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French cinema: Drama
L'Affaire Farewell (2009)
Christian Carion
Moscow in the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system...
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Christian Carion
Agent trouble (1987)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
One winter's morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky
Agnès de rien (1950)
Pierre Billon
At the insistence of her husband Francis, Agnès de Chaligny is forced to take up residence in his ancestral family home in the country whilst he, a struggling artist in Paris, sorts out his finances...
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Pierre Billon
L'Agonie de Byzance (1913)
Louis Feuillade
On 6th April 1453, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II surround the holy Christian city of Constantinople, poised to attack when the command is given...
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Louis Feuillade
L'Aigle à deux têtes (1948)
Jean Cocteau
Natasha, the queen of an unhappy kingdom, lives as a recluse, ten years after the king, her beloved husband, was assassinated...
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Jean Cocteau
L'Aîné des Ferchaux (1963)
Jean-Pierre Melville
After a series of match defeats, a young boxer named Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager and is forced to look for alternative employment to make ends meet... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
After a series of match defeats, a young boxer named Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager and is forced to look for alternative employment to make ends meet... [More...]
Alice et Martin (1998)
André Téchiné
In the southwest of France, Martin is leading a tranquil childhood with his mother and her boyfriend when his wealthy father, Victor Sauvagnac, insists on taking custody of him... [More...]
André Téchiné
In the southwest of France, Martin is leading a tranquil childhood with his mother and her boyfriend when his wealthy father, Victor Sauvagnac, insists on taking custody of him... [More...]
Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977)
Claude Chabrol
After walking out on her husband, Alice gets into her car and sets out for what she hopes will be a new life. Whilst driving through the countryside a storm breaks and her windscreen suddenly cracks... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
After walking out on her husband, Alice gets into her car and sets out for what she hopes will be a new life. Whilst driving through the countryside a storm breaks and her windscreen suddenly cracks... [More...]
Alyah (2012)
Elie Wajeman
Alex is 27 and lives in one of the less salubrious districts of Paris. He makes a dishonest living as a drugs dealer, but most of his hard-earned cash ends up in the pocket of his overly demanding older brother, Isaac... [More...]
Elie Wajeman
Alex is 27 and lives in one of the less salubrious districts of Paris. He makes a dishonest living as a drugs dealer, but most of his hard-earned cash ends up in the pocket of his overly demanding older brother, Isaac... [More...]
L'Amant de lady Chatterley (1955)
Marc Allégret
Lady Constance Chatterley is under pressure from both her sister Hilda and her husband, Sir Clifford, to find herself a lover so that she can get herself pregnant and provide an heir to the Chatterley estate... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Lady Constance Chatterley is under pressure from both her sister Hilda and her husband, Sir Clifford, to find herself a lover so that she can get herself pregnant and provide an heir to the Chatterley estate... [More...]
Les Amants de Vérone (1949)
André Cayatte
A film crew is shooting an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Venice. Bettina Verdi, the leading actress, visits a glass factory in Murano with her guide Raffaele... [More...]
André Cayatte
A film crew is shooting an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Venice. Bettina Verdi, the leading actress, visits a glass factory in Murano with her guide Raffaele... [More...]
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
Leos Carax
Paris, 1989. Leaving a shelter for homeless people, Alex, a wild-looking young man in his twenties, heads across town to his favourite spot on the Pont-Neuf... [More...]
Leos Carax
Paris, 1989. Leaving a shelter for homeless people, Alex, a wild-looking young man in his twenties, heads across town to his favourite spot on the Pont-Neuf... [More...]
Les Amants réguliers (2005)
Philippe Garrel
May 1968. The streets of Paris are ablaze as students and riot police unwittingly re-enact the famous barricade scene from Les Misèrables ... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
May 1968. The streets of Paris are ablaze as students and riot police unwittingly re-enact the famous barricade scene from Les Misèrables ... [More...]
Les Amants (1958)
Louis Malle
Jeanne relieves the boredom of her stale marriage to newspaper magnate Henri Tournier by frequent visits to Paris, where she divides her time between her best friend Maggie and her covert lover Raoul... [More...]
Louis Malle
Jeanne relieves the boredom of her stale marriage to newspaper magnate Henri Tournier by frequent visits to Paris, where she divides her time between her best friend Maggie and her covert lover Raoul... [More...]
Amer (2010)
Hélène Cattet
At three key stages in her life, Ana is assailed by conflicting feelings of fear and desire. In childhood, she is seized with terror when she witnesses an old woman perform a bizarre death ritual whilst her parents yield themselves to a horrifying bestial act... [More...]
Hélène Cattet
At three key stages in her life, Ana is assailed by conflicting feelings of fear and desire. In childhood, she is seized with terror when she witnesses an old woman perform a bizarre death ritual whilst her parents yield themselves to a horrifying bestial act... [More...]
Americano (2011)
Mathieu Demy
Martin is a late thirty-something who lives in Paris with his girlfriend Claire, although the spark has long gone out of their relationship and they live together more out of habit than through mutual need... [More...]
Mathieu Demy
Martin is a late thirty-something who lives in Paris with his girlfriend Claire, although the spark has long gone out of their relationship and they live together more out of habit than through mutual need... [More...]
Les Âmes grises (2005)
Yves Angelo
France, 1917. A young schoolteacher, Lysia Verhaeren, arrives in a small town near to the Western Front to take up her first post at an infant's school... [More...]
Yves Angelo
France, 1917. A young schoolteacher, Lysia Verhaeren, arrives in a small town near to the Western Front to take up her first post at an infant's school... [More...]
L'Ami: François d'Assise et ses frères (2016)
Renaud Fely
In Italy at the start of the 13th century, the son of a wealthy merchant has turned his back on riches and now leads a simple life in the service of the poor and infirm... [More...]
Renaud Fely
In Italy at the start of the 13th century, the son of a wealthy merchant has turned his back on riches and now leads a simple life in the service of the poor and infirm... [More...]
Les Amis (1971)
Gérard Blain
Paul is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in social housing in Paris. He left school at 13 and is in no hurry to find a job, imagining that one day he will begin a career as an actor... [More...]
Gérard Blain
Paul is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in social housing in Paris. He left school at 13 and is in no hurry to find a job, imagining that one day he will begin a career as an actor... [More...]
Les Amitiés particulières (1964)
Jean Delannoy
In the 1930s, Georges de Sarre, a fifteen-year old boy from an aristocratic background, begins his studies in a Jesuit boarding school... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the 1930s, Georges de Sarre, a fifteen-year old boy from an aristocratic background, begins his studies in a Jesuit boarding school... [More...]
Amok (1934)
Fyodor Otsep
In a Dutch colony in the Far East, Dr Holk ekes out a solitary existence catering to the needs of the natives whilst frittering away his earnings on gambling and alcohol... [More...]
Fyodor Otsep
In a Dutch colony in the Far East, Dr Holk ekes out a solitary existence catering to the needs of the natives whilst frittering away his earnings on gambling and alcohol... [More...]
Amour (2012)
Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are a happily married couple who are now in their eighties. Retired piano teachers, they have a daughter who is also a musician, but she lives abroad with her own family... [More...]
Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are a happily married couple who are now in their eighties. Retired piano teachers, they have a daughter who is also a musician, but she lives abroad with her own family... [More...]
L'Amour à mort (1984)
Alain Resnais
Whilst participating in an archaeological survey, Simon Roche, a man in his fifties, falls in love with Élisabeth Sutter, an attractive younger woman... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Whilst participating in an archaeological survey, Simon Roche, a man in his fifties, falls in love with Élisabeth Sutter, an attractive younger woman... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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...]