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French cinema: Comedy/Drama
La Chinoise (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
One summer, whilst living together in an apartment lent to them by a wealthy friend, five students discuss how they can apply the teachings of Mao Tse-tung to their own lives...
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Jean-Luc Godard
La Cigarette (1919)
Germaine Dulac
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is the latest addition to a museum of oriental art curated by the esteemed academic Pierre Guérande...
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Germaine Dulac
Le Cinéma de papa (1970)
Claude Berri
In 1946, 12-year-old Claude Langmann lives with his parents, Jewish immigrants, and newborn sister Arlette in a busy district of Paris...
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Claude Berri
La Clé sur la porte (1978)
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone...
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Yves Boisset
Club de femmes (1936)
Jacques Deval
A women-only boarding house in Paris provides an affordable sanctuary for impressionable young woman who wish to be protected from the corrupting influence of the male sex...
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Jacques Deval
Coeurs (2006)
Alain Resnais
Estate agent Thierry is having a hard time trying to find an apartment for a problem couple, Dan and Nicole. Each evening, Dan, an unemployed ex-army man, spills his bucket load of sorrows into the ears of friendly barman Lionel, whose sole domestic preoccupation is looking after his cantankerous old father... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Estate agent Thierry is having a hard time trying to find an apartment for a problem couple, Dan and Nicole. Each evening, Dan, an unemployed ex-army man, spills his bucket load of sorrows into the ears of friendly barman Lionel, whose sole domestic preoccupation is looking after his cantankerous old father... [More...]
Le Comédien (1948)
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Confidences pour confidences (1979)
Pascal Thomas
Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop... [More...]
Les Conquérants (2013)
Xabi Molia
Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives... [More...]
Xabi Molia
Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives... [More...]
Conte d'automne (1998)
Eric Rohmer
Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley... [More...]
Conte d'été (1996)
Eric Rohmer
Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar... [More...]
Conte d'hiver (1992)
Eric Rohmer
During a summer holiday, Félicie and Charles meet and have a whirlwind romance. Due to a mix-up with their addresses, they lose track of one another, even though Félicie is carrying Charles' child... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
During a summer holiday, Félicie and Charles meet and have a whirlwind romance. Due to a mix-up with their addresses, they lose track of one another, even though Félicie is carrying Charles' child... [More...]
Conte de printemps (1990)
Eric Rohmer
Jeanne is a high school teacher of philosophy who finds herself temporarily homeless when her fiancé Mathieu goes away for a few days... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Jeanne is a high school teacher of philosophy who finds herself temporarily homeless when her fiancé Mathieu goes away for a few days... [More...]
Les Convoyeurs attendent (1999)
Benoît Mariage
A new millennium beckons but life goes on as usual in a dull industrial town in Belgium. Family man Roger Closset works as a journalist on a local newspaper, L'Espoir, zipping around on his moped in search of an interesting news story, with little hope of finding one... [More...]
Benoît Mariage
A new millennium beckons but life goes on as usual in a dull industrial town in Belgium. Family man Roger Closset works as a journalist on a local newspaper, L'Espoir, zipping around on his moped in search of an interesting news story, with little hope of finding one... [More...]
Copacabana (2010)
Marc Fitoussi
Babou is one of life's eternal adolescents. Unable to hold down a job for more than five minutes, she has spent the last few years travelling around the world doing what she does best: enjoying herself... [More...]
Marc Fitoussi
Babou is one of life's eternal adolescents. Unable to hold down a job for more than five minutes, she has spent the last few years travelling around the world doing what she does best: enjoying herself... [More...]
Coup de tête (1979)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Life in the small industrial French town of Trincamp revolves entirely around the local football club. When François Perrin is dismissed from the club for injuring the star player, his fortunes take a turn for the worst... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Life in the small industrial French town of Trincamp revolves entirely around the local football club. When François Perrin is dismissed from the club for injuring the star player, his fortunes take a turn for the worst... [More...]
Coup de torchon (1981)
Bertrand Tavernier
1938, West Africa. Lucien Cordier is the police chief of a small French colonial town, Bourkassa Ourbangui, but no one takes him seriously... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
1938, West Africa. Lucien Cordier is the police chief of a small French colonial town, Bourkassa Ourbangui, but no one takes him seriously... [More...]
Le Couperet (2005)
Costa-Gavras
When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
When dedicated company man Bruno Davert loses his job in a corporate reorganisation, he comes close to losing his self-respect and his family... [More...]
Crainquebille (1922)
Jacques Feyder
For over forty years, a modest street peddler, Crainquebille, has sold vegetables from his cart in the environs of the Halles market in Paris... [More...]
Jacques Feyder
For over forty years, a modest street peddler, Crainquebille, has sold vegetables from his cart in the environs of the Halles market in Paris... [More...]
Cravate club (2002)
Frédéric Jardin
Bernard and Adrien have been the best of friends for longer than either of them can remember and now they work together, partners in their own firm of architects... [More...]
Frédéric Jardin
Bernard and Adrien have been the best of friends for longer than either of them can remember and now they work together, partners in their own firm of architects... [More...]
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
Jean Renoir
Amedée Lange is a modest employee at Monsieur Batala's publishing house, which is teetering on the brink of ruin. In a last ditch attempt to stave of his creditors, Batala decides to publish Lange's fanciful Wild West stories, altering the text to promote the products of his sponsors, such as Ranimax Pills... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Amedée Lange is a modest employee at Monsieur Batala's publishing house, which is teetering on the brink of ruin. In a last ditch attempt to stave of his creditors, Batala decides to publish Lange's fanciful Wild West stories, altering the text to promote the products of his sponsors, such as Ranimax Pills... [More...]
La Crise (1992)
Coline Serreau
Victor's cosy little world comes tumbling down around him when, on the same day, he loses both his wife and his well-paid job as a legal consultant... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Victor's cosy little world comes tumbling down around him when, on the same day, he loses both his wife and his well-paid job as a legal consultant... [More...]
La Danse de mort (1948)
Marcel Cravenne
A proud military man, Edgar is now the director of a prison fortress located on a small island in the Adriatic. He runs the prison with an iron hand and is prepared to shoot dead any prisoner who attempts to escape... [More...]
Marcel Cravenne
A proud military man, Edgar is now the director of a prison fortress located on a small island in the Adriatic. He runs the prison with an iron hand and is prepared to shoot dead any prisoner who attempts to escape... [More...]
Le Dernier des six (1941)
Georges Lacombe
Santerre and his five friends - Gribbe, Gernicot, Namotte, Perlonjour and Tignol - enter into a strange pact after they win a tidy little windfall in a bet... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
Santerre and his five friends - Gribbe, Gernicot, Namotte, Perlonjour and Tignol - enter into a strange pact after they win a tidy little windfall in a bet... [More...]
Derrière la façade (1939)
Georges Lacombe
Two rival police inspectors, Boucheron and Baumer, investigate the murder of the owner of a well-to-do apartment block. Madame Mathieu has been found stabbed to death in the lift, and there is no shortage of suspects... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
Two rival police inspectors, Boucheron and Baumer, investigate the murder of the owner of a well-to-do apartment block. Madame Mathieu has been found stabbed to death in the lift, and there is no shortage of suspects... [More...]
Les Deux amis (2015)
Louis Garrel
Clément is a film extra who is obsessively in love with Mona, a young woman who works in a sandwich bar at the Gare du Nord station in Paris... [More...]
Louis Garrel
Clément is a film extra who is obsessively in love with Mona, a young woman who works in a sandwich bar at the Gare du Nord station in Paris... [More...]
Le Diable boiteux (1948)
Sacha Guitry
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born in Paris on 2nd February 1754. Afflicted with a game leg (which earned him the nickname Le Diable boiteux or Lame Devil), he was unable to follow his father in pursuit of military honours and instead opted for an ecclesiastical career... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born in Paris on 2nd February 1754. Afflicted with a game leg (which earned him the nickname Le Diable boiteux or Lame Devil), he was unable to follow his father in pursuit of military honours and instead opted for an ecclesiastical career... [More...]
Diabolo menthe (1977)
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Dialogue avec mon jardinier (2007)
Jean Becker
After the break-up of his marriage, a fifty-something painter decides to swap his hectic life in Paris for the peace and quiet of the countryside... [More...]
Jean Becker
After the break-up of his marriage, a fifty-something painter decides to swap his hectic life in Paris for the peace and quiet of the countryside... [More...]