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French cinema: All genres

Low Cost (2011)
Maurice Barthélémy

For the passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Paris Beauvais, their journey gets off to a bad start when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air conditioning...   [More...]

Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Claude Berri

Lyon, 1943. In Nazi occupied France, Raymond Aubrac is a leading member of the French Resistance. Shortly after blowing up a German supply train, he is arrested, ostensibly for blackmarketeering...   [More...]

Lucky Jo (1964)
Michel Deville

Lucky Jo is a crook for whom nothing ever seems to go right. He is an amiable sort of guy, always means to do good, but somehow the gods are never on his side - as his gang discovers when he wrecks their criminal exploits...   [More...]

Lucky Luke (2009)
James Huth

Daisy Town was once a haven of peace before the outlaws, gamblers and other low-life took over and turned it into one of the most lawless places in the whole of the Wild West...   [More...]

Lucky Luke - Daisy Town (1971)
René Goscinny

When it was founded by an enterprising party of American settlers not so long ago, Daisy Town was intended to be a haven of peace, a place where parents could bring up their children in safety and where neighbours could live side-by-side in perfect harmony...   [More...]

Lucrèce Borgia (1935)
Abel Gance

At the end of the 15th Century, Rome is held in the iron grip of Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexandre VI. Taking the advice of Machiavelli, Cesare sets out to unify Italy through various alliances, which can only increase his power...   [More...]

Lucrèce Borgia (1953)
Christian-Jaque

Towards the end of the 15th century, Cesare Borgia is one of the most powerful men in Renaissance Italy. He owes his present position of influence to a combination of good fortune and ruthlessness, to say nothing of his seemingly unbounded ambition...   [More...]

Ludwig (1972)
Luchino Visconti

Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state...   [More...]

Lulu femme nue (2014)
Sólveig Anspach

After a particularly bad job interview, Lulu misses her train back home and has to spend the night in the Loire coastal town of St Gilles-Croix-de-Vie...   [More...]

La Lumière d'en face (1955)
Georges Lacombe

After a terrible road accident in which his fellow driver was killed, Georges Moreau had no choice but to give up his job as a long distance lorry driver...   [More...]

Lumière d'été (1943)
Jean Grémillon

Michèle, a young dress designer from Paris, arranges to meet up with her boyfriend Roland, a temperamental artist, at a mountain resort in Provence...   [More...]

Lumière et compagnie (1995)
Theodoros Angelopoulos

To mark the centenary of the invention of the cinematograph by the Lumière brothers in 1885, forty filmmakers from around the world each contribute a 52 second film, shot with the Lumières' original camera......   [More...]

La Lune dans le caniveau (1983)
Jean-Jacques Beineix

In present day Marseille, a young dockworker named Gérard Delmas is haunted by the brutal death of his sister, who committed suicide with a razor after being raped in the street...   [More...]

La Lutte des classes (2019)
Michel Leclerc

Sofia, a successful lawyer of North African origin, and her husband Paul, an ageing drummer with a punk band, move to the pleasant suburb of Bagnolet on the outskirts of Paris...   [More...]

Les Lyonnais (2011)
Olivier Marchal

From his boyhood, a miserable time in a gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal has always had a sense of family loyalty and he remains proud of his humble origins...   [More...]

Ma famille t'adore déjà (2016)
Jérôme Commandeur

Now that he has found his ideal soul-mate, Julien, a thirty-something designer of smartphone apps, decides the time has come to end his bachelor days and get married...   [More...]

Ma femme est formidable (1951)
André Hunebelle

When his wife Sylvia sets out to spend the weekend with her mother, sculptor Raymond Corbier becomes suspicious. Just who was that man he saw sitting beside her in her car...   [More...]

Ma femme est une actrice (2001)
Yvan Attal

Yvan is a young sports journalist who still hasn't come to terms with the fact that he is married to a successful film star, Charlotte...   [More...]

Ma femme s'appelle reviens (1982)
Patrice Leconte

Bernard finds himself teetering on the brink of a mid-life crisis when the woman he has been married to for five years suddenly walks out on him...   [More...]

Ma Loute (2016)
Bruno Dumont

In the summer of 1910, as is their custom, the Van Peteghems, a wealthy family from Lille, come to Slack Bay in northern France for their holidays...   [More...]

Ma mère (2004)
Christophe Honoré

When he learns of the death of his father, 17 year old Pierre experiences a sudden and dramatic crisis of identity. Whilst holidaying with his mother, Hélène, on a Mediterranean island, he undergoes a turbulent and destructive initiation into the mysteries of sex...   [More...]

Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
Eric Rohmer

Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening...   [More...]

Ma part du gâteau (2011)
Cédric Klapisch

The wave of redundancies that is sweeping across northern France in the wake of the financial crisis hasn't spared the town of Dunkirk...   [More...]

Ma petite entreprise (1999)
Pierre Jolivet

Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire...   [More...]

Ma pomme (1950)
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon

When a house is demolished a fabulous treasure is discovered. According to the terms of a will, this treasure is to be divided up between a number of legatees, but only if the eldest agrees to accept his share of the inheritance...   [More...]

Ma saison préférée (1993)
André Téchiné

Too old to live by herself, Berthe moves in with her daughter, Emile, who is married with grown-up children of her own. Emile's husband resents the intrusion, but the situation is aggravated when Emile's brother, Antoine visits for Christmas...   [More...]

Ma vie en l'air (2005)
Rémi Bezançon

Yann Kerbec has a morbid fear of flying, which he attributes to the fact that his mother died whilst giving birth to him in an aeroplane...   [More...]

Ma vie en rose (1997)
Alain Berliner

The Fabre family moves into a new house in a respectable middle-class area. During a house-warming party, the youngest son, seven-year old Ludovic makes a grand entrance in a dress, make-up and jewellery...   [More...]

Ma vie est un enfer (1991)
Josiane Balasko

Léah is a dowdy spinster in her mid-thirties. She resents her self-obsessed mother and hates her job as a dental assistant...   [More...]

Macadam (1946)
Jacques Feyder

The Hôtel Bijou in Montmartre, Paris, shares the seedy reputation of its owner, Madame Rose, a woman who killed her husband because he was too honest...   [More...]



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