Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932)
Julien Duvivier

Lily and Erich are switchboard operators who have never met but they talk to each other every day and soon realise that they are in love...   [More...]

L'As des as (1982)
Gérard Oury

Jo Cavalier is the coach for the French boxing team at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On the train to Berlin, he is accosted by a ten year old Jewish boy, Simon, who asks for his autograph - previously Jo was a flying hero who served in the flying corps during World War I...   [More...]

Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999)
Claude Zidi

In 50 BC, all of Gaul is occupied by the Romans - all except for one small village in the north of France, which somehow manages to hold out against the might of Imperial Rome...   [More...]

Astérix et Obélix Mission Cléopâtre (2002)
Alain Chabat

Cleopatra is the queen of Egypt. She is the proud ruler of a proud people, and there is nothing that infuriates her more than Julius Caesar's continual belittling of her country and its inhabitants...   [More...]

Die Austernprinzessin (1919)
Ernst Lubitsch

Mr Quaker is America's Oyster King, a millionaire businessman whose seafood empire is unsurpassed. But his daughter Ossi is unimpressed by his status and spends most of her time wrecking his house in her frequent temper tantrums...   [More...]

Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle (1956)
Gérard Philipe

In the 16th century, Flanders is under Spanish occupation, something that causes resentment and hostility across the whole country...   [More...]

Die Bergkatze (1921)
Ernst Lubitsch

In the mountain town of Piffkaneiro, hundreds of desolate women gather to bid a sad farewell to Lieutenant Alexis, the popular military man who has touched all their hearts and left each one of them with a permanent reminder of their liaison, in the form of a child...   [More...]

Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)
Wilhelm Thiele

Returning home from a holiday, three friends - Willy, Kurt and Hans - learn they are bankrupt. Their fortune has evaporated and their possessions are being seized by the bailiffs...   [More...]

Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)
Géza von Radványi

When his bride-to-be jilts him at the alter and runs off with a singer, racing driver Pierre Chaillot decides to drown his sorrows in alcohol and then kill himself...   [More...]

Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
Helmut Weiss

Four old men, gathered around a steaming punch bowl, reminisce over their happy school days. A younger, middle-aged, man joins them...   [More...]

La Folie des grandeurs (1971)
Gérard Oury

Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights...   [More...]

Ich möchte kein Mann sein (1918)
Ernst Lubitsch

Young Ossi rebels against her authoritarian uncle by smoking, drinking and playing cards. If only she were a man she would be free to do all the things she enjoys...   [More...]

Kohlhiesels Töchter (1920)
Ernst Lubitsch

Bavarian innkeeper Mathias Kohlhiesel has two daughters who could not be more different. Whereas Gretl is attractive, good-natured and cheerful, her sister Liesel is dowdy, irritable and moody...   [More...]

Die Puppe (1919)
Ernst Lubitsch

Lancelot is a sensitive young man who enjoys the carefree life of a bachelor. Imagine then his undiluted horror when he is summoned to his uncle, the wealthy Baron of Chanterelle, and told that he must marry in order to preserve the family line...   [More...]

Die Schöne Lügnerin (1959)
Axel von Ambesser

Vienna, 1815. The crown heads of Europe have assembled for a congress that will determine the boundaries of their countries after the fall of the Emperor Napoleon...   [More...]

Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner

Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican...   [More...]