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French cinema: All genres

La Proie (2011)
Eric Valette

Hunted by the police, escaped convict Franck Adrien knows that the odds are not stacked in his favour as he goes chasing after the criminal who got him into this mess...   [More...]

Le Promeneur du champ de Mars (2005)
Robert Guédiguian

As he approaches the end of his second term as President of France, François Mitterand agrees to cooperate with a young journalist, Antoine Moreau, on the writing of his biography...   [More...]

Promenons-nous dans les bois (2000)
Lionel Delplanque

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf..? Evidently not the five actors who are invited to a remote country house to offer their modern interpretation of the tale Little Red Riding Hood...   [More...]

La Promesse (1996)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne

In the dismal suburbs of a Belgian town, Roger makes a sordid living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Africa and then forcing them to work for a pittance on his construction projects...   [More...]

Promotion canapé (1990)
Didier Kaminka

Catherine and Françoise, two young women from the provinces, can hardly wait to begin their exciting new life in the big city...   [More...]

La Provinciale (1981)
Claude Goretta

With little hope of making a career for herself in her home town in Lorraine, 30-something Christine moves to Paris and sets about looking for work...   [More...]

La Prunelle de mes yeux (2016)
Axelle Ropert

Théo is a young Greek musician who lives in a Paris apartment block. Whilst taking the lift one day, he gets to meet one of his neighbours, a pianist named Elise, and having noticed she is blind he tries to pass himself off as visually deficient as well...   [More...]

Psy (1981)
Philippe de Broca

Where now are the ideals of May '68? This is a question that Marc, a man in his mid-thirties and former soixante-huitard, might have cause to ruminate on as he profits from bourgeois angst by running weekend psychotherapy courses at a large house in the country belonging to his partner Colette...   [More...]

Le Puits aux trois vérités (1961)
François Villiers

Midnight in Paris, Faubourg St Honoré. In one house, a woman suddenly screams and the sound of a gunshot is heard...   [More...]

Le Pull-over rouge (1979)
Michel Drach

The body of a nine-year old girl, Elisa Garcia, is found about twenty kilometres from Marseille, not long after the girl was abducted by a stranger...   [More...]

Pupille (2018)
Jeanne Herry

Knowing that she is incapable of bringing up her newborn baby boy herself, a young mother offers it up to the adoption service who are then tasked with finding a suitable home for him...   [More...]

Le Puritain (1938)
Jeff Musso

Francis Ferriter is a Dublin journalist and staunch Catholic who leads a fanatical campaign against declining moral standards in his city...   [More...]

Putain d'histoire d'amour (1981)
Gilles Béhat

Taxi driver Paul is addicted to gambling. When his colleagues offer him a bet to ferry a customer across Paris in record time he accepts without hesitation...   [More...]

Qu'est-ce qu'on a encore fait au bon Dieu? (2019)
Philippe de Chauveron

Although the idea appalled them at first, Claude and Marie Verneuil have finally grown to accept their four daughters' choice of husbands, all coming from racial minorities in France...   [More...]

Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? (2014)
Philippe de Chauveron

Claude Verneuil and his wife Marie are Gaullist bourgeois Catholics, and proud of it. Even though they are staunch traditionalists, they like to think they can move with the times...   [More...]

Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront (2009)
Léa Fehner

At 30, Stéphane becomes depressed when he realises that his life is going nowhere. When a stranger offers him a large sum of money in return for taking his friend's place in prison he readily accepts...   [More...]

Quai d'Orsay (2013)
Bertrand Tavernier

Alexandre Taillard de Worms is France's Foreign Minister, an imposing figure who, endowed with a rare talent for defusing conflict and engendering calm wherever he goes, looks like being a future recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace...   [More...]

Quai de Grenelle (1950)
Emil E. Reinert

Jean-Louis Cavalade is an impetuous young man who likes nothing better than to hunt snakes in the Forest of Fontainebleau...   [More...]

Le Quai des brumes (1938)
Marcel Carné

Jean, a deserter from the French colonial army, arrives in the misty port of Le Havre where he immediately strikes up a rapport with the owner of an inn frequented by the town's lowlife...   [More...]

Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Against the wishes of her husband Maurice, music hall singer Jenny Lamour is prepared to do anything to advance her career...   [More...]

Quand j'avais 5 ans je m'ai tué (1994)
Jean-Claude Sussfeld

In the 1960s, Gil is eight years old, a boy who is forever locked in his own dreamworld. A hyper-sensitive, hyper-imaginative child, he is already in love, with a little girl called Jessica...   [More...]

Quand j'étais chanteur (2006)
Xavier Giannoli

Alain Moreau is a singer in his fifties who earns a modest crust by performing at private functions and lonely heart clubs in his home town, Clermont-Ferrand...   [More...]

Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957)
Yves Allégret

Henri Godot, the head of a Parisian-based criminal gang, has begun an amorous liaison with Maine, the former girlfriend of one of his equally ruthless rivals, Bobby...   [More...]

Quand la mer monte... (2004)
Yolande Moreau

Irène, a travelling stage performer in her early fifties, is touring northern France with her subversive one-woman show...   [More...]

Quand on a 17 ans (2016)
André Téchiné

In the Pyrenees, 17-year-old Damien lives alone with his mother Marianne, a dedicated doctor, whilst his father Nathan is away serving as an army pilot in a war-torn country far away...   [More...]

Quand passent les faisans (1965)
Edouard Molinaro

Small-time swindler Arsène Baudu comes unstuck when he attempts to pull a con-trick on police inspector Hyacinthe Camus...   [More...]

Le Quart d'heure américain (1982)
Philippe Galland

Desperately disillusioned with his present humdrum existence in France, Ferdinand, a balding and irascible 30-something, has made up his mind to leave the country and start a new life in the Far East...   [More...]

Quartier V.I.P. (2005)
Laurent Firode

Alex is a prison warden who carries out his duties professionally, spurning the crooked activities that some of his colleagues indulge in...   [More...]

Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)
Patrick Timsit

When his son Quasimodo shows signs of physical deformity, an important notable of El Paris places him in the care of the city's archdeacon, Serge Frollo, and adopts a pretty Cuban girl, Esmeralda, in his place...   [More...]

Quatorze Juillet (1933)
René Clair

Anna, a modest flower seller, is in love with Jean, a Paris taxi driver. They plan to spend the evening of the 14th of July in each other's arms, dancing the night away at an open air ball...   [More...]



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