Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Pension Mimosas (1935)
Jacques Feyder
In 1924, Louise Noblet and her husband Gaston run a small hotel, the Pension Mimosas, on the French Riviera. Their clients are mostly small-time gamblers hoping to strike it lucky at a nearby casino...
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Jacques Feyder
People (2004)
Fabien Onteniente
In one disastrous evening, Charles de Poulignac sees his reputation as the prince of the Parisian jet set decimated by one of his rivals...
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Fabien Onteniente
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Julien Duvivier
The French outlaw Pépé le Moko has gained a reputation as the most notorious gangster in Algiers, loyally served by his band of armed cohorts...
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Julien Duvivier
Les Pépées font la loi (1955)
Raoul André
Flora finds she has to take the law into her own hands when her daughter Nathalie is kidnapped one day. Her first thought is that her precious offspring has managed to get herself mixed up in a bothersome drugs trafficking operation, so rather than get onto the police she decides to deal with the matter by herself, assisted by her other three daughters: Elvire, Christine and Elisabeth...
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Raoul André
Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time...
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Eric Rohmer
Le Père de Mademoiselle (1953)
Marcel L'Herbier
Françoise Marinier refuses to allow her parents, a respectable bourgeois couple, to decide whom she should marry. So she leaves home and moves to Paris, where she is soon engaged as a secretary to the popular actress Edith Mars... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
Françoise Marinier refuses to allow her parents, a respectable bourgeois couple, to decide whom she should marry. So she leaves home and moves to Paris, where she is soon engaged as a secretary to the popular actress Edith Mars... [More...]
Le Père de mes enfants (2009)
Mia Hansen-Løve
Film producer Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want - a wife whom he worships, three adorable children, and a job that means everything to him... [More...]
Mia Hansen-Løve
Film producer Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want - a wife whom he worships, three adorable children, and a job that means everything to him... [More...]
Père et fils (2003)
Michel Boujenah
Léo, a retired sales rep, brings together his three sons on his 70th birthday in the hope of putting an end to years of estrangement... [More...]
Michel Boujenah
Léo, a retired sales rep, brings together his three sons on his 70th birthday in the hope of putting an end to years of estrangement... [More...]
Père fils thérapie! (2016)
Émile Gaudreault
Jacques Laroche and his son Marc find it impossible to see eye to eye, which is unfortunate as they are both cops working on the same case... [More...]
Émile Gaudreault
Jacques Laroche and his son Marc find it impossible to see eye to eye, which is unfortunate as they are both cops working on the same case... [More...]
Le Père Goriot (1945)
Robert Vernay
Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris. Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris. Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world... [More...]
Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966)
Jean Eustache
Daniel is an unemployed young man who lives in the southern French town of Narbonne. When he isn't busy chatting up pretty girls, he is indulging in various little scams with his friends to earn himself a bit of badly needed cash... [More...]
Jean Eustache
Daniel is an unemployed young man who lives in the southern French town of Narbonne. When he isn't busy chatting up pretty girls, he is indulging in various little scams with his friends to earn himself a bit of badly needed cash... [More...]
Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Le Père tranquille (1946)
René Clément
Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre... [More...]
René Clément
Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre... [More...]
Péril en la demeure (1985)
Michel Deville
A young teacher, David Aurphet, agrees to give guitar lessons to Vivianne, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois couple. Straight away, David finds himself the object of unbridled desire for Vivianne's mother, Julia... [More...]
Michel Deville
A young teacher, David Aurphet, agrees to give guitar lessons to Vivianne, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois couple. Straight away, David finds himself the object of unbridled desire for Vivianne's mother, Julia... [More...]
Le Péril jeune (1994)
Cédric Klapisch
Former classmates Bruno, Alain, Momo and Léon find themselves reunited in a hospital several years after leaving school... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
Former classmates Bruno, Alain, Momo and Léon find themselves reunited in a hospital several years after leaving school... [More...]
Les Perles de la couronne (1937)
Sacha Guitry
French writer Jean Martin tells his wife a fantastic story involving seven perfect pearls, four of which ended up in the English crown... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
French writer Jean Martin tells his wife a fantastic story involving seven perfect pearls, four of which ended up in the English crown... [More...]
Le Permis de conduire (1974)
Jean Girault
Michel Martenot, a modest bank employee in the suburbs of Paris, has a chronic aversion to cars. Despite being pressurised by his wife, two children and his interfering brother-in-law, he has no desire to learn how to drive... [More...]
Jean Girault
Michel Martenot, a modest bank employee in the suburbs of Paris, has a chronic aversion to cars. Despite being pressurised by his wife, two children and his interfering brother-in-law, he has no desire to learn how to drive... [More...]
La Permission de minuit (2011)
Delphine Gleize
Romain is a thirteen-year-old boy who suffers from an exceedingly rare skin condition that makes it impossible for him to tolerate natural light... [More...]
Delphine Gleize
Romain is a thirteen-year-old boy who suffers from an exceedingly rare skin condition that makes it impossible for him to tolerate natural light... [More...]
Persécution (2009)
Patrice Chéreau
Daniel, a man in his mid-thirties, becomes concerned when he realises he is being spied on by an older man he has never met before... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
Daniel, a man in his mid-thirties, becomes concerned when he realises he is being spied on by an older man he has never met before... [More...]
Persepolis (2007)
Vincent Paronnaud
Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins... [More...]
Vincent Paronnaud
Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins... [More...]
Personal Shopper (2016)
Olivier Assayas
When her twin brother Lewis dies suddenly from a heart condition, Maureen, a young American, is profoundly affected. Years ago, the twins made a pact that whichever of the two died first would make contact with the other after death... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
When her twin brother Lewis dies suddenly from a heart condition, Maureen, a young American, is profoundly affected. Years ago, the twins made a pact that whichever of the two died first would make contact with the other after death... [More...]
Personne ne m'aime (1994)
Marion Vernoux
One evening, 40-something Parisian Annie gets into a violent argument with her lover and ends up being thrown out into the street... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
One evening, 40-something Parisian Annie gets into a violent argument with her lover and ends up being thrown out into the street... [More...]
Le Petit baigneur (1968)
Robert Dhéry
The inventor André Castagnier, and his sister, Charlotte, win the coveted first prize of the San Remo regatta, thanks to Castagnier's revolutionary new dinghy... [More...]
Robert Dhéry
The inventor André Castagnier, and his sister, Charlotte, win the coveted first prize of the San Remo regatta, thanks to Castagnier's revolutionary new dinghy... [More...]
Le Petit chose (1938)
Maurice Cloche
The 1848 revolution in France brings ruin to the Eyssette family, which is forced to sell a once prosperous business and move to Lyon... [More...]
Maurice Cloche
The 1848 revolution in France brings ruin to the Eyssette family, which is forced to sell a once prosperous business and move to Lyon... [More...]
Le Petit lieutenant (2005)
Xavier Beauvois
As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting... [More...]
Xavier Beauvois
As soon as he graduates from police training college, the young Antoine Derouère chooses Paris as his first posting... [More...]
Le Petit locataire (2016)
Nadège Loiseau
With her husband Jean-Pierre unable to find paid work, Nicole is the breadwinner in her house, which she shares with her elderly grandmother Mamilette, her daughter Arielle and her granddaughter Zoé... [More...]
Nadège Loiseau
With her husband Jean-Pierre unable to find paid work, Nicole is the breadwinner in her house, which she shares with her elderly grandmother Mamilette, her daughter Arielle and her granddaughter Zoé... [More...]
Le Petit Nicolas (2009)
Laurent Tirard
Nicholas is a good-natured little boy who could not be happier. He has a mother and father who dote on him and plenty of friends to play with... [More...]
Laurent Tirard
Nicholas is a good-natured little boy who could not be happier. He has a mother and father who dote on him and plenty of friends to play with... [More...]
Le Petit poucet (2001)
Olivier Dahan
Once upon a time, in a far off land, there was a little boy named Tom Thumb. He lived on a farm with his parents and many brothers, all of whom despised him because he was so small and puny... [More...]
Olivier Dahan
Once upon a time, in a far off land, there was a little boy named Tom Thumb. He lived on a farm with his parents and many brothers, all of whom despised him because he was so small and puny... [More...]
Le Petit prince a dit (1992)
Christine Pascal
After the separation of her parents, Adam and Mélanie, 10-year old Violette is cared for by her grandmother, only seeing her busy parents when they have the time... [More...]
Christine Pascal
After the separation of her parents, Adam and Mélanie, 10-year old Violette is cared for by her grandmother, only seeing her busy parents when they have the time... [More...]
Le Petit soldat (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
It is 1958, at the height of France's war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
It is 1958, at the height of France's war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva... [More...]