Film Index

French cinema: Comedy

15 août (2001)
Patrick Alessandrin

One summer, the spouses of three women girlfriends meet up at their rented holiday home in the sunny coastal resort of La Baule and have a nasty surprise waiting for them...   [More...]

18 ans après (2003)
Coline Serreau

Now that she has turned 18 and has her baccalaureate safely in her pocket, Marie is happy to spend her summer holidays in the company of her mother Sylvia in the south of France...   [More...]

2 Days in New York (2012)
Julie Delpy

Marion, a young French woman, lives in New York with Mingus, a radio journalist, and their two children from previous relationships...   [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 amis (2007)
Michel Boujenah

Claire, César and Baptiste have been the best of friends since they were children and they remain so to this day. Now that they have reached middle-age, they need each other more than ever...   [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...]

3 zéros (2002)
Fabien Onteniente

Football enthusiast Manu sees himself as a talent spotter and sets his sights on a young soccer player, Tibor, with whom he once shared a prison cell...   [More...]

7 ans de mariage (2003)
Didier Bourdon

Alain is concerned that, after seven years of conjugal life, the spark has suddenly gone out of his marriage. His wife Audrey, a reserved bank employee, appears to be too preoccupied with her work and their daughter Camille to have any time for him...   [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...]

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 boire (2004)
Marion Vernoux

Pierre-Marie Archimbault's chronic addiction to alcohol not only threatens his health and his personal finances, it is also putting in jeopardy his marriage and his career as a doctor...   [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 bras ouverts (2017)
Philippe de Chauveron

Jean-Etienne Fougerole is a prominent figure of France's literary scene, an intellectual humanist married to a wealthy heiress who, unlike him, has scant interest in the problems of the world...   [More...]

À cause, à cause d'une femme (1963)
Michel Deville

The young and seductive Rémi is a lady's man of the first degree. He knows that women find his charms irresistible and he exploits the fact to his advantage, oblivious to the hearts he may break along the way...   [More...]

À fond (2016)
Nicolas Benamou

The departure for the summer holidays is always a miserable experience in France, but for one French family who set out on their annual excursion to sunnier climes a nightmare of unimaginable proportion looms as they hit the highway in their brand-new people carrier...   [More...]

À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur (1988)
Edouard Molinaro

Yan, a successful artist, is waiting for his date, Florence, to turn up at his apartment. His doorbell rings and on his doorstep he finds another young woman, his neighbour Eva, dressed in her underwear...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

À mort l'arbitre (1984)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Coachloads of supporters arrive at a football stadium for a decisive soccer match between two French football teams. The match is refereed by Maurice Bruno...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

À nous les garçons (1985)
Michel Lang

Stéphanie and Véronique are two teenage girls who couldn't be more dissimilar. Whilst Stéphanie is a believer in free love, to the extent of using it to wear out members of an opposing ice hockey team, Véronique is still a virgin, although she is just a susceptible falling in love...   [More...]

À nous les petites Anglaises! (1976)
Michel Lang

France, 1959. Jean-Pierre and Alain's reward for failing their final year exams is to have their trip to St Tropez cancelled...   [More...]

À pied, à cheval et en spoutnik! (1958)
Jean Dréville

After a car accident which has left him with a partial memory loss, Léon Martin takes up residence with his wife Marguerite in a house in the country to recuperate...   [More...]

À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957)
Maurice Delbez

Léon Martin, an accountant with a firm of undertakers, enjoys the quiet life and cannot understand the present craze for the motorcar...   [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...]

À vos ordres, Madame (1942)
Jean Boyer

Odette and Hector Depuis, husband and wife for twenty-five years, are en route for their holiday when their car breaks down...   [More...]

A+ Pollux (2002)
Luc Pagès

Halvard Sanz, a translator in his thirties, is walking out of a gendarmerie when he is hit by a tornado in human form - Pollux, the most fascinating woman he has ever set eyes on...   [More...]

L'Abbé Constantin (1933)
Jean-Paul Paulin

The Countess de Laverdens has set her noble heart on buying the château de Longueval. Imagine then her horror when she learns that she has been outbid at the auction and the property now belongs to two wealthy American sisters...   [More...]

L'Acrobate (1941)
Jean Boyer

Ernest Sauce is the maître d' of the up-market restaurant Cochon d'argent. One evening, when a customer is unable to pay his bill, Ernest drags him to the nearest police station but is sent away with a flea in his ear when it is discovered that the man has lost his memory...   [More...]

Les Acteurs (2000)
Bertrand Blier

In a restaurant, Jean-Pierre Marielle is perturbed when his order for a pot of hot water is ignored. His dining companions - André Dussollier and Jacques Villeret - try to explain that his delivery lacked force...   [More...]



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