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French cinema: All genres

Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Bazil has every reason to hate the armaments industry with every fibre of his being. First his father was killed by an explosive device when he was boy...   [More...]

Microbe et Gasoil (2015)
Michel Gondry

Daniel, nicknamed Microbe on account of his puny build and long hair, finds an unlikely friend in Théo, a free-spirited loner whose love of petrol-driven engines has earned him the soubriquet Gasoil...   [More...]

Mike (2011)
Lars Blumers

Contrary to what you might think, Mike and his tearaway friends Fred and J-C have plenty to occupy themselves in Kembs, a backwater town in Alsace on the border with Switzerland and Germany...   [More...]

Le Milieu du monde (1974)
Alain Tanner

Paul, a high-flying engineer, is proud to have been born in a Swiss town the locals refer to as the Centre of the World. He is running for a local election when he meets Adriana, a young Italian waitress in a café...   [More...]

Mille milliards de dollars (1982)
Henri Verneuil

Paul Kerjean is a journalist on a leading French news weekly, La Tribune. One day, he receives an anonymous phone call revealing that the respected industrialist Jacques Benoît-Lambert is facing financial ruin...   [More...]

Mille millièmes (2002)
Rémi Waterhouse

In an anonymous apartment block on the Rue des Oursins in Paris, Patrick Bertil is anxious to create a duplex by combining his flat with that of his wife so that they can live together...   [More...]

Les Milles (1995)
Sébastien Grall

Early in June 1940, Commandant Charles Perrochon is placed in charge of an interment camp built on the site of a disused tile factory in Les Milles, a small town in the south of France...   [More...]

Le Million (1931)
René Clair

A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair...   [More...]

Millionnaires d'un jour (1949)
André Hunebelle

In a moment of distraction journalist Bernard Lajarrige makes the fatal error of publishing the wrong winning number of the national lottery in his newspaper...   [More...]

Milou en mai (1990)
Louis Malle

May 1968. Émile Vieuzac, known to all as Milou, is a contented 60 year-old who lives with his mother in a grand country house in the southwest of France...   [More...]

Mince alors! (2012)
Charlotte de Turckheim

Nina is young, pretty - and round. Unfortunately, her husband Gaspard only has eyes for women with stick-insect waistlines, particularly since the couple moved to Paris to sell bathing costumes for the ultra-thin...   [More...]

Minne, l'ingénue libertine (1950)
Jacqueline Audry

Minnie is a flighty young woman who, bored with her mundane bourgeois existence, takes refuge in her childish fantasies. On her wedding night, she regales her husband Antoine with a lurid account of a passionate liaison she once had with a hoodlum...   [More...]

Minuit... Quai de Bercy (1953)
Christian Stengel

When Mado, the attractive young concierge of a block of flats in Montmartre, is found stabbed to death one evening there is no shortage of murder suspects...   [More...]

La Minute de vérité (1952)
Jean Delannoy

On the evening of his wedding anniversary, a respectable doctor, Pierre Richard, is called away to attend to a suicide victim...   [More...]

Miquette et sa mère (1934)
Henri Diamant-Berger

When Miquette Grandier isn't helping her mother out in her tobacco shop, she dreams of becoming an actress. A disappointment in love prompts her to take her chance and within no time she has signed herself up with a travelling theatre company run by an ageing thespian, Monsieur Montchablon...   [More...]

Miquette et sa mère (1950)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

In 1900, 18-year-old Miquette Grandier lives in a small provincial town with her widowed mother, Madame Grandier, the owner of a tobacco shop...   [More...]

Le Miracle des loups (1924)
Raymond Bernard

In 1461, following the One Hundred Years' War, France is a divided nation. King Louis XI is resolved to bring the country together, but his ambitions are threatened by noblemen who are reluctant to give up their power...   [More...]

Le Miracle des loups (1961)
André Hunebelle

In 15th century France, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, plans to usurp the rightful king of France, Louis XI. Crucial to his scheme is his marriage to the king's goddaughter, Jeanne de Beauvais, but she refuses to marry him...   [More...]

Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1951)
Yves Allégret

Late one evening in a Parisian bar, Jérôme rakes over his memories and begins to tell his sad life story to the attentive bar owner...   [More...]

Le Miraculé (1987)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Papu, an unscrupulous peddler, is selling balloons one evening when he is run over by a car. Pretending he has lost the use of his legs, he hopes to profit from an insurance claim, but he has no desire to remain a pretend invalid for the rest of his life...   [More...]

Mirages de Paris (1933)
Fyodor Otsep

Convinced that she has what it takes to become a great star of the stage Madeleine Duchanel runs away from her strictly run provincial boarding school and heads for the bright lights of Paris...   [More...]

Miroir (1947)
Raymond Lamy

A prominent figure in the world of high finance, Pierre Lussac appears to be the model French citizen. He has wealth, influence and the unwavering admiration of the bourgeois set to which he belongs...   [More...]

Le Miroir à deux faces (1958)
André Cayatte

Deciding it is time for him to marry, schoolmaster Pierre Tardivet places an ad in the newspaper for his ideal partner. Of the many replies he receives, he selects Marie-Josée Vauzange, a middle-aged spinster who, whilst gentle and cultivated, is far from being an object of beauty...   [More...]

Les Misérables (1913)
Albert Capellani

Époque I - Jean Valjean France, 1815. Unable to find work as a labourer, Jean Valjean is forced to steal a loaf of bread for his starving mother...   [More...]

Les Misérables (1933)
Raymond Bernard

Jean Valjean leaves jail, having served a 15-year sentence for stealing a loaf of bread, a hard and bitter man. The kindness of a bishop sets him on a new course, however, and eight years later he has become Monsieur Madeleine, a respected mayor and industrialist...   [More...]

Les Misérables (1958)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois

France, 1815. Sentenced to five years' hard labour for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean escapes from prison in Toulon and goes on the run...   [More...]

Les Misérables (1982)
Robert Hossein

Sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean has every reason for hating humanity and embarking on a life of crime when he is released twenty years later...   [More...]

Les Misérables (1995)
Claude Lelouch

France, 1900. When his employer shoots himself after a New Year's party, chauffeur Henri Fortin is condemned for murder and sentenced to a term of hard labour...   [More...]

Mission à Tanger (1949)
André Hunebelle

In 1942, the Moroccan city of Tangier is a hotbed of international espionage. It is here that Alexandre Segard runs a spy ring, under the cover of an import-export company...   [More...]

Mission Pays Basque (2017)
Ludovic Bernard

Sibylle, a feisty young career go-getter, thinks she has made the deal of the century when she hoodwinks a naive-seeming ironmonger, Ferran Beitialarrangoïta, into selling his Basque Country store for a fraction of its real value...   [More...]



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