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French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Le Ballon rouge (1956)
Albert Lamorisse
One day, a solitary little boy named Pascal comes across a spherical red balloon tied to a lamppost. Without hesitating, the boy releases the balloon and it begins following him as he continues wandering around the streets of Paris...
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Albert Lamorisse
Baptême (1989)
René Féret
A mining town in northern France, 1935. Aline, a young waitress in a café, falls in love with one of her customers, Pierre, and persuades her reluctant parents to let him marry her...
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René Féret
Bartleby (1976)
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement...
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Maurice Ronet
Le Beau mariage (1982)
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children...
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Eric Rohmer
Beau-père (1981)
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants...
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Bertrand Blier
La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
Les Beaux gosses (2009)
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
Belle de jour (1967)
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
La Belle meunière (1948)
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]
Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Le Bleu des villes (1999)
Stéphane Brizé
Traffic warden Solange has grown tired of her ordinary day-to-day existence in a dull provincial town. Whilst her husband, Patrick, is perfectly content working as an assistant in a hospital morgue and decorating their new home, she yearns for a change... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
Traffic warden Solange has grown tired of her ordinary day-to-day existence in a dull provincial town. Whilst her husband, Patrick, is perfectly content working as an assistant in a hospital morgue and decorating their new home, she yearns for a change... [More...]
Les Bonnes femmes (1960)
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives... [More...]
Le Boulanger de Valorgue (1953)
Henri Verneuil
Valorgue, a quaint little town in the south of France, used to be such an idyllic spot. Now it is caught up in the most frenzied of civil wars, with half of the town siding with the good-natured baker, Félicien Hébrard, and the other half with the grocer, the cantankerous old widow Zanetti... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Valorgue, a quaint little town in the south of France, used to be such an idyllic spot. Now it is caught up in the most frenzied of civil wars, with half of the town siding with the good-natured baker, Félicien Hébrard, and the other half with the grocer, the cantankerous old widow Zanetti... [More...]
Boule de suif (1945)
Christian-Jaque
Normandy, 1870. With Rouen occupied by the Prussian army, a prostitute named Élisabeth Rousset decides to leave the town in a stage coach bound for Le Havre... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Normandy, 1870. With Rouen occupied by the Prussian army, a prostitute named Élisabeth Rousset decides to leave the town in a stage coach bound for Le Havre... [More...]
La Braconne (2014)
Samuel Rondière
Not yet twenty, Driss gets by with his small-time criminal exploits. His path crosses that of Danny, a world-weary crook who roams industrial areas in his old Mercedes... [More...]
Samuel Rondière
Not yet twenty, Driss gets by with his small-time criminal exploits. His path crosses that of Danny, a world-weary crook who roams industrial areas in his old Mercedes... [More...]
Le Bruit des glaçons (2010)
Bertrand Blier
Disappointed with his lacklustre career as a writer, Charles Faulque sinks into a deep depression. He takes solace by moping in solitude at his large luxury house in the south of France and pouring large quantities of alcoholic refreshment down his throat... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Disappointed with his lacklustre career as a writer, Charles Faulque sinks into a deep depression. He takes solace by moping in solitude at his large luxury house in the south of France and pouring large quantities of alcoholic refreshment down his throat... [More...]
Buffet froid (1979)
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
Calvaire (2004)
Fabrice Du Welz
Marc Stevens is an itinerant singer who performs mainly for retirement homes. After an engagement at a hospice is cancelled, his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere... [More...]
Fabrice Du Welz
Marc Stevens is an itinerant singer who performs mainly for retirement homes. After an engagement at a hospice is cancelled, his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere... [More...]
Camille redouble (2012)
Noémie Lvovsky
Camille, a 40-something actress, gets an unexpected shock when she returns home one day to find her husband Eric packing his bags... [More...]
Noémie Lvovsky
Camille, a 40-something actress, gets an unexpected shock when she returns home one day to find her husband Eric packing his bags... [More...]
Le Carrosse d'or (1953)
Jean Renoir
In the 18th Century, a travelling band of actors arrive in a Spanish colony in South America. When they are invited to perform before the royal court, the Viceroy, Ferdinand, instantly falls in love with the leading performer, Camilla... [More...]
Jean Renoir
In the 18th Century, a travelling band of actors arrive in a Spanish colony in South America. When they are invited to perform before the royal court, the Viceroy, Ferdinand, instantly falls in love with the leading performer, Camilla... [More...]
Cavalcade d'amour (1940)
Raymond Bernard
For hundreds of years, the château de Maupré has brought misfortune to its inhabitants, as those who choose to wed within its walls are destined to wed unhappily... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
For hundreds of years, the château de Maupré has brought misfortune to its inhabitants, as those who choose to wed within its walls are destined to wed unhappily... [More...]
Ce soir ou jamais (1961)
Michel Deville
Laurent is a poster designer who is about to begin rehearsals for his first stage play, a musical comedy. To celebrate this auspicious event, he holds a party at his apartment, to which his best friends are all invited... [More...]
Michel Deville
Laurent is a poster designer who is about to begin rehearsals for his first stage play, a musical comedy. To celebrate this auspicious event, he holds a party at his apartment, to which his best friends are all invited... [More...]
Ces messieurs de la Santé (1934)
Pierre Colombier
Shortly after being arrested for fraud, the discredited banker Jules Taffard manages to escape from the Santé prison... [More...]
Pierre Colombier
Shortly after being arrested for fraud, the discredited banker Jules Taffard manages to escape from the Santé prison... [More...]
Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)
Luis Buñuel
Shortly after boarding a train in Seville, a respectable old man pours a bucket of water over a young woman standing on the platform... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Shortly after boarding a train in Seville, a respectable old man pours a bucket of water over a young woman standing on the platform... [More...]
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
Le Chat et la souris (1975)
Claude Lelouch
Madame Richard entertains the prospect of murdering her husband when he, a successful architect, begins an extra-marital affair with an actress of erotic movies... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Madame Richard entertains the prospect of murdering her husband when he, a successful architect, begins an extra-marital affair with an actress of erotic movies... [More...]
Le Château de ma mère (1990)
Yves Robert
After his previous summer, 11-year-old Marcel is so in love with the countryside of Provence that he can scarcely bear to be separated from it... [More...]
Yves Robert
After his previous summer, 11-year-old Marcel is so in love with the countryside of Provence that he can scarcely bear to be separated from it... [More...]
Les Chatouilles (2018)
Andréa Bescond
Odette is a happy eight-year-old girl whose one dream is to become a successful dancer. One day, a friend of her parents, Gilbert, a 40-something father of two, persuades her to take part in a seemingly harmless little game in which he begins by tickling her... [More...]
Andréa Bescond
Odette is a happy eight-year-old girl whose one dream is to become a successful dancer. One day, a friend of her parents, Gilbert, a 40-something father of two, persuades her to take part in a seemingly harmless little game in which he begins by tickling her... [More...]
La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Le Chignon d'Olga (2002)
Jérôme Bonnell
Julien and Emma are a teenage brother and sister who live in Beauce, a picturesque semi-rural region of Northern France. They are still living in the house in which they were born, along with their father Gilles, who gets by as a writer... [More...]
Jérôme Bonnell
Julien and Emma are a teenage brother and sister who live in Beauce, a picturesque semi-rural region of Northern France. They are still living in the house in which they were born, along with their father Gilles, who gets by as a writer... [More...]