Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Juste avant la nuit (1971)
Claude Chabrol
Charles Masson is a successful advertising executive who has a devoted wife, Hélène, and two adorable children...
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Claude Chabrol
Juste la fin du monde (2016)
Xavier Dolan
Louis is a successful writer who hasn't seen his family for twelve years. Now in his mid-thirties, he finds he has contracted AIDS and has only a short time left to live...
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Xavier Dolan
Justin de Marseille (1935)
Maurice Tourneur
In 1930s Marseille, Justin makes a dishonest living as the town's most respected gangster. Loyal to those who serve him well, Justin has few enemies and he rules the town unopposed - until he gets into a deadly feud with an unscrupulous Italian rival, Esposito...
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Maurice Tourneur
Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
Louis Feuillade
Police Inspector Juve has good reason to think that his formidable archenemy Fantômas is up to his old tricks when the body of a woman, badly disfigured, is found at the private residence of Dr Chaleck...
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Louis Feuillade
Kameradschaft (1931)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine... [More...]
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine... [More...]
Karnaval (1999)
Thomas Vincent
After a dispute with his father, a young Arab man Larbi decides to leave his home town of Dunkirk and head south to start a new life in Marseilles... [More...]
Thomas Vincent
After a dispute with his father, a young Arab man Larbi decides to leave his home town of Dunkirk and head south to start a new life in Marseilles... [More...]
Kennedy et moi (1999)
Sam Karmann
Simon Polaris is going through the mother of mid-life crises. Despite being comfortably married with two children and a successful career as a writer, the 48-year-old has arrived at an impasse in his life... [More...]
Sam Karmann
Simon Polaris is going through the mother of mid-life crises. Despite being comfortably married with two children and a successful career as a writer, the 48-year-old has arrived at an impasse in his life... [More...]
La Kermesse héroïque (1935)
Jacques Feyder
1616. In the small Flemish village of Boom, the burgomaster is preparing a banquet for his daughter's wedding to the local butcher... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
1616. In the small Flemish village of Boom, the burgomaster is preparing a banquet for his daughter's wedding to the local butcher... [More...]
La Kermesse rouge (1947)
Paul Mesnier
Paris in the 1890s. When Agnès Bonnardet falls in love with a struggling Montmartre painter, Claude Sironi, her aristocratic relatives waste no time in acting to thwart a mésalliance that will bring disgrace on the family... [More...]
Paul Mesnier
Paris in the 1890s. When Agnès Bonnardet falls in love with a struggling Montmartre painter, Claude Sironi, her aristocratic relatives waste no time in acting to thwart a mésalliance that will bring disgrace on the family... [More...]
Les Keufs (1987)
Josiane Balasko
Growing up in state care doesn't seen to have harmed Mireille Molyneux's career aspirations, nor her determination to get things done... [More...]
Josiane Balasko
Growing up in state care doesn't seen to have harmed Mireille Molyneux's career aspirations, nor her determination to get things done... [More...]
Khamsa (2008)
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Karim Dridi
Marco is only eleven years old, but he already has a history of delinquency. His mother, an Algerian, is dead, and his father, a gypsy, has no interest in him... [More...]
Ki lo sa? (1985)
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
Knock (1951)
Guy Lefranc
Dr Knock is a firm believer that medicine is the greatest of human achievements, and it is with eager anticipation that he takes over his new practice in the picturesque French village of St-Maurice... [More...]
Guy Lefranc
Dr Knock is a firm believer that medicine is the greatest of human achievements, and it is with eager anticipation that he takes over his new practice in the picturesque French village of St-Maurice... [More...]
L.627 (1992)
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Là-bas... mon pays (2000)
Alexandre Arcady
French television journalist Pierre Nivel is surprised when, out of the blue, he receives a phone call from an Algerian woman he has not seen for thirty years... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
French television journalist Pierre Nivel is surprised when, out of the blue, he receives a phone call from an Algerian woman he has not seen for thirty years... [More...]
Lac aux dames (1934)
Marc Allégret
Éric Heller, an unemployed engineer, finds work as a swimming instructor at a popular Austrian resort beside the alluring Lac-aux-dames lake... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Éric Heller, an unemployed engineer, finds work as a swimming instructor at a popular Austrian resort beside the alluring Lac-aux-dames lake... [More...]
Lacenaire (1990)
Francis Girod
In the 1830s, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the most notorious criminal in France. From an early age, he rebelled against his comfortable bourgeois background, managing to get himself expelled from a Jesuit seminary... [More...]
Francis Girod
In the 1830s, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the most notorious criminal in France. From an early age, he rebelled against his comfortable bourgeois background, managing to get himself expelled from a Jesuit seminary... [More...]
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Lady Chatterley (2006)
Pascale Ferran
England, 1921. Lady Constance Chatterley is a prisoner in a dead, passionless marriage. She is still devoted to her husband, Clifford, now a ruin of a man, paralysed by the injuries he sustained on the Flanders battlefields... [More...]
Pascale Ferran
England, 1921. Lady Constance Chatterley is a prisoner in a dead, passionless marriage. She is still devoted to her husband, Clifford, now a ruin of a man, paralysed by the injuries he sustained on the Flanders battlefields... [More...]
Lady Jane (2008)
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
In 1960s Marseilles, three tearaway adolescents - Muriel, François and René - make a dishonest living by selling stolen fur coats... [More...]
Lady Paname (1950)
Henri Jeanson
Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer, but she needs a song she can claim as her own... [More...]
Henri Jeanson
Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer, but she needs a song she can claim as her own... [More...]
Laisse aller, c'est une valse (1971)
Georges Lautner
Notorious crook Serge Aubin has served three years in prison for his part in a jewel theft. No sooner has he been released than he is abducted by a rival gang, led by Varèse... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Notorious crook Serge Aubin has served three years in prison for his part in a jewel theft. No sooner has he been released than he is abducted by a rival gang, led by Varèse... [More...]
Laissez-passer (2002)
Bertrand Tavernier
In the 1940s, with France under Nazi occupation, the Germans continue to allow the French to make their own films, but under their supervision... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
In the 1940s, with France under Nazi occupation, the Germans continue to allow the French to make their own films, but under their supervision... [More...]
Laissons Lucie faire! (2000)
Emmanuel Mouret
In sunny Marseille, twenty-something Lucie makes a living by selling bathing costumes to tourists on the beach. Her boyfriend, Lucien, fancies himself as a policeman, but when he is turned down for the job he does the only thing he can do, which is to get himself hired as a secret agent... [More...]
Emmanuel Mouret
In sunny Marseille, twenty-something Lucie makes a living by selling bathing costumes to tourists on the beach. Her boyfriend, Lucien, fancies himself as a policeman, but when he is turned down for the job he does the only thing he can do, which is to get himself hired as a secret agent... [More...]
Le Lait de la tendresse humaine (2001)
Dominique Cabrera
Not long after giving birth, Christelle walks out of the family home and after wandering about blindly persuades a neighbour she has never spoken to before to take her in... [More...]
Dominique Cabrera
Not long after giving birth, Christelle walks out of the family home and after wandering about blindly persuades a neighbour she has never spoken to before to take her in... [More...]
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Robert Bresson
Their number reduced through countless skirmishes in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, weary and defeated... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Their number reduced through countless skirmishes in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, weary and defeated... [More...]
Landes (2013)
François-Xavier Vives
On her husband's death, Liéna Duprat, a woman in her mid-thirties, inherits a vast pine forest in the heart of the Landes department of southwest France... [More...]
François-Xavier Vives
On her husband's death, Liéna Duprat, a woman in her mid-thirties, inherits a vast pine forest in the heart of the Landes department of southwest France... [More...]
Landru (1963)
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]