Film Index
French cinema: All genres
Pot-Bouille (1957)
Julien Duvivier
Paris, 1865. Octave Mouret is a young man filled with great ambitions. He is also a consummate Don Juan and it his talent for seducing members of the opposite sex which he intends using to make a rapid ascent of the social scale...
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Julien Duvivier
Potiche (2010)
François Ozon
In 1977, Robert Pujol is the owner of an umbrella factory, which he runs with an iron hand. At home, he treats his wife Suzanne and their grown-up children, Joëlle and Laurent, in the same despotic manner as his unfortunate employees...
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François Ozon
Pouic-Pouic (1963)
Jean Girault
Léonard Monestier is a canny businessman who owes his success to his unerring ability to spot a sound investment. His wife Cynthia, alas, has no such talent and seems determined to bankrupt them both by splashing out on dodgy shares...
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Jean Girault
Poulet au vinaigre (1985)
Claude Chabrol
In a small French town, three prominent men - the butcher Filiol, lawyer Lavoisier and doctor Morasseau - have formed a property development consortium...
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Claude Chabrol
Les Poupées russes (2005)
Cédric Klapisch
At 30, Xavier's private life is as messy and unfulfilled as his professional life. Unable to find a publisher for his novel "L'Auberge espagnole", he has ended up writing scripts for mediocre TV series and works as a ghost writer for a young supermodel...
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Cédric Klapisch
Poupoupidou (2011)
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely... [More...]
Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
David Rousseau is a successful writer of crime novels but lately his inspiration appears to have deserted him completely... [More...]
Pour 100 briques t'as plus rien... (1982)
Edouard Molinaro
Unable to find work, Sam and Paul decide to hold up a bank. There has been a spate of bank robberies lately in Paris and one more won't make much difference... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Unable to find work, Sam and Paul decide to hold up a bank. There has been a spate of bank robberies lately in Paris and one more won't make much difference... [More...]
Pour elle (2008)
Fred Cavayé
Julien and Lisa are a married couple who have been leading a perfectly happy life together for some years. They have a young son and couldn't be more ordinary if they tried... [More...]
Fred Cavayé
Julien and Lisa are a married couple who have been leading a perfectly happy life together for some years. They have a young son and couldn't be more ordinary if they tried... [More...]
Pour la peau d'un flic (1981)
Alain Delon
Choucas gave up working as a regular cop some years ago and now he earns his crust as a private detective, assisted by his old friend Haymann... [More...]
Alain Delon
Choucas gave up working as a regular cop some years ago and now he earns his crust as a private detective, assisted by his old friend Haymann... [More...]
Pour rire! (1996)
Lucas Belvaux
Alice is a successful barrister who lives with her stay-at-home boyfriend Nicholas. When their mutual friend Juliette splits up with her partner Michel, Nicholas takes solace in the fact that his relationship with Alice is a stable one... [More...]
Lucas Belvaux
Alice is a successful barrister who lives with her stay-at-home boyfriend Nicholas. When their mutual friend Juliette splits up with her partner Michel, Nicholas takes solace in the fact that his relationship with Alice is a stable one... [More...]
Pour Sacha (1991)
Alexandre Arcady
In 1967, Sacha, a former philosophy professor, and Laura, a violinist, leave for Israel, to live in a kibbutz near to the border with Syria... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
In 1967, Sacha, a former philosophy professor, and Laura, a violinist, leave for Israel, to live in a kibbutz near to the border with Syria... [More...]
Pour un soir..! (1931)
Jean Godard
The singer Stella Maria is the star attraction at a popular nightclub. Seeing one of his comrades succumb to her lethal charms, a naval officer warns him off by relating the tragic story of a poor sailor who lost all that he had because of his love for this heartless siren... [More...]
Jean Godard
The singer Stella Maria is the star attraction at a popular nightclub. Seeing one of his comrades succumb to her lethal charms, a naval officer warns him off by relating the tragic story of a poor sailor who lost all that he had because of his love for this heartless siren... [More...]
Pour une femme (2013)
Diane Kurys
After the death of her mother, Anne, a 35-year-old writer, makes a shocking discovery. An old photograph casts doubts on her origins and leads her to uncover a long forgotten family secret... [More...]
Diane Kurys
After the death of her mother, Anne, a 35-year-old writer, makes a shocking discovery. An old photograph casts doubts on her origins and leads her to uncover a long forgotten family secret... [More...]
Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004)
Laetitia Masson
The film director Laetitia Masson is in a bad way, both financially and creatively. Producer Maurice Rey offers her a lifeline by asking her to adapt Christine Angot's latest novel Pourquoi le Brésil?, which recounts the author's passionate love affair with a journalist... [More...]
Laetitia Masson
The film director Laetitia Masson is in a bad way, both financially and creatively. Producer Maurice Rey offers her a lifeline by asking her to adapt Christine Angot's latest novel Pourquoi le Brésil?, which recounts the author's passionate love affair with a journalist... [More...]
Pourquoi pas! (1977)
Coline Serreau
A typically French ménage à trois arrangement seems to suit Fernand, Louis and Alexa, three disparate individuals in their late twenties who are each, in one way or another, a fugitive from life... [More...]
Coline Serreau
A typically French ménage à trois arrangement seems to suit Fernand, Louis and Alexa, three disparate individuals in their late twenties who are each, in one way or another, a fugitive from life... [More...]
Pourquoi tu pleures? (2011)
Katia Lewkowicz
Arnaud makes a habit of ducking difficult decisions but on the eve of his wedding he finds that he has no option but to grow up and overcome his chronic indecisiveness... [More...]
Katia Lewkowicz
Arnaud makes a habit of ducking difficult decisions but on the eve of his wedding he finds that he has no option but to grow up and overcome his chronic indecisiveness... [More...]
Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? (1959)
Henri Decoin
Catherine Ferrier is a well-known lawyer who specialises in cases involving alcoholism. One evening, she meets photographer Walter Hermelin, who has just been involved in a minor car accident... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Catherine Ferrier is a well-known lawyer who specialises in cases involving alcoholism. One evening, she meets photographer Walter Hermelin, who has just been involved in a minor car accident... [More...]
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus (1969)
Jean-Claude Dague
Tired of his wife's incessant tyranny, Alphonse packs his bags, empties his bank account, and heads for the heart of Paris... [More...]
Jean-Claude Dague
Tired of his wife's incessant tyranny, Alphonse packs his bags, empties his bank account, and heads for the heart of Paris... [More...]
Premier de cordée (1944)
Louis Daquin
For many years, Jean Servettaz has worked as a mountain guide in Chamonix but, too aware of the risks of his profession, he gives this up so that he can run a guest house for tourists... [More...]
Louis Daquin
For many years, Jean Servettaz has worked as a mountain guide in Chamonix but, too aware of the risks of his profession, he gives this up so that he can run a guest house for tourists... [More...]
Le Premier homme (2013)
Gianni Amelio
August, 1957. Having pursued a successful career as a writer for thirty years, Jacques Cormery decides to undertake a pilgrimage to Algiers to visit his mother... [More...]
Gianni Amelio
August, 1957. Having pursued a successful career as a writer for thirty years, Jacques Cormery decides to undertake a pilgrimage to Algiers to visit his mother... [More...]
Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie (2008)
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life.... [More...]
Rémi Bezançon
Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval are a happily married couple who have three children, Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Between 1988 and 2000, as the children grow up and leave home, the five members of this ordinary French family will each live a day that will be a turning point in his or her life.... [More...]
Premier mai (1958)
Luis Saslavsky
Jean Meunier, a low-paid electrician, cannot afford for his wife Thérèse to give birth to their second child in hospital so it is agreed that she will have a home birth, attended to by her sister Annie and her mother... [More...]
Luis Saslavsky
Jean Meunier, a low-paid electrician, cannot afford for his wife Thérèse to give birth to their second child in hospital so it is agreed that she will have a home birth, attended to by her sister Annie and her mother... [More...]
Premier rendez-vous (1941)
Henri Decoin
After growing up in an orphanage, Micheline Chevassu dreams of nothing but falling in love with a handsome young man and beginning a new life far, far away... [More...]
Henri Decoin
After growing up in an orphanage, Micheline Chevassu dreams of nothing but falling in love with a handsome young man and beginning a new life far, far away... [More...]
Le Premier venu (2008)
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Bored with her predictable bourgeois existence, 20-something Camille makes up her mind to fall in love with the next eligible young man she comes across... [More...]
Première année (2018)
Thomas Lilti
Antoine Verdier and Benjamin Sitbon are two medical students who, despite their different circumstances, are irresistibly drawn to one another... [More...]
Thomas Lilti
Antoine Verdier and Benjamin Sitbon are two medical students who, despite their different circumstances, are irresistibly drawn to one another... [More...]
La Première fois que j'ai eu 20 ans (2004)
Lorraine Levy
In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music... [More...]
Lorraine Levy
In the 1960s, Hannah Goldman lives in Paris with her Jewish family and is experiencing a painful adolescence. Less attractive than her two sisters, she is often the butt of cruel jokes at school, but she takes solace in her love of music... [More...]
La Première nuit (1958)
Georges Franju
One evening, a ten year old boy follows a little girl home from school and loses himself in the Paris Métro. The crowds gradually disperse and eventually the boy finds himself alone in the seemingly endless subterranean tunnels... [More...]
Georges Franju
One evening, a ten year old boy follows a little girl home from school and loses himself in the Paris Métro. The crowds gradually disperse and eventually the boy finds himself alone in the seemingly endless subterranean tunnels... [More...]
Premiers crus (2015)
Jérôme Le Gris
Ever since the late 18th century, the Maréchals have been running one of the most successful winegrowing enterprises in Burgundy... [More...]
Jérôme Le Gris
Ever since the late 18th century, the Maréchals have been running one of the most successful winegrowing enterprises in Burgundy... [More...]
Les Premiers outrages (1955)
Jean Gourguet
In her exercise book, Bichette, a girl in her mid-teens, records her first amorous experience. The object of her juvenile infatuation was a handsome lad named Kiki, the son of the innkeeper in the little village where she spent her summer holidays... [More...]
Jean Gourguet
In her exercise book, Bichette, a girl in her mid-teens, records her first amorous experience. The object of her juvenile infatuation was a handsome lad named Kiki, the son of the innkeeper in the little village where she spent her summer holidays... [More...]
Prends la route (1936)
Jean Boyer
Summoned by his aristocratic father, Jacques speeds across France in his treasured Bugatti for a meeting with the fiancée who has been selected for him... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Summoned by his aristocratic father, Jacques speeds across France in his treasured Bugatti for a meeting with the fiancée who has been selected for him... [More...]