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French cinema: All genres

Cours privé (1986)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Shortly after she takes up a teaching post in a reputable private school, Jeanne Kern begins to receive offensive letters from an unknown admirer...   [More...]

La Course à l'échalote (1975)
Claude Zidi

With his boss away on holiday, Pierre Vidal finds himself elevated to the highest position in the bank where he works. Anxious to ensure that nothing goes wrong whilst he is in charge, Pierre rules with an iron grip, even going so far as to stage a fake hold-up to test his staff's reactions...   [More...]

La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972)
René Clément

Antoine Cardot is tried in France for killing some gypsy children with his aeroplane. When the court decides the deaths were the result of a tragic accident, Antoine is set free...   [More...]

Courte tête (1956)
Norbert Carbonnaux

Amédée Lucas is a naïve young man who scrapes a semi-honest living by selling betting tips to horse racing addicts at the entrance to the Longchamp racecourse in Paris...   [More...]

Le Cousin (1997)
Alain Corneau

His family life in disarray, his career threatened when he is implicated in a drugs dealing racket, a police detective kills himself...   [More...]

Les Cousins (1959)
Claude Chabrol

Against the wishes of his adoring mother, Charles leaves his home in the provinces so that he can study law in Paris. Accommodation is provided by his cousin Paul Thomas, who presently occupies a spacious luxury apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine belonging to a wealthy relative...   [More...]

Le Coût de la vie (2003)
Philippe Le Guay

Laurence is a young heiress who is determined to prove that she can find happiness without money, so she gets herself a job at a Lyon restaurant and promptly steals the heart of a dishwasher, Patrick...   [More...]

Le Couturier de ces dames (1956)
Jean Boyer

Modest Parisian tailor Fernand Vignard dreams of managing his own fashion house - for women. His dreams comes true when a former mistress dies and leaves him her maison de haute couture in her will...   [More...]

Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)
Pierre Schoendoerffer

The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic...   [More...]

Crainquebille (1922)
Jacques Feyder

For over forty years, a modest street peddler, Crainquebille, has sold vegetables from his cart in the environs of the Halles market in Paris...   [More...]

Cran d'arrêt (1970)
Yves Boisset

Dr Lucas Lamberti has just left prison after serving a three year stretch for killing one of his patients. An old friend, Dr Carrua, persuades him to take a friendly interest in his son, David, who has recently become an alcoholic depressive...   [More...]

Le Crâneur (1955)
Dimitri Kirsanoff

One-time stuntman Philippe finds his goose well and truly cooked when his girlfriend Betty Ball is found dead in a telephone kiosk at the chic Pigalle nightclub where she works as a dancer, Le Toboggan...   [More...]

Cravate club (2002)
Frédéric Jardin

Bernard and Adrien have been the best of friends for longer than either of them can remember and now they work together, partners in their own firm of architects...   [More...]

Le Créateur (1999)
Albert Dupontel

After the success of his first play, writer Darius ends up in a hospital to cure him of his alcoholism. When he returns to Paris six months later, his producer immediately demands his next play, which is about to go into rehearsal...   [More...]

Les Créatures (1966)
Agnès Varda

Still suffering from the trauma of a road accident, a writer named Edgar finds himself afflicted with a mild case of writer's block...   [More...]

La Crème de la crème (2014)
Kim Chapiron

Dan, Kelliah and Louis are three students at one of France's most important business schools. These young people are being moulded into the elite of tomorrow and are ready to put what they have learned into practice...   [More...]

Crésus (1960)
Jean Giono

Jules is a shepherd who lives a simple but contented life on a plateau in the rural heart of Haute-Provence. His closest friend is Fine, a young widow who keeps him company from time to time...   [More...]

Le Cri de la soie (1996)
Yvon Marciano

In 1914, an uneducated young woman named Marie Benjamin is arrested after stealing some silk from a Parisian department store...   [More...]

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1970)
Michel Audiard

Hitch-hiking his way home after an unsuccessful day betting on the horses, Alfred Mulanet is abducted by a group of gangsters, led by the sinister Monsieur K...   [More...]

Le Cri du hibou (1987)
Claude Chabrol

An artist, Robert, moves to Vichy after having separated from his wife, Véronique. He relieves his depression by spying on a young woman, Juliette, who lives in a house in the countryside with her fiancé Patrick...   [More...]

Crime au concert Mayol (1954)
Pierre Méré

In the course of a performance at the Concert Mayol, a Parisian music hall, a dancer named Mado is poisoned. Fortunately, the young woman is taken to hospital in time to save her life but she goes missing a short time afterwards...   [More...]

Crime d'amour (2010)
Alain Corneau

Isabelle is an ambitious young executive who works in the Paris offices of an important multinational company. Her boss, Christine, is even more ambitious and is not beyond claiming Isabelle's work as her own to advance her career...   [More...]

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
Jean Renoir

Amedée Lange is a modest employee at Monsieur Batala's publishing house, which is teetering on the brink of ruin. In a last ditch attempt to stave of his creditors, Batala decides to publish Lange's fanciful Wild West stories, altering the text to promote the products of his sponsors, such as Ranimax Pills...   [More...]

Le Crime est notre affaire (2008)
Pascal Thomas

Whilst her husband Bélisaire is content with their peaceful retirement, Prudence is slowly dying of boredom. She pines for a real-life crime mystery that will tax her intellect and bring some excitement back into her life...   [More...]

Crime et châtiment (1935)
Pierre Chenal

An impulsive young Russian student, Rodion Raskolnikov, believes that the intellectual class is morally superior to ordinary working class people and is therefore above the laws that society creates for itself...   [More...]

Crime et châtiment (1956)
Georges Lampin

Paris in the 1950s. Since he had to abandon his studies because of lack of funds René Brunel has become bitter and cynical over how society appears to be organised for the benefit of a wealthy minority...   [More...]

Le Crime ne paie pas (1962)
Gérard Oury

Segment one: Lucrezia kills her unfaithful lover but she doesn't expect that his other mistress will take revenge on her.....   [More...]

La Crime (1983)
Philippe Labro

When Alins, an eminent lawyer, is shot dead by two men disguised as police officers, Inspector Martin Griffon investigates the killing, certain that Alins was the victim of a political cover-up...   [More...]

Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (1953)
Albert Lamorisse

Across the vast expanse of wetland in the Camargue region of south-eastern France, a herd of wild horses roam, led by their indomitable leader White Mane...   [More...]

La Crise est finie (1934)
Robert Siodmak

A theatrical troupe is making a tour of the provinces when a bust up occurs. Unable to tolerate the caprices of the leading lady, the rest of troupe decide to form a new group and head off for Paris to mount a show...   [More...]



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