Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Lise et André (2000)
Denis Dercourt
Lise, a prostitute and single mother, is devastated when her young son, Bastien, is knocked down in a car accident. As her son lies in a coma, she turns to a priest, André, but he, a frail old man who is losing his faith, has nothing to offer her...
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Denis Dercourt
Liste noire (1984)
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist...
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Alain Bonnot
Le Lit à colonnes (1942)
Roland Tual
In 1880, the warders and inmates at a French prison are equally afraid of Clément Porey-Cave, an implacable prison governor...
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Roland Tual
Le Locataire diabolique (1909)
Georges Méliès
An old man with the air of a learned professor arrives at a boarding house and asks the concierge for a room. It so happens there is a room available, but it is unfurnished and in the process of being decorated...
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Georges Méliès
Le Locataire (1976)
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital...
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Roman Polanski
La Loi c'est la loi (1958)
Christian-Jaque
The small town of Assola lies across France's border with Italy, a fact which is about to cause no end of distress for the dedicated customs inspector Ferdinand Pastorelli... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
The small town of Assola lies across France's border with Italy, a fact which is about to cause no end of distress for the dedicated customs inspector Ferdinand Pastorelli... [More...]
La Loi de Murphy (2009)
Christophe Campos
Elias can hardly wait to complete his two year suspended sentence in the hospital where he works as a nurse. He has just a few hours to go and then he will be a free man - but a lot can happen in two hours, as he soon discovers... [More...]
Christophe Campos
Elias can hardly wait to complete his two year suspended sentence in the hospital where he works as a nurse. He has just a few hours to go and then he will be a free man - but a lot can happen in two hours, as he soon discovers... [More...]
La Loi des hommes (1962)
Charles Gérard
Paris in the early hours. A hold-up of incredible daring has just been committed in broad daylight. Two crooks managed to make off with a van laden with a fortune, leaving the driver for dead... [More...]
Charles Gérard
Paris in the early hours. A hold-up of incredible daring has just been committed in broad daylight. Two crooks managed to make off with a van laden with a fortune, leaving the driver for dead... [More...]
La Loi du marché (2015)
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
After being made redundant at the age of fifty, factory worker Thierry has a hard time finding another job. After almost two years of fruitless job hunting, during which time he can barely support himself and his family on the benefits he receives, he finally finds work as a security guard in a supermarket... [More...]
La Loi du survivant (1967)
José Giovanni
Kroll, alias Le Kalmouk, is an adventurer who made his fortune by digging up a fabulous treasure somewhere in Asia with two of his companions... [More...]
José Giovanni
Kroll, alias Le Kalmouk, is an adventurer who made his fortune by digging up a fabulous treasure somewhere in Asia with two of his companions... [More...]
Loin (2001)
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
André Téchiné
Serge is a young man in his mid-twenties who works as a long-distance lorry driver. His work consists of shipping rolls of fabric to Morocco and then collecting clothes manufactured in this country, which he drives back to Europe... [More...]
Lola (1961)
Jacques Demy
Lola is a cabaret singer and dancer in the French port of Nantes. A prostitute, she is popular with the town's sailors, especially an American sailor named Frankie, who is madly in love with her... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Lola is a cabaret singer and dancer in the French port of Nantes. A prostitute, she is popular with the town's sailors, especially an American sailor named Frankie, who is madly in love with her... [More...]
Lola Montès (1955)
Max Ophüls
By the 1850s, Lola Montès is one of most notorious women of her time. Her love affairs with composers, kings and other men of distinction are legendary... [More...]
Max Ophüls
By the 1850s, Lola Montès is one of most notorious women of her time. Her love affairs with composers, kings and other men of distinction are legendary... [More...]
Lolo (2015)
Julie Delpy
Violette is a forty-something Parisian who leads a hectic but lonely life in the fashion business. She is taking a thalassotherapy course at Biarritz with a friend when she meets Jean-René, a modest computer programmer who is getting over a recent divorce... [More...]
Julie Delpy
Violette is a forty-something Parisian who leads a hectic but lonely life in the fashion business. She is taking a thalassotherapy course at Biarritz with a friend when she meets Jean-René, a modest computer programmer who is getting over a recent divorce... [More...]
London River (2009)
Rachid Bouchareb
After the London bombings of July 2005, an anxious mother, Elisabeth, tries to get in touch with her daughter. When she fails to reach her on her mobile phone, Elisabeth leaves her home in Guernsey and travels to London to look for her daughter on foot... [More...]
Rachid Bouchareb
After the London bombings of July 2005, an anxious mother, Elisabeth, tries to get in touch with her daughter. When she fails to reach her on her mobile phone, Elisabeth leaves her home in Guernsey and travels to London to look for her daughter on foot... [More...]
The Lost Son (1999)
Chris Menges
Xavier Lombard, an impoverished private detective living alone in London, is hired by a wealthy couple to trace their missing son, Leon... [More...]
Chris Menges
Xavier Lombard, an impoverished private detective living alone in London, is hired by a wealthy couple to trace their missing son, Leon... [More...]
Louis, enfant roi (1993)
Roger Planchon
France, 1648. Whilst the nobility attempt to hold onto their power, the masses rise up in protest, and the country is torn by civil war and famine... [More...]
Roger Planchon
France, 1648. Whilst the nobility attempt to hold onto their power, the masses rise up in protest, and the country is torn by civil war and famine... [More...]
Louise (1939)
Abel Gance
Louise, a young Parisian seamstress, is in love with Julien, a struggling composer who lives opposite her apartment in Montmartre... [More...]
Abel Gance
Louise, a young Parisian seamstress, is in love with Julien, a struggling composer who lives opposite her apartment in Montmartre... [More...]
Louise Wimmer (2012)
Cyril Mennegun
Louise Wimmer is nearly fifty. She should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement but instead she has lost virtually everything she had - everything except her pride and her resilience... [More...]
Cyril Mennegun
Louise Wimmer is nearly fifty. She should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement but instead she has lost virtually everything she had - everything except her pride and her resilience... [More...]
Louise-Michel (2008)
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
Gustave de Kervern
Jobs are increasingly hard to come by in northern France, which is why the workers at a textiles factory in Picardy become anxious when a nasty rumour begins to circulate in the town... [More...]
Louise... l'insoumise (1985)
Charlotte Silvera
A family of Tunisian Jews settles in a suburb of Paris in the early 1960s. The mother, Edith, governs her children with an iron hand, determined that they should all strictly adhere to her family's religious customs... [More...]
Charlotte Silvera
A family of Tunisian Jews settles in a suburb of Paris in the early 1960s. The mother, Edith, governs her children with an iron hand, determined that they should all strictly adhere to her family's religious customs... [More...]
Loulou (1980)
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
Loup (2009)
Nicolas Vanier
Sergueï is a nomadic reindeer herder, one of many who live in the wild mountains of eastern Siberia. Sergueï's clan is led by his father and comprises four families, who own a herd of 3,000 reindeer which they drive from one pasture to another as the seasons change... [More...]
Nicolas Vanier
Sergueï is a nomadic reindeer herder, one of many who live in the wild mountains of eastern Siberia. Sergueï's clan is led by his father and comprises four families, who own a herd of 3,000 reindeer which they drive from one pasture to another as the seasons change... [More...]
Le Loup des Malveneur (1943)
Guillaume Radot
Legend has it that, many years ago, the first of the Malveneurs was transformed into a wolf by a curse and became a ravenous beast that preyed on the locals... [More...]
Guillaume Radot
Legend has it that, many years ago, the first of the Malveneurs was transformed into a wolf by a curse and became a ravenous beast that preyed on the locals... [More...]
Les Loups chassent la nuit (1952)
Bernard Borderie
Thomas Mollert. the head of a counter-espionage network, meets up with one of his agents, Cyril, in Trieste, to instruct him on his next assignment... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Thomas Mollert. the head of a counter-espionage network, meets up with one of his agents, Cyril, in Trieste, to instruct him on his next assignment... [More...]
Lourdes (2009)
Jessica Hausner
Christine suffers from multiple sclerosis and has spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Tired of her solitary existence, she decides to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where she hopes she will find new friends and give her life a renewed sense of purpose... [More...]
Jessica Hausner
Christine suffers from multiple sclerosis and has spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Tired of her solitary existence, she decides to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where she hopes she will find new friends and give her life a renewed sense of purpose... [More...]
Les Louves (1957)
Luis Saslavsky
During the Second World War, two Frenchmen - Gervais Larauch and Bernard Pradalié - escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp where they are being detained and head back to France... [More...]
Luis Saslavsky
During the Second World War, two Frenchmen - Gervais Larauch and Bernard Pradalié - escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp where they are being detained and head back to France... [More...]
Love, etc. (1996)
Marion Vernoux
Benoît, a banker in his early thirties, and Pierre, a literature professor, have been friends for longer than either of them can remember... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
Benoît, a banker in his early thirties, and Pierre, a literature professor, have been friends for longer than either of them can remember... [More...]
Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés (2003)
Stéphane Clavier
Edgar Lamarck is a shrewd chartered accountant who anticipates having an easy time on the Riviera. He gets in a good day's work by persuading shipyard owner Thierry Ferrand that his business is worth less than it really is... [More...]
Stéphane Clavier
Edgar Lamarck is a shrewd chartered accountant who anticipates having an easy time on the Riviera. He gets in a good day's work by persuading shipyard owner Thierry Ferrand that his business is worth less than it really is... [More...]
Lovers (1999)
Jean-Marc Barr
Jeanne, a young woman in her twenties, works in a bookshop in Paris. One day, a good-looking man of about her own age enters the shop in search of a book on the painter Rossetti... [More...]
Jean-Marc Barr
Jeanne, a young woman in her twenties, works in a bookshop in Paris. One day, a good-looking man of about her own age enters the shop in search of a book on the painter Rossetti... [More...]