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French cinema: Romance/Comedy

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...]

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...]

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 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 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...]

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...]

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...]

L'Âge de raison (2010)
Yann Samuell

Margaret is a successful businesswoman who governs both her career and her love life with the same steely resolve, with the result that she is feared and admired by all but loved by no one...   [More...]

Alexis gentleman chauffeur (1938)
Max de Vaucorbeil

Alexis de Saint Grisols, a pilot during the war, now earns his crust as a modest taxi driver in Paris. One day, the famous actress Margot Fontane leaves her purse in his taxi and he feels duty bound to return it to her in person...   [More...]

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'Amant de Bornéo (1942)
Jean-Pierre Feydeau

During a brief sojourn in Paris, Lucien Mazerand, a timid bookseller from Châteauroux, spends an evening at the music hall to watch Stella Losange perform her celebrated conjuring act...   [More...]

Amants et voleurs (1935)
Raymond Bernard

Fate has been unkind to Claude Brezin. When he loses his entire fortune, the unfortunate young man must obtain a job to survive, but try as he might his efforts to find work end in dismal failure...   [More...]

Les Âmes de papier (2013)
Vincent Lannoo

Since his wife's premature death, Paul has little enthusiasm for his career as a writer and he now devotes himself mostly to writing funeral speeches for paying customers...   [More...]

L'Amour aux trousses (2005)
Philippe de Chauveron

Paul and Franck are two French police officers in the narcotics squad who are the closest of friends. In the course of tracking down a dangerous drugs dealer one of their fellow officers is shot dead and Paul ends up with a serious leg injury...   [More...]

L'Amour dure trois ans (2012)
Frédéric Beigbeder

Literary critic by day, columnist by night, Marc Marronnier is convinced that love never lasts for more than three years...   [More...]

L'Amour en fuite (1979)
François Truffaut

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel has divorced his wife Christine and is having a love affair with a young shop girl, Sabine...   [More...]

Amour et compagnie (1950)
Gilles Grangier

Claude Andrieux, a young accountant for an insurance company, is about to dismissed by his boss when he is charged with a most delicate mission - to prevent a wealthy client from committing suicide...   [More...]

Amour et turbulences (2013)
Alexandre Castagnetti

Julie, an aspiring young artist, is on a plane from New York to Paris, where she is soon to be married. By chance, she is upgraded to club class and finds herself sitting next to Antoine, a philandering lawyer with whom she had a passionate love affair three years previously...   [More...]

L'Amour n'est pas un péché (1952)
Claude Cariven

Eliane Cahuzac and Jacques Loursier are both urgently in need of an apartment and Fate decides that they will end up sharing the same landing in the same Parisian apartment block...   [More...]

L'Amour, c'est mieux à deux (2010)
Dominique Farrugia

Michel and Vincent are two men in their mid-to-late thirties who are both strongly attracted towards women but have very different ideas about love and romance...   [More...]

L'Amour, Madame (1952)
Gilles Grangier

François Célerier is a young university student who hopes to make his name as a playwright. He is attracted to fellow student Diane, but he is too shy to approach her and reveal his true feelings for her...   [More...]

Andalousie (1951)
Robert Vernay

In present day Spain, Juanito is earning a modest living as a pottery merchant when he is suddenly plucked from obscurity and finds fame as a bullfighter...   [More...]

Angel-A (2005)
Luc Besson

28 year-old con artist André lies so easily that he has even convinced himself he is the model citizen. In reality, he is the type that would sell his grandmother for a packet of cigarettes...   [More...]

L'Appartement des filles (1963)
Michel Deville

Not for Tibère the life-sapping tedium of a routine office job. He sees himself as a man of derring-do, a man who scorns danger and lives for the present...   [More...]

L'Arnacoeur (2010)
Pascal Chaumeil

With the help of his sister Mélanie and brother-in-law Marc, Alex runs a special kind of agency, one that is dedicated to ending unhappy relationships...   [More...]

L'Art d'aimer (2011)
Emmanuel Mouret

At the exact moment that one falls in love, one becomes aware of a very distinctive music, an ethereal sonata that seems to speak of eternity and promise all the delights of paradise...   [More...]

Au bout du conte (2013)
Agnès Jaoui

20-something Laura has fallen in love with Sandro, an aspiring young musician, but their affair is threatened by Laura's overly attentive father Guillaume and the womanising impresario Maxime...   [More...]

Au secours, j'ai trente ans! (2004)
Marie-Anne Chazel

Yann, Tara and Kathy have been the best of friends since they were at school together. Now that they are all in their thirties it is time for them to re-evaluate their lives...   [More...]



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