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French cinema: All genres

Les Compagnes de la nuit (1953)
Ralph Habib

In 1950s Paris, two events take place which apparently have no connection. The police are concerned with the corpses of two murdered women...   [More...]

Les Compagnons de la marguerite (1967)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

An expert in restoring old manuscripts at the National Library, Jean-Louis Matouzec is not a happily married man, but his wife Françoise refuses to give him a divorce...   [More...]

Compartiment de dames seules (1934)
Christian-Jaque

On the day of his wedding to Nicole, Robert de Merinville makes an extraordinary confession to his stepfather. Twenty years ago, whilst taking the train from Paris to Versailles, he took advantage of a young woman who was alone with him in his carriage...   [More...]

Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Costa-Gavras

When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket...   [More...]

Les Compères (1983)
Francis Veber

Christine Martin, a married woman in her early forties, becomes anxious when her 17-year-old son Tristan leaves home without leaving behind any clue as to his whereabouts...   [More...]

Le Complexe du kangourou (1986)
Pierre Jolivet

Loïc, a Parisian artist in his mid-thirties, prefers to burn his paintings rather than sell them before he has perfected his talent...   [More...]

Complices (2010)
Frédéric Mermoud

The body of a teenage boy is fished out of the Rhone near to Lyon. He is Vincent, 17 years old, and apparently died from strangulation...   [More...]

Le Complot (1973)
René Gainville

In March 1962, the French government has signed a treaty with Algeria that will allow the latter country to gain its independence...   [More...]

Comptes à rebours (1971)
Roger Pigaut

Revenge is the only thing on François Nolan's mind when he returns to Paris, having spent the past ten years in prison for his part in a bank robbery that went disastrously wrong...   [More...]

Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1943)
Robert Vernay

On the day of his engagement to his beloved Mecédès the mariner Edmond Dantès is arrested for treason and sent to the Château d'If, an island prison...   [More...]

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1955)
Robert Vernay

In 1814, the merchant ship Le Pharaon returns to the port of Marseilles under the command of the young lieutenant Edmond Dantès...   [More...]

Le Concert (2009)
Radu Mihaileanu

Way back in the 1970s, Andrei Filipov was one of the most famous conductors in the Soviet Union. He worked with the world-renowned Bolshoi Orchestra and led a privileged and comfortable life...   [More...]

Le Concierge (1973)
Jean Girault

On graduating from university with honours, Christophe Mérignac has high hopes for his future but he is as yet unsure as to which direction to take as regards his chosen career...   [More...]

Le Concile de pierre (2006)
Guillaume Nicloux

Laura Siprien is a French interpreter who can have no idea what she is taking on when she decides to adopt a baby boy of Mongolian origin, Liu-San...   [More...]

Les Condamnés (1948)
Georges Lacombe

Dr Jean Severac and his wife Hélène are celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. Outwardly, they appear to be a perfectly happy married couple, but in reality Hélène has a lover, the younger Dr Bernard Aubertin...   [More...]

La Confession (2017)
Nicolas Boukhrief

In the present day, a priest is summoned to the bedside of a dying woman, to hear her final confession. The woman, Barny, has long harboured a secret which she feels she must impart to a sympathetic ear before she dies...   [More...]

La Confiance règne (2004)
Étienne Chatiliez

Christophe Gérard and Chrystèle Burrel are two of a kind. Uneducated and lacking even the smallest particle of moral awareness, each has made a habit of fleecing the trusting fools who employ them as domestic servants...   [More...]

Confidences pour confidences (1979)
Pascal Thomas

Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop...   [More...]

Confidences trop intimes (2004)
Patrice Leconte

Tax adviser William Faber is surprised when, one day, a strange woman enters his office, insisting she has an appointment with him...   [More...]

Le Confident de ces dames (1959)
Jean Boyer

Owing to a shortage of doctors, the inhabitants of the little Italian town Figuerol look to their veterinary Julien Goberti to treat their ailments as well as those of their pets...   [More...]

Conflit (1938)
Léonide Moguy

Catherine Lafont, the wife of an eminent explorer, is arrested for the attempted murder of her sister Claire. The investigating magistrate is unable to shed any light on the mystery until Claire recovers from her injuries...   [More...]

La Confusion des genres (2000)
Ilan Duran Cohen

Alain, a man in his forties, is beginning to wish that his private life was as ordered and straightforward as his professional life as a lawyer...   [More...]

Les Conquérants (2013)
Xabi Molia

Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives...   [More...]

La Conquête (2011)
Xavier Durringer

It is the 6th May 2007, the day of the second round of the French presidential election. As the people of France cast their vote, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy mopes about his home in a bathrobe, alone and dejected, unable to get in touch with his wife Cécilia...   [More...]

Consentement mutuel (1994)
Bernard Stora

Going by appearances, Romain and Jeanne's divorce is an amiable affair. The couple arrive at an equitable settlement - their daughter Mado will live with Jeanne and will spend every other weekend and half of her school holidays with Romain...   [More...]

Constance aux enfers (1963)
François Villiers

Constance Brunel, a widow in her forties, has grown accustomed to living alone. These days, the only company she has are her pupils, to whom she gives piano lessons in her solitary Montmartre apartment...   [More...]

Conte d'automne (1998)
Eric Rohmer

Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley...   [More...]

Conte d'été (1996)
Eric Rohmer

Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar...   [More...]

Conte d'hiver (1992)
Eric Rohmer

During a summer holiday, Félicie and Charles meet and have a whirlwind romance. Due to a mix-up with their addresses, they lose track of one another, even though Félicie is carrying Charles' child...   [More...]

Conte de printemps (1990)
Eric Rohmer

Jeanne is a high school teacher of philosophy who finds herself temporarily homeless when her fiancé Mathieu goes away for a few days...   [More...]



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