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French cinema: All genres

La Crise (1992)
Coline Serreau

Victor's cosy little world comes tumbling down around him when, on the same day, he loses both his wife and his well-paid job as a legal consultant...   [More...]

Croisières sidérales (1942)
André Zwoboda

Scientists Françoise and Robert Monier plan to spend their honeymoon in a space-pod high up in the stratosphere. What was to be the culmination of years of research suffers a major setback when Robert sustains a serious injury...   [More...]

Les Croix de bois (1932)
Raymond Bernard

At the outbreak of World War I, Gilbert Demachy, an idealistic young student, enlists and is sent to the Western Front to fight for his motherland, France...   [More...]

La Croix des vivants (1962)
Ivan Govar

Some time after he was falsely accused of the murder of his stepfather, Yan returns to his home village in Flanders. Franz, the local garage owner is not happy with his return...   [More...]

Les Croulants se portent bien (1961)
Jean Boyer

Fifty-something François Legrand is a successful composer who enjoys a comfortable life in the company of his mother Minouche and grown-up children, Michel and Martine...   [More...]

Crustacés et coquillages (2005)
Olivier Ducastel

One year, 40-something Marc decides to spend his long summer holiday in the region of the South of France where he grew up...   [More...]

La Cuisine au beurre (1963)
Gilles Grangier

During WWII, Fernand Jouvin escapes from the camp where he has been held as a prisoner-of-war and is taken in by a pleasant Austrian woman named Gerda...   [More...]

Cuisine et dépendances (1993)
Philippe Muyl

When Martine meets an old friend that she hasn't seen for over ten years she naturally invites him to dinner, and naturally he accepts...   [More...]

Les Culottes rouges (1962)
Alex Joffé

During WWII, Antoine Rossi is a prisoner in a POW camp in Germany. He has made several attempts to escape, but on each occasion he has failed and has to wear short red trousers as a warning to other would-be fugitives...   [More...]

Le Curé de Cucugnan [TV] (1968)
Marcel Pagnol

In the rural French village of Cucugnan, an old parish priest named Martin decides that desperate measures are called for if he is to avoid preaching to an empty church...   [More...]

Le Curé de Saint-Amour (1952)
Émile Couzinet

On the day she is supposed to marry the respectable baron she is affianced to, Nicole elopes with the man she really loves, Jacques...   [More...]

La Curée (1966)
Roger Vadim

Tired of her sham marriage, Renée, the young wife of the wealthy financier Alexandre Saccard, starts an affair with her husband's son, Maxime...   [More...]

Cyprien (2009)
David Charhon

Cyprien may be in his mid-thirties but he remains the timid adolescent, addicted to computer games and constantly mocked by his colleagues at the fashion magazine company for which he works as an IT technician...   [More...]

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

The popular swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is consumed by his ardent love for his cousin Roxanne but, tragically, his features are so deformed by his large nose that he has little chance of gaining her affections...   [More...]

Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964)
Abel Gance

In 1642, France is in a state of political turmoil. Louis XIII is the king in name only. The real power lies with Cardinal Richelieu, whose battles with the Marquis de Cinq-Mars have resulted in a growing rift between the king and his queen, Anne of Austria, threatening the peace of the nation...   [More...]

D'amour et d'eau fraîche (2010)
Isabelle Czajka

Julie Bataille is 23 and eager to make a success of her life. But even though she did well in her baccalaureate, she has difficulty finding a rewarding and well-paid job...   [More...]

D'homme à hommes (1948)
Christian-Jaque

In 1858, the Swiss-born Henri Dunant is having difficulties managing a colony in Algeria. He decides to visit the Emperor Napoléon III, who is currently in the middle of a campaign in Italy, to ask for support to build a system of irrigation...   [More...]

Daddy Nostalgie (1990)
Bertrand Tavernier

Caroline is a writer who, after her divorce, lives alone in Paris with her infant son. On hearing the news that her father has just undergone a serious operation, she immediately sets out to rejoin her parents at their home in the south of France...   [More...]

Dalida (2017)
Lisa Azuelos

Dalida was the name that Yolanda Cristina Gigliotti adopted when she began appearing in movies in the mid-1950s. Then the seductive Egyptian was barely into her twenties and could have had no idea of the glittering career that was just over the horizon...   [More...]

Damage (1992)
Louis Malle

At a social engagement, a rising member of Parliament, Stephen Fleming, meets a mysterious but stunningly attractive art expert, Anna Barton...   [More...]

La Dame aux camélias (1980)
Mauro Bolognini

At a stage performance of Alexandre Dumas fils' celebrated novel Camille, an old man reflects on the events which provided the inspiration for the story...   [More...]

La Dame d'onze heures (1948)
Jean-Devaivre

On his return from Africa, Stanislas Octave Seminario, who likes to be referred to by his initials S.O.S., visits his friends, the Pescaras, at their grand house in the country...   [More...]

La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (2015)
Joann Sfar

Dany Dorémus is an attractive redhead who works as a secretary for an advertising agency. One morning, her boss asks her to drive him and his family to the airport and then take his car, a Ford Thunderbird, back to his house...   [More...]

La Dame de Malacca (1937)
Marc Allégret

Audrey Greenwood is glad to leave behind her a dull and uneventful career as a teacher at a provincial school as she embarks on a new life as the wife of Major Carter, a British Army officer...   [More...]

La Dame de pique (1937)
Fyodor Otsep

Lieutenant Hermann, an engineer officer in the Imperial Russian army, is in love with Lisa, the daughter of the wealthy Countess Tomski, but finds he has a rival in his friend, Captain Iretski...   [More...]

La Dame de trèfle (2010)
Jérôme Bonnell

Since their parents died, Aurélien and Argine have lived together in their home in a small provincial town, and have become as close to one another as any brother and sister can be...   [More...]

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Robert Bresson

Having tricked her lover Jean into admitting that he no longer loves her, society lady Helène is inwardly consumed by anger and plots a cruel vengeance...   [More...]

Damien veut changer le monde (2019)
Xavier de Choudens

Damien is an ordinary thirty-something who leads a peaceful life, working in a primary school as a general dogsbody. His sister Mélanie has made more of her life and now earns a decent crust as a successful lawyer...   [More...]

Dans l'eau qui fait des bulles (1961)
Maurice Delbez

Businessman Paul Ernzer is happily indulging in his favourite pastime, fishing on a Swiss lake, when he lands a catch of the most surprising kind - the dead body of the recently deceased Jean-Louis Preminger...   [More...]

Dans la maison (2012)
François Ozon

Germain Germain is a fifty-something literature teacher in a modern French school who has grown disillusioned with his profession...   [More...]



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