Film Index

French cinema: Drama

11.6 (2013)
Philippe Godeau

For ten years, Toni Musulin has worked as a security guard, delivering money without incident and without arousing the slightest suspicion...   [More...]

120 battements par minute (2017)
Robin Campillo

By the early 1990s, the AIDS pandemic has become headline news the world over, but public awareness of this terrible human disaster does not equate to genuine concern for the victims - far from it...   [More...]

120, rue de la Gare (1946)
Jacques Daniel-Norman

'120, rue de la Gare' are the words of a dying man. For private detective Nestor Burma it is the starting point for one of his most tortuous criminal investigations...   [More...]

125 rue Montmartre (1959)
Gilles Grangier

Pascal makes a modest living selling newspapers on the streets of Paris. He may have a surly temperament but he is a good natured soul at heart, always ready to help a fellow creature if he can...   [More...]

13 m2 (2007)
Barthélémy Grossmann

Living in the rough suburbs of present-day Paris, José, Farouk and Réza are three wild young men who find life hard and increasingly precarious...   [More...]

13 Tzameti (2005)
Géla Babluani

A young immigrant Sébastien arrives in France and gets work repairing the roof of a house belonging to a strange couple...   [More...]

17 fois Cécile Cassard (2002)
Christophe Honoré

Traumatised by the tragic death of her husband, Cécile Cassard asks her friend Edith to take care of her infant son whilst she tries to piece her life back together...   [More...]

24 heures de la vie d'une femme (2002)
Laurent Bouhnik

As he faces up to his impending death, an elderly man named Louis returns to the Côte d'azur, where he once lived a troubled adolescence...   [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...]

La 317e section (1965)
Pierre Schoendoerffer

In 1954, at the height of the Indochina War, a French platoon comprising four French soldiers and around forty Laotians is instructed to abandon Luong Ba, an outpost on the border with Laos, and relieve Lao Tsaï, a town 150 kilometres to the south...   [More...]

35 rhums (2008)
Claire Denis

Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver...   [More...]

36 fillette (1988)
Catherine Breillat

Whilst on a camping holiday in Biarritz with her family, a 14 year old girl named Lili becomes obsessed with losing her virginity...   [More...]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
Olivier Marchal

For the past few months, Paris has been assailed by a series of increasingly violent armoured car robberies. Mindful of public opinion, the chief of police, Robert Mancini, is determined that the culprits be brought to book as quickly as possible and to that end he offers a personal challenge to two of his best men - Léo Vrinks and Denis Klein...   [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...]

38 témoins (2012)
Lucas Belvaux

Louise Morvand returns from a business trip to China and finds that the street where she lives in Le Havre is in a state of shock...   [More...]

56, rue Pigalle (1949)
Willy Rozier

Jean Vigneron is a draftsman and yachting enthusiast who for some time has been pursuing a secret and passionate love affair with Inès, the wife of one of his friends, Ricardo de Montalban...   [More...]

588 rue paradis (1993)
Henri Verneuil

It has been forty years since Azad Zakarian, then just a boy, fled Armenia and settled in France with his family. Thanks to his parents' selfless devotion to him, Azad has had the best education a boy of his age could hope to get himself and now he is a prominent writer, better known by his pseudonym Pierre Zakar...   [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...]

La 7ème cible (1984)
Claude Pinoteau

Bastien Grimaldi, a former journalist now in his fifties, leads a tranquil existence until one night he becomes the victim of three unknown assailants...   [More...]

8½ (1963)
Federico Fellini

Guido Anselmi is a film director who is up against the biggest crisis of his career. His last film was a huge success and his producer is expecting its successor to be an even greater hit...   [More...]

9mm (2008)
Taylan Barman

A typical day in the life of a typical family in the north of France. Nadine, the mother, is an officer in the anti-drugs squad and is the first to leave the family home...   [More...]

À 14 ans (2015)
Hélène Zimmer

Sarah, Jade and Louise are three friends who, at the not so tender age of 14, seem to be in too great a hurry to grow up - just like all girls of their age...   [More...]

À bout portant (2010)
Fred Cavayé

Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child...   [More...]

À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte

A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...   [More...]

À double tour (1959)
Claude Chabrol

Henri Marcoux is a fully paid up member of the French bourgeoisie. He owns a large private estate in Provence, where he lives with his wife Thérèse and two grown-up children, Richard and Elisabeth...   [More...]

À jamais (2016)
Benoît Jacquot

Jacques Rey is a middle-aged filmmaker who falls madly in love with Laura, a performance artist who is half his age. Rey's entourage is taken by surprise when he suddenly announces he intends marrying his new lover...   [More...]

À l'aventure (2009)
Jean-Claude Brisseau

Sandrine is bored with her comfortable middle-class existence in a dull provincial town. Finally, tired of the daily rituals and the endless compromises that constrain her freedom, she leaves her home and her boyfriend and sets out in search of adventure...   [More...]

À l'origine (2009)
Xavier Giannoli

Ex-convict Philippe Miller makes his living as a confidence trickster, something he is particularly adept at. Seeing an abandoned road works, he sees an opportunity to make some easy money...   [More...]

À la folie (1994)
Diane Kurys

Alice is an aspiring artist living in Paris with her boyfriend, Franck, a boxer. Her life is upturned when her sister, Elsa, unexpectedly re-enters her life after several years of separation...   [More...]



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