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French cinema: All genres

Et soudain tout le monde me manque (2011)
Jennifer Devoldère

Family life can be very complicated, especially when you are sixty and your new wife is about to give birth to your third child...   [More...]

Et toi t'es sur qui? (2007)
Lola Doillon

One summer, 15-year-old Elodie and her best friend Julie make up their minds to sleep with a boy for the first time. Julie, a Goth nicknamed Batman by her classmates, has no qualms over who she goes to bed with, but the more sensitive Elodie hankers after the school beau Kevin, who has absolutely no interest in her...   [More...]

L'Étalon (1970)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

William Chaminade would hardly have thought of himself as a great benefactor of the female sex, but this is what he becomes, thanks to a chance incident during his well-deserved holiday in the south of France...   [More...]

État de siège (1972)
Costa-Gavras

Michael Santore is working in South America as a communications officer for an international aid agency when he is abducted by a gang of extreme leftwing revolutionaries who call themselves the Tupamaros...   [More...]

L'Été en pente douce (1987)
Gérard Krawczyk

Fane is a beer swigging lout living on a poor housing estate. When he learns of his mother's death, he jumps at the chance to start a new life in the countryside...   [More...]

L'Été meurtrier (1983)
Jean Becker

A beautiful 19 year old girl, Eliane, moves into a provençal village with her invalid father and German mother. She immediately draws the attention of all the men in the village, but it is the timid garage owner Florimond she chooses to go out with...   [More...]

L'Éternel retour (1943)
Jean Delannoy

Patrice travels to a remote island to find a young wife for his uncle Marc. There he meets a beautiful blonde named Nathalie, who agrees to return to the mainland to marry Patrice's uncle, if only to escape her life of penury...   [More...]

Éternité (2016)
Tran Anh Hung

In France towards the end of the 1800s, Valentine is barely twenty old when she gets married to her beloved Jules. Widowed all too soon, her life is marred by many other tragedies, but her son Henri survives to adulthood and he himself gets married, to Mathilde, and they soon start a family...   [More...]

L'Étoile de mer (1928)
Man Ray

A window opens onto a quiet country lane, where a man and a woman are walking side-by-side. Transported by desire, they ascend a staircase and enter a room, where the man watches as the woman removes her clothes and stretches out on a bed...   [More...]

Étoile sans lumière (1946)
Marcel Blistène

Stella Dora was one of the great stars of the silent era, but with the arrival of sound she fears that her career may be about to take a sudden dive into obscurity...   [More...]

L'Étrange désir de Monsieur Bard (1953)
Géza von Radványi

When he learns that he has only a short time left to live, Auguste Bard, a solitary bachelor in his fifties, feels a desperate need to be loved...   [More...]

L'Étrange Madame X (1951)
Jean Grémillon

Étienne, a modest carpenter, believes he has found the perfect partner in Irène, a beautiful young woman who appears to be devoted to him...   [More...]

L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (1937)
Jean Grémillon

No one would guess that the respectable Toulon shopkeeper Monsieur Victor is leading a double life. Who would think that this apparent model citizen, a devoted husband and scrupulously honest man of business, could possibly be mixed up in crime...   [More...]

L'Étrangleur (1972)
Paul Vecchiali

As a child, Émile is walking through the streets after dark when he encounters a stranger. The latter takes his white woollen scarf and uses it to strangle an attractive young woman...   [More...]

Être et avoir (2002)
Nicolas Philibert

In the Auvergne region of France, Monsieur Lopez is the sole teacher in a small primary school which caters for 12 pupils aged between four and ten...   [More...]

L'Étudiante et Monsieur Henri (2015)
Ivan Calbérac

Monsieur Henri is a man in his late seventies who is struggling to cope with living by himself in his large Parisian apartment...   [More...]

L'Étudiante (1988)
Claude Pinoteau

Valentine and Edouard have nothing in common, and they could hardly be more different, but as soon as their paths cross during a skiing holiday they know they are right for each other...   [More...]

Les Évadés (1955)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois

In 1943, during the Second World War, two French prisoners-of-war, François and Michel, succeed in escaping from Stalag B377 in the north of Germany...   [More...]

Ève et le serpent (1949)
Charles-Félix Tavano

Georges and Louisette are neighbours in a Parisian apartment block who, whilst not sharing the same taste in music, fall hopelessly in love and decide to get married...   [More...]

L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune (1973)
Jacques Demy

Marco Mazetti is a driving instructor who leads a happy and harmonious life with his attractive girlfriend Irène, the owner of a hairdressing salon...   [More...]

Évolution (2016)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading...   [More...]

L'Ex-femme de ma vie (2004)
Josiane Balasko

Tom Steiner is a prolific writer who has published numerous pulp fiction novels under several pseudonyms. He is about to get married to Ariane, a press attaché who believes that one day he will be a great writer...   [More...]

L'Examen de minuit (1998)
Danièle Dubroux

Keen to find a husband, Séréna places an ad in the newspapers, and receives a promising reply from a landowner living in Chateauneuf-sur-Rhône...   [More...]

L'Exercice de l'État (2011)
Pierre Schoeller

Bertrand Saint-Jean is France's Minister of Transport, an ambitious man who manages to keep his head in an emergency - or so he thinks...   [More...]

Exils (2004)
Tony Gatlif

On the spur of the moment, two young Parisians - Zano and his girlfriend Naïma - make up their mind to undertake a pilgrimage to Algeria, the land from which they both originated...   [More...]

Extension du domaine de la lutte (1999)
Philippe Harel

A lonely computer programmer reflects on the empty meaningless of his loveless, solitary existence. Since his partner walked out on him two years ago, he does nothing at weekends and regards his work as a monotonous chore...   [More...]

Extérieur, nuit (1980)
Jacques Bral

Léo and Bony are two friends who both seem to have arrived at a crossroads in their lives. They belong to the May '68 generation who believed they could change the world, only to be disillusioned by what followed...   [More...]

F... comme Fairbanks (1976)
Maurice Dugowson

André Fragman (baptised “Fairbanks” by his cinema projectionist father) returns from his military service with a diploma in chemistry...   [More...]

La Fabrique des sentiments (2008)
Jean-Marc Moutout

To all appearances, Eloïse, 37, has made a success of her life. Her job as a property lawyer in Paris gives her a decent income, independence and a chic apartment...   [More...]

La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (1965)
Denys de La Patellière

In the 13th century, Marco Polo's dreams of adventure in distant lands look set to become reality when his father, a once great merchant now fallen on hard times, delivers a letter to Pope Gregory...   [More...]



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