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French cinema: All genres

Deux (2002)
Werner Schroeter

Maria and Magdalena are twin sisters who were abandoned by their mother, a Portuguese immigrant, shortly after they were born...   [More...]

Deux amis (1946)
Dimitri Kirsanoff

1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. Paris is under siege and food is so scarce that its inhabitants are forced to eat their household pets and any rats they can catch...   [More...]

Les Deux amis (2015)
Louis Garrel

Clément is a film extra who is obsessively in love with Mona, a young woman who works in a sandwich bar at the Gare du Nord station in Paris...   [More...]

Les Deux Anglaises et le continent (1971)
François Truffaut

Paris, 1899. It is whilst pursuing her studies in sculpture that Anne Brown, a dark-haired English woman who is not yet 20, falls under the spell of Claude Roc, a bourgeois French student of her own age...   [More...]

Les Deux crocodiles (1987)
Joël Séria

Émile Rivereau, a modest ironmonger from Saumur in western France, travels to Brittany for his holidays and to visit his aged mother, who has moved into a retirement home in Quimper...   [More...]

Deux de la Vague (2010)
Emmanuel Laurent

It was a friendship that helped to bring about a revolution in French cinema. A friendship that was born out of a mutual love of cinema and a desire to radically transform an art form that had become tired and complacent...   [More...]

Deux frères (2004)
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Indochina in the 1920s. In the jungles of Angkor, two tiger cubs are born amidst the ruins of an ancient temple, an exotic location which becomes their home...   [More...]

Deux grandes filles dans un pyjama (1974)
Jean Girault

Jérôme and Lionel are two married men who find themselves alone in their Parisian apartments whilst their respective spouses are away on holiday...   [More...]

Deux heures à tuer (1966)
Ivan Govar

For the past two months, a serial killer has been at large in the inconsequential little French town of Auvemaux. So far the fiend has murdered three women, and on each occasion he takes with him one of the shoes of his unfortunate victim...   [More...]

Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ (1982)
Jean Yanne

At Rahatlocum, a Roman colony in North Africa, the natives are growing restless under the heel of their imperial masters...   [More...]

Deux hommes dans la ville (1973)
José Giovanni

Thanks to the support and influence of a kindly parole officer, Gino Strabliggi is released from prison and has a chance to start a new life...   [More...]

Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
Jean-Pierre Melville

When Fèvre-Berthier, an important French diplomat, goes missing in New York, a French journalist, Moreau, is sent to investigate what became of him...   [More...]

Deux jours à tuer (2008)
Jean Becker

Forty-something Antoine Méliot has everything a man could possibly want to be happy - a well-paid job, a beautiful wife, two adorable children, a nice house, and friends he can always rely on...   [More...]

Les Deux orphelines (1933)
Maurice Tourneur

On the eve of the French Revolution, two orphan girls, Henriette and Louise, make their way to Paris. Henriette is kidnapped by a libertine marquis to participate in a debauched party, leaving her blind sister at the mercy of an unscrupulous hag, La Frochard...   [More...]

Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard

Paris is a city that is in a state of constant evolution, and so are the people who live there. It has many visages, many guilty secrets, many illusions - and so have the people who live there...   [More...]

Les Deux verités (1951)
Antonio Leonviola

In Milan, a young Italian man, Loris, is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Marie-Louise. The prosecution portrays him as an outright scoundrel who forced the young woman, a homeless orphan, to live with him in a boarding house against her will and then drove her to her death when she tried to escape from him...   [More...]

Deux vies... plus une (2007)
Idit Cebula

Eliane Weiss, a primary school teacher, finds herself increasingly put upon by the demands of her job, her husband, her daughter and her overly possessive mother...   [More...]

Deuxième quinzaine de juillet (2000)
Christophe Reichert

Monique, used to having the upper hand in their relationship, is surprised when her weak-willed and indecisive partner Félix takes the initiative by planning the summer holidays one year...   [More...]

Le Deuxième souffle (1966)
Jean-Pierre Melville

Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris...   [More...]

Le Deuxième souffle (2007)
Alain Corneau

In the late 1950s, Gustave Minda, known to all as Gu, is one of France's most notorious hoodlums, but the law catches up with him in the end...   [More...]

Dheepan (2015)
Jacques Audiard

In a refugee camp in the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger acquires not only a passport that gives him a new identity, Dheepan, but also a makeshift family, in the form of a young woman Yalini and a small girl Illayaal...   [More...]

Le Diable au coeur (1927)
Marcel L'Herbier

The Bucailles are a poor, slovenly family who live in a small town on the coast of Normandy. Lacking parental discipline, the mischievous daughter Ludivine and her two younger brothers misbehave constantly, with the result that their household is in a constant state of mess and pandemonium...   [More...]

Le Diable au corps (1947)
Claude Autant-Lara

Marthe Grangier, a nurse in a military hospital during the First World War, is pressurised into getting married by her parents...   [More...]

Le Diable boiteux (1948)
Sacha Guitry

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born in Paris on 2nd February 1754. Afflicted with a game leg (which earned him the nickname Le Diable boiteux or Lame Devil), he was unable to follow his father in pursuit of military honours and instead opted for an ecclesiastical career...   [More...]

Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962)
Julien Duvivier

The ageing warden of a convent is berated by the Mother Superior for his bad language. To cure him of his affliction, the Bishop, an old friend of his, gives him a copy of the Bible and asks him to learn the Ten Commandments by heart...   [More...]

Le Diable par la queue (1969)
Philippe de Broca

Now that her aristocratic family have fallen on hard times, a proud marquise is forced to turn her somewhat dilapidated country residence into a hotel...   [More...]

Le Diable probablement (1977)
Robert Bresson

The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand...   [More...]

Les Diables (2002)
Christophe Ruggia

Since they were found abandoned in the street as small children, Joseph and Chloé have spent most of their lives in care homes or with foster parents...   [More...]

Diaboliquement vôtre (1968)
Julien Duvivier

A man wakes up in hospital after a near-fatal road accident but finds he has lost his memory. It appears that he is Georges Campo, a successful businessman with interests in the Far East...   [More...]

Les Diaboliques (1955)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher...   [More...]



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