez Helias recounts his childhood experience from 1908 to 1918. Growing up in a small Brittany village, Helias recalls with affection his father Pierre-Alain and mother Anne-Marie...   [More...]

Le Chevalier de la nuit (1954)
Robert Darène

In 1884, Bella Fontanges is the most famous ballet dancer in Paris, but professional success is no substitute for love. She regrets that her lover, the nobleman Georges de Ségar, no longer shows her the tenderness that he used to when he was a young man...   [More...]

Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1914)
Albert Capellani

Paris, 1793. After four years of turmoil, the French Revolution has reached its bloodiest phase with the execution of King Louis XVI, the old monarchy replaced by a reign of terror...   [More...]

Le Chevalier de Pardaillan (1962)
Bernard Borderie

Intent on deposing Henri IV, the ambitious Duke de Guise plans to marry a woman who has a stronger claim to the throne than he does, and thereby make himself the rightful King of France...   [More...]

Les Chevaliers du ciel (2005)
Gérard Pirès

During an air display at Farnborough, a Mirage 2000 jet goes off the radar. Two French fighter pilots, Antoine Marchelli and Sébastien Vallois, are sent to intercept the plane...   [More...]

La Chèvre (1981)
Francis Veber

When his daughter Maria goes missing shortly after her arrival in Acapulco, wealthy businessman Alexandre Bens engages private detective Campana to find her...   [More...]

Chez nous (2017)
Lucas Belvaux

Pauline is a single mother of two who is devoted to her work as a home-care nurse in an anonymous town in northern France...   [More...]

Le Chien fou (1966)
Eddy Matalon

Late one night, a gang of Parisian thieves succeed in breaking into a safe and laying their hands on a small fortune in diamonds...   [More...]

Le Chien jaune (1932)
Jean Tarride

Superintendent Maigret finds himself in the Breton fishing port of Concarneau, here to investigate the murder of Mostaguen, a wine dealer who was shot dead one evening on leaving a hostelry...   [More...]

Le Chien (2009)
Christian Monnier

Kevin and Jean-Claude are two men who live a solitary existence on a farm in the midst of unspoiled countryside. Their shared tranquillity is disturbed one day when Jean-Claude catches the eye of Michèle, who sees him as a potential one night stand...   [More...]

La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir

Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting...   [More...]

Chiens perdus sans collier (1955)
Jean Delannoy

With no relatives of his own to take care of him, little Alain Robert ends up being placed in the care of a farming family in the country...   [More...]

Les Chiens (1979)
Alain Jessua

Not long after arriving in a small provincial town, a young doctor, Henri Ferret, is struck by the mood of fear that pervades the region...   [More...]

Les Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs (1955)
Robert Darène

In the late 1940s, Abbé Pierre decides to open a centre for disadvantaged young people in a leafy suburb of Paris...   [More...]

Le Chignon d'Olga (2002)
Jérôme Bonnell

Julien and Emma are a teenage brother and sister who live in Beauce, a picturesque semi-rural region of Northern France. They are still living in the house in which they were born, along with their father Gilles, who gets by as a writer...   [More...]

Les Chinois à Paris (1974)
Jean Yanne

The Chinese have invaded Europe! In the ensuing panic, the French President flees to America, leaving the citizens of France, who are forced to manufacture pipes, to rediscover the joys of denunciation and hypocrisy...   [More...]

La Chinoise (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard

One summer, whilst living together in an apartment lent to them by a wealthy friend, five students discuss how they can apply the teachings of Mao Tse-tung to their own lives...   [More...]

Chobizenesse (1975)
Jean Yanne

Clément Mastard is the owner of a revue theatre who is fighting a losing battle against bankruptcy. In a desperate attempt to stave off financial ruin he enters into a business agreement with a group of hardnosed businessmen who insist that their industry, the manufacture and exploitation of steel, be represented in Mastard's next show...   [More...]

Chocolat (1988)
Claire Denis

A young French woman named France returns to Cameroon after twenty years and is prompted to recall the happy childhood years she spent there in the 1950s...   [More...]

Le Choix des armes (1981)
Alain Corneau

Three criminals break out of prison and go on the run. In a bloody shootout, one of them is wounded. His punk accomplice, Mickey, takes him to a remote country house belonging to a former gangland boss, Noël Durieux...   [More...]

Les Choristes (2004)
Christophe Barratier

The world famous orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange is performing at a concert in the United States when he learns of the death of his mother...   [More...]

Les Choses de la vie (1970)
Claude Sautet

Pierre Bérard, a 40-year-old architect, is on his way to a business appointment when his car collides with a lorry on a quiet country road...   [More...]

Choses secrètes (2002)
Jean-Claude Brisseau

Sandrine and Nathalie decide to embark on a campaign of revenge against the male sex after losing their jobs in a pornographic nightclub...   [More...]

Chotard et Cie (1932)
Jean Renoir

François Chotard runs a successful grocery business in a small village in the south of France. His daughter Reine has two suitors - a young police officer and daydreaming poet named Julien Collinet - but Chotard is holding out for a more suitable son-in-law...   [More...]



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