Film Index

French cinema: Romance

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 automnes 3 hivers (2013)
Sébastien Betbeder

Arman is 33, lives in Paris and is ready for a change in his life. Things begin to look up for him when he runs into Amélie, a woman of his own age, whilst out jogging...   [More...]

2 Days in Paris (2007)
Julie Delpy

Fearing that the spark may be going out of their relationship, a New York couple, Marion and Jack, take a holiday in Venice...   [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...]

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...]

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 vues du Pic Saint-Loup (2009)
Jacques Rivette

A small circus troupe is about to embark on its summer season when its owner dies suddenly. Realising that their livelihoods are in peril, the members of the circus get in touch with their boss's estranged daughter Kate and urge her to take over the management of the circus...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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 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...]

À la folie... pas du tout (2002)
Laetitia Colombani

Angélique, a twenty year old arts student, falls in love with Loïc, a distinguished heart specialist. The problem is that he is already married and expects to be a father in the not too distant future...   [More...]

À la place du coeur (1998)
Robert Guédiguian

Bébé and Clémentine are a mixed race couple who live in a poor district of Marseille. They are deeply in love and even though they are still in their teens they intend to marry as soon as they can...   [More...]

À ma soeur! (2001)
Catherine Breillat

Whilst on holiday with her family, 15 year old Elena meets an an older Italian student, Fernando. Elena is eager to fall in love and Fernando, a smooth-talking Don Juan type, persaudes her to have sex with him...   [More...]

À nos amours (1983)
Maurice Pialat

Suzanne is a free-spirited 15-year-old who, along with her best friend Anne, is having a hard time coping with the upheavals of early adolescence...   [More...]

À nous deux (1979)
Claude Lelouch

Simon Lacassaigne is the son of a notorious hoodlum and has every intention of following in his father's footsteps. His criminal career is cut short, however, when he is arrested and thrown into prison...   [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 tout de suite (2004)
Benoît Jacquot

Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident...   [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...]

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...]

Les Adieux à la reine (2012)
Benoît Jacquot

In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is starting to overtake Paris...   [More...]

L'Adolescente (1979)
Jeanne Moreau

In 1939, a Parisian butcher named Jean takes his wife Eva and their 12-year-old daughter Marie to the country, to spend their long summer holidays at his mother's house in Auvergne...   [More...]

Adolphe (2002)
Benoît Jacquot

Provincial France, in the early 1800s. Adolphe is the 24-year-old scion of a noble family who idles away his empty days and in doing so comes into contact with Ellénore, the wife of a highly respected nobleman...   [More...]

L'Affaire d'une nuit (1960)
Henri Verneuil

Michel Ferréol is a comfortably off middle-class man who is somewhat embarrassed when he runs into an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco, who is over-keen to take him on a trip down memory lane...   [More...]

After (2013)
Géraldine Maillet

One night in Paris, a woman meets a man. Julie is beautiful, married, well-adjusted. Guillaume is a Don Juan-type, free and impulsive...   [More...]

L'Âge d'homme... maintenant ou jamais! (2007)
Raphael Fejtö

Samuel is a 30-year-old filmmaker who, until a year ago, was a diehard bachelor. It was a life that suited him, with no commitments, no heartache and no broken china...   [More...]



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