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French cinema: All genres

Les Fantômes du chapelier (1982)
Claude Chabrol

Léon Labbé owns a hatter's shop in a small provincial town in northern France. To the outside world, he is a respectable tradesman, dutifully caring for his disabled wife...   [More...]

Far West (1973)
Jacques Brel

Dressed as a cowboy, 40-year-old Jacques makes his way across present-day Belgium in pursuit of a dream. He wants to go to the Far West and begin a new life...   [More...]

Farinelli (1994)
Gérard Corbiau

In the 18th century, under the sobriquet Farinelli, Carlo Broschi became the world's most famous castrato. Accompanied by his older brother Riccardo, who writes his music and helps to consummate his amorous entanglements, he is received by the courts of Europe...   [More...]

Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons (1946)
Georges Rouquier

The Aveyron district of southern France is noted for its high rocky plateaus which give the countryside a distinctive, almost Neolithic character...   [More...]

Faubourg 36 (2008)
Christophe Barratier

France, 1936. The election of the Popular Front government brings hope to a depressed nation but are the expectations of a workers' revolution justified or unreasonably optimistic...   [More...]

La Fausse maîtresse (1942)
André Cayatte

In a village in Catalonia, René Rivals, a rugby footballer, is pursuing a secret love affair with the wife of his best friend, wine merchant Guy Carbonnel...   [More...]

La Fausse suivante (2000)
Benoît Jacquot

An aristocratic young lady disguises herself as a knight with the intention of discovering the true nature of the man she intends to marry...   [More...]

Faustine et le bel été (1972)
Nina Companéez

Faustine is 16 years old and has yet to experience her first romantic adventure. Whilst staying at her grandparents' country farm one summer she becomes fascinated by the inhabitants of a neighbouring country house...   [More...]

Faut ce qu'il faut (1946)
René Pujol

Charlot could not be happier than he is on the day that his sweetheart Henriette gives birth to their first child, but there is one fly in the ointment: Charlot is still married to another woman and must wait for his divorce to be finalised before he can marry Henriette...   [More...]

Faut pas lui dire (2017)
Solange Cicurel

Laura, Anouch, Eve and Yaël are four cousins who, in spite of their obvious differences, are devotedly attached to one another...   [More...]

Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages (1968)
Michel Audiard

It isn't long after their first meeting on the French Riviera that Fred, a gangster, and Rita, his gorgeous mistress, are planning their first criminal exploit together...   [More...]

Faut que ça danse! (2007)
Noémie Lvovsky

When busy 30-something Sarah discovers she is pregnant, she soon realises that she has more than she can cope with. She already has enough on her plate, with the demands of her partner François, her over-active father Salomon and her withdrawn mother Geneviève...   [More...]

La Faute à Voltaire (2000)
Abdellatif Kechiche

Jallel is a young Tunisian man who travels to France in the hope of finding a better life for himself. By passing himself off as a political refugee from Algeria, he is able to get himself a short-stay visa, but he has no intention of returning to his country of origin...   [More...]

La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (1970)
Georges Franju

Serge Mouret has recently taken up his first position as parish priest in the Provençal village of Artauds. The locals have little interest in religion and for most of the time Mouret is giving sermons to an empty church...   [More...]

Les Fautes d'orthographe (2004)
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

France, 1967. Aged 15, Daniel Massu decides that he should be treated like any other boy at the boarding school run by his parents...   [More...]

Le Fauteuil 47 (1937)
Fernand Rivers

During his frequent visits to his sister's boarding house, Paul Séverac attracts the attention of a friend of hers, an attractive young woman named Loulou...   [More...]

Fauteuils d'orchestre (2006)
Danièle Thompson

Prompted by her grandmother's recollections, Jessica goes to Paris and finds work as a waitress in a bar frequented by actors and theatre goers...   [More...]

Le Fauve est lâché (1959)
Maurice Labro

Once a gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani now leads a respectable life as a restaurateur and family man...   [More...]

Faux et usage de faux (1990)
Laurent Heynemann

The writer Anatole Hirsch has become one of the most eminent literary figures in France. But whilst his books sell very respectably he is increasingly convinced this is because of his celebrity and not a reflection of the merit of his work...   [More...]

Faux fuyants (1983)
Alain Bergala

Serge, a businessman in his mid-forties, is in a terrible state after running down and killing a young man. Racked with guilt, he becomes depressed and withdrawn, haunted by a crime that will never leave him...   [More...]

Le Faux magistrat (1914)
Louis Feuillade

With their leader, the criminal mastermind Fantômas, securely incarcerated in a Belgium prison, two crooks named Paulet and Ribonard decide to target the Marquis de Tergall...   [More...]

La Fayette (1962)
Jean Dréville

In 1776, the British colonies in America have begun to rise up against the British crown, intent on creating their own independent republic...   [More...]

La Fée (2011)
Dominique Abel

Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet...   [More...]

Les Félins (1964)
René Clément

French playboy Marc has a nasty surprise waiting for him when he returns to his hotel room after a game of tennis. A gang of thuggish hitmen lie in wait, acting on the instructions of an American gangland boss who intends to repay Marc for carrying on a clandestine love affair with his wife...   [More...]

Félix et Lola (2001)
Patrice Leconte

Félix, a dodgem car operator at a busy fairground, finds himself strangely drawn to one of his customers, an attractive young woman named Lola...   [More...]

La Femme d'à côté (1981)
François Truffaut

Bernard and Arlette Coudray are a young couple who live with their infant son at a remote country house near to Grenoble...   [More...]

La Femme de l'aviateur (1980)
Eric Rohmer

A postal worker, François, is about to visit his girlfriend, Anne, early one morning, when he sees another man leaving her apartment...   [More...]

La Femme de ma vie (1986)
Régis Wargnier

Simon was once an acclaimed virtuoso violinist, before he became a alcoholic and sank into the mire of depression. His life is ruined, and even his wife Laura can do nothing for him...   [More...]

La Femme de mon pote (1983)
Bertrand Blier

Micky, an overweight disk jockey, and Pascal, a beau sportswear salesman, live and work in an alpine skiing resort. Their ten-year long friendship is put in instant jeopardy when, one day, Micky learns that an attractive young woman, Viviane, has moved in with Pascal...   [More...]

La Femme de nulle part (1922)
Louis Delluc

At a house in the country not far Genoa, a husband tells his younger wife that he must spend the next twenty-four hours away from home to take his leave of a friend at the seaport...   [More...]



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