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French cinema: Comedy/Drama

Les Lettres de mon moulin (1954)
Marcel Pagnol

Alphonse Daudet, purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of rural France, so that he can write a series of short stories about country folk...   [More...]

Le Lion des Mogols (1924)
Jean Epstein

For the past fifteen years, a holy city in Tibet has lived under the tyrannous rule of the Great Khan. A palace guard, Roundgito-Singh, is told by a fortune teller that he will become the city's beloved ruler, providing he is not diverted from his destiny by an untrue woman...   [More...]

Lourdes (2009)
Jessica Hausner

Christine suffers from multiple sclerosis and has spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Tired of her solitary existence, she decides to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where she hopes she will find new friends and give her life a renewed sense of purpose...   [More...]

Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
Eric Rohmer

Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening...   [More...]

Ma petite entreprise (1999)
Pierre Jolivet

Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire...   [More...]

Ma vie en rose (1997)
Alain Berliner

The Fabre family moves into a new house in a respectable middle-class area. During a house-warming party, the youngest son, seven-year old Ludovic makes a grand entrance in a dress, make-up and jewellery...   [More...]

Mademoiselle (2001)
Philippe Lioret

Claire is proud of the fact that she is one of life's highfliers. She is married, with two adorable children, and has a successful career with a major pharmaceuticals company...   [More...]

Mado (1976)
Claude Sautet

Simon Léotard is a 50-something real estate financier who finds himself in dire straits when his business partner of many years, Julien, commits suicide...   [More...]

Maestro (2014)
Léa Fazer

Henri is a cocky young actor who sees himself as cinema's next great action-adventure hero. For some reason, the world is slow to take advantage of his talents and for the time being he has to make do with dubbing American shows and humiliating himself in television ads...   [More...]

La Maison Bonnadieu (1951)
Carlo Rim

In 1910, Félix Bonnadieu is the manager of a provincial factory that manufactures women's corsets. He knows that his wife Gabrielle is having an affair with a younger man, Pascal Mascaret, and is determined to break up the relationship...   [More...]

Marguerite (2015)
Xavier Giannoli

In Paris of the 1920s, Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman who likes nothing better than to indulge her passion for music and opera...   [More...]

Le Mari de la coiffeuse (1990)
Patrice Leconte

In middle-age, Antoine looks back on his life and recalls happy times when he was a little boy holidaying in Luc-sur-Mer with his brother...   [More...]

Le Mariage à trois (2010)
Jacques Doillon

Auguste is a playwright in his fifties who is struggling to put the finishing touches to his latest magnum opus. A few details still need to be worked through, so to help him he invites two actors to his house in the country to help bring the play to life...   [More...]

La Mariée était en Noir (1967)
François Truffaut

At a party to celebrate his engagement, a young man named Bliss is drawn to a mysterious woman he has never seen before but who seems to know him...   [More...]

Marius et Jeannette (1997)
Robert Guédiguian

Jeannette is a single mother who is struggling to bring up her children on a meagre salary in Estaque, a working class district of Marseilles...   [More...]

Masculin, féminin (1966)
Jean-Luc Godard

His military service finally over, Paul, a young man in his early twenties, returns to Paris in search of work. He finds a job with a trendy magazine where he meets Madeleine, an attractive woman of his own age who has set her sights on becoming a pop singer...   [More...]

Maternité clandestine (1953)
Jean Gourguet

In the suburbs of Paris, a gang of wayward adolescents led by Maurice survive on the spoils of their petty crimes. Under the instructions of small-time hoodlum André, the gang must hold up a cashier on his way home one evening...   [More...]

Maxime (1958)
Henri Verneuil

Paris, 1914. Maxime Cherpray is an ageing Don Juan who, despite being well-bred and well-educated, has little money and lives in a small apartment...   [More...]

Mayrig (1992)
Henri Verneuil

In 1921, a shipload of Armenian refugees arrive in Marseilles, hoping to begin a new life. These include six-year-old Azad Zakarian, his father Hagop, his mother Araxi and his two aunts Anna and Gayané...   [More...]

La Meilleure façon de marcher (1976)
Claude Miller

In the summer of 1960, Marc and Philippe work as supervisors in a French summer camp for boys. Their different methods of treating their young charges reflect their different personalities...   [More...]

Merlusse (1935)
Marcel Pagnol

The undisciplined pupils at a boarding school in the south of France have a habit of giving their teachers a hard time. The main target of their evil sense of humour is poor Monsieur Blanchard, a teacher they nickname Merlusse on account of his very peculiar odour...   [More...]

Mes meilleurs copains (1989)
Jean-Marie Poiré

At his house in the country, Richard invites four old friends of his - Jean-Michel, Guido, Antoine and Dany - to share a weekend with him and reminisce on their wild youth in the 1960s...   [More...]

Mike (2011)
Lars Blumers

Contrary to what you might think, Mike and his tearaway friends Fred and J-C have plenty to occupy themselves in Kembs, a backwater town in Alsace on the border with Switzerland and Germany...   [More...]

Milou en mai (1990)
Louis Malle

May 1968. Émile Vieuzac, known to all as Milou, is a contented 60 year-old who lives with his mother in a grand country house in the southwest of France...   [More...]

Les Mistons (1957)
François Truffaut

In the historic town of Nîmes, an attractive young woman named Bernadette finds she has some unwelcome admirers in a gang of schoolboys who insist on following her about during the long summer holidays...   [More...]

Mobile Home (2012)
François Pirot

Having broken up with his girlfriend, Simon returns to his home village where his parents are enjoying a peaceful retirement...   [More...]

Mon ange (2004)
Serge Frydman

Colette is a prostitute who prefers to make her own way in life after breaking up with her boyfriend. One evening, she receives a phone call from a friend who pleads with her to take charge of her teenage son, Billy...   [More...]

Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Alain Resnais

Henri Laborit is a world-renowned biologist who conjectures that human beings exhibit virtually identical patterns of behaviour to other animals in stress situations...   [More...]

Mon père, ce héros (1991)
Gérard Lauzier

After separating from his wife Irina, 40-something André becomes obsessively preoccupied with his teenage daughter Véronique, who is growing up much faster than he would like...   [More...]

Monsieur Fabre (1951)
Henri Diamant-Berger

Avignon, 1861. When he is not fulfilling his duties as a schoolmaster and family man, Jean-Henri Fabre occupies himself in the study of insects, his main passion in life...   [More...]



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