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French cinema: Sci-Fi
À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Georges Méliès
The world's greatest scientists gather to plan an expedition to the North Pole. Various ingenious methods of reaching the pole are put forward but it is Professor Maboul's flying machine that creates most excitement...
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Georges Méliès
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...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Delicatessen (1991)
Marc Caro
In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive...
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Marc Caro
Évolution (2016)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading...
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949)
Robert Vernay
Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed...
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Robert Vernay
L'Inhumaine (1924)
Marcel L'Herbier
Claire Lescot is a world famous opera singer who revels in the power she exerts over men. To her grand residence on the outskirts of Paris, she invites her many admirers, all of whom are determined to make her their own... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
Claire Lescot is a world famous opera singer who revels in the power she exerts over men. To her grand residence on the outskirts of Paris, she invites her many admirers, all of whom are determined to make her their own... [More...]
J'accuse! (1938)
Abel Gance
After serving in the First World War, Jean Diaz returns to his home town but cannot bring himself to continue his affair with Edith, the wife of one of his fallen comrades... [More...]
Abel Gance
After serving in the First World War, Jean Diaz returns to his home town but cannot bring himself to continue his affair with Edith, the wife of one of his fallen comrades... [More...]
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
Alain Resnais
Leaving hospital after a failed suicide attempt, Claude Ridder is accosted by two strangers, who make him a bizarre proposal... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Leaving hospital after a failed suicide attempt, Claude Ridder is accosted by two strangers, who make him a bizarre proposal... [More...]
La Jetée (1962)
Chris Marker
The world lies in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help... [More...]
Chris Marker
The world lies in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help... [More...]
Mauvais sang (1986)
Leos Carax
Paris, 1986. As Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the capital is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave... [More...]
Leos Carax
Paris, 1986. As Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the capital is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave... [More...]
Le Monde tremblera (1939)
Richard Pottier
With capital supplied by the unscrupulous banker Emil Lasser, Dr Jean Durand succeeds in creating a machine that can predict, to the nearest minute, when an individual will die... [More...]
Richard Pottier
With capital supplied by the unscrupulous banker Emil Lasser, Dr Jean Durand succeeds in creating a machine that can predict, to the nearest minute, when an individual will die... [More...]
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Sur un air de Charleston (1927)
Jean Renoir
It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war... [More...]
Jean Renoir
It is the year 2028, not so long after the world was ravaged by a cataclysmic war. A tiny spherical aircraft takes off from central Africa and heads towards Europe, a continent devastated by war... [More...]
Thomas est amoureux (2000)
Pierre-Paul Renders
Thomas, 32, is the victim of chronic agoraphobia and hasn't left his apartment in eight years. His only contact with the outside world is via his visiophone, which keeps him in touch with his mother, his therapist and his insurance agent... [More...]
Pierre-Paul Renders
Thomas, 32, is the victim of chronic agoraphobia and hasn't left his apartment in eight years. His only contact with the outside world is via his visiophone, which keeps him in touch with his mother, his therapist and his insurance agent... [More...]
Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]
Le Voyage à travers l'impossible (1904)
Georges Méliès
A group of highly eminent scientists meet up to make preparations for a continent-spanning expedition, the like of which the world has never seen before... [More...]
Georges Méliès
A group of highly eminent scientists meet up to make preparations for a continent-spanning expedition, the like of which the world has never seen before... [More...]
Le Voyage dans la lune (1902)
Georges Méliès
At a meeting of the astronomy club, Professor Barbenfouillis announces his next venture: to lead a manned expedition to the moon... [More...]
Georges Méliès
At a meeting of the astronomy club, Professor Barbenfouillis announces his next venture: to lead a manned expedition to the moon... [More...]