Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Le Franciscain de Bourges (1968)
Claude Autant-Lara
Before the war, Alfred Stanke was the most devout of Franciscan monks. Now that he is an officer in the German army, he channels his compassion for his fellow man into his duties as a nurse at a prison in the French town of Bourges...
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Claude Autant-Lara
François Premier (1937)
Christian-Jaque
Honorin is the timid stage manager of the Théâtre Cascaroni, which is currently rehearsing a production of “François 1er ou les amours de la Belle Ferronnière ”...
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Christian-Jaque
Frankenstein 90 (1984)
Alain Jessua
A scientist Victor, a direct descendent of the infamous Baron Frankenstein, assembles bodies parts to create a new kind of human being, animated with an electronic brain...
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Alain Jessua
Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper...
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Roman Polanski
Frantz (2016)
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme...
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François Ozon
Franz (1971)
Jacques Brel
A boarding house at a Belgian seaside resort serves as a rest home for a number of civil servants convalescing from various illnesses... [More...]
Jacques Brel
A boarding house at a Belgian seaside resort serves as a rest home for a number of civil servants convalescing from various illnesses... [More...]
Fred (1997)
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
Frédérica (1942)
Jean Boyer
Gilbert Legrant, a successful singer-songwriter, is about to get married to Lilette, without much in the way of enthusiasm... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Gilbert Legrant, a successful singer-songwriter, is about to get married to Lilette, without much in the way of enthusiasm... [More...]
French Cancan (1954)
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [More...]
La French (2014)
Cédric Jimenez
In the 1970s, Marseille is the centre of one of the largest and most sophisticated drugs trafficking networks in the world... [More...]
Cédric Jimenez
In the 1970s, Marseille is the centre of one of the largest and most sophisticated drugs trafficking networks in the world... [More...]
Le Frère du guerrier (2002)
Pierre Jolivet
Thirteenth Century France. When his mother dies, Arnaud honours her wish to carry on the family tradition of preparing herbal medicines for the local community... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Thirteenth Century France. When his mother dies, Arnaud honours her wish to carry on the family tradition of preparing herbal medicines for the local community... [More...]
Fric-Frac (1939)
Claude Autant-Lara
Marcel is an honest, perhaps too trusting, young man who works for a small firm of jewellers in Paris. His employer's daughter Renée has made up her mind to marry him but he shows her no interest and resents her attempts to control his life... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Marcel is an honest, perhaps too trusting, young man who works for a small firm of jewellers in Paris. His employer's daughter Renée has made up her mind to marry him but he shows her no interest and resents her attempts to control his life... [More...]
Frou-Frou (1955)
Augusto Genina
At a busy airport, Antoinette Dubois tries in vain to prevent her teenage daughter Michèle from jetting off to start a new life far away with the man she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Augusto Genina
At a busy airport, Antoinette Dubois tries in vain to prevent her teenage daughter Michèle from jetting off to start a new life far away with the man she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Le Fruit défendu (1952)
Henri Verneuil
As he marks his 45th birthday at a dinner party with his nearest and dearest Charles Pellegrin appears to be the very model of middle-class respectability... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
As he marks his 45th birthday at a dinner party with his nearest and dearest Charles Pellegrin appears to be the very model of middle-class respectability... [More...]
Les Fruits de l'été (1955)
Raymond Bernard
Edouard Gravières finds that his new appointment as High Commissioner for Delinquency may be jeopardised when he sees the kind of wild lifestyle his 18-year-old daughter Juliette is leading... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
Edouard Gravières finds that his new appointment as High Commissioner for Delinquency may be jeopardised when he sees the kind of wild lifestyle his 18-year-old daughter Juliette is leading... [More...]
Les Fugitifs (1986)
Francis Veber
A series of bank robberies has earned Jean Lucas a five year stretch in prison. Once his term of incarceration is over, he vows to turn over a new leaf and become an honest man, a resolution which his old enemy police superintendent Duroc doubts he will stick to for long... [More...]
Francis Veber
A series of bank robberies has earned Jean Lucas a five year stretch in prison. Once his term of incarceration is over, he vows to turn over a new leaf and become an honest man, a resolution which his old enemy police superintendent Duroc doubts he will stick to for long... [More...]
La Fugue de Monsieur Perle (1952)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Bernard Perle and his wife Juliette run a bakery in a small provincial town. One day, Monsieur Perle receives a letter notifying him that his aunt has died and left him a legacy... [More...]
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Bernard Perle and his wife Juliette run a bakery in a small provincial town. One day, Monsieur Perle receives a letter notifying him that his aunt has died and left him a legacy... [More...]
Le Furet (1949)
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Raymond Leboursier
Paris is in the grip of a crime wave. A series of seemingly unrelated murders have taken place, and on each occasion the police are forewarned of the crime by a letter signed 'Le Furet'... [More...]
Futures vedettes (1955)
Marc Allégret
A gifted tenor, Eric Walter finds he has no shortage of female admirers at the music academy in Vienna where he teaches. His most ardent fans are Sophie Dimater and Elisa Petersen, two girls barely out of their teens who are both equally smitten by their handsome teacher... [More...]
Marc Allégret
A gifted tenor, Eric Walter finds he has no shortage of female admirers at the music academy in Vienna where he teaches. His most ardent fans are Sophie Dimater and Elisa Petersen, two girls barely out of their teens who are both equally smitten by their handsome teacher... [More...]
Gabrielle (2005)
Patrice Chéreau
Paris in the early 1900s. Jean Hervey is a successful businessman who enjoys the popularity and comfort that his wealth brings him... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
Paris in the early 1900s. Jean Hervey is a successful businessman who enjoys the popularity and comfort that his wealth brings him... [More...]
Gadjo dilo (1997)
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Le Gai savoir (1969)
Jean-Luc Godard
In a deserted television studio two artistic militants come together to exchange their ideas about television, cinema and politics... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
In a deserted television studio two artistic militants come together to exchange their ideas about television, cinema and politics... [More...]
Les Gaietés de l'escadron (1932)
Maurice Tourneur
Despite the best efforts of its commander, Captain Hurluret, the barracks of the 51st Rifles has yet to be acquainted with the notion of military discipline... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
Despite the best efforts of its commander, Captain Hurluret, the barracks of the 51st Rifles has yet to be acquainted with the notion of military discipline... [More...]
La Galerie des monstres (1924)
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Les Galettes de Pont-Aven (1975)
Joël Séria
Peacefully nestled in the Loire Valley in the west of France is the picturesque town of Samur. This is home to Henri Serin, a modest umbrella salesman who devotes his free time to his two main pleasures in life - women and painting... [More...]
Joël Séria
Peacefully nestled in the Loire Valley in the west of France is the picturesque town of Samur. This is home to Henri Serin, a modest umbrella salesman who devotes his free time to his two main pleasures in life - women and painting... [More...]
Galia (1966)
Georges Lautner
A good-looking twenty-something, Galia leaves her home in Normandy and settles in the centre of Paris. She is walking along the banks of the Seine one evening when she notices a young woman apparently drowning in the river... [More...]
Georges Lautner
A good-looking twenty-something, Galia leaves her home in Normandy and settles in the centre of Paris. She is walking along the banks of the Seine one evening when she notices a young woman apparently drowning in the river... [More...]
Gamer (2001)
Patrick Levy
Tony, 22, is obsessed with video games. When he is not mixed up in petty trafficking or housebreaking, he divides his time between the games arcades and his Playstation... [More...]
Patrick Levy
Tony, 22, is obsessed with video games. When he is not mixed up in petty trafficking or housebreaking, he divides his time between the games arcades and his Playstation... [More...]
Le Gamin au vélo (2011)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
11-year-old Cyril does not understand why his father placed him in a children's home, so to find the answers he returns to his former apartment... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
11-year-old Cyril does not understand why his father placed him in a children's home, so to find the answers he returns to his former apartment... [More...]
Gamines (2009)
Éléonore Faucher
I'm not one to complain. I'd much rather have a laugh and enjoy myself. For the last thirty years or so, I've reacted to all those glum sympathetic looks by saying: 'I don't have a father, but I don't mind... [More...]
Éléonore Faucher
I'm not one to complain. I'd much rather have a laugh and enjoy myself. For the last thirty years or so, I've reacted to all those glum sympathetic looks by saying: 'I don't have a father, but I don't mind... [More...]
Le Gang des Antillais (2016)
Jean-Claude Flamand-Barny
In the 1970s, the French government created a new agency known as BUMIDOM to help people from the country's overseas territories settle in mainland France... [More...]
Jean-Claude Flamand-Barny
In the 1970s, the French government created a new agency known as BUMIDOM to help people from the country's overseas territories settle in mainland France... [More...]