Film Index
French cinema: All genres
L'École des cocottes (1935)
Pierre Colombier
Monsieur Labaume is a solitary middle-aged man who has developed an infatuation for the young woman who has taken up residence in the apartment opposite his own...
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Pierre Colombier
L'École des contribuables (1934)
René Guissart
Gaston Valtier is an idler who is more than content to live the life of a man of leisure than work for his living, if only to avoid having to pay income tax...
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René Guissart
L'École des facteurs (1947)
Jacques Tati
The French postal service is keen to keep up with its American equivalent and so introduces a programme of modernisation that will make it more efficient than ever before...
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Jacques Tati
L'École pour tous (2006)
Eric Rochant
After failing his end-of-school exams, Jahwad was easily drawn into a life of crime, much to the distress of his mother who, over the years that followed, had to get used to frequent visits from the police...
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Eric Rochant
L'Économie du couple (2016)
Joachim Lafosse
Marie and Boris have been together for fifteen years. They have two daughters and have enjoyed a loving relationship, in spite of their different social backgrounds...
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Joachim Lafosse
Écoute le temps (2007)
Alanté Kavaïté
Charlotte, a young sound engineer, is shocked when she learns that her mother has been murdered at her home in the country... [More...]
Alanté Kavaïté
Charlotte, a young sound engineer, is shocked when she learns that her mother has been murdered at her home in the country... [More...]
Écoute voir... (1979)
Hugo Santiago
Arnaud de Maule is an eccentric recluse who undertakes scientific research of a secret nature on his sprawling Yvelines estate... [More...]
Hugo Santiago
Arnaud de Maule is an eccentric recluse who undertakes scientific research of a secret nature on his sprawling Yvelines estate... [More...]
L'Écume des jours (2013)
Michel Gondry
Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas... [More...]
Michel Gondry
Colin is the archetypal happy bachelor. He has wealth and health and sees life as one perpetual party, his every need catered for by his faithful man-servant Nicolas... [More...]
Édith et Marcel (1983)
Claude Lelouch
Before World War II, Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan were both on their way to becoming legends in their own lifetimes. From humble begins in the streets of Paris, Piaf is one of the most well-known and successful singers in the world, renowned for her tragic love songs; Cerdan is a boxing champion who has acquired a reputation for being unbeatable... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Before World War II, Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan were both on their way to becoming legends in their own lifetimes. From humble begins in the streets of Paris, Piaf is one of the most well-known and successful singers in the world, renowned for her tragic love songs; Cerdan is a boxing champion who has acquired a reputation for being unbeatable... [More...]
Édouard et Caroline (1951)
Jacques Becker
Édouard and Caroline are a young couple who believe they have found lasting happiness, even though they come from very different milieus... [More...]
Jacques Becker
Édouard and Caroline are a young couple who believe they have found lasting happiness, even though they come from very different milieus... [More...]
Éducation de prince (1938)
Alexander Esway
Silistria, a small country in the Balkans, is in a state of permanent revolution, which is not good for business. The financier Chautard is the man who suffers most from this neverending succession of coups d'états... [More...]
Alexander Esway
Silistria, a small country in the Balkans, is in a state of permanent revolution, which is not good for business. The financier Chautard is the man who suffers most from this neverending succession of coups d'états... [More...]
Edy (2005)
Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
The joie de vivre has definitely gone out of Edy's life. He has made a successful career for himself as an insurance agent, but as his retirement comes ever nearer he finds he has less and less enthusiasm for his work... [More...]
Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
The joie de vivre has definitely gone out of Edy's life. He has made a successful career for himself as an insurance agent, but as his retirement comes ever nearer he finds he has less and less enthusiasm for his work... [More...]
L'Effet aquatique (2016)
Sólveig Anspach
Samir is a 40-something who lives in Montreuil and works as a crane operator. One day, he notices an attractive widow named Agathe in a bar and finds himself strongly drawn to her... [More...]
Sólveig Anspach
Samir is a 40-something who lives in Montreuil and works as a crane operator. One day, he notices an attractive widow named Agathe in a bar and finds himself strongly drawn to her... [More...]
L'Effrontée (1985)
Claude Miller
For Charlotte, a 13 year old girl living in a rural village in France, adolescence is proving to be a traumatic experience... [More...]
Claude Miller
For Charlotte, a 13 year old girl living in a rural village in France, adolescence is proving to be a traumatic experience... [More...]
Effroyables jardins (2003)
Jean Becker
Lucien is a little boy who loves his father Jacques but he shrinks in embarrassment every time he sees him perform his clown act for the amusement of others... [More...]
Jean Becker
Lucien is a little boy who loves his father Jacques but he shrinks in embarrassment every time he sees him perform his clown act for the amusement of others... [More...]
Les Égarés (2003)
André Téchiné
In June 1940, the German armies are poised to take France when a widowed schoolteacher, Odile, bundles her two infants, Philippe and Cathy, into her car and flees the capital... [More...]
André Téchiné
In June 1940, the German armies are poised to take France when a widowed schoolteacher, Odile, bundles her two infants, Philippe and Cathy, into her car and flees the capital... [More...]
Les Égouts du paradis (1979)
José Giovanni
Albert Spaggiari plans the most spectacular robbery of his career: to raid the vault of a major bank by tunnelling up from the sewers... [More...]
José Giovanni
Albert Spaggiari plans the most spectacular robbery of his career: to raid the vault of a major bank by tunnelling up from the sewers... [More...]
Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)
Géza von Radványi
When his bride-to-be jilts him at the alter and runs off with a singer, racing driver Pierre Chaillot decides to drown his sorrows in alcohol and then kill himself... [More...]
Géza von Radványi
When his bride-to-be jilts him at the alter and runs off with a singer, racing driver Pierre Chaillot decides to drown his sorrows in alcohol and then kill himself... [More...]
L'Élan (2016)
Etienne Labroue
When a strange creature suddenly appears in a small town in the west of France it immediately attracts the attention of the town's residents... [More...]
Etienne Labroue
When a strange creature suddenly appears in a small town in the west of France it immediately attracts the attention of the town's residents... [More...]
Eldorado (2008)
Bouli Lanners
Yvan is a forty-something loner who buys and sells vintage cars. When a younger man, Elie, breaks into his house, Yvan has a good excuse to fly off the handle... [More...]
Bouli Lanners
Yvan is a forty-something loner who buys and sells vintage cars. When a younger man, Elie, breaks into his house, Yvan has a good excuse to fly off the handle... [More...]
Elena et les hommes (1956)
Jean Renoir
Éléna is a young Polish widow who lives in Paris of the 1880s. During Bastile Day celebrations, she meets and is nearly seduced by a young count, Henri Chevincourt - although she intends to marry a wealthy shoe manufacturer, Martin-Michaud... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Éléna is a young Polish widow who lives in Paris of the 1880s. During Bastile Day celebrations, she meets and is nearly seduced by a young count, Henri Chevincourt - although she intends to marry a wealthy shoe manufacturer, Martin-Michaud... [More...]
L'Élève Ducobu (2011)
Philippe de Chauveron
The pupil from Hell, Ducobu once more manages to get himself expelled from school. Driven to desperation, his father tells him he has one last chance: if he is sent away from his next school, Saint-Potache, he will be packed off to a boarding school... [More...]
Philippe de Chauveron
The pupil from Hell, Ducobu once more manages to get himself expelled from school. Driven to desperation, his father tells him he has one last chance: if he is sent away from his next school, Saint-Potache, he will be packed off to a boarding school... [More...]
Élève libre (2008)
Joachim Lafosse
Having failed his high school exams, 16-year-old Jonas pins his hopes on a career as a professional tennis player. Once again, his hopes are dashed but a friend of the people he is living with, 30-something Pierre, takes pity on him and offers to give him private tuition... [More...]
Joachim Lafosse
Having failed his high school exams, 16-year-old Jonas pins his hopes on a career as a professional tennis player. Once again, his hopes are dashed but a friend of the people he is living with, 30-something Pierre, takes pity on him and offers to give him private tuition... [More...]
L'Élève (1996)
Olivier Schatzky
France, towards the end of the 19th Century. Julien, 25 years old, has ambitions to be a writer, but circumstances force him to take up a job as a private teacher... [More...]
Olivier Schatzky
France, towards the end of the 19th Century. Julien, 25 years old, has ambitions to be a writer, but circumstances force him to take up a job as a private teacher... [More...]
Élisa (1995)
Jean Becker
When her husband walks out on her, Elisa attempts to kill her young daughter Marie and then commits suicide. Marie, however, survives, and grows up in an orphanage... [More...]
Jean Becker
When her husband walks out on her, Elisa attempts to kill her young daughter Marie and then commits suicide. Marie, however, survives, and grows up in an orphanage... [More...]
Élise ou la vraie vie (1970)
Michel Drach
It is 1957 and France has been at war with Algeria for three years. Elise, a young woman in her early twenties, live in Bordeaux with her family in a cramped apartment... [More...]
Michel Drach
It is 1957 and France has been at war with Algeria for three years. Elise, a young woman in her early twenties, live in Bordeaux with her family in a cramped apartment... [More...]
Elle (2016)
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Paul Verhoeven
Michèle Leblanc is the managing director of a successful video games company. She is not the kind of woman who allows others to take control of her life... [More...]
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)
Michel Audiard
Through her work as a housecleaner, Germaine finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal... [More...]
Michel Audiard
Through her work as a housecleaner, Germaine finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal... [More...]
Elle et moi (1952)
Guy Lefranc
Jean Montaigu is a confirmed bachelor who loves the company of women but lives in mortal fear of getting snared in the matrimonial net... [More...]
Guy Lefranc
Jean Montaigu is a confirmed bachelor who loves the company of women but lives in mortal fear of getting snared in the matrimonial net... [More...]
Elle l'adore (2014)
Jeanne Herry
Muriel is a beautician who likes nothing better than to gossip and weave fanciful stories. For the past twenty years, she has been a dedicated fan of the pop singer Vincent Lacroix... [More...]
Jeanne Herry
Muriel is a beautician who likes nothing better than to gossip and weave fanciful stories. For the past twenty years, she has been a dedicated fan of the pop singer Vincent Lacroix... [More...]