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French cinema: All genres

Diabolo menthe (1977)
Diane Kurys

September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber...   [More...]

La Diagonale du fou (1984)
Richard Dembo

In the early 1980s, the Russian grandmaster Akiva Liebskird is set to defend his title as world chess champion at a highly publicised tournament in Geneva...   [More...]

Dialogue avec mon jardinier (2007)
Jean Becker

After the break-up of his marriage, a fifty-something painter decides to swap his hectic life in Paris for the peace and quiet of the countryside...   [More...]

Le Dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
Philippe Agostini

May, 1789. In Compiègne, a town in northern France, two young women enter a Carmelite convent, each determined to devote their lives to the service of Christ...   [More...]

Diamant 13 (2009)
Gilles Béhat

Mat is a world-weary cop who has long had his illusions torn from him. Now in his late fifties, one of the least enthusiastic members of the 13th night division, he carries out his professional duties with an almost robotic perfunctoriness...   [More...]

Le Diamant noir (1913)
Alfred Machin

Luc Ogier is dismissed by his employers when a valuable black diamond mysteriously goes astray. Dishonoured and rejected by his fiancée, he accompanies the explorer Santher on an expedition to the Congo...   [More...]

Le Diamant noir (1941)
Jean Delannoy

François Mitry, a wealthy banker, has scarcely had time to come to terms with his wife's death in a car accident when he is struck by another blow...   [More...]

Didier (1997)
Alain Chabat

Football manager Jean-Pierre Costa has his hands full when his friend Annabelle leaves him to look after her pet Labrador, Didier, whilst she jets off to Los Angeles to compile a report...   [More...]

Dieu a besoin des hommes (1950)
Jean Delannoy

In the 1850s, life is so hard on the remote Breton island of Sein that its inhabitants have to resort to wrecking passing boats and stealing their cargo to survive...   [More...]

Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (2001)
Pascale Bailly

Michèle has barely turned twenty and yet already she has made up her mind that her life is a complete failure. Her modelling career seems to be going nowhere and now she is alone, depressed and fed up after breaking up with her boyfriend Bertrand...   [More...]

Dieu seul me voit (1998)
Bruno Podalydès

Albert, a shy absent-minded sound engineer, is coming to a mid-life crisis. Despite his best attempts, he still has not found the woman of his dreams - but that looks set to change...   [More...]

Dieu vomit les tièdes (1989)
Robert Guédiguian

Many years ago, four children - three boys and one girl - made a sacred vow that they would never forget their humble origins, no matter which course their lives took...   [More...]

La Dilettante (1999)
Pascal Thomas

On the spur of the moment, Pierette Dumortier abandons her husband and her comfortable middle-class life in Switzerland and takes the train to Paris...   [More...]

Le Dimanche de la vie (1967)
Jean Herman

France, 1936. Julia Ségovie, a mature but not unattractive woman, is leading a contented life as a haberdasher in Le Bouscat, a quaint suburb of Bordeaux, when she falls madly in love...   [More...]

Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962)
Serge Bourguignon

A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught...   [More...]

Le Dindon (1951)
Claude Barma

Paris, in the 1890s. Monsieur Pontagnac, an inveterate womaniser, is making overtures to Lucienne when her husband Vatelin appears unexpectedly...   [More...]

Le Dîner de cons (1998)
Francis Veber

Every week, a group of successful Parisian businessmen attend a dinner party to which they each invite someone who appears to be an idiot...   [More...]

Diplomatie (2014)
Volker Schlöndorff

It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital...   [More...]

Dis-moi oui... (1995)
Alexandre Arcady

Stéphane Villiers, a thirty-something paediatrician in Bordeaux, gets more than he bargained for when he befriends a 12-year-old girl named Éva one evening...   [More...]

La Discrète (1990)
Christian Vincent

Antoine, an unsuccessful writer, is taken aback when his girlfriend, Solange, leaves him for another man. Usually, it is he who ends a relationship, not his partner...   [More...]

La Disparue de Deauville (2007)
Sophie Marceau

Jacques, a solitary cop based in Le Havre, is investigating the mysterious death of a man in a sumptuous palace on the Normandy coast...   [More...]

Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1938)
Christian-Jaque

In the college of St-Agil, three boys, Baume, Sorgue and Macroy, form a secret society "Les Chiche-capons". Each night, they sneak away from their dormitory and meet up in the science room to have an illicit smoke and plan a clandestine voyage to America, under the watchful gaze of their mascot, Martin the Skeleton...   [More...]

Les Distractions (1960)
Jacques Dupont

Paul Frapier is a reporter whose only preoccupations are his work, his car and girls. He is more or less in love with a cover-girl Vera but doesn't want any commitment...   [More...]

Le Distrait (1970)
Pierre Richard

Pierre Malaquet is a likeable young man but he is hopelessly absent-minded and cannot sustain a train of thought for more than a few seconds...   [More...]

Diva (1981)
Jean-Jacques Beineix

Jules, a young Parisian postman, illegally records a concert performance given by the world famous opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises...   [More...]

Le Divan de Staline (2017)
Fanny Ardant

As he nears the end of his life the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is suffering from chronic fatigue. Following the advice of his doctors, he takes a few days out to recharge his batteries at a remote castle buried in a dense forest...   [More...]

Divine (1935)
Max Ophüls

Living with her old mother after her father's death, Ludivine Jarisse leads a modest but contented existence in the country...   [More...]

La Divine croisière (1929)
Julien Duvivier

In a village on the rugged coast of Brittany the wealthy ship owner Claude Ferjac has a reputation as a mean-spirited tyrant...   [More...]

Divines (2016)
Houda Benyamina

Dounia lives with her alcoholic mother in an urban ghetto on the outskirts of Paris, a place where drugs and religion are the only means of escape from a life of unremitting boredom and misery...   [More...]

La Dixième symphonie (1918)
Abel Gance

The wealthy Eve Dinant soon regrets becoming the mistress of a totally depraved adventurer, Fred Ryce. When the latter's sister threatens her Eve kills her in self-defence...   [More...]



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