Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Orage (1938)
Marc Allégret
André Pascaud is a naval construction engineer who lives near Toulon with his wife Gisèle and his brother-in-law Gilbert...
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Marc Allégret
Orage (2015)
Fabrice Camoin
Marie is en route for a holiday in the sun with her husband Pierre, daughter Judith and sister Louise when they get caught in a violent rainstorm...
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Fabrice Camoin
L'Ordonnance (1933)
Viktor Tourjansky
Colonel Limousin returns home to find this his young wife has committed suicide in her bath. After the funeral, he discovers a letter in which the dead woman reveals how she was driven to take her own life...
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Viktor Tourjansky
L'Ordre et la morale (2011)
Mathieu Kassovitz
It is April 1988 and the French presidential election is well under way. The incumbent president, François Mitterrand, has a formidable opponent in his rival Jacques Chirac, but as the two men are about to go head-to-head in the final round of the election the French public's attention is diverted by an even bigger news story...
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Mathieu Kassovitz
Les Orgueilleux (1953)
Yves Allégret
In a remote Mexican town, a coach deposits two strangers, an attractive young French woman Nelly and her visibly sick husband Tom...
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Yves Allégret
Orphée (1949)
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight... [More...]
Oscar (1967)
Edouard Molinaro
Bertrand Barnier is a rich businessman whose pride and joy is his designer house in which he leads a tranquil life with his wife Germaine and daughter Colette... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Bertrand Barnier is a rich businessman whose pride and joy is his designer house in which he leads a tranquil life with his wife Germaine and daughter Colette... [More...]
OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions (2006)
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1955, Cairo is a hornet's nest of political intrigue, with several countries fighting for their vested interests. When one of his government agents is killed in the Egyptian capital, the French President sends a replacement in the form of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name OSS 117... [More...]
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
In 1967, France's top secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, codenamed OSS 117, is sent to Brazil to locate a former high-ranking Nazi who is threatening to sell a microfilm listing the names of French collaborators in WWII... [More...]
L'Otage de l'Europe (1989)
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
After his humiliating defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the Emperor Napoléon has no choice but to give himself up and surrender himself to the mercy of the British... [More...]
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
After his humiliating defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the Emperor Napoléon has no choice but to give himself up and surrender himself to the mercy of the British... [More...]
Les Otages (1938)
Raymond Bernard
For many years, the tranquillity of a rural French town has been disturbed by the on-going feud between the mayor Beaumont and the country gentleman Rossignol... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
For many years, the tranquillity of a rural French town has been disturbed by the on-going feud between the mayor Beaumont and the country gentleman Rossignol... [More...]
Où va la nuit (2011)
Martin Provost
Fed up with being a victim, Rose Mayer decides to take charge of her own destiny and murder the aggressive husband who has made her life hell... [More...]
Martin Provost
Fed up with being a victim, Rose Mayer decides to take charge of her own destiny and murder the aggressive husband who has made her life hell... [More...]
Ouf (2013)
Yann Coridian
François is 41 and coping badly with the onset of midlife blues. There seems to be no reason for his apparent mental instability... [More...]
Yann Coridian
François is 41 and coping badly with the onset of midlife blues. There seems to be no reason for his apparent mental instability... [More...]
Oui, mais... (2001)
Yves Lavandier
Eglantine Laville is 17 and already she is finding life too hard to cope with. It is not difficult to see why this might be... [More...]
Yves Lavandier
Eglantine Laville is 17 and already she is finding life too hard to cope with. It is not difficult to see why this might be... [More...]
L'Ours et la poupée (1969)
Michel Deville
Since separating from his wife, violinist Gaspard has two passions in his life: music and nature. Felicia is a rich woman who does nothing else but go to parties in her Rolls-Royce and amuse herself with her many male admirers... [More...]
Michel Deville
Since separating from his wife, violinist Gaspard has two passions in his life: music and nature. Felicia is a rich woman who does nothing else but go to parties in her Rolls-Royce and amuse herself with her many male admirers... [More...]
Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971)
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [More...]
L'Outsider (2016)
Christophe Barratier
Jérôme Kerviel was just 23 when he was taken on by the French investment bank Société Générale in 2000... [More...]
Christophe Barratier
Jérôme Kerviel was just 23 when he was taken on by the French investment bank Société Générale in 2000... [More...]
Ouvert la nuit (2017)
Edouard Baer
Just before his latest show The Woman and the Ape is due to open, Parisian theatre manager Luigi finds himself up to his neck in trouble... [More...]
Edouard Baer
Just before his latest show The Woman and the Ape is due to open, Parisian theatre manager Luigi finds himself up to his neck in trouble... [More...]
Le P'tit curieux (2004)
Jean Marboeuf
Clément is a nine-year-old boy with an insatiable curiosity for the world around him. There are so many things that puzzle him - for instance, why do his mother and father live apart... [More...]
Jean Marboeuf
Clément is a nine-year-old boy with an insatiable curiosity for the world around him. There are so many things that puzzle him - for instance, why do his mother and father live apart... [More...]
La P... respectueuse (1952)
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
Charles Brabant
Whilst taking a train journey in the southern United States, Lizzie McKay, a nightclub hostess, witnesses the killing of a black man by a drunken white man... [More...]
La P... sentimentale (1958)
Jean Gourguet
Paty, a college boy, has fallen in love with Linda. The only problem is that she is a prostitute and Paty's father is outraged when he learns that his son is involved with a member of her profession... [More...]
Jean Gourguet
Paty, a college boy, has fallen in love with Linda. The only problem is that she is a prostitute and Paty's father is outraged when he learns that his son is involved with a member of her profession... [More...]
P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
Patrick Schulmann
Frédéric is a reactionary literature teacher who intends to apply some unorthodox methods when he takes up a post in a typical French high school... [More...]
Patrick Schulmann
Frédéric is a reactionary literature teacher who intends to apply some unorthodox methods when he takes up a post in a typical French high school... [More...]
Le Pacha (1968)
Georges Lautner
Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort... [More...]
Paco l'infaillible (1979)
Didier Haudepin
Madrid, 1928. Paco is a young man who has a profession that many would envy. He is paid to inseminate young women who work as wet nurses for the city's wealthier families... [More...]
Didier Haudepin
Madrid, 1928. Paco is a young man who has a profession that many would envy. He is paid to inseminate young women who work as wet nurses for the city's wealthier families... [More...]
Le Pacte des loups (2001)
Christophe Gans
France, 1765. For the past year, the rural region of Gévaudan has been terrorised by a wild beast who brutally kills peasant women and resists any attempt at capture... [More...]
Christophe Gans
France, 1765. For the past year, the rural region of Gévaudan has been terrorised by a wild beast who brutally kills peasant women and resists any attempt at capture... [More...]
Le Pacte du silence (2003)
Graham Guit
In a prison, a young detainee awakes to find her cell has been set alight. Simultaneously, an identical woman in Carmelite convent collapses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Graham Guit
In a prison, a young detainee awakes to find her cell has been set alight. Simultaneously, an identical woman in Carmelite convent collapses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Palais royal! (2005)
Valérie Lemercier
Arnaud's carefree life as a playboy prince comes to an abrupt end when his father, the much-loved king of a European country, is killed in a skiing accident... [More...]
Valérie Lemercier
Arnaud's carefree life as a playboy prince comes to an abrupt end when his father, the much-loved king of a European country, is killed in a skiing accident... [More...]
Les Palmes de M. Schutz (1997)
Claude Pinoteau
In 1894, Rodolphe Schutz, the director of the physics and chemistry department at the University of Paris, has his heart set on winning the Order of Academic Palms, the prize he believes is rightly his after years of dedicated service to academia... [More...]
Claude Pinoteau
In 1894, Rodolphe Schutz, the director of the physics and chemistry department at the University of Paris, has his heart set on winning the Order of Academic Palms, the prize he believes is rightly his after years of dedicated service to academia... [More...]
Le Paltoquet (1986)
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Panique (1947)
Julien Duvivier
Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground... [More...]