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French cinema: All genres

La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)
Jacques Rouffio

Max Baumstein is the esteemed president of an international human rights organisation, so the world is shocked when he cold bloodedly kills the ambassador to Paraguay...   [More...]

Le Passé (2013)
Asghar Farhadi

Four years after their separation, Ahmad travels from Teheran to Paris at the request of his wife Marie so that they can formalise their divorce...   [More...]

Le Passe-montagne (1978)
Jean-François Stévenin

When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage...   [More...]

Le Passe-muraille (1951)
Jean Boyer

When he is locked out of his home by his sister and her husband, a humble civil servant Léon Dutilleul discovers he has a peculiar talent: he can walk through walls...   [More...]

Passe-passe (2008)
Tonie Marshall

Irène Montier Duval has a designer bag full of cash and desperately needs someone to drive her to Geneva. Darry Marzouki is an out-of-work stage magician who is at the wheel of an expensive car and is badly in need of money...   [More...]

La Passerelle (1988)
Jean-Claude Sussfeld

Jean Nevers and Cora Elbaz are two neighbours who have yet to become acquainted. He is a 40-something bachelor who lives by himself; she is an erotic dancer in her mid-twenties who is bringing up a five-year-old son Antoine by herself...   [More...]

Passion (1982)
Jean-Luc Godard

A Polish film director, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, is making a film in France during the political upheaval in Poland of the early 1980s...   [More...]

La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Carl Theodor Dreyer

In 1431, Joan of Arc is arrested and brought before a court of ecclesiastical judges on a charge of treason and heresy. The Church believes that Joan's visions are manifestations of the Devil, but she maintains they are messages from God and his saints...   [More...]

Pasteur (1923)
Jean Benoît-Lévy

For a man who was destined to change the world more than any other human being Louis Pasteur came from the humblest of origins...   [More...]

Pasteur (1935)
Sacha Guitry

In 1870, Louis Pasteur confides in a group of his students the difficulties he has encountered in the course of his career...   [More...]

Patate (1964)
Robert Thomas

Léon Rollo is an inventor who, try as he might, struggles to find a buyer for his marvellous creations. Meanwhile, his childhood friend Noël Carradine has made a phenomenal success of his career as a businessman...   [More...]

Les Patates (1969)
Claude Autant-Lara

In 1942, France is under Nazi Occupation and the country is divided in two, with the north controlled by the Germans and the south governed by the Vichy administration...   [More...]

Patrie (1946)
Louis Daquin

Flanders in the late 16th century. With his country under occupation by the armies of the King of Spain, the nobleman Count Rysoor enters into a pact with William of Orange to lead a revolt that will free his people from Spanish rule...   [More...]

Les Patriotes (1994)
Eric Rochant

Immediately after turning 18, Ariel Brenner, a Parisian Jew, leaves his comfortable middleclass home and family in France and sets out for Israel, to live in a kibbutz...   [More...]

Patrouille de choc (1957)
Claude Bernard-Aubert

During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam...   [More...]

Pattes blanches (1949)
Jean Grémillon

Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn...   [More...]

Pauline à la plage (1983)
Eric Rohmer

Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France...   [More...]

Pauline et François (2010)
Renaud Fely

Pauline is a young woman, in her late twenties, who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. Seeking escape from her old life, she moves to the country, and it is here that she meets François, an introverted man who is about her age and who has his own share of woes...   [More...]

Le Pays sans étoiles (1946)
Georges Lacombe

After an accident in which he suffers a head injury, Simon Legouge, a modest notary's clerk, begins to experience a series of strange visions...   [More...]

Le Pays, d'où je viens (1956)
Marcel Carné

One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double...   [More...]

Peau d'âne (1970)
Jacques Demy

On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she...   [More...]

Peau d'ange (2002)
Vincent Perez

17-year old Angèle leaves home and finds work as a housemaid to a bourgeois couple in a nearby town. One day, she meets a young man in a suit, Grégoire, who passes himself off as a manager in a music company...   [More...]

Peau d'homme coeur de bête (1999)
Hélène Angel

Discharged from the police for assaulting a prostitute, Francky retreats to the family homestead in the country, where his elderly mother and younger brother Alex live with his two young daughters (the product of a broken marriage)...   [More...]

Peau de banane (1963)
Marcel Ophüls

Cathy, a seductive young woman, decides to take revenge on two crooks, Bontemps and Lachard. These two are responsible for the bankruptcy and ruin of her father, and so she asks Michel, her ex-husband, to give her a helping hand...   [More...]

Peau de pêche (1929)
Jean Benoît-Lévy

Peau de pêche is a ten-year-old orphan boy who spends his days living as free as a bird in the streets of Montmartre...   [More...]

La Peau de torpedo (1970)
Jean Delannoy

To everyone who knows him, including his wife Dominique, Nicolas Krestowics is a respectable antiquarian. In truth, he works for an enemy spy ring and uses his work as a cover for his espionage activities...   [More...]

La Peau douce (1964)
François Truffaut

Pierre Lachenay is a world-renowned literary expert and publisher. He is married to Franca and lives in Paris with his young daughter Sabine...   [More...]

Peau neuve (1999)
Emilie Deleuze

Alain seems to be a perfectly settled thirty-year-old. He has a well-paid job as a computer games tester that he enjoys and is happily married, with a four-year-old daughter...   [More...]

Pédale douce (1996)
Gabriel Aghion

Adrien is about to close an important business deal with banking supremo Alexandre. Before signing the contract, Alexandre invites Adrien to a dinner party, insisting that he bring his wife...   [More...]

Peindre ou faire l'amour (2005)
Arnaud Larrieu

William and Madeleine are a happily married couple in their early fifties. They live in Grenoble, a picturesque town near the French Alps...   [More...]



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