Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Le Petit Spirou (2017)
Nicolas Bary
Spirou is a happy 14-year-old boy who is destined to become a hotel bellboy, like every member of his family. At the moment, he is leading the insouciant life of any boy of his age - doted on by his affectionate grandfather, messing about with his unruly classmates and struggling to summon up the courage to tell the apple of his eye, the beautiful Suzette, that he is madly in love with her...
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Nicolas Bary
Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (1970)
Jean Renoir
Le dernier réveillon: one Christmas Eve, a tramp is paid to mournfully watch a party of revellers enjoying themselves at an expensive restaurant...
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Jean Renoir
La Petite chambre (2011)
Stéphanie Chuat
Despite his advanced age and the fact that he suffers from diabetes, Edmond is determined to hold onto his independence. He refuses to move into a retirement home and stubbornly rejects the support of Rose, the young nurse who tries to care for him in his own home...
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Stéphanie Chuat
La Petite Chartreuse (2005)
Jean-Pierre Denis
Pascale is an out-of-work actress who lives alone with her eight year old daughter, Eva. She isn't the most attentive of mothers and, one day, she forgets to collect Eva from school...
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Jean-Pierre Denis
Petite chérie (2000)
Anne Villacèque
Although she is about 30, Sybille still lives at home with her parents and has never had a boyfriend. On the train to her humdrum job as a bank clerk, she reads cheap romantic fiction and fantasises about the passions she fears she will never know, on account of her plain appearance and shyness...
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Anne Villacèque
La Petite chocolatière (1932)
Marc Allégret
Shortly after getting engaged to his boss's daughter, mild-mannered civil servant Paul Normand invites an artist friend, Félicien Bédarride, and his girlfriend Rosette, to spend a few days with him at his house in the country... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Shortly after getting engaged to his boss's daughter, mild-mannered civil servant Paul Normand invites an artist friend, Félicien Bédarride, and his girlfriend Rosette, to spend a few days with him at his house in the country... [More...]
La Petite Lili (2003)
Claude Miller
Each summer, successful actress Mado spends her holiday in the company of her family at her home in the country. This year, she invites her boyfriend, Brice, a one-time actor who directed her latest film, to stay with her elderly brother, Simon, and son Julien... [More...]
Claude Miller
Each summer, successful actress Mado spends her holiday in the company of her family at her home in the country. This year, she invites her boyfriend, Brice, a one-time actor who directed her latest film, to stay with her elderly brother, Simon, and son Julien... [More...]
La Petite Lise (1930)
Jean Grémillon
Victor Berthier's punishment for murdering his odious wife is a ten-year stretch in a crowded prison in French Guiana. Released for good behaviour, Victor returns to Paris with one intention - to start a new life with his grown-up daughter Lise... [More...]
Jean Grémillon
Victor Berthier's punishment for murdering his odious wife is a ten-year stretch in a crowded prison in French Guiana. Released for good behaviour, Victor returns to Paris with one intention - to start a new life with his grown-up daughter Lise... [More...]
La Petite vertu (1968)
Serge Korber
Ferdinand, known to his friends as Freddy, is a young photographer who appears destined for great things. One day, he arranges to meet up in a bar with a potential cover-girl, Claire Augagneur... [More...]
Serge Korber
Ferdinand, known to his friends as Freddy, is a young photographer who appears destined for great things. One day, he arranges to meet up in a bar with a potential cover-girl, Claire Augagneur... [More...]
La Petite voleuse (1988)
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, 16-year-old Janine lives with her aunt and uncle in a French provincial town after being abandoned by her mother... [More...]
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, 16-year-old Janine lives with her aunt and uncle in a French provincial town after being abandoned by her mother... [More...]
Les Petites couleurs (2002)
Patricia Plattner
Christelle is a hairdresser in a small provincial town. Aged 35, she has been married to an older man for almost 20 years, during which time she has been bullied, deceived and taken for granted... [More...]
Patricia Plattner
Christelle is a hairdresser in a small provincial town. Aged 35, she has been married to an older man for almost 20 years, during which time she has been bullied, deceived and taken for granted... [More...]
Petites coupures (2003)
Pascal Bonitzer
Bruno, a Communist journalist, is going through a mid-life crisis. His wife, Gaëlle, walks out on him when she learns that he has a taken a much younger woman, Nathalie, as his mistress... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
Bruno, a Communist journalist, is going through a mid-life crisis. His wife, Gaëlle, walks out on him when she learns that he has a taken a much younger woman, Nathalie, as his mistress... [More...]
Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944)
Marc Allégret
After his wife walked out on him, Frédéric Grimaud was left to bring up his four daughters single-handedly... [More...]
Marc Allégret
After his wife walked out on him, Frédéric Grimaud was left to bring up his four daughters single-handedly... [More...]
Petits arrangements avec les morts (1994)
Pascale Ferran
On a beach in Brittany one summer, a nine-year old boy, Jumbo, watches a man build a fantastic sand castle. When the man leaves, Jumbo offers to look after the castle, but it is demolished when he gets into a fight with some other boys... [More...]
Pascale Ferran
On a beach in Brittany one summer, a nine-year old boy, Jumbo, watches a man build a fantastic sand castle. When the man leaves, Jumbo offers to look after the castle, but it is demolished when he gets into a fight with some other boys... [More...]
Les Petits câlins (1978)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Sophie, a young mother who has lost the care of her daughter after her divorce, lives with her friends, Corine and Sylivie, in an apartment in the Paris suburbs... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Sophie, a young mother who has lost the care of her daughter after her divorce, lives with her friends, Corine and Sylivie, in an apartment in the Paris suburbs... [More...]
Petits désordres amoureux (1998)
Olivier Péray
On a Parisian pavement café, a young intellectual, Alain, meets a stranger, Sophie, and proceeds to tell her a most peculiar love story... [More...]
Olivier Péray
On a Parisian pavement café, a young intellectual, Alain, meets a stranger, Sophie, and proceeds to tell her a most peculiar love story... [More...]
Les Petits matins (1962)
Jacqueline Audry
Agathe, a young Belgian secretary, is looking forward to her two weeks' holiday by the sea, but when the Belgian weather turns bad she takes the advice of a total stranger and heads off for the Côte d'Azur, hoping that at her journey's end she will meet her Prince Charming... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Agathe, a young Belgian secretary, is looking forward to her two weeks' holiday by the sea, but when the Belgian weather turns bad she takes the advice of a total stranger and heads off for the Côte d'Azur, hoping that at her journey's end she will meet her Prince Charming... [More...]
Les Petits mouchoirs (2010)
Guillaume Canet
A group of close friends are deeply shaken when a friend of theirs is badly injured in an accident, but they still decide to go ahead with their usual annual holiday by the sea... [More...]
Guillaume Canet
A group of close friends are deeply shaken when a friend of theirs is badly injured in an accident, but they still decide to go ahead with their usual annual holiday by the sea... [More...]
Les Petits riens (1942)
Raymond Leboursier
At a reception, a group of friends each recall a small incident in their past which provided a significant turning point in their lives... [More...]
Raymond Leboursier
At a reception, a group of friends each recall a small incident in their past which provided a significant turning point in their lives... [More...]
Les Petits ruisseaux (2010)
Pascal Rabaté
After the death of his wife, Emile now leads a peaceful file in contented retirement. He is happy to let the days slip by as he fishes peacefully on the verdant banks of the Loire with his good friend Edmond... [More...]
Pascal Rabaté
After the death of his wife, Emile now leads a peaceful file in contented retirement. He is happy to let the days slip by as he fishes peacefully on the verdant banks of the Loire with his good friend Edmond... [More...]
Pétrole! Pétrole! (1981)
Christian Gion
Jean-Marie Tardel, the owner of a large petroleum company, becomes anxious when his supplier, the Emir Abdullah, announces he intends increasing the price of a barrel of crude oil by seven per cent... [More...]
Christian Gion
Jean-Marie Tardel, the owner of a large petroleum company, becomes anxious when his supplier, the Emir Abdullah, announces he intends increasing the price of a barrel of crude oil by seven per cent... [More...]
Les Pétroleuses (1971)
Christian-Jaque
Louise, nicknamed Frenchie King, is the leader of a woman's gang with her four sisters. They attack a train and steal important documents belonging to Doc Miller, which include the deeds to a ranch at Bougival Junction... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Louise, nicknamed Frenchie King, is the leader of a woman's gang with her four sisters. They attack a train and steal important documents belonging to Doc Miller, which include the deeds to a ranch at Bougival Junction... [More...]
Pétrus (1946)
Marc Allégret
Migo, an attractive dancer at a popular nightclub in Montmartre, has had enough of her two-timing boyfriend Rodrigue. So, one evening, she takes out her gun and fires two shots at the cheating louse... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Migo, an attractive dancer at a popular nightclub in Montmartre, has had enough of her two-timing boyfriend Rodrigue. So, one evening, she takes out her gun and fires two shots at the cheating louse... [More...]
Peur sur la ville (1975)
Henri Verneuil
After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women... [More...]
La Peur (1936)
Viktor Tourjansky
Irène is a happily married middle-aged woman. She has an adoring husband and young children she dotes on. In a moment of boredom whilst on holiday, she falls for the charms of a handsome young pianist, Jean... [More...]
Viktor Tourjansky
Irène is a happily married middle-aged woman. She has an adoring husband and young children she dotes on. In a moment of boredom whilst on holiday, she falls for the charms of a handsome young pianist, Jean... [More...]
La Peur (2015)
Damien Odoul
The First World War has barely started when Gabriel, a young French conscript, is sent to the Front in 1914. Here, amidst the bombs, the bullets and the endless mud, he will have more than his share of the horror of trench warfare, but his greatest enemy is the fear he must learn to tame in order to do his duty and stay alive... [More...]
Damien Odoul
The First World War has barely started when Gabriel, a young French conscript, is sent to the Front in 1914. Here, amidst the bombs, the bullets and the endless mud, he will have more than his share of the horror of trench warfare, but his greatest enemy is the fear he must learn to tame in order to do his duty and stay alive... [More...]
Peut-être (1999)
Cédric Klapisch
New Years Eve 1999. Arthur, a 24-year old science fiction fanatic, meets up with his friends at a lively party to welcome in the new millennium... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
New Years Eve 1999. Arthur, a 24-year old science fiction fanatic, meets up with his friends at a lively party to welcome in the new millennium... [More...]
La Pianiste (2001)
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Pickpocket (1959)
Robert Bresson
As he stands in the crowds at a horse race, a solitary young man named Michel yields to an uncontrollable impulse to steal from a woman's handbag... [More...]
Robert Bresson
As he stands in the crowds at a horse race, a solitary young man named Michel yields to an uncontrollable impulse to steal from a woman's handbag... [More...]
Picpus (1943)
Richard Pottier
Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Paris, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Inspector Maigret is called into investigate... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Paris, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Inspector Maigret is called into investigate... [More...]