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French cinema: Romance

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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 la place du coeur (1998)
Robert Guédiguian

Bébé and Clémentine are a mixed race couple who live in a poor district of Marseille. They are deeply in love and even though they are still in their teens they intend to marry as soon as they can...   [More...]

À nos amours (1983)
Maurice Pialat

Suzanne is a free-spirited 15-year-old who, along with her best friend Anne, is having a hard time coping with the upheavals of early adolescence...   [More...]

À tout de suite (2004)
Benoît Jacquot

Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident...   [More...]

À trois, on y va (2015)
Jérôme Bonnell

Michel, a veterinary surgeon, and Charlotte have been together for many years. Still very much in love, they move into their own house in Roubaix in northern France and they could not be happier...   [More...]

Les Adieux à la reine (2012)
Benoît Jacquot

In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is starting to overtake Paris...   [More...]

Agnès de rien (1950)
Pierre Billon

At the insistence of her husband Francis, Agnès de Chaligny is forced to take up residence in his ancestral family home in the country whilst he, a struggling artist in Paris, sorts out his finances...   [More...]

L'Aigle à deux têtes (1948)
Jean Cocteau

Natasha, the queen of an unhappy kingdom, lives as a recluse, ten years after the king, her beloved husband, was assassinated...   [More...]

Alice et Martin (1998)
André Téchiné

In the southwest of France, Martin is leading a tranquil childhood with his mother and her boyfriend when his wealthy father, Victor Sauvagnac, insists on taking custody of him...   [More...]

Alphaville (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard

Lemmy Caution, a secret agent from the Outlands, arrives in Alphaville on a special mission - to kill the dangerous scientist Professor von Braun and destroy his creation, an all-seeing, all-controlling computer named Alpha-60...   [More...]

L'Amant de lady Chatterley (1955)
Marc Allégret

Lady Constance Chatterley is under pressure from both her sister Hilda and her husband, Sir Clifford, to find herself a lover so that she can get herself pregnant and provide an heir to the Chatterley estate...   [More...]

Les Amants de Vérone (1949)
André Cayatte

A film crew is shooting an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Venice. Bettina Verdi, the leading actress, visits a glass factory in Murano with her guide Raffaele...   [More...]

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
Leos Carax

Paris, 1989. Leaving a shelter for homeless people, Alex, a wild-looking young man in his twenties, heads across town to his favourite spot on the Pont-Neuf...   [More...]

Les Amants (1958)
Louis Malle

Jeanne relieves the boredom of her stale marriage to newspaper magnate Henri Tournier by frequent visits to Paris, where she divides her time between her best friend Maggie and her covert lover Raoul...   [More...]

L'Ami de mon amie (1987)
Eric Rohmer

In a pristine new town on the outskirts of Paris, a young civil servant, Blanche, strikes up a friendship with a computer programmer, Léa...   [More...]

L'Amour à mort (1984)
Alain Resnais

Whilst participating in an archaeological survey, Simon Roche, a man in his fifties, falls in love with Élisabeth Sutter, an attractive younger woman...   [More...]

L'Amour fou (1969)
Jacques Rivette

To those who know them, Sébastien and Claire are the model of the perfectly happy married couple. But as they rehearse a stage production of Racine's play Andromaque, the fault lines in their marriage are already starting to show...   [More...]

L'Amoureuse (1987)
Jacques Doillon

Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find...   [More...]

Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (1948)
Henri Decoin

Gérard Favier is a famous composer who has been married to the charming Sylvia for almost 20 years. Still deeply in love, they walk the streets of Paris and, one day, they hear a sonata that Gérard once wrote, played on a piano in a house...   [More...]

Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (2007)
Eric Rohmer

Gaul in the 5th Century. Astrée is a beautiful young shepherdess who is devotedly in love with Céladon, a handsome young shepherd...   [More...]

Les Amours de minuit (1931)
Augusto Genina

Marcel and Gaston are two men who are on the run, although when they meet on a train bound for a seaport they do their best to conceal the fact...   [More...]

Les Amours imaginaires (2010)
Xavier Dolan

Francis and Marie are two close friends, both in their mid-twenties, who cannot help falling in love with the same man, Nicolas...   [More...]



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