Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Les Plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
Claude Chabrol
The Benefactors of Fumiko: In Tokyo, a young bar hostess is impressed when an older man boasts that he has spent a fortune on his platinum dentures and has a large sum of cash in his bag...
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Claude Chabrol
Le Plus joli péché du monde (1951)
Gilles Grangier
After losing her job Zoé soon finds she hasn't enough money to pay for her next meal. She sees only one way out of her predicament - she must find a herself a rich lover...
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Gilles Grangier
Plus qu'hier moins que demain (1998)
Laurent Achard
16 year old Françoise lives with her parents and her younger brother Julian in a rural French community. Françoise is in love with Bernard, the son of the owner of a successful canning factory...
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Laurent Achard
Plus tard tu comprendras (2008)
Amos Gitai
France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War...
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Amos Gitai
Podium (2004)
Yann Moix
Bernard Frédéric is obsessed with the legendary popular singer Claude François. Believing he is the singer's double, he plans to make a career by performing a tribute act, with the help of his friend, Couscous...
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Yann Moix
Poil de carotte (1925)
Julien Duvivier
Ten-year-old François, nick-named Poil de Carotte (carrot-top) on account of his red hair, is blighted with the most miserable life imaginable... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Ten-year-old François, nick-named Poil de Carotte (carrot-top) on account of his red hair, is blighted with the most miserable life imaginable... [More...]
Le Point du jour (1949)
Louis Daquin
A mining community in the north of France... A young engineer Larzac begins work at the mine and soon takes objection to the management's authoritarian treatment of the miners... [More...]
Louis Daquin
A mining community in the north of France... A young engineer Larzac begins work at the mine and soon takes objection to the management's authoritarian treatment of the miners... [More...]
La Poison (1951)
Sacha Guitry
After thirty years of married life, Paul and Blandine Braconnier have grown to hate each other so much that each contemplates murdering the other... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
After thirty years of married life, Paul and Blandine Braconnier have grown to hate each other so much that each contemplates murdering the other... [More...]
Poisson d'avril (1954)
Gilles Grangier
Emile Dupuis, a garage mechanic, has been setting aside some money each month to buy his wife Charlotte a washing machine... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
Emile Dupuis, a garage mechanic, has been setting aside some money each month to buy his wife Charlotte a washing machine... [More...]
Poker (1988)
Catherine Corsini
Hélène is a Paris tourist guide who is addicted to gambling. One day, she loses fifty thousand francs in one session whilst playing poker with a gangster named Tonio... [More...]
Catherine Corsini
Hélène is a Paris tourist guide who is addicted to gambling. One day, she loses fifty thousand francs in one session whilst playing poker with a gangster named Tonio... [More...]
Pola X (1999)
Leos Carax
Pierre is a successful young writer who enjoys a privileged, carefree existence with his mother Marie at their grand Normandy château... [More...]
Leos Carax
Pierre is a successful young writer who enjoys a privileged, carefree existence with his mother Marie at their grand Normandy château... [More...]
Polar (1984)
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Police (1985)
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Police Python 357 (1976)
Alain Corneau
Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms... [More...]
Polina, danser sa vie (2016)
Angelin Preljocaj
In Russia of the 1990s, Polina is a young ballerina with a promising career ahead of her. Driven by her exacting teacher Professor Bojinski she is certain to be admitted into the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet and no talented dancer of her age could ask for more... [More...]
Angelin Preljocaj
In Russia of the 1990s, Polina is a young ballerina with a promising career ahead of her. Driven by her exacting teacher Professor Bojinski she is certain to be admitted into the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet and no talented dancer of her age could ask for more... [More...]
Polisse (2011)
Maïwenn
Children are increasingly at risk from abuse, both inside and outside the home, which is why a special police squad has been set up in Paris to protect the city's vulnerable infants... [More...]
Maïwenn
Children are increasingly at risk from abuse, both inside and outside the home, which is why a special police squad has been set up in Paris to protect the city's vulnerable infants... [More...]
Ponette (1996)
Jacques Doillon
Leaving hospital with minor injuries after a car accident which nearly cost her her life, four-year-old Ponette finds she has to come to terms with the death of the mother to whom she was utterly devoted... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Leaving hospital with minor injuries after a car accident which nearly cost her her life, four-year-old Ponette finds she has to come to terms with the death of the mother to whom she was utterly devoted... [More...]
Le Pont des Arts (2004)
Eugène Green
Christine and Pascal are two arts students at the university of Paris in the late 1970s. Their harmonious relationship falls apart when Christine begins nagging Pascal for not taking his studies seriously... [More...]
Eugène Green
Christine and Pascal are two arts students at the university of Paris in the late 1970s. Their harmonious relationship falls apart when Christine begins nagging Pascal for not taking his studies seriously... [More...]
Populaire (2012)
Régis Roinsard
For a young woman growing up in France in the mid-to-late 1950s, opportunities for leading your own life, free of parental restraint, are few and far between... [More...]
Régis Roinsard
For a young woman growing up in France in the mid-to-late 1950s, opportunities for leading your own life, free of parental restraint, are few and far between... [More...]
Le Pornographe (2001)
Bertrand Bonello
In the 1970s, Jacques Laurent was a major director of pornographic films in France. In the early 1980s he gave up film making, frustrated at not being able to make the kind of films he wanted to... [More...]
Bertrand Bonello
In the 1970s, Jacques Laurent was a major director of pornographic films in France. In the early 1980s he gave up film making, frustrated at not being able to make the kind of films he wanted to... [More...]
Port d'attache (1943)
Jean Choux
After the armistice, a young sailor named René sets out to find work in France. Passing through the countryside, he meets an old farmer, Garda, who struggles to keep his farm going after being deserted by his son and daughter... [More...]
Jean Choux
After the armistice, a young sailor named René sets out to find work in France. Passing through the countryside, he meets an old farmer, Garda, who struggles to keep his farm going after being deserted by his son and daughter... [More...]
Le Port du désir (1955)
Edmond T. Gréville
As a sunken ship risks blocking the entrance to the port of Marseille, Captain Le Quévic is instructed by the naval authorities to raise the vessel and tow it away... [More...]
Edmond T. Gréville
As a sunken ship risks blocking the entrance to the port of Marseille, Captain Le Quévic is instructed by the naval authorities to raise the vessel and tow it away... [More...]
Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier (2015)
François Marthouret
Haïti, 4th January 2004. Celebrations are under way to mark the bicentenary of the declaration of the country's independence... [More...]
François Marthouret
Haïti, 4th January 2004. Celebrations are under way to mark the bicentenary of the declaration of the country's independence... [More...]
Porte des Lilas (1957)
René Clair
A guitar player who calls himself "The Artist" strikes up a friendship with a dim-witted slob named Juju, who drinks too much and who has taken a fancy to Maria, the daughter of his pub landlord... [More...]
René Clair
A guitar player who calls himself "The Artist" strikes up a friendship with a dim-witted slob named Juju, who drinks too much and who has taken a fancy to Maria, the daughter of his pub landlord... [More...]
Les Portes de la gloire (2001)
Christian Merret-Palmair
Régis Demanet is the leader of a team of door-to-door salesmen who stalk the streets of northern French towns trying to coerce undiscerning householders into buying a bogus encyclopaedia... [More...]
Christian Merret-Palmair
Régis Demanet is the leader of a team of door-to-door salesmen who stalk the streets of northern French towns trying to coerce undiscerning householders into buying a bogus encyclopaedia... [More...]
Les Portes de la nuit (1946)
Marcel Carné
In February 1945, Jean Diego is tasked with breaking the news to the wife of a friend of his, Pierre, that her husband has been executed by the Nazis... [More...]
Marcel Carné
In February 1945, Jean Diego is tasked with breaking the news to the wife of a friend of his, Pierre, that her husband has been executed by the Nazis... [More...]
Portrait d'un assassin (1949)
Bernard-Roland
Jean, nicknamed Fabius the Foolhardy, is a circus acrobat whose act involves driving a motorcycle up a near-vertical incline, the Wall of Death... [More...]
Bernard-Roland
Jean, nicknamed Fabius the Foolhardy, is a circus acrobat whose act involves driving a motorcycle up a near-vertical incline, the Wall of Death... [More...]
Les Possédés (1988)
Andrzej Wajda
In 1870, a group of young Russian revolutionaries are planning to overturn the established order and rebuild their country anew... [More...]
Andrzej Wajda
In 1870, a group of young Russian revolutionaries are planning to overturn the established order and rebuild their country anew... [More...]
Possessions (2012)
Eric Guirado
Tired of their humdrum life in the north of France, a young couple decide to move to a mountain village. Marilyne and Bruno Caron are not well off but they can afford to rent a small chalet in what seems to them to be idyllic surroundings... [More...]
Eric Guirado
Tired of their humdrum life in the north of France, a young couple decide to move to a mountain village. Marilyne and Bruno Caron are not well off but they can afford to rent a small chalet in what seems to them to be idyllic surroundings... [More...]
Post coïtum animal triste (1997)
Brigitte Roüan
Diane Clovier is a woman in her forties who has made a success of both her professional life and her domestic life. She is married to Philippe, a busy lawyer, has two teenage children and works for a thriving publishing company... [More...]
Brigitte Roüan
Diane Clovier is a woman in her forties who has made a success of both her professional life and her domestic life. She is married to Philippe, a busy lawyer, has two teenage children and works for a thriving publishing company... [More...]