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French cinema: All genres
L'Amour fou (1969)
Jacques Rivette
To those who know them, Sébastien and Claire are the model of the perfectly happy married couple. But as they rehearse a stage production of Racine's play Andromaque, the fault lines in their marriage are already starting to show...
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Jacques Rivette
L'Amour l'après-midi (1972)
Eric Rohmer
Frédéric had thought that by marrying Hélène he would never again be tempted by another woman...
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Eric Rohmer
L'Amour violé (1978)
Yannick Bellon
One evening, a nurse, Nicole, is heading home on her moped when she is driven off the road by a van. Four men get out of the van and proceed to taunt her, before abducting her...
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Yannick Bellon
L'Amoureuse (1987)
Jacques Doillon
Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find...
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Jacques Doillon
Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (1948)
Henri Decoin
Gérard Favier is a famous composer who has been married to the charming Sylvia for almost 20 years. Still deeply in love, they walk the streets of Paris and, one day, they hear a sonata that Gérard once wrote, played on a piano in a house...
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Henri Decoin
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (2007)
Eric Rohmer
Gaul in the 5th Century. Astrée is a beautiful young shepherdess who is devotedly in love with Céladon, a handsome young shepherd... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Gaul in the 5th Century. Astrée is a beautiful young shepherdess who is devotedly in love with Céladon, a handsome young shepherd... [More...]
Les Amours de minuit (1931)
Augusto Genina
Marcel and Gaston are two men who are on the run, although when they meet on a train bound for a seaport they do their best to conceal the fact... [More...]
Augusto Genina
Marcel and Gaston are two men who are on the run, although when they meet on a train bound for a seaport they do their best to conceal the fact... [More...]
Les Amours finissent à l'aube (1953)
Henri Calef
Didier Guéret is in charge of marketing for a large automobile company based in Paris. He takes advantage of his frequent business trips to other cities across Europe to pursue short-lived amorous liaisons with various women he comes into contact with... [More...]
Henri Calef
Didier Guéret is in charge of marketing for a large automobile company based in Paris. He takes advantage of his frequent business trips to other cities across Europe to pursue short-lived amorous liaisons with various women he comes into contact with... [More...]
Les Amours imaginaires (2010)
Xavier Dolan
Francis and Marie are two close friends, both in their mid-twenties, who cannot help falling in love with the same man, Nicolas... [More...]
Xavier Dolan
Francis and Marie are two close friends, both in their mid-twenties, who cannot help falling in love with the same man, Nicolas... [More...]
L'An 01 (1973)
Jacques Doillon
One Tuesday afternoon, the whole of France comes to a total standstill. Everyone stops working and all activity ceases. The old world is finished... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
One Tuesday afternoon, the whole of France comes to a total standstill. Everyone stops working and all activity ceases. The old world is finished... [More...]
L'Ange de la nuit (1944)
André Berthomieu
Paris, 1939. A group of impoverished students open a restaurant in the Latin Quarter, and give each other moral and material support, assisted by their kindly landlord Père Heurteloup... [More...]
André Berthomieu
Paris, 1939. A group of impoverished students open a restaurant in the Latin Quarter, and give each other moral and material support, assisted by their kindly landlord Père Heurteloup... [More...]
Angèle (1934)
Marcel Pagnol
Angèle is the daughter of a respectable farmer, Clarius, and lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin on their farm in the South of France... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Angèle is the daughter of a respectable farmer, Clarius, and lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin on their farm in the South of France... [More...]
Angèle et Tony (2011)
Alix Delaporte
Angèle is a young woman who moves to a Normandy fishing town with the intention of starting a new life. For the past two years, she has been in prison and her one ambition now is to win back custody of her son, who is presently in the care of her deceased husband's parents... [More...]
Alix Delaporte
Angèle is a young woman who moves to a Normandy fishing town with the intention of starting a new life. For the past two years, she has been in prison and her one ambition now is to win back custody of her son, who is presently in the care of her deceased husband's parents... [More...]
Les Anges du péché (1943)
Robert Bresson
Rather than follow the life of wealth and comfort that has been mapped out for her by her family circumstances, Anne-Marie Lamaury opts instead to take holy orders and devote herself to the service of God... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Rather than follow the life of wealth and comfort that has been mapped out for her by her family circumstances, Anne-Marie Lamaury opts instead to take holy orders and devote herself to the service of God... [More...]
L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
Eric Rohmer
Grace Elliott, a well-connected English lady, is living in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. She was once the lover of the Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI, who remains her closest friend and confidant... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Grace Elliott, a well-connected English lady, is living in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. She was once the lover of the Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI, who remains her closest friend and confidant... [More...]
Anna M. (2007)
Michel Spinosa
Anna M. is an unassuming young spinster who lives with her mother and spends her days meticulously restoring manuscripts for the Bibliothèque de France... [More...]
Michel Spinosa
Anna M. is an unassuming young spinster who lives with her mother and spends her days meticulously restoring manuscripts for the Bibliothèque de France... [More...]
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Alain Resnais
The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad... [More...]
Alain Resnais
The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad... [More...]
Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
Jacques Becker
Antoine and Antoinette are an ordinary working class couple who live in Paris and struggle to get by in the austere aftermath of World War II... [More...]
Jacques Becker
Antoine and Antoinette are an ordinary working class couple who live in Paris and struggle to get by in the austere aftermath of World War II... [More...]
L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)
Bertrand Bonello
In a Parisian brothel at the start of the 20th century there lives a young prostitute whose face is disfigured by a scar that takes the form of a tragic smile... [More...]
Bertrand Bonello
In a Parisian brothel at the start of the 20th century there lives a young prostitute whose face is disfigured by a scar that takes the form of a tragic smile... [More...]
L'Appartement (1996)
Gilles Mimouni
Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career... [More...]
Gilles Mimouni
Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career... [More...]
L'Appât (1995)
Bertrand Tavernier
An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations... [More...]
Les Apprentis (1995)
Pierre Salvadori
Antoine Parent is an aspiring writer who suffers from depression and a chronic inability to make money from his art. He lives in Paris and shares a modest apartment with his good-for-nothing friend Fred Rouyer, who appears to be more than content with his life as an inveterate loser... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
Antoine Parent is an aspiring writer who suffers from depression and a chronic inability to make money from his art. He lives in Paris and shares a modest apartment with his good-for-nothing friend Fred Rouyer, who appears to be more than content with his life as an inveterate loser... [More...]
Après l'amour (1948)
Maurice Tourneur
At a reception in honour of her husband winning the Noble Prize for literature, Nicole Mézaule meets a former lover who has some news for her... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
At a reception in honour of her husband winning the Noble Prize for literature, Nicole Mézaule meets a former lover who has some news for her... [More...]
Après l'amour (1992)
Diane Kurys
For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of mid-life crisis are beginning to bite. She leads a comfortable middleclass existence but is far from settled and seeks passion in her life... [More...]
Diane Kurys
For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of mid-life crisis are beginning to bite. She leads a comfortable middleclass existence but is far from settled and seeks passion in her life... [More...]
Après la vie (2002)
Lucas Belvaux
Pascal Manise is a dedicated police inspector who is prepared to do anything so that he can supply his drug-addicted wife Agnès with a regular supply of morphine... [More...]
Lucas Belvaux
Pascal Manise is a dedicated police inspector who is prepared to do anything so that he can supply his drug-addicted wife Agnès with a regular supply of morphine... [More...]
Après lui (2007)
Gaël Morel
Camille's whole world is ripped apart when her beloved son Mathieu is killed in a road accident. Try as she might, she just cannot put the incident behind her and she constantly seeks the support of Mathieu's best friend, Franck, who was to blame for his death... [More...]
Gaël Morel
Camille's whole world is ripped apart when her beloved son Mathieu is killed in a road accident. Try as she might, she just cannot put the incident behind her and she constantly seeks the support of Mathieu's best friend, Franck, who was to blame for his death... [More...]
L'Arbre de Noël (1969)
Terence Young
As has become his custom after losing his mother, ten-year-old Pascal joins his father Laurent, a millionaire businessman, in Paris for the summer holidays... [More...]
Terence Young
As has become his custom after losing his mother, ten-year-old Pascal joins his father Laurent, a millionaire businessman, in Paris for the summer holidays... [More...]
L'Argent de poche (1976)
François Truffaut
In the picturesque French town of Thiers, several primary school children are learning some important lessons in life as the end of the school term approaches... [More...]
François Truffaut
In the picturesque French town of Thiers, several primary school children are learning some important lessons in life as the end of the school term approaches... [More...]
L'Argent des autres (1978)
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank... [More...]
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank... [More...]
L'Argent (1928)
Marcel L'Herbier
With the imminent collapse of Caledonian Eagle, a company in which he has a large stockholding, Nicolas Saccard realises that the future of his own company, the Banque Universelle, is suddenly in jeopardy... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
With the imminent collapse of Caledonian Eagle, a company in which he has a large stockholding, Nicolas Saccard realises that the future of his own company, the Banque Universelle, is suddenly in jeopardy... [More...]