Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Guy de Maupassant (1982)
Michel Drach
In the summer of 1891, at the height of his fame, Guy de Maupassant begins to lose his mind. Unable to complete his latest novel, L'Angélus, he falls victim to severe headaches and frightening hallucinations that cause him to think his end is near...
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Michel Drach
L'Habit vert (1937)
Roger Richebé
The Duke of Maulévrier belongs to one of the oldest families in France, so it is right and proper that he should be a member of the Académie française, the noblest of France's institutions...
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Roger Richebé
Haceldama ou Le prix du sang (1919)
Julien Duvivier
Jean Didier, a young man in his mid-twenties, has one objective in life: to find and kill the man whom he believed drove his father Pierre to ruin and suicide...
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Julien Duvivier
Hadewijch (2009)
Bruno Dumont
A mother superior is so shocked by the manic faith of one of her novices that she has no choice but to expel her from the convent...
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Bruno Dumont
La Haine (1995)
Mathieu Kassovitz
This film follows one day in the lives of three unemployed young men who live on a housing estate in a deprived suburb of Paris...
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Mathieu Kassovitz
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
Edmond T. Gréville
After a successful concert, the pianist Stephen Orlac is involved in a plane crash whilst returning to his fiancée Louise... [More...]
Edmond T. Gréville
After a successful concert, the pianist Stephen Orlac is involved in a plane crash whilst returning to his fiancée Louise... [More...]
Hans le marin (1949)
François Villiers
Once the US navy ship Alabama has docked at the port of Marseille, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar... [More...]
François Villiers
Once the US navy ship Alabama has docked at the port of Marseille, three of its crew, including a Canadian Eric Martin, head straight for the Kit-Cat bar... [More...]
La Hantise (1912)
Louis Feuillade
At a soirée, Madame Trévoux encounters the fashionable palmist Josepha de Delphes and allows her to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
At a soirée, Madame Trévoux encounters the fashionable palmist Josepha de Delphes and allows her to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
Happy End (2017)
Michael Haneke
The comfortably off Laurent family lead a privileged life in Calais, if they did but know it. Unaware of, or totally unconcerned by, the plight of the refugees living in abject squalor at the makeshift camps just a few miles from their home, the Laurents are wrapped up in their own petty concerns, which, typically, revolve around inter-generational conflict, marital infidelity and the right to die... [More...]
Michael Haneke
The comfortably off Laurent family lead a privileged life in Calais, if they did but know it. Unaware of, or totally unconcerned by, the plight of the refugees living in abject squalor at the makeshift camps just a few miles from their home, the Laurents are wrapped up in their own petty concerns, which, typically, revolve around inter-generational conflict, marital infidelity and the right to die... [More...]
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000)
Dominik Moll
Michel, a young teacher, is driving his wife and three young daughters to their country home. During a stop at a petrol station, he meets another man, Harry, who recognises him as a fellow schoolmate... [More...]
Dominik Moll
Michel, a young teacher, is driving his wife and three young daughters to their country home. During a stop at a petrol station, he meets another man, Harry, who recognises him as a fellow schoolmate... [More...]
Hasards ou coïncidences (1998)
Claude Lelouch
Miriam Lini used to be a highly successful dancer, before she decided to give up her career and devote herself to bringing up her son, Serge... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Miriam Lini used to be a highly successful dancer, before she decided to give up her career and devote herself to bringing up her son, Serge... [More...]
Haut les coeurs (1999)
Sólveig Anspach
A young woman, Emma, decides to get pregnant without her boyfriend's consent. This puts a strain on their relationship, but this is nothing to what they experience when Emma discovers that she has breast cancer... [More...]
Sólveig Anspach
A young woman, Emma, decides to get pregnant without her boyfriend's consent. This puts a strain on their relationship, but this is nothing to what they experience when Emma discovers that she has breast cancer... [More...]
Haute tension (2003)
Alexandre Aja
Best friends Marie and Alex decide to take a break in the countryside to revise for their exams. But soon after they arrive at Alex's family home, a remote country house, a sinister looking visitor arrives in a van... [More...]
Alexandre Aja
Best friends Marie and Alex decide to take a break in the countryside to revise for their exams. But soon after they arrive at Alex's family home, a remote country house, a sinister looking visitor arrives in a van... [More...]
Les Hauts murs (2008)
Christian Faure
France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child... [More...]
Christian Faure
France, some time between the wars. After his father was killed in WWI, Yves Tréguier was adopted by the state and placed in the care of institutions and individuals that saw him more as a burden than a child... [More...]
Le Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
Aki Kaurismäki
Marcel Marx has given up his profession as a writer and now he leads a far more humble existence in Le Havre, polishing people's shoes for a living... [More...]
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Jean-Luc Godard
On the sedate banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a community of people lead an idyllic life. These include Simon and Rachel Donnadieu, the owners of a popular restaurant... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
On the sedate banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a community of people lead an idyllic life. These include Simon and Rachel Donnadieu, the owners of a popular restaurant... [More...]
Hell (2006)
Bruno Chiche
Ella, known as Hell to her friends, is an 18-year-old rich kid who abandons her studies to pursue a hedonistic lifestyle which consists of shopping in designer stores and get stoned in hot Parisian nightclubs... [More...]
Bruno Chiche
Ella, known as Hell to her friends, is an 18-year-old rich kid who abandons her studies to pursue a hedonistic lifestyle which consists of shopping in designer stores and get stoned in hot Parisian nightclubs... [More...]
Hello Goodbye (2008)
Graham Guit
Alain and Gisèle Gaash are a happily married couple who, now into their fifties, lead a comfortable existence in Paris... [More...]
Graham Guit
Alain and Gisèle Gaash are a happily married couple who, now into their fifties, lead a comfortable existence in Paris... [More...]
Henri (2013)
Yolande Moreau
Henri, a fifty-something of Italian origin, runs a small restaurant near to Charleroi with his wife Rita. When Rita dies suddenly, Henri is devastated... [More...]
Yolande Moreau
Henri, a fifty-something of Italian origin, runs a small restaurant near to Charleroi with his wife Rita. When Rita dies suddenly, Henri is devastated... [More...]
Henri 4 (2010)
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Jo Baier
In 1563, France is a divided country, a land riven by religious hatred between the predominant Catholic population and increasingly belligerent Protestants... [More...]
Les Herbes folles (2009)
Alain Resnais
Marguerite is out shopping when a street thief suddenly snatches her handbag and hurries away. Georges later finds the discarded handbag when he comes to collect his car in an underground car park... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Marguerite is out shopping when a street thief suddenly snatches her handbag and hurries away. Georges later finds the discarded handbag when he comes to collect his car in an underground car park... [More...]
Hercule (1938)
Alexander Esway
In the sunny Provençal village of Cadignan the locals are busy gathering in the wine harvest when old timer Monsieur Maffre suffers what he believes to be a fatal injury... [More...]
Alexander Esway
In the sunny Provençal village of Cadignan the locals are busy gathering in the wine harvest when old timer Monsieur Maffre suffers what he believes to be a fatal injury... [More...]
Le Hérisson (2009)
Mona Achache
Renée Michel is not the uncultivated concierge that she pretends to be, but a fifty-something woman with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a passion for great works of literature... [More...]
Mona Achache
Renée Michel is not the uncultivated concierge that she pretends to be, but a fifty-something woman with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a passion for great works of literature... [More...]
L'Héritier des Mondésir (1940)
Albert Valentin
When the old Baron of Mondésir dies, he leaves his entire estate to his illegitimate son Bien-Aimé, the village postman... [More...]
Albert Valentin
When the old Baron of Mondésir dies, he leaves his entire estate to his illegitimate son Bien-Aimé, the village postman... [More...]
L'Héritier (1973)
Philippe Labro
When his father, an incredibly wealthy magnate, dies in an aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell finds himself at the head a vast business empire... [More...]
Philippe Labro
When his father, an incredibly wealthy magnate, dies in an aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell finds himself at the head a vast business empire... [More...]
L'Héroïque Monsieur Boniface (1949)
Maurice Labro
Monsieur Boniface is a timid soul whose artistic leanings are amply satisfied by his job as a shop window-dresser. Returning to his lodgings one evening he is surprised to find a corpse in his bed... [More...]
Maurice Labro
Monsieur Boniface is a timid soul whose artistic leanings are amply satisfied by his job as a shop window-dresser. Returning to his lodgings one evening he is surprised to find a corpse in his bed... [More...]
Le Héros de la Marne (1939)
André Hugon
In a small village in Marne in 1914, Lefrançois forbids his son Jean from marrying Hélène. When she finds she is pregnant with Jean's child, Hélène leaves the area and moves to Amiens... [More...]
André Hugon
In a small village in Marne in 1914, Lefrançois forbids his son Jean from marrying Hélène. When she finds she is pregnant with Jean's child, Hélène leaves the area and moves to Amiens... [More...]
Les Héros sont fatigués (1955)
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
L'Heure d'été (2008)
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
One summer, three successful forty-something siblings return to their family home in the country to celebrate the 75th birthday of their mother, Hélène Berthier... [More...]
L'Heure zéro (2007)
Pascal Thomas
Just what was Guillaume Neuville thinking when he invited his ex-wife Aude and his latest wife Caroline to his Aunt Camilla's home in Brittany... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
Just what was Guillaume Neuville thinking when he invited his ex-wife Aude and his latest wife Caroline to his Aunt Camilla's home in Brittany... [More...]