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French cinema: All genres
Un amour à taire (2005)
Christian Faure
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Lavandiers run a thriving laundry business. Jean is the favoured son - he works hard and avoids getting into trouble, unlike his brother Jacques who is serving a term in prison for black marketeering...
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Christian Faure
Un amour de jeunesse (2011)
Mia Hansen-Løve
You never forget your first love, and when it ends - as surely it must - you feel you will never get over it. This is something that Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl, knows to be true after separating from the boy she has lost her heart to...
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Mia Hansen-Løve
Un amour impossible (2018)
Catherine Corsini
Towards the end of the 1950s, Rachel is a modest office worker in her early twenties who lives in the central French town of Châteauroux...
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Catherine Corsini
Un baiser s'il vous plaît (2007)
Emmanuel Mouret
During a business trip to Nantes, Emilie loses her way and asks a stranger, Gabriel, for directions. Gabriel feels instantly drawn to the attractive young woman and offers her a lift in his van...
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Emmanuel Mouret
Un beau soleil intérieur (2017)
Claire Denis
After breaking up with her husband, Isabelle, a Parisian artist, is torn between her new quest for love and her desire to live life to the fullest extent...
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Claire Denis
Un carnet de bal (1937)
Julien Duvivier
To take her mind off the recent death of her husband, Christine de Guérande begins sorting through her old possessions and is surprised to find her dance card for her coming out ball many years ago... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
To take her mind off the recent death of her husband, Christine de Guérande begins sorting through her old possessions and is surprised to find her dance card for her coming out ball many years ago... [More...]
Un chant d'amour (1950)
Jean Genet
In a French prison, two inmates in solitary cells try to communicate with one another. One is young, clean and handsome; the other somewhat older, unshaved and unkempt... [More...]
Jean Genet
In a French prison, two inmates in solitary cells try to communicate with one another. One is young, clean and handsome; the other somewhat older, unshaved and unkempt... [More...]
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1928)
René Clair
The year is 1895. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. The owner of the hat is a married woman who, at the time, is in the embrace of a French officer, Lieutenant Tavernier... [More...]
René Clair
The year is 1895. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. The owner of the hat is a married woman who, at the time, is in the embrace of a French officer, Lieutenant Tavernier... [More...]
Un chien andalou (1929)
Luis Buñuel
One night, a man sharpens his cut-throat razor before using it to slice open a young woman's eye... Eight years later, the same woman invites a man into her apartment... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
One night, a man sharpens his cut-throat razor before using it to slice open a young woman's eye... Eight years later, the same woman invites a man into her apartment... [More...]
Un coeur en hiver (1992)
Claude Sautet
Stéphane and Maxime are partners in a successful business that makes and repairs violins. Stéphane is surprised when, one day, Maxime announces he is in love and plans to marry one of his clients, an attractive young violinist named Camille... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Stéphane and Maxime are partners in a successful business that makes and repairs violins. Stéphane is surprised when, one day, Maxime announces he is in love and plans to marry one of his clients, an attractive young violinist named Camille... [More...]
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (1956)
Robert Bresson
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, Lieutenant Fontaine is arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement with the Resistance... [More...]
Robert Bresson
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, Lieutenant Fontaine is arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement with the Resistance... [More...]
Un condé (1970)
Yves Boisset
Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin... [More...]
Un conte de Noël (2008)
Arnaud Desplechin
Abel and Junon Vuillard are a happily married couple with three children who could not be more different. Although a great deal of water has passed under the bridge since, early in their marriage the couple suffered a terrible tragedy which time still hasn't healed... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Abel and Junon Vuillard are a happily married couple with three children who could not be more different. Although a great deal of water has passed under the bridge since, early in their marriage the couple suffered a terrible tragedy which time still hasn't healed... [More...]
Un couteau dans le coeur (2018)
Yann Gonzalez
In the late 1970s, Anne Parèze is a 40-something producer of low-budget porn movies based in Paris. As her career wanes, she turns to drink and becomes increasingly emotionally unstable... [More...]
Yann Gonzalez
In the late 1970s, Anne Parèze is a 40-something producer of low-budget porn movies based in Paris. As her career wanes, she turns to drink and becomes increasingly emotionally unstable... [More...]
Un crime (1993)
Jacques Deray
Fifteen months after being arrested for the murder of his wealthy parents, Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel is acquitted on evidence provided by his girlfriend, Franca Miller... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Fifteen months after being arrested for the murder of his wealthy parents, Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel is acquitted on evidence provided by his girlfriend, Franca Miller... [More...]
Un de la Canebière (1937)
René Pujol
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible are three friends who lead an amiable existence as humble fishermen in the sunny port of Marseille... [More...]
René Pujol
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible are three friends who lead an amiable existence as humble fishermen in the sunny port of Marseille... [More...]
Un de la légion (1936)
Christian-Jaque
Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Fernand Espitalion is a timid man who quietly accepts the humiliations heaped on him by his domineering wife Antoinette. Theirs is a marriage of convenience not mutual tenderness... [More...]
Un dimanche à la campagne (1984)
Bertrand Tavernier
Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his large country house, cared for by his loyal housekeeper Mercédès... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his large country house, cared for by his loyal housekeeper Mercédès... [More...]
Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (1976)
Yves Robert
Étienne, Simon, Daniel and Bouly are four friends in their forties who enjoy a shared passion for tennis. Another thing they have in common is that they are all nearing a point of crisis in their private lives; luckily they can count on the others' support to help them through... [More...]
Yves Robert
Étienne, Simon, Daniel and Bouly are four friends in their forties who enjoy a shared passion for tennis. Another thing they have in common is that they are all nearing a point of crisis in their private lives; luckily they can count on the others' support to help them through... [More...]
Un enfant dans la foule (1976)
Gérard Blain
During the Nazi Occupation of France, a 13-year-old boy named Paul lives with his mother and sister in his grandmother's cramped apartment... [More...]
Gérard Blain
During the Nazi Occupation of France, a 13-year-old boy named Paul lives with his mother and sister in his grandmother's cramped apartment... [More...]
Un flic (1972)
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Un Français (2015)
Diastème
Along with his skinhead cohorts Braguette, Grand-Guy and Marvin, Marco likes nothing better than to beat up Arabs and put up posters supporting the Far Right... [More...]
Diastème
Along with his skinhead cohorts Braguette, Grand-Guy and Marvin, Marco likes nothing better than to beat up Arabs and put up posters supporting the Far Right... [More...]
Un grand amour de Beethoven (1936)
Abel Gance
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is passionately in love with Juliette Guicciardi, but his love is not requited. She chooses instead to marry the Count Gallenberg, news which, along with his encroaching deafness, propels Beethoven into a state of depression... [More...]
Abel Gance
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is passionately in love with Juliette Guicciardi, but his love is not requited. She chooses instead to marry the Count Gallenberg, news which, along with his encroaching deafness, propels Beethoven into a state of depression... [More...]
Un grand patron (1951)
Yves Ciampi
Louis Delage is one of the greatest surgeons of his time and nothing matters more to him than his career. He has a strained relationship with Dr Tannard, his cousin, who is jealous of his success... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Louis Delage is one of the greatest surgeons of his time and nothing matters more to him than his career. He has a strained relationship with Dr Tannard, his cousin, who is jealous of his success... [More...]
Un héros très discret (1996)
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Un homme de têtes (1898)
Georges Méliès
A well-dressed magician standing between two wooden tables casually pulls his head from his shoulders and places it on one of the tables, where it proceeds to chatter and move about of its own accord... [More...]
Georges Méliès
A well-dressed magician standing between two wooden tables casually pulls his head from his shoulders and places it on one of the tables, where it proceeds to chatter and move about of its own accord... [More...]
Un homme et une femme (1966)
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Louis Duroc is a racing car driver. Anne Gauthier is a script-girl. Both are in their mid-thirties, recently widowed and have a small child... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Louis Duroc is a racing car driver. Anne Gauthier is a script-girl. Both are in their mid-thirties, recently widowed and have a small child... [More...]
Un homme marche dans la ville (1950)
Marcello Pagliero
In the late 1940s, Madeleine and André Laurent live in Le Havre, a town that appears as grimly desolate and battle-scarred as their marriage... [More...]
Marcello Pagliero
In the late 1940s, Madeleine and André Laurent live in Le Havre, a town that appears as grimly desolate and battle-scarred as their marriage... [More...]
Un mauvais fils (1980)
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail... [More...]
Un monde à nous (2008)
Frédéric Balekdjian
Marc and his young son Noé arrive in a new town, hoping to begin a new life. Noé starts a new school, where he makes new friends, but his father continues to put him through intensive training in combat sports... [More...]
Frédéric Balekdjian
Marc and his young son Noé arrive in a new town, hoping to begin a new life. Noé starts a new school, where he makes new friends, but his father continues to put him through intensive training in combat sports... [More...]