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French cinema: All genres

Paris s'éveille (1991)
Olivier Assayas

19-year old Adrien leaves his mother in Toulouse after becoming mixed up in a theft. He heads for Paris where he hopes his estranged father, Clément, will offer him a helping hand...   [More...]

Paris, Palace Hôtel (1956)
Henri Verneuil

Françoise Noblet is a young manicurist who works at a high class hotel in Paris. One Christmas Eve, she meets Monsieur Delormel, a wealthy businessman who offers her an evening she will never forget...   [More...]

Paris-Beguin (1931)
Augusto Genina

Jane Diamant is a popular but highly temperamental star at the Paris night spot Les Folies-Bergère. One evening, a burglar named Bob breaks into her villa...   [More...]

Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)
Agnès Jaoui

It is with great reluctance that Agathe Villanova returns to her home town in the south of France. She had hoped she had seen the last of the region when she left it some years ago, to pursue a successful career as a feminist writer and activist...   [More...]

Parole de flic (1985)
José Pinheiro

A former French police officer, Daniel Pratt now lives out a peaceful retirement in Africa. One day, a telegram arrives notifying him that his grown-up daughter Mylène has been killed in Lyon whilst carrying out a robbery with some friends...   [More...]

Paroles et musique (1984)
Élie Chouraqui

A thriving artistic agent, Margaux Marker is having a hard time juggling her professional and family life in Paris. Her already hectic schedule is thrown into further disarray when her husband Peter, a best-selling writer, leaves her on the spur of the moment and heads off to America for what he insists will only be a temporary separation...   [More...]

Les Parrains (2005)
Frédéric Forestier

In 1980, four crooks - Max, Lucien, Serge and Henri - fail to pull off a daring jewel robbery. Max ends up in prison whilst his three partners in crime escape and settle into humdrum, semi-respectable lives...   [More...]

Pars vite et reviens tard (2007)
Régis Wargnier

Overwrought when his fiancée Camille walks out on him, police chief Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg finds himself confronted with a nightmare scenario that he is not well equipped to deal with...   [More...]

La Part de l'ombre (1945)
Jean Delannoy

A retired violist lives in self-enforced seclusion at his château with his daughter Agnès. He does nothing to encourage the hoards of aspiring young musicians who turn up on his doorstep asking for his patronage and advice...   [More...]

Les Particules (2019)
Blaise Harrison

In the Pays de Gex, a region of France on the border with Switzerland, Pierre-André (who prefers to be known as P.A.) is in his last year at school...   [More...]

La Partie d'échecs (1994)
Yves Hanchar

One day, a preacher, Ambroise, saves a young orphan, Max, from killing himself. When they sit down to play chess, Max is revealed to have an unnatural skill in the game...   [More...]

Partie de campagne (1936)
Jean Renoir

In the summer of 1860, Monsieur Dufour, a successful Parisian shopkeeper, decides to spend a day in the country, in the company of his mother-in-law, his wife Juliette, his daughter Henriette and his future son-in-law Anatole...   [More...]

Partir (2009)
Catherine Corsini

Suzanne has grown tired of her comfortable middle-class existence. Now she is forty she yearns for new challenges and decides to resume her old career as a physiotherapist...   [More...]

Partir, revenir (1985)
Claude Lelouch

In 1985, Holocaust survivor Salomé Lerner publishes a book in which she recounts the traumatic wartime experiences that have scarred her life...   [More...]

Pas de caviar pour tante Olga (1965)
Jean Becker

At the NATO offices in Paris, where she was hired as a cleaner, Rosa Patache manages to steal for her lover Alexis Narenev a microfilm known in the spies' code as 'Aunt Olga's caviar'...   [More...]

Pas de femmes (1932)
Mario Bonnard

At a pavement café, Lucien Lepur confides in his waiter friend Casimir the unhappy fact that although he is 26 years old he has never slept with a woman...   [More...]

Pas de problème! (1975)
Georges Lautner

Riddled with bullet wounds, the victim of a vendetta manages to drag himself to the door of Anita Boucher where he begs for shelter...   [More...]

Pas de scandale (1999)
Benoît Jacquot

Grégoire Jeancourt is a company director who has just come out of prison after completing a four month sentence for fraud...   [More...]

Pas douce (2007)
Jeanne Waltz

Frédérique is a woman in her mid-twenties who is already sick of life. She has grown to despise all men, having been maltreated by her father and rejected by her lover...   [More...]

Les Pas perdus (1964)
Jacques Robin

Georges Guichard is a young artist who makes his living painting billboards in Paris. One day, he meets Yolande Simonnet, an attractive woman to whom he is strongly attracted, even though she is considerably older than he is...   [More...]

Pas si bête (1947)
André Berthomieu

Léon Ménard is not quite so stupid as he seems. His experience of the world may be limited, he may have the air of a country bumpkin, but this gauche Normandy peasant has a keen eye when it comes to detecting schemers and charlatans...   [More...]

Pas sur la bouche (2003)
Alain Resnais

Paris, 1925. Wealthy businessman Georges Valandray is certain of his wife's fidelity since, he believes, he was the first man in her life...   [More...]

Pas très normales activités (2013)
Maurice Barthélémy

After the sudden death of his grandmother, Octave decides to take up residence in her old house in the country with his girlfriend Karine...   [More...]

Passage à l'acte (1996)
Francis Girod

Antoine Rivière has made a name for himself, both as an author of several noteworthy books and as a reputable psychoanalyst...   [More...]

Le Passage du Rhin (1960)
André Cayatte

Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir...   [More...]

Le Passage (1986)
René Manzor

Any artist likes to have his work appreciated, but what do you do when your biggest fan turns out to be Death himself? This is the situation that Jean Diaz finds himself in when, after an unfortunate road accident, he finds himself in a coma, trapped in the void between the land of the living and the much greater realm of the hereafter...   [More...]

Le Passager de l'été (2006)
Florence Moncorgé-Gabin

Since her husband left her, Monique has put everything into running the family farm. She works tirelessly, although the burden is more than she can manage...   [More...]

Le Passager de la pluie (1969)
René Clément

Whilst her husband, an airline navigator, is away from home, Mellie is stalked by strange man. After the man has broken into her home and raped her, Mellie shoots him dead and dumps his body in the sea...   [More...]

Les Passagers (1977)
Serge Leroy

Whilst his new wife Nicole is busy redecorating their Paris apartment, Alex Moineau sets out for Rome to collect her 11-year-old son Marc at his school...   [More...]

Les Passagers (1999)
Jean-Claude Guiguet

Men and women, like lost souls, drift across Paris, their journeys made easier and emptier by the new tramway system that carries them along with their solemn thoughts and sad remembrances...   [More...]



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