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French cinema: All genres

Je me suis fait tout petit (2012)
Cécilia Rouaud

There is nothing to keep Yvan in Paris. A 30-something schoolteacher, he is ready to pack up and start a new life somewhere else...   [More...]

Je n'ai rien oublié (2011)
Bruno Chiche

For many years, Conrad Lang has been living off the wealthy Senn family, first through his childhood friendship with Thomas and then as caretaker of their holiday home in Biarritz...   [More...]

Je n'aime que toi (1949)
Pierre Montazel

Renaldo Cortez is a world famous singer who lives only for his art. Feeling neglected, his wife Irène looks for attention elsewhere and soon begins an affair with a young man, Gérard, with whom she elopes...   [More...]

Je ne dis pas non (2009)
Iliana Lolitch

Adèle is a 30-something publishing assistant who has one fatal flaw: she just cannot say no. Everyone takes advantage of her good nature, her colleagues, her friends, and especially her collection of boyfriends...   [More...]

Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (2005)
Stéphane Brizé

After his divorce, Jean-Claude Delsart finds he has lost his zest for living. Now in his fifties, increasingly estranged from his son Jean-Yves, he finds his work as a bailiff dishearteningly dull and has no enthusiasm for starting new relationships...   [More...]

Je pense à vous (2006)
Pascal Bonitzer

Parisian publisher Hermann is confronted with the mother of all dilemmas when one of his most successful authors, Worms, writes a book in which he describes, in intimate detail, a love affair that he once had with a woman named Diane...   [More...]

Je règle mon pas sur le pas de mon père (1999)
Rémi Waterhouse

When his mother dies, Sauveur, a young trainee chef, finally discovers the identity of his absent father. He tries to make contact with the man to whom he owes his existence, but the latter evidently has no interest in meeting the fruit of his youthful misadventures...   [More...]

Je reste! (2003)
Diane Kurys

Marie-Do and Bertrand have been married for 15 years. They have a young son and appear to be the model couple. But, for Marie-Do, the strain of pandering to her self-centred, cycling-obsessed husband is starting to show...   [More...]

Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout (1973)
Pierre Richard

Pierre Gastié-Leroy is a 30-something idealist who is far from happy with being the son of an incredibly rich arms manufacturer...   [More...]

Je suis à toi (2015)
David Lambert

Lucas is at the end of his tether. He has no family, no friends, no job, and he barely survives on what he can earn as a male prostitute...   [More...]

Je suis avec toi (1943)
Henri Decoin

As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair...   [More...]

Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante (2009)
Claude Miller

Thomas was four when he and his younger brother were adopted by Yves and Annie Jouvet. When he is twelve, he becomes obsessed with finding his biological mother, Julie...   [More...]

Je suis le seigneur du château (1989)
Régis Wargnier

Brittany, 1954. After the death of his wife, wealthy landowner Jean Béraud hires a governess, Madame Vernet, to take care of his 10-year old son Thomas...   [More...]

Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis (2015)
Guillaume Malandrin

A band of ageing bearded hairy rockers are psyched up for their first American tour when tragedy strikes. Their lead singer, Jipé, meets his end in a stupid accident, but rather than let their friend's death get them down the four remaining rockers agree to go ahead with their tour as planned, with Jipé's cremated remains taking pride of place on their stage...   [More...]

Je suis né d'une cigogne (1999)
Tony Gatlif

Otto, one of the long-term unemployed, lives with his mother in state housing. His girlfriend, Louna, works as a hairdresser and lives with an old woman who is being preyed upon by the bailiffs...   [More...]

Je suis timide... mais je me soigne (1978)
Pierre Richard

Ever since he was a boy, Pierre Renaud has been afflicted with a chronic shyness that prevents him from establishing any kind of relationship with a member of the opposite sex...   [More...]

Je suis vivante et je vous aime (1998)
Roger Kahane

In the spring of 1944, a railway worker Julien is checking over a train carrying deportees, when he is handed a piece of paper bearing an address and a simple message: “I'm alive and I love you.” All that Julien can do is to take this message to the address, a farmhouse where two elderly Hungarian Jews are living...   [More...]

Je t'aime moi non plus (1976)
Serge Gainsbourg

Immigrant gay lovers Krassky and Padovan eke out a living in France by transporting refuse to a rubbish dump in the middle of nowhere...   [More...]

Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
Alain Resnais

Leaving hospital after a failed suicide attempt, Claude Ridder is accosted by two strangers, who make him a bizarre proposal...   [More...]

Je veux voir (2008)
Joana Hadjithomas

The world famous actress Catherine Deneuve is in Beirut to attend a charity gala. Before the gala, she insists on making a tour of Lebanon, so that she can see something of the people and the land that have been ravaged by years of bloody conflict...   [More...]

Je vous aime (1980)
Claude Berri

After breaking up with her latest boyfriend, Alice looks back on her life and remembers her past loves. Although she is still only in her mid-thirties, Alice has had many partners, all of whom she has loved intensely, for a while...   [More...]

Je vous salue, Marie (1985)
Jean-Luc Godard

Mary, a student who plays basketball and works in her father's petrol station, discovers that she is pregnant, even though she has not slept with any man...   [More...]

Je vous trouve très beau (2005)
Isabelle Mergault

When his wife dies in a terrible accident, farmer Aymé Pigrenet soon discovers he needs a replacement. It isn't so much affection that he craves but someone who can take on the thousand-and-one jobs that his wife did and for which he is manifestly ill-equipped - complex, highly specialised tasks such as operating the washing machine without drowning his cat...   [More...]

Jean de Florette (1986)
Claude Berri

Early in the 1920s, tax collector Jean Cadoret gives up his life in the city to make a fresh start in Provence, with his wife Aimée and young daughter Manon...   [More...]

Jean de La Fontaine - Le défi (2007)
Daniel Vigne

5th September 1661 is an important date in the history of France, since this was the day on which Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances and most powerful of the king's advisors, was arrested on the orders of the state councillor Jean-Baptiste Colbert, with the result that the young Louis XIV became the sole governor of his kingdom...   [More...]

Jean de la Lune (1931)
Jean Choux

Jeff is a poet and dreamer, nicknamed 'Jean de la lune' because of his child-like innocence. He is madly in love with Marceline and marries her, completely unaware of her wayward nature which compels her to chase after any man that catches her eye...   [More...]

Jean-Philippe (2006)
Laurent Tuel

Fabrice is the world's biggest Johnny Hallyday fan. For him, a world without France's biggest rock legend would be a world utterly devoid of meaning...   [More...]

Jeanne et le garçon formidable (1998)
Olivier Ducastel

Receptionist for a travel agency, Jeanne is looking for the man of her dreams. So far, her amorous encounters have been a disappointment, but she thinks she has struck lucky when she meets Olivier, a boy who is totally unlike any she has ever met before...   [More...]

Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les Batailles (1994)
Jacques Rivette

Upon hearing a message from God, a young French maid, Jeanne, feels compelled to leave her home in Domremy. She finally manages to get an audience with Charles, the dauphin of France, and she persuades him that it is her destiny to lead the French to victory against the English...   [More...]

Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (1994)
Jacques Rivette

After her victory at Orleans, Joan of Arc is emboldened to continue her assault against the English armies. Despite the ambivalence of the Dauphin and his advisers, she galvanises her troops and victory follows victory...   [More...]



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