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French cinema: All genres

La Mariée était en Noir (1967)
François Truffaut

At a party to celebrate his engagement, a young man named Bliss is drawn to a mysterious woman he has never seen before but who seems to know him...   [More...]

Mariées mais pas trop (2003)
Catherine Corsini

Laurence, aged 20, is ready for love, but she always manages to fall for the wrong guy. After the death of her mother, she engages a private detective to track down her missing grandmother, Renée, who shares none of Laurence's romanticism...   [More...]

Les Mariés de l'an II (1971)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

After killing an aristocrat, commoner Nicolas Philibert bids a hasty farewell to his native France and arrives in the United States, where he soon makes his fortune as a crop merchant...   [More...]

Marion (1997)
Manuel Poirier

A working class family moves to a rural Normandy village. The father, a labourer, earns barely money to keep his wife and four young children, but the family are content with what they have...   [More...]

Les Maris, les femmes, les amants (1989)
Pascal Thomas

As is their custom during the summer holidays, a party of male friends descend on the island of Ré with their children whilst their wives and girlfriends stay at home in Paris...   [More...]

Marius (1931)
Alexander Korda

César is the owner of a café in the French port of Marseilles, which he runs with his twenty-year-old son Marius...   [More...]

Marius (2013)
Daniel Auteuil

In the Old Port of Marseille, César manages a bar with his son Marius. The latter dreams only of sailing away to far off lands, in one of the ships he sees everyday, unaware that he is fondly loved by Fanny, the attractive girl who sells seashells at the front of his bar...   [More...]

Marius et Jeannette (1997)
Robert Guédiguian

Jeannette is a single mother who is struggling to bring up her children on a meagre salary in Estaque, a working class district of Marseilles...   [More...]

Les Marmottes (1993)
Élie Chouraqui

One year, Léo Klein decides to spend the Christmas holidays at his chalet in the Alps with his two sons, Max and Simon, along with their wives Marie-Claire and Frédérique, and their children...   [More...]

Marquise (1997)
Véra Belmont

17th Century France, during the reign of King Louis XIV. Whilst visiting a provincial town, a member of Molière's acting troupe, Gros-René, discovers a beautiful street dancer, Marquise...   [More...]

Marquitta (1927)
Jean Renoir

Prince Vlasco becomes so enchanted by the street singer Marquitta that he leaves his present mistress and takes her as his lover...   [More...]

La Marraine de Charley (1959)
Pierre Chevalier

Charley Rivoire, a mature student in architecture at the university of Paris, is grateful for the two-room apartment that his godmother, the wealthy Gabrielle de la Motte, has put at his disposal...   [More...]

La Marseillaise (1938)
Jean Renoir

On 14th July 1789, the Duke of Rochefoucauld informs King Louis XVI of France that the Bastille has fallen to a Parisian mob...   [More...]

Martha... Martha (2001)
Sandrine Veysset

Martha is a vulnerable young woman who, after a traumatic childhood, now finds calm and contentment with her husband Reymond and their little girl, Lise...   [More...]

Marthe (1997)
Jean-Loup Hubert

Autumn, 1915. Wounded on a World War I battlefield, a young soldier named Simon is sent to a town on the Brittany coast to convalesce and receive medical treatment...   [More...]

Marthe Richard au service de la France (1937)
Raymond Bernard

At the start of the First World War, Marthe Richard sees her parents arrested by German soldiers, taken away and shot. When she loses contact with her fiancé, André, a soldier on the Western Front, the young woman hastens to Paris with one thought in her mind - to take revenge on the Germans by serving her country...   [More...]

Martin Roumagnac (1946)
Georges Lacombe

In a small provincial town, Blanche Ferrand and her uncle own a shop which sells seed and birds. Blanche resents her drab milieu but has no difficulty attracting male suitors who might offer her an escape...   [More...]

Le Martyre de l'obèse (1933)
Pierre Chenal

Angèle Léger is outraged when she discovers that her husband Henri has been seeing another woman, so outraged that she decides to take a lover herself, just to make Henri jealous...   [More...]

Masculin, féminin (1966)
Jean-Luc Godard

His military service finally over, Paul, a young man in his early twenties, returns to Paris in search of work. He finds a job with a trendy magazine where he meets Madeleine, an attractive woman of his own age who has set her sights on becoming a pop singer...   [More...]

Le Masque de fer (1962)
Henri Decoin

After France has won the war against Spain, King Louis XIV must marry the daughter of the King of Spain to forge a lasting alliance between the two countries...   [More...]

Masques (1987)
Claude Chabrol

Christian Legagneur is one of France's best-loved TV personalities, the genial host of a popular talent show in which the over-sixties compete for big prizes by crooning sentimental songs of yesteryear...   [More...]

Massacres (1991)
Jean-Claude Roy

To clear his gambling debts, a young psychopath named Ronny agrees to deliver a suitcase to Seoul, not realising that the suitcase contains plates for printing forged banknotes...   [More...]

Mata Hari, agent H21 (1964)
Jean-Louis Richard

The travails of WWI do not prevent the Alcazar music hall from being sold out for the performance given by the star of the show, a beautiful dancer of Javanese origin named Mata-Hari...   [More...]

Le Matelot 512 (1984)
René Allio

Marseille, circa 1900. Max is 18 and thinks of nothing but the sea. In search of adventure on the high seas, he enlists in the French navy and soon manages to impress his commandant, Roger, with his enthusiasm and commitment...   [More...]

Mater dolorosa (1917)
Abel Gance

Émile Berliac is a specialist doctor in children's diseases. Dedicated to his work, he neglects his young wife Manon, who, unbeknown to him, has been pursuing an extramarital affair with his brother, the writer François Rolland...   [More...]

La Maternelle (1933)
Jean Benoît-Lévy

After her father's bankruptcy Rose, an educated woman in her early twenties, is abandoned by her fiancé and is forced to fall back on her own resources...   [More...]

Maternité clandestine (1953)
Jean Gourguet

In the suburbs of Paris, a gang of wayward adolescents led by Maurice survive on the spoils of their petty crimes. Under the instructions of small-time hoodlum André, the gang must hold up a cashier on his way home one evening...   [More...]

Mauprat (1926)
Jean Epstein

Hubert de Mauprat is an ageing French nobleman who leads a quiet life at his castle of Saint Sévère in the company of his daughter Edmée...   [More...]

Les Mauvais coups (1961)
François Leterrier

In the French countryside of the Jura department live Roberte and Milan, a couple whose ten years of marriage is on the rocks...   [More...]

Mauvais esprit (2003)
Patrick Alessandrin

Failed architect Simon Variot confronts unscrupulous businessman Vincent Porel, accusing him of stealing his design for a state-of-the-art building...   [More...]



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