Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Xavier Dolan
Laurence is a young teacher who is in a seemingly solid relationship with his partner Fred. Whilst Laurence is deeply in love with Fred, he is compelled to break some shocking news to her on his thirtieth birthday...
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Xavier Dolan
Lautrec (1998)
Roger Planchon
The son of an aristocrat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec would never live up to his parents' expectations. Handicapped by a genetic condition that stunted his growth, he willingly swaps his life of privilege for that of a humble artist in Paris...
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Roger Planchon
La Leçon particulière (1968)
Michel Boisrond
Olivier Fermond is a comfortably off 17-year-old high school student who enjoys chasing girls of his own age. Then he discovers real love, in the form of Frédérique Dampierre, a woman eight years his senior...
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Michel Boisrond
La Lectrice (1988)
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading...
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Michel Deville
Légère et court vêtue (1953)
Jean Laviron
Jacques Lorette, a workaholic lawyer, considers himself fortunate to have a faithful wife, Jacqueline. At least he does so until the day when a stranger walks into his office and hands him 300 thousand francs to atone for having had an affair with Jacqueline for the past two years...
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Jean Laviron
Légitime défense (2011)
Pierre Lacan
Benoît is an unassuming thirty-something who leads a happy and trouble-free existence with his young family. All this is to change on the day that his father, a cop-turned-private detective, mysteriously disappears, leaving behind him a trashed office and a host of unanswered questions... [More...]
Pierre Lacan
Benoît is an unassuming thirty-something who leads a happy and trouble-free existence with his young family. All this is to change on the day that his father, a cop-turned-private detective, mysteriously disappears, leaving behind him a trashed office and a host of unanswered questions... [More...]
Légitime violence (1982)
Serge Leroy
Martin Modot's life is torn to shreds when the three people who are closest to him - his wife, his daughter and his mother - are all brutally murdered in what seems to be an armed robbery at Deauville station... [More...]
Serge Leroy
Martin Modot's life is torn to shreds when the three people who are closest to him - his wife, his daughter and his mother - are all brutally murdered in what seems to be an armed robbery at Deauville station... [More...]
Leguignon guérisseur (1954)
Maurice Labro
Diogène Leguignon is surprised when, one day, he realises he has acquired the ability to cure sick animals. It seems that his healing powers are not confined to pets - he can also cure human beings, just by laying his right hand on whichever part of their body is afflicted... [More...]
Maurice Labro
Diogène Leguignon is surprised when, one day, he realises he has acquired the ability to cure sick animals. It seems that his healing powers are not confined to pets - he can also cure human beings, just by laying his right hand on whichever part of their body is afflicted... [More...]
Lemming (2005)
Dominik Moll
Alain Getty is a young robotics engineer whose latest invention, the Flying Webcam, delights his boss, Richard Pollock. One evening, Alain invites Pollock and his wife, Alice, to dine at his home with his wife Bénédicte... [More...]
Dominik Moll
Alain Getty is a young robotics engineer whose latest invention, the Flying Webcam, delights his boss, Richard Pollock. One evening, Alain invites Pollock and his wife, Alice, to dine at his home with his wife Bénédicte... [More...]
Lemmy pour les dames (1962)
Bernard Borderie
Pursued by autograph hunters at every turn, the world's most famous FBI agent, Lemmy Caution, soon regrets taking a holiday on the French Riviera... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Pursued by autograph hunters at every turn, the world's most famous FBI agent, Lemmy Caution, soon regrets taking a holiday on the French Riviera... [More...]
Léon (1994)
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
Jean-Pierre Melville
With France under Nazi occupation, life goes on as usual in a small provincial town, the only novelty being the presence of German soldiers in the streets... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
With France under Nazi occupation, life goes on as usual in a small provincial town, the only novelty being the presence of German soldiers in the streets... [More...]
Let My People Go! (2011)
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Mikael Buch
Ruban enjoys an idyllic existence in Finland, content with his job as a village postman and happily settled with his boyfriend Teemu... [More...]
Les Lettres de mon moulin (1954)
Marcel Pagnol
Alphonse Daudet, purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of rural France, so that he can write a series of short stories about country folk... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Alphonse Daudet, purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of rural France, so that he can write a series of short stories about country folk... [More...]
Leur dernière nuit (1953)
Georges Lacombe
Newly qualified to work as a teacher Madeleine Marsan, a single woman in her early thirties, leaves her home in Limoges and heads for Paris to look for a teaching post... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
Newly qualified to work as a teacher Madeleine Marsan, a single woman in her early thirties, leaves her home in Limoges and heads for Paris to look for a teaching post... [More...]
Leur morale... et la nôtre (2008)
Florence Quentin
André and Muriel are a happily married French couple who make a comfortable living by claiming refunds on products they buy from their supermarket and later selling the same products in their shop at a discount... [More...]
Florence Quentin
André and Muriel are a happily married French couple who make a comfortable living by claiming refunds on products they buy from their supermarket and later selling the same products in their shop at a discount... [More...]
Lévy et Goliath (1987)
Gérard Oury
Moïse Lévy is an orthodox Jew living in Antwerp. He has no time for his brother Albert, who has given up the traditions of his Jewish background for a modern life, running a café in Paris and marrying a non-Jew... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Moïse Lévy is an orthodox Jew living in Antwerp. He has no time for his brother Albert, who has given up the traditions of his Jewish background for a modern life, running a café in Paris and marrying a non-Jew... [More...]
Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)
Roger Vadim
In modern day France, Juliette de Merteuil is a well-regarded society belle who is happily married to the Vicomte de Valmont, a distinguished diplomat... [More...]
Roger Vadim
In modern day France, Juliette de Merteuil is a well-regarded society belle who is happily married to the Vicomte de Valmont, a distinguished diplomat... [More...]
Liberté (2010)
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
In an anonymous small town in Nazi occupied France, P'tit Claude, a nine-year-old boy, is still adapting to his new life with his adopted father, Théodore, the town's popular mayor and vet... [More...]
Liberté-Oléron (2001)
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Bruno Podalydès
Jacques is determined to make the most of his summer holidays on the island of Oléron. His wife Albertine may be content to lounge around on the beach and dream of ways to improve their second home, but he is a man of action and intends to make this an adventure that he and his four children will remember for the rest of their lives... [More...]
Le Libertin (2000)
Gabriel Aghion
France, in the mid-1700s. Denis Diderot, arguably the greatest philosopher of his age, is labouring on what will be his undoubted masterpiece, The Encyclopaedia... [More...]
Gabriel Aghion
France, in the mid-1700s. Denis Diderot, arguably the greatest philosopher of his age, is labouring on what will be his undoubted masterpiece, The Encyclopaedia... [More...]
Les Liens du sang (2008)
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Jacques Maillot
Lyons, in the late 1970s. François is a dedicated police inspector. His brother Gabriel is a crook who has just finished serving a prison sentence for murder... [More...]
Le Lieu du crime (1986)
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
La Ligne de démarcation (1966)
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]
La Ligne droite (2011)
Régis Wargnier
Not long after she is released from prison after a five year stretch, Leïla meets Yannick, a young athlete who has recently lost his sight in a car accident... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
Not long after she is released from prison after a five year stretch, Leïla meets Yannick, a young athlete who has recently lost his sight in a car accident... [More...]
Lignes de front (2010)
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Antoine Rives is a freelance journalist who is preparing a report on repatriated Rwandans. In the course of his work, he gets to know Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin who is married to a Tutsi woman named Alice... [More...]
Lili et le baobab (2006)
Chantal Richard
Lili, a thirty-something photographer, accepts a commission to take some photographs of a town in Senegal. Here, she befriends a secretive local woman, Aminata and, despite the language barrier, Lili develops a liking for the country and its people... [More...]
Chantal Richard
Lili, a thirty-something photographer, accepts a commission to take some photographs of a town in Senegal. Here, she befriends a secretive local woman, Aminata and, despite the language barrier, Lili develops a liking for the country and its people... [More...]
Liliom (1934)
Fritz Lang
Liliom Zadowski is a carousel barker whose two favourite pastimes are fighting and womanising. His employer Madame Muscat dismisses him when she sees him flirting with a maid named Julie... [More...]
Fritz Lang
Liliom Zadowski is a carousel barker whose two favourite pastimes are fighting and womanising. His employer Madame Muscat dismisses him when she sees him flirting with a maid named Julie... [More...]
Le Lion des Mogols (1924)
Jean Epstein
For the past fifteen years, a holy city in Tibet has lived under the tyrannous rule of the Great Khan. A palace guard, Roundgito-Singh, is told by a fortune teller that he will become the city's beloved ruler, providing he is not diverted from his destiny by an untrue woman... [More...]
Jean Epstein
For the past fifteen years, a holy city in Tibet has lived under the tyrannous rule of the Great Khan. A palace guard, Roundgito-Singh, is told by a fortune teller that he will become the city's beloved ruler, providing he is not diverted from his destiny by an untrue woman... [More...]
Les Lions sont lâchés (1961)
Henri Verneuil
Bored of her husband and her humdrum life in the country, Albertine is seriously contemplating a divorce, so she sets out for a short stay in Paris to mull things over... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Bored of her husband and her humdrum life in the country, Albertine is seriously contemplating a divorce, so she sets out for a short stay in Paris to mull things over... [More...]