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French cinema: All genres

1 Journée (2009)
Jacob Berger

Serge, a radio presenter, begins his daily routine by leaving his family apartment at the crack of dawn so that he can pay his mistress a brief call before setting out for work...   [More...]

11.6 (2013)
Philippe Godeau

For ten years, Toni Musulin has worked as a security guard, delivering money without incident and without arousing the slightest suspicion...   [More...]

125 rue Montmartre (1959)
Gilles Grangier

Pascal makes a modest living selling newspapers on the streets of Paris. He may have a surly temperament but he is a good natured soul at heart, always ready to help a fellow creature if he can...   [More...]

13 Tzameti (2005)
Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple...   [More...]

17 filles (2011)
Delphine Coulin

In the small Brittany coastal town of Lorient, Camille, a 16-year-old school girl, is surprised when she discovers that she is pregnant...   [More...]

17 fois Cécile Cassard (2002)
Christophe Honoré

Traumatised by the tragic death of her husband, Cécile Cassard asks her friend Edith to take care of her infant son whilst she tries to piece her life back together...   [More...]

2 automnes 3 hivers (2013)
Sébastien Betbeder

Arman is 33, lives in Paris and is ready for a change in his life. Things begin to look up for him when he runs into Amélie, a woman of his own age, whilst out jogging...   [More...]

2 Days in Paris (2007)
Julie Delpy

Fearing that the spark may be going out of their relationship, a New York couple, Marion and Jack, take a holiday in Venice...   [More...]

20 ans d'écart (2013)
David Moreau

Alice Lantins is 38, ambitious and so committed to her work that her personal life is virtually non-existent. In short, she is the ideal candidate for the next editor of the fashion magazine Rebelle, or would be were it not for the fact that she appears to be stuck in a rut...   [More...]

27 rue de la Paix (1937)
Richard Pottier

Gloria Grand is in love with a respected barrister Maître Jean Bernard and hopes that one day they will marry. The only thing standing in the way of their future connubial bliss is Gloria's present husband, the philandering scoundrel Denis Grand...   [More...]

3 coeurs (2014)
Benoît Jacquot

Late one evening, Marc, a tax inspector, finds himself stranded in a provincial town after missing the last train back to Paris...   [More...]

3 hommes et un couffin (1985)
Coline Serreau

Pierre, Jacques and Michel are three bachelors who contentedly live together in a large apartment right at the heart of Paris...   [More...]

La 317e section (1965)
Pierre Schoendoerffer

In 1954, at the height of the Indochina War, a French platoon comprising four French soldiers and around forty Laotians is instructed to abandon Luong Ba, an outpost on the border with Laos, and relieve Lao Tsaï, a town 150 kilometres to the south...   [More...]

35 rhums (2008)
Claire Denis

Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver...   [More...]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
Olivier Marchal

For the past few months, Paris has been assailed by a series of increasingly violent armoured car robberies. Mindful of public opinion, the chief of police, Robert Mancini, is determined that the culprits be brought to book as quickly as possible and to that end he offers a personal challenge to two of his best men - Léo Vrinks and Denis Klein...   [More...]

36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup (2009)
Jacques Rivette

A small circus troupe is about to embark on its summer season when its owner dies suddenly. Realising that their livelihoods are in peril, the members of the circus get in touch with their boss's estranged daughter Kate and urge her to take over the management of the circus...   [More...]

37°2 le matin (1986)
Jean-Jacques Beineix

Zorg is a free-spirited thirty-something who earns a modest wage repairing holiday bungalows in the south of France. One day, he meets Betty, an impulsive young woman to whom he is instantly attracted...   [More...]

38 témoins (2012)
Lucas Belvaux

Louise Morvand returns from a business trip to China and finds that the street where she lives in Le Havre is in a state of shock...   [More...]

3x3D (2014)
Jean-Luc Godard

In the ancient Portuguese city of Guimarães, three internationally renowned filmmakers - Peter Greenaway, Edgard Pêra and Jean-Luc Godard - come together to explore the exciting new phenomenon of 3D cinema and its impact on our perception of the seventh art through three short and highly innovative films...   [More...]

5x2 (2004)
François Ozon

Marion and Gilles have been together for many years but now they have arrived at the mutual decision to end their marriage...   [More...]

7 ans (2007)
Jean-Pascal Hattu

Maïté and Vincent are a young couple who find it hard to bear their enforced separation. Recently, Vincent has been convicted of a crime and sent to prison for seven years...   [More...]

La 7ème cible (1984)
Claude Pinoteau

Bastien Grimaldi, a former journalist now in his fifties, leads a tranquil existence until one night he becomes the victim of three unknown assailants...   [More...]

8 femmes (2002)
François Ozon

In the 1950s, rich society belle Gaby lives with her family at their comfortable country residence, tended to by her faithful maids Louise and Madame Chanel...   [More...]

8½ (1963)
Federico Fellini

Guido Anselmi is a film director who is up against the biggest crisis of his career. His last film was a huge success and his producer is expecting its successor to be an even greater hit...   [More...]

9 mois ferme (2013)
Albert Dupontel

Ariane Felder is a middle-aged woman who conducts herself as scrupulously in her private life as she does in her career as a highly respected magistrate...   [More...]

99 francs (2007)
Jan Kounen

Octave Parango is a high-powered advertising consultant who prides himself on the knowledge that he decides what people will want to buy and how they will live their lives...   [More...]

À bout de souffle (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook on a mission: to recover some money owed to him by his criminal associates. To that end, he steals a car in Marseille and heads for Paris...   [More...]

À bout portant (2010)
Fred Cavayé

Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child...   [More...]

À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte

A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...   [More...]

À l'origine (2009)
Xavier Giannoli

Ex-convict Philippe Miller makes his living as a confidence trickster, something he is particularly adept at. Seeing an abandoned road works, he sees an opportunity to make some easy money...   [More...]



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