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French cinema: All genres

L'Enfance nue (1968)
Maurice Pialat

Abandoned by his own parents, François, a nine-year old boy, is placed in the care of Mr and Mrs Josselin, an ordinary working class family with a young daughter of their own...   [More...]

L'Enfant d'en haut (2012)
Ursula Meier

One winter, Simon, an enterprising 12 year old, makes good use of the cable car that connects the industrial town where he lives with his sister Louise and the opulent ski resort that overlooks it...   [More...]

L'Enfant de Paris (1913)
Léonce Perret

Marie de Valen is devastated on receiving the news that her husband Pierre, an army officer, has been killed in his latest military exploit...   [More...]

L'Enfant sauvage (1970)
François Truffaut

Summer, 1798. In the forests of a rural area of southern France, a party of hunters discover and capture a 12 year old boy who appears to have spent his life living like a wild animal...   [More...]

L'Enfant (2005)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Bruno, 20, and his girlfriend Sonia, 18, are both unemployed, but they manage to get by with welfare payments and a small income from Bruno's petty crimes...   [More...]

Les Enfants de la chance (2016)
Malik Chibane

In July 1942, France is under Nazi occupation. Maurice Gutman, a 12-year-old Jewish boy, finds himself in hospital after accidentally fracturing his leg...   [More...]

Enfants de salaud (1996)
Tonie Marshall

When Julius Mandenne is put on trial for the unspeakably gruesome murder of his lady friend, his past comes back to haunt him in the guise of his four illegitimate children, each the product of a brief liaison with a different woman...   [More...]

Les Enfants du marais (1999)
Jean Becker

Garris, a young man scarred by his experiences of the First World War, settles in a marshland community in Southern France...   [More...]

Les Enfants du paradis (1945)
Marcel Carné

Paris, circa 1830. Frederick LeMaître is a young romantic who dreams of becoming a great actor. Unable to find a role worthy of his talents, he gratefully accepts a small part in a mime show at the Funambules Theatre on the busy Boulevard du Crime...   [More...]

Les Enfants du siècle (1999)
Diane Kurys

In the early 1830s, Baroness Dudevant leaves her husband and decides to start a new life in Paris. Adopting the name George Sand, she embarks on a career as a writer and feminist, shocking French bourgeois society with both her behaviour and her radical views...   [More...]

Les Enfants terribles (1950)
Jean-Pierre Melville

Paul and Elisabeth are a teenage brother and sister who live with their dying mother in a cramped apartment. When Paul is injured in a snowball fight, the overly protective Elisabeth takes care of him, although she also taunts him...   [More...]

Les Enfants (2005)
Christian Vincent

After the breakdown of his marriage, fifty-something Pierre resolves to do the best for his two sons - fourteen-year-old Victor and nine-year-old Thomas...   [More...]

L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (2009)
Serge Bromberg

It has been referred to as Henri-Georges Clouzot's lost masterpiece. L'Enfer, the film the director was unable to complete in 1964, has long fascinated devotees of French cinema, but to this day few have seen the remarkable footage that Clouzot shot for this mythical work...   [More...]

L'Enfer des anges (1941)
Christian-Jaque

Since leaving a reformatory, a young man named Jean has found it impossible to find work, but he perseveres, determined to make a fresh start...   [More...]

L'Enfer (1994)
Claude Chabrol

Paul Pieur is the proud owner of a country hotel which has no difficulty attracting guests, despite its proximity to an airbase...   [More...]

Enfermés dehors (2006)
Albert Dupontel

One evening, Roland, a homeless man, witnesses a policeman commit suicide. When he tries to hand over the dead man's possessions at the police station, he is not taken seriously and so he decides to wear the uniform himself...   [More...]

L'Ennemi intime (2007)
Florent-Emilio Siri

Algeria, 1959. Terrien, a young lieutenant in the French army, takes command of a battalion stationed in the Kabyle mountains...   [More...]

L'Ennemi naturel (2004)
Pierre-Erwan Guillaume

Nicolas Luhel, a young and fairly inexperienced police officer, arrives in the remote Breton town of Plouescat to begin an investigation into the death of a teenage boy...   [More...]

L'Ennemi public no 1 (1953)
Henri Verneuil

Having lost his job in a New York department store on account of his advanced myopia, Joe Calvet decides to cheer himself up with a visit to the cinema...   [More...]

L'Ennui (1998)
Cédric Kahn

Traumatised by the separation from his wife, a philosophy teacher, Martin finds himself experiencing a mid-life crisis. When he learns that an ageing artist he met recently died whilst making love, he is intrigued and visits the artist's studio...   [More...]

L'Enquête Corse (2004)
Alain Berbérian

Rémi François, alias Jack Palmer, is a private detective based in Paris. He readily accepts the challenge to find Ange Leoni, last seen on the island of Corsica, to give him the deeds to a private residence...   [More...]

L'Enquête (2015)
Vincent Garenq

In 2001, the French journalist Denis Robert sent shockwaves through the world of high finance with his public denouncement of the dubious business practices of Clearstream, a Luxembourg-based bank specialising in the transfer and holding of securities...   [More...]

Ensemble, c'est tout (2007)
Claude Berri

Camille, a confused woman in her early twenties, decides to rebel against her cosy middleclass background. She finds work as a cleaner and rents a tiny attic flat...   [More...]

Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d'amour... (2010)
Pascal Thomas

When Nicolas and Dorothée meet at a folklore festival it is love at first sight. Yet whilst they realise they are made for one another they cannot speak and so most go their separate ways...   [More...]

Entente cordiale (1939)
Marcel L'Herbier

In 1898, the aging Queen Victoria presides over a flourishing empire whilst her eldest son, Edward Prince of Wales, amuses himself in the fleshpots of Paris...   [More...]

L'Entente cordiale (2006)
Vincent De Brus

Crooked arms dealer Viktor Zilenko steals a revolutionary microchip which, when implanted into a soldier, makes him impervious to pain...   [More...]

Entr'acte (1924)
René Clair

Two men approach a canon and fire it. Rifle-range dummies sway in the wind. A dancing ballerina turns into a strange bearded man...   [More...]

Entre adultes (2007)
Stéphane Brizé

This is the story of six men and six women, twelve unfortunates who are linked by a chain of disillusioned love. Camille thinks she is in love with Christian, but whilst their stolen moments together enrich her life, he is unable to leave the woman he no longer loves, Caroline...   [More...]

Entre chiens et loups (2002)
Alexandre Arcady

Adrien, a notorious crook, is released from jail but he has cancer and will die within six months. He initially intends to spend what time he has left with his wife and son, but a Rumanian named Rodman makes him an offer he can't refuse...   [More...]

Entre les murs (2008)
Laurent Cantet

François is a young teacher in a typical French inner city school. His job is not easy, particularly as his students come from difficult backgrounds and find little relevance in what they are taught...   [More...]



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