Film Index
French cinema: All genres
La Pièce manquante (2014)
Nicolas Birkenstock
One morning, Paula leaves the family home, abandoning her husband André and their two children, Violette and Pierre...
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Nicolas Birkenstock
Pièce montée (2010)
Denys Granier-Deferre
Vincent and Bérengère are young and deeply in love, but are they sufficiently committed to one another to get through the one great ordeal of their lives, their wedding day...
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Denys Granier-Deferre
Pièges (1939)
Robert Siodmak
The mysterious disappearance of eleven young women in Paris has so far stumped the capital's police. It is a sign of how desperate things are becoming that Superintendent Ténier has to resort to enlisting the help of Adrienne Charpentier, a close friend of the latest victim...
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Robert Siodmak
Pierrot la tendresse (1960)
François Villiers
Pierrot la Tendresse makes a respectable living as a professional killer, although no one could possibly mistake the seemingly harmless old man for a murderer...
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François Villiers
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1950)
André Berthomieu
With work hard to come by, musician Jacques Hélian and his orchestra end up working in an unpopular night club in the Pigalle district of Paris... [More...]
André Berthomieu
With work hard to come by, musician Jacques Hélian and his orchestra end up working in an unpopular night club in the Pigalle district of Paris... [More...]
Pile ou face (1980)
Robert Enrico
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others... [More...]
Robert Enrico
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others... [More...]
Pinot simple flic (1984)
Gérard Jugnot
It's mostly routine work being a beat cop, even in Paris's pretty rough-round-the-edges thirteenth arrondissement. Nearly all of Robert Pinot's days as an ordinary French cop involve patrolling the streets and dealing with minor incidents... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
It's mostly routine work being a beat cop, even in Paris's pretty rough-round-the-edges thirteenth arrondissement. Nearly all of Robert Pinot's days as an ordinary French cop involve patrolling the streets and dealing with minor incidents... [More...]
Le Pion (1978)
Christian Gion
Bertrand Barabi has serious aspirations of becoming a successful author but, whilst he devotes all of his free time to writing, he lacks the confidence to complete his first novel and find a publisher... [More...]
Christian Gion
Bertrand Barabi has serious aspirations of becoming a successful author but, whilst he devotes all of his free time to writing, he lacks the confidence to complete his first novel and find a publisher... [More...]
La Pirate (1984)
Jacques Doillon
Alma, a young married woman, is taken by surprise when her former lesbian lover, Carole, returns and reawakens her erstwhile feelings for her... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Alma, a young married woman, is taken by surprise when her former lesbian lover, Carole, returns and reawakens her erstwhile feelings for her... [More...]
Pirates (1986)
Roman Polanski
On a sea infested with sharks there drifts a raft carrying two half-starved wretches: the famous pirate Captain Red and his young second-in-command, La Grenouille... [More...]
Roman Polanski
On a sea infested with sharks there drifts a raft carrying two half-starved wretches: the famous pirate Captain Red and his young second-in-command, La Grenouille... [More...]
La Piscine (1969)
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
La Piste du sud (1938)
Pierre Billon
The location is a French military garrison in Tirzit, a North African stronghold lost in the Sahara Desert. Olcott, a man who distributes essential supplies in the region, arrives at the fortress in a desperate state... [More...]
Pierre Billon
The location is a French military garrison in Tirzit, a North African stronghold lost in the Sahara Desert. Olcott, a man who distributes essential supplies in the region, arrives at the fortress in a desperate state... [More...]
Le Placard (2001)
Francis Veber
François Pignon has been employed as an accountant at a rubber factory for twenty years. His wife Christine has left him and now he learns that he is about to be made redundant... [More...]
Francis Veber
François Pignon has been employed as an accountant at a rubber factory for twenty years. His wife Christine has left him and now he learns that he is about to be made redundant... [More...]
Place Vendôme (1998)
Nicole Garcia
Vincent Malivert, the head of a leading jewellery firm on the Place Vendôme in Paris, finds himself in deep water when he becomes implicated in a large-scale jewel trafficking operation orchestrated by a shady Russian cartel... [More...]
Nicole Garcia
Vincent Malivert, the head of a leading jewellery firm on the Place Vendôme in Paris, finds himself in deep water when he becomes implicated in a large-scale jewel trafficking operation orchestrated by a shady Russian cartel... [More...]
La Plage noire (2001)
Michel Piccoli
In an unnamed country, a group of revolutionaries say their goodbyes, glad to have seen a brutal dictatorship replaced by a nascent democracy... [More...]
Michel Piccoli
In an unnamed country, a group of revolutionaries say their goodbyes, glad to have seen a brutal dictatorship replaced by a nascent democracy... [More...]
Plaire, aimer et courir vite (2018)
Christophe Honoré
In 1993, Arthur Prigent is a twenty-year-old student living in the Breton town of Rennes. Jacques Tondelli is a successful writer who lives in Paris with his young son... [More...]
Christophe Honoré
In 1993, Arthur Prigent is a twenty-year-old student living in the Breton town of Rennes. Jacques Tondelli is a successful writer who lives in Paris with his young son... [More...]
Le Plaisir (1952)
Max Ophüls
The writer Guy de Maupassant recounts three of his short stories to show that pleasure should not be confused with happiness... [More...]
Max Ophüls
The writer Guy de Maupassant recounts three of his short stories to show that pleasure should not be confused with happiness... [More...]
Planetarium (2016)
Rebecca Zlotowski
In the late 1930s, two young American sisters, Kate and Laura Barlow, have found success on the cabaret circuit as mediums able to make contact with the spirits of the dead... [More...]
Rebecca Zlotowski
In the late 1930s, two young American sisters, Kate and Laura Barlow, have found success on the cabaret circuit as mediums able to make contact with the spirits of the dead... [More...]
La Planète blanche (2006)
Jean Lemire
There are few places on Earth that are more inhospitable than the Arctic ice cap. It is incredible to think that anything could survive in such extreme conditions, and yet the region is abundant in life... [More...]
Jean Lemire
There are few places on Earth that are more inhospitable than the Arctic ice cap. It is incredible to think that anything could survive in such extreme conditions, and yet the region is abundant in life... [More...]
Playtime (1967)
Jacques Tati
Paris is not what it once was, as a party of American tourists soon discover when they arrive in the capital. To their disappointment, the city has become just like any other they are familiar with... [More...]
Jacques Tati
Paris is not what it once was, as a party of American tourists soon discover when they arrive in the capital. To their disappointment, the city has become just like any other they are familiar with... [More...]
Plein soleil (1960)
René Clément
An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business... [More...]
René Clément
An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business... [More...]
Plein sud (1981)
Luc Béraud
Serge Laine is a 30-something philosophy professor who is on his way to Barcelona by train to attend a university conference and enjoy a second honeymoon with his wife... [More...]
Luc Béraud
Serge Laine is a 30-something philosophy professor who is on his way to Barcelona by train to attend a university conference and enjoy a second honeymoon with his wife... [More...]
Plein sud (2009)
Sébastien Lifshitz
One summer, 27-year-old Sam takes to the road in his car, his direction: south. On the way, he picks up a brother and sister, Mathieu and Léa... [More...]
Sébastien Lifshitz
One summer, 27-year-old Sam takes to the road in his car, his direction: south. On the way, he picks up a brother and sister, Mathieu and Léa... [More...]
Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961)
Georges Franju
Realising that he is about to die, the Count of Keraudren hides himself behind a one-way mirror in a secret room at his chateau... [More...]
Georges Franju
Realising that he is about to die, the Count of Keraudren hides himself behind a one-way mirror in a secret room at his chateau... [More...]
Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965)
Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Stanislas Dubois has just retired from the espionage business and embarks on a comfortable retirement so that he can write his 'memoirs of a spy'... [More...]
Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Stanislas Dubois has just retired from the espionage business and embarks on a comfortable retirement so that he can write his 'memoirs of a spy'... [More...]
Pleure pas my love (1989)
Tony Gatlif
One day, Jacques Baronski, a well-regarded filmmaker, is visited by a young man, Fred, who claims to be the son of an actress he once worked with but who subsequently committed suicide... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
One day, Jacques Baronski, a well-regarded filmmaker, is visited by a young man, Fred, who claims to be the son of an actress he once worked with but who subsequently committed suicide... [More...]
Plume au vent (1952)
Louis Cuny
Although he is a veterinary by trade, Claude Magazelle has the soul of a poet, and as such has earned himself the nickname 'Plume au Vent' because of his resemblance to a feather in the wind... [More...]
Louis Cuny
Although he is a veterinary by trade, Claude Magazelle has the soul of a poet, and as such has earned himself the nickname 'Plume au Vent' because of his resemblance to a feather in the wind... [More...]
Le Plus bel âge... (1995)
Didier Haudepin
A few weeks into a preparatory course for entry to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Delphine witnesses the suicide of a fellow student, Claude... [More...]
Didier Haudepin
A few weeks into a preparatory course for entry to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Delphine witnesses the suicide of a fellow student, Claude... [More...]
Les Plus belles années d'une vie (2019)
Claude Lelouch
It is more than half a century since Jean-Louis Duroc met the love of his life, Anne Gauthier, when they both dropped their children off at a boarding school in Deauville... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
It is more than half a century since Jean-Louis Duroc met the love of his life, Anne Gauthier, when they both dropped their children off at a boarding school in Deauville... [More...]