Film Index

French cinema: All genres

Musée haut, musée bas (2008)
Jean-Michel Ribes

Just what exactly is a museum? Tourists hasten from one exhibition to another, devouring assorted fragments of culture like pigs gorging on scraps...   [More...]

Les Musiciens du ciel (1940)
Georges Lacombe

In Paris, Victor makes a dishonest living as a petty criminal. When his partner in crime is arrested for manufacturing forged coins, Victor begins begging on the street, pretending he is blind...   [More...]

My Little Princess (2011)
Eva Ionesco

In the 1970s, Violetta Giurgiu becomes one of the focal points of the trendy Parisian art world - quite an achievement for a little girl who is not yet a teenager...   [More...]

Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1930)
Marcel L'Herbier

Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, decides she cannot go through with her marriage to Robert Darzac...   [More...]

Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (2003)
Bruno Podalydès

Accompanied by his loyal friend Sinclair, the reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives at château Glandier to investigate one of his most bizarre cases yet...   [More...]

Le Mystère de la tour Eiffel (1928)
Julien Duvivier

With their 'Siamese Twins' dance act, the Mironton Brothers - Achille Saturnin and his exact double - are one of the main attractions at a popular Parisian fairground...   [More...]

Le Mystère des roches de Kador (1912)
Léonce Perret

When the Marquis de Kéranic dies, he leaves his entire estate to his niece Suzanne de Lormel. Under the terms of the will, Suzane will only receive her inheritance on her eighteenth birthday and, if she should die, go mad or enter a convent before this date, it will pass to her cousin, Count Fernand de Kéranic...   [More...]

Le Mystère Picasso (1956)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot is a renowned French film maker, best known for his pessimistic suspense thrillers. At the age of 75, Pablo Picasso is a legendary artist, one of the most celebrated creative talents of the 20th century...   [More...]

Le Mystère Saint-Val (1945)
René Le Hénaff

Désiré Le Sec works for an insurance company owned by his uncle but has aspirations of being a great detective...   [More...]

Les Mystères de Paris (1943)
Jacques de Baroncelli

France, 1830. In the guise of a down-and-out named Rodolphe, the Grand-Duke of Gérolstein enters the lower depths of Paris in search of his missing daughter Fleur de Marie, the fruit of one of his erstwhile amorous adventures...   [More...]

Les Mystères de Paris (1962)
André Hunebelle

Paris, 1840. The fortunes of the Marquis Rodolphe de Sombreuil, a frivolous dandy, and Marie Godin, one of the city's malnourished poor, become inextricably linked on the day that the former's horse-drawn carriage knocks down the latter's father...   [More...]

Les Mystères du château de Dé (1929)
Man Ray

The hand of a carved wooden mannequin holds a pair of dice, as if to remind us of Stéphane Mallarmé's words: 'A throw of the dice will never abolish chance'...   [More...]

Nada (1974)
Claude Chabrol

Nada is a small leftwing terrorist group made up of six people from very different backgrounds. Diaz, the most militant of the group, plans to kidnap the American ambassador Richard Poindexter, in a bid to draw attention to their cause...   [More...]

Le Naïf aux quarante enfants (1958)
Philippe Agostini

It is with an unshakable sense of purpose and optimism that Jean-François Robignac takes up his first post as a French teacher, in a state school in Marseilles...   [More...]

Naïs (1945)
Raymond Leboursier

Toine, a farmhand on a farm in rural Provence, has the misfortune to have been born with a hump on his back. For years he has secretly loved Naïs, the only child of his grouchy employer, Micoulin, but he is too conscious of his deformity to dare broach the subject with her...   [More...]

Naissance des pieuvres (2007)
Céline Sciamma

One summer will forever change the lives of three 15-year-old girls. Whilst watching a synchronised swimming event, Marie becomes obsessed with one of the swimmers, Floriane...   [More...]

Nana (1926)
Jean Renoir

A proud but talentless young actress, Nana, dreams of a better life for herself, away from the tawdry slums of Paris. She gets her chance when a government official, Count Muffat, falls under her spell having watched her performance at the theatre...   [More...]

Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart (2010)
René Féret

In a rickety carriage, a family of musicians are making their way across a wintry landscape, snuggled together for comfort as they await their arrival at the next palace on their itinerary...   [More...]

Naples au baiser de feu (1938)
Augusto Genina

Mario earns a modest living as a singer at a classy restaurant in Naples. He shares an apartment with his best friend, Michel, and is head over heels in love with an attractive girl called Assunta, his boss's niece...   [More...]

Napoléon (1927)
Abel Gance

Napoleon Bonaparte is just 14 years old when his potential as a great military commander first becomes apparent. In the winter of 1783, whilst attending an elite military school, Brienne College, he gets into a fierce snowball fight with his enemies and scores a prodigious victory...   [More...]

Napoléon (1955)
Sacha Guitry

This film recounts the life of one of the most important figures in the history of France, Napoléon Bonaparte. Beginning with his arrival at a military academy, the film moves swiftly through Bonaparte's rise to power as a great general and ultimately Emperor of France...   [More...]

Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)
Abel Gance

France, 1815. On the eve of Napoléon Bonaparte's escape from Elba and his triumphant return to Paris, the writer Stendhal reflects on the heroic life of the Emperor with those who were personally acquainted with him...   [More...]

Nathalie Granger (1972)
Marguerite Duras

Isabelle Granger is a young woman who lives with her husband and daughter Nathalie in a large house in the Yvelines district of Paris...   [More...]

Nathalie, agent secret (1959)
Henri Decoin

Nathalie and Pivoine are two models who are taking part in a fashion show at the Royal de Megève. Pivoine has a crush on engineer François Pellec, the inventor of an atomic powered car engine...   [More...]

Nathalie... (2003)
Anne Fontaine

Catherine, a gynaecologist in her forties, is unsure how to react when she learns that her husband has been unfaithful to her...   [More...]

Nationale 7 (2000)
Jean-Pierre Sinapi

After a full and active life, a middle-aged man, René, is struck by a muscle-wasting disease and finds himself in a care home for the mentally and physically disabled...   [More...]

Ne fais pas ça ! (2004)
Luc Bondy

After a violent row, Nicole walks out on her boyfriend Joel and returns to live with her parents, Francis and Edith, taking her infant son with her...   [More...]

Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens (1968)
Henri Lanoë

René Mastier, a reporter for a Parisian newspaper, and his photographer Paddy are too busy enjoying the high life in Rio de Janeiro to notice a riot breaking out in the streets around them...   [More...]

Ne le criez pas sur les toits (1943)
Jacques Daniel-Norman

Professor Moucherotte, a distinguished research chemist, is on the point of developing a revolutionary new fuel called Benzyl...   [More...]

Ne le dis à personne (2006)
Guillaume Canet

Over the past eight years, there has not been a single day when Alex has not thought about Margot, the childhood sweetheart that became his wife...   [More...]



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