Film Index
French cinema: All genres
La Fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Luis Buñuel
In El Pao, the capital city of the prison island of Odeja, the governor Mariano Vargas resides in his luxurious palace, ruling his people with a steely ruthlessness that has made him unpopular with the masses...
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Luis Buñuel
Fièvres (1942)
Jean Delannoy
A man on the run from the police takes refuge in a monastery where one of the monks takes pity on him and tells him the story of Brother Marco...
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Jean Delannoy
The Fifth Element (1997)
Luc Besson
In the year 2259, an unknown alien force threatens to engulf the planet Earth. The only thing that can repel this evil are the Five Elements, donated to humanity at the dawn of antiquity by a race of alien benefactors...
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Luc Besson
Le Fil à la patte (1955)
Guy Lefranc
Count Fernand de Bois d'Enghien is determined to marry Viviane, the daughter of the wealthy Madame du Verger. Before he can do this, however, he must first extricate himself from another romantic entanglement, one involving a singer named Lucette Gauthier...
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Guy Lefranc
La Fille au fouet (1952)
Jean Dréville
Pietro Pons lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously...
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Jean Dréville
La Fille aux yeux d'or (1961)
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Henri Marsav is a 20-something fashion photographer who revels in hedonistic youth with his circle of equally debauched friends... [More...]
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Henri Marsav is a 20-something fashion photographer who revels in hedonistic youth with his circle of equally debauched friends... [More...]
La Fille coupée en deux (2007)
Claude Chabrol
Gabrielle is a young and very attractive TV weather presenter. Her interest in literature brings her into contact with Charles Saint-Denis, a successful writer with a temperament to match... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Gabrielle is a young and very attractive TV weather presenter. Her interest in literature brings her into contact with Charles Saint-Denis, a successful writer with a temperament to match... [More...]
La Fille de 15 ans (1989)
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
La Fille de Brest (2016)
Emmanuelle Bercot
Dr Irène Frachon is a pulmonary specialist who works at a hospital in Brest in northern France. In the course of her work she becomes concerned that the weight-loss drug Mediator, which has been on the market for thirty years, may be causing heart deficiencies in those who take it... [More...]
Emmanuelle Bercot
Dr Irène Frachon is a pulmonary specialist who works at a hospital in Brest in northern France. In the course of her work she becomes concerned that the weight-loss drug Mediator, which has been on the market for thirty years, may be causing heart deficiencies in those who take it... [More...]
La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994)
Bertrand Tavernier
In 1645, Eloise, the daughter of the great swordmaster D'Artagnan, lives in a monastery in southern France. One night, the monastery is disturbed by nobles pursing an escaped negro slave... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
In 1645, Eloise, the daughter of the great swordmaster D'Artagnan, lives in a monastery in southern France. One night, the monastery is disturbed by nobles pursing an escaped negro slave... [More...]
La Fille de Hambourg (1958)
Yves Allégret
During WWII, Pierre Louviers is a prisoner-of-war and his only consolation as he toils at the port of Hamburg is the comforting regard of a young German woman, Maria... [More...]
Yves Allégret
During WWII, Pierre Louviers is a prisoner-of-war and his only consolation as he toils at the port of Hamburg is the comforting regard of a young German woman, Maria... [More...]
La Fille de l'air (1992)
Maroun Bagdadi
Brigitte lives with her boyfriend, Daniel, who is on the run having escaped from prison for a series of armed robbery offences... [More...]
Maroun Bagdadi
Brigitte lives with her boyfriend, Daniel, who is on the run having escaped from prison for a series of armed robbery offences... [More...]
La Fille de l'eau (1925)
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
La Fille de Monaco (2008)
Anne Fontaine
Bertrand is a remarkably successful lawyer who cannot resist the challenge of defending a seventy-year man charged with murder... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
Bertrand is a remarkably successful lawyer who cannot resist the challenge of defending a seventy-year man charged with murder... [More...]
La Fille du diable (1946)
Henri Decoin
After a bank robbery, the gangster Saget is on the run from the police. A passing motorist, Ludovic Mercier, offers him a lift which he accepts gratefully... [More...]
Henri Decoin
After a bank robbery, the gangster Saget is on the run from the police. A passing motorist, Ludovic Mercier, offers him a lift which he accepts gratefully... [More...]
La Fille du puisatier (1940)
Marcel Pagnol
France, 1939. Pascal Amoretti and his assistant Felipe earn an honest living by digging wells in their picturesque region of Provence... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
France, 1939. Pascal Amoretti and his assistant Felipe earn an honest living by digging wells in their picturesque region of Provence... [More...]
La Fille du puisatier (2011)
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
La Fille du RER (2009)
André Téchiné
Twenty-something Jeanne lives with her mother Louise in a Paris suburb. Whilst Louise occupies herself as a child minder, Jeanne is busy looking for work... [More...]
André Téchiné
Twenty-something Jeanne lives with her mother Louise in a Paris suburb. Whilst Louise occupies herself as a child minder, Jeanne is busy looking for work... [More...]
La Fille inconnue (2016)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Jenny Davin is a young doctor who runs a small medical practice in an ordinary town in Liège. One evening, just as she is winding down after a hard day's work, a young woman calls at her surgery but Jenny, too tired to see another patient, refuses to admit her... [More...]
La Fille prodigue (1981)
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
La Fille seule (1995)
Benoît Jacquot
Early one morning, Valérie meets up as agreed with her boyfriend Rémi at a café neat St-Lazare station in Paris... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
Early one morning, Valérie meets up as agreed with her boyfriend Rémi at a café neat St-Lazare station in Paris... [More...]
La Fille sur le pont (1999)
Patrice Leconte
A young woman is about to jump from a bridge on the River Seine in Paris when a stranger approaches her. He is Gabor, a professional knife-thrower who offers her a chance to begin a new life as his stage partner... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
A young woman is about to jump from a bridge on the River Seine in Paris when a stranger approaches her. He is Gabor, a professional knife-thrower who offers her a chance to begin a new life as his stage partner... [More...]
Les Filles ne savent pas nager (2000)
Anne-Sophie Birot
Gwen and Lise are two young teenagers who meet up once a year during their holidays and keep in touch throughout the rest of the year by writing to one another... [More...]
Anne-Sophie Birot
Gwen and Lise are two young teenagers who meet up once a year during their holidays and keep in touch throughout the rest of the year by writing to one another... [More...]
Filles uniques (2003)
Pierre Jolivet
Carole is a successful lawyer, organised, self-disciplined and so busy that she only ever sees her husband at bedtime. Tina is a petty thief, wild, emotional and has no difficulty picking up men for one night stands... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Carole is a successful lawyer, organised, self-disciplined and so busy that she only ever sees her husband at bedtime. Tina is a petty thief, wild, emotional and has no difficulty picking up men for one night stands... [More...]
Le Fils à Jo (2011)
Philippe Guillard
Like his father and his grandfather before him, Jo Canavaro is a rugby football legend. Unfortunately his 13-year-old son Tom has no interest in the sport and shows a far greater aptitude for maths than he does for rugby... [More...]
Philippe Guillard
Like his father and his grandfather before him, Jo Canavaro is a rugby football legend. Unfortunately his 13-year-old son Tom has no interest in the sport and shows a far greater aptitude for maths than he does for rugby... [More...]
Le Fils de Jean (2016)
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
Philippe Lioret
Mathieu, a 33-year-old divorcé with a young son, is taken by surprise one day when he receives a telephone call from a stranger notifying him of the death of his father Jean... [More...]
Le Fils de l'épicier (2007)
Eric Guirado
When Antoine Sforza offers to lend some money to his best friend Claire he could not have imagined where this would lead... [More...]
Eric Guirado
When Antoine Sforza offers to lend some money to his best friend Claire he could not have imagined where this would lead... [More...]
Le Fils du Français (1999)
Gérard Lauzier
After his mother's death, Benjamin has allowed himself to be tossed back and forth between his two grand-mothers, Anne and Suzanne, who inhabit two different social milieus and completely fail to see eye to eye... [More...]
Gérard Lauzier
After his mother's death, Benjamin has allowed himself to be tossed back and forth between his two grand-mothers, Anne and Suzanne, who inhabit two different social milieus and completely fail to see eye to eye... [More...]
Le Fils préféré (1994)
Nicole Garcia
Jean-Paul Mantegna is the 40-something owner of a hotel on the French Riviera. Saddled with debts, he desperately needs to raise a large sum of money to keep his business afloat, so he turns to the only members of his family who can help him - his brothers Francis and Philippe... [More...]
Nicole Garcia
Jean-Paul Mantegna is the 40-something owner of a hotel on the French Riviera. Saddled with debts, he desperately needs to raise a large sum of money to keep his business afloat, so he turns to the only members of his family who can help him - his brothers Francis and Philippe... [More...]
Le Fils (1973)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Ange Orahona is a renowned gangster who decides to take a break from his criminal exploits in New York and returns to his rural hometown of Montemaggiore on the island of Corsica... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Ange Orahona is a renowned gangster who decides to take a break from his criminal exploits in New York and returns to his rural hometown of Montemaggiore on the island of Corsica... [More...]