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French cinema: Musical
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...
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François Ozon
À nous la liberté (1931)
René Clair
Émile is serving a stretch in prison when he strikes up a friendship with fellow prisoner Louis. Together, the two men attempt a break-out which results in Émile's re-capture...
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René Clair
La Belle meunière (1948)
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg...
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Marcel Pagnol
Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague...
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Christophe Honoré
Les Chansons d'amour (2007)
Christophe Honoré
Ismaël and Julie are a young couple living in Paris. To spice up their ailing love life, they invite another young woman, Alice, to share their bed...
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Christophe Honoré
Crustacés et coquillages (2005)
Olivier Ducastel
One year, 40-something Marc decides to spend his long summer holiday in the region of the South of France where he grew up... [More...]
Olivier Ducastel
One year, 40-something Marc decides to spend his long summer holiday in the region of the South of France where he grew up... [More...]
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Jacques Demy
Delphine and Solange are twin sisters living in the French town of Rochefort. Delphine gives ballet lessons whilst Solange teaches music... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Delphine and Solange are twin sisters living in the French town of Rochefort. Delphine gives ballet lessons whilst Solange teaches music... [More...]
La Guerre est déclarée (2011)
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
Valérie Donzelli
Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another... [More...]
Holy Motors (2012)
Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides..... [More...]
Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides..... [More...]
Je suis avec toi (1943)
Henri Decoin
As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair... [More...]
Henri Decoin
As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair... [More...]
Le Million (1931)
René Clair
A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair... [More...]
René Clair
A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair... [More...]
Montmartre-sur-Seine (1941)
Georges Lacombe
In Montmartre, Paris, Michel is in love with Lily, but she only has eyes for Maurice, a handsome shop assistant. Unaware of Lily's interest in him, Maurice loves Juliette, but the arrival of another man, Claude, threatens his budding romance... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
In Montmartre, Paris, Michel is in love with Lily, but she only has eyes for Maurice, a handsome shop assistant. Unaware of Lily's interest in him, Maurice loves Juliette, but the arrival of another man, Claude, threatens his budding romance... [More...]
Nous irons à Paris (1950)
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
On connaît la chanson (1997)
Alain Resnais
In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated... [More...]
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Jacques Demy
France, 1957. Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother's umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry... [More...]
Jacques Demy
France, 1957. Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother's umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry... [More...]
Peau d'âne (1970)
Jacques Demy
On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she... [More...]
Jacques Demy
On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she... [More...]
Le Roi et l'oiseau (1980)
Paul Grimault
Charles, the King of Takicardie, is a cruel tyrant who likes nothing better than to go hunting birds. In this he is opposed by his most fervent enemy, a mockingbird who delights in embarrassing him... [More...]
Paul Grimault
Charles, the King of Takicardie, is a cruel tyrant who likes nothing better than to go hunting birds. In this he is opposed by his most fervent enemy, a mockingbird who delights in embarrassing him... [More...]
Romance de Paris (1941)
Jean Boyer
Georges Gauthier is a young man who dreams of becoming a music hall singer but has to content himself with his humdrum life as an electrician... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Georges Gauthier is a young man who dreams of becoming a music hall singer but has to content himself with his humdrum life as an electrician... [More...]
Sous les toits de Paris (1930)
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]
Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Un de la Canebière (1937)
René Pujol
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible are three friends who lead an amiable existence as humble fishermen in the sunny port of Marseille... [More...]
René Pujol
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible are three friends who lead an amiable existence as humble fishermen in the sunny port of Marseille... [More...]
Une chambre en ville (1982)
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
La Valse de Paris (1950)
Marcel Achard
Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta... [More...]
Marcel Achard
Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta... [More...]
La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [More...]
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [More...]