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French cinema: Romance/Comedy

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...]

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 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...]

L'Art d'aimer (2011)
Emmanuel Mouret

At the exact moment that one falls in love, one becomes aware of a very distinctive music, an ethereal sonata that seems to speak of eternity and promise all the delights of paradise...   [More...]

L'Auberge espagnole (2002)
Cédric Klapisch

A young economics student, Xavier, decides to spend the final year of his university course at Barcelona so that he can learn Spanish and thereby secure a job at the French Ministry of Finance...   [More...]

Les Aventures de Robert Macaire (1925)
Jean Epstein

In 1825, the itinerant thief and swindler Robert Macaire wends his way across France in the company of his faithful companion Bertrand, never passing up the opportunity to fleece any unsuspecting party they may come across in their travels...   [More...]

Baisers volés (1968)
François Truffaut

Antoine Doinel is twenty when he is discharged from the army for his frequent lapses of discipline. Returning to Paris he hopes to resume his former love affair with Christine Darbon but he has difficulty adjusting to civilian life once more...   [More...]

Battement de coeur (1940)
Henri Decoin

On leaving a reformatory, Arlette finds herself alone and penniless in Paris. An orphan, she has no one to stay with and nowhere to go...   [More...]

Benjamin ou les Mémoires d'un puceau (1968)
Michel Deville

France, 1750. Benjamin has spent his entire childhood and early adolescence in the sole company of his tutor Camille. Now that he is 17, he must go to live with his aunt and uncle, two wealthy aristocrats, at the château de Valandry...   [More...]

Boléro (1942)
Jean Boyer

Afflicted with a severe throat infection, Rémi Courmont finds himself confined to his Parisian apartment but his hopes of a peaceful recuperation are dashed by his downstairs neighbour, Anne-Marie Houillier...   [More...]

Caprice (2015)
Emmanuel Mouret

Clément, a maladroit schoolteacher, is obsessed with the film star Alicia Bardery, so imagine his surprise, to say nothing of his delight, when the object of his obsession succumbs to his charms and says she is willing to be his partner for life...   [More...]

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses! (1979)
Edouard Molinaro

François Perrin is a radio reporter who is coping badly with living by himself after his divorce. One evening, the solitude becomes so unbearable that he picks up the telephone and dials a number at random...   [More...]

Chacun cherche son chat (1996)
Cédric Klapisch

Chloé is a young make-up assistant living in Paris. She shares an apartment with a gay friend Michel and her treasured cat Gris-Gris...   [More...]

Changement d'adresse (2006)
Emmanuel Mouret

David, a young musician, arrives in Paris hoping to start a new and exciting chapter in his life. First he needs somewhere to stay and it is indeed providential that he should happen to run into someone who not only has a flat to share but also is a music lover...   [More...]

Le Chrysanthème rouge (1912)
Léonce Perret

A young woman is courted by two men who are prepared to do anything to win her hand in marriage. Unable to decide between the two men, the woman sets them a challenge: she will surrender her heart to the man who gives to her the flower that she treasures the most...   [More...]

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...]

De vrais mensonges (2010)
Pierre Salvadori

One bright spring morning, Emilie receives a love letter, a beautiful but anonymous declaration of love which cannot fail to twang the romantic heartstrings of its reader...   [More...]

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959)
Jean Renoir

Étienne Alexis, the man most likely to be elected President of the United States of Europe, is a famous biologist who believes that society will be vastly improved if the human species is propagated by artificial insemination...   [More...]

Dieu seul me voit (1998)
Bruno Podalydès

Albert, a shy absent-minded sound engineer, is coming to a mid-life crisis. Despite his best attempts, he still has not found the woman of his dreams - but that looks set to change...   [More...]

Le Dindon (1951)
Claude Barma

Paris, in the 1890s. Monsieur Pontagnac, an inveterate womaniser, is making overtures to Lucienne when her husband Vatelin appears unexpectedly...   [More...]

Domicile conjugal (1970)
François Truffaut

Now 26, Antoine Doinel is happily married to Christine Darbon. The couple share a small but comfortable apartment in Paris, and while she gives violin lessons, he earns a meagre wage dyeing flowers for a florist...   [More...]

Domino (1943)
Roger Richebé

François Dominique, alias Domino, returns to Paris with his best friend Mirandole, having failed to make his fortune in Africa...   [More...]

Édouard et Caroline (1951)
Jacques Becker

Édouard and Caroline are a young couple who believe they have found lasting happiness, even though they come from very different milieus...   [More...]

Elle et moi (1952)
Guy Lefranc

Jean Montaigu is a confirmed bachelor who loves the company of women but lives in mortal fear of getting snared in the matrimonial net...   [More...]

Les Émotifs anonymes (2010)
Jean-Pierre Améris

Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear...   [More...]

En liberté! (2018)
Pierre Salvadori

Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work...   [More...]

Erotissimo (1969)
Gérard Pirès

Annie and Philippe are a young married couple who appear to have a perfectly satisfactory love life. Then, one day, Annie is prompted by an article to ask herself if she is living up to her marital responsibilities...   [More...]

Fais-moi plaisir! (2009)
Emmanuel Mouret

Convinced that her partner, Jean-Jacques, is showing an interest in another woman, Ariane coerces him into having an affair with her, believing that this is the best way to save their relationship...   [More...]

La Fée (2011)
Dominique Abel

Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet...   [More...]

La Fête à Henriette (1952)
Julien Duvivier

When the censor rejects their latest script two screenwriters set about developing the scenario for a new film. They soon decide on their main characters - a young Parisian dressmaker named Henriette and her fiancé, a photo-journalist named Robert...   [More...]



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