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French cinema: Drama
La Régate (2009)
Bernard Bellefroid
Alex is 15 and lives with his father, an oppressive and violent man who, because of his drink problem, has difficulty holding down a job...
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Bernard Bellefroid
Les Regrets (2009)
Cédric Kahn
Mathieu Lievin is a 40-year-old architect living in Paris. When he learns that his mother has been hospitalised, he makes a hasty return to the provincial town in which he grew up...
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Cédric Kahn
La Reine Margot (1994)
Patrice Chéreau
Paris, August, 1572 - a troubled time in the history of France, a country scarred by interminable religious wars. To appease the Protestants, the Catholic queen mother Catherine de Medici arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri...
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Patrice Chéreau
La Religieuse (1966)
Jacques Rivette
Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to enter a convent at the age of 16. Traumatised by the harassment she receives from her Mother Superior, she starts to rebel and is transferred to another convent...
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Jacques Rivette
Remorques (1941)
Jean Grémillon
André Laurent is the captain of a salvage boat and lives in the Brittany port of Brest with his wife Yvonne. Concealing a serious illness, Yvonne pleads with her husband to give up his hazardous job and start a new life with her in another town, but, loyal to his employees, André refuses...
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Jean Grémillon
Rendez-vous (1985)
André Téchiné
Nina is a young woman from the provinces who has just arrived in Paris with the hope of making a career as an actress. Her first priority is to find a place to live, and this is how she comes to meet Paulot, a trainee estate agent... [More...]
André Téchiné
Nina is a young woman from the provinces who has just arrived in Paris with the hope of making a career as an actress. Her first priority is to find a place to live, and this is how she comes to meet Paulot, a trainee estate agent... [More...]
Rendez-vous à Kiruna (2013)
Anne Novion
Ernest, a renowned architect, lives only for his work. One day, he receives a call from the Swedish police who ask him to undertake a long journey to Kiruna in Lapland... [More...]
Anne Novion
Ernest, a renowned architect, lives only for his work. One day, he receives a call from the Swedish police who ask him to undertake a long journey to Kiruna in Lapland... [More...]
Le Rendez-vous des quais (1955)
Paul Carpita
Marseilles, 1953. Robert Fournier is a young dock worker who wants to marry Marcelle, an employee in a biscuit factory. But times are hard and the couple are unable to afford an apartment, so they have no choice but to go on living with their parents... [More...]
Paul Carpita
Marseilles, 1953. Robert Fournier is a young dock worker who wants to marry Marcelle, an employee in a biscuit factory. But times are hard and the couple are unable to afford an apartment, so they have no choice but to go on living with their parents... [More...]
Ressources humaines (1999)
Laurent Cantet
With a diploma in business studies under his belt, 22-year old Franck returns to his home village, looking forward to a successful business career... [More...]
Laurent Cantet
With a diploma in business studies under his belt, 22-year old Franck returns to his home village, looking forward to a successful business career... [More...]
Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
Daniel Vigne
Early in the 1500s, there is a mood of celebration in the small village of Artigat in the Ariège region of southwest France... [More...]
Daniel Vigne
Early in the 1500s, there is a mood of celebration in the small village of Artigat in the Ariège region of southwest France... [More...]
La Revanche de Roger la Honte (1946)
André Cayatte
Twelve years have passed. Under the name Farrell, Laroque has settled in Canada, where he has made a fortune. But Suzanne, now a ravishing young woman, is haunted by the drama that upset her childhood... [More...]
André Cayatte
Twelve years have passed. Under the name Farrell, Laroque has settled in Canada, where he has made a fortune. But Suzanne, now a ravishing young woman, is haunted by the drama that upset her childhood... [More...]
Le Révélateur (1968)
Philippe Garrel
A couple and their child are on the run, as if pursued by a war that only shows itself in their faces. They flee from their house, then run across fields, down roads and through forests... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
A couple and their child are on the run, as if pursued by a war that only shows itself in their faces. They flee from their house, then run across fields, down roads and through forests... [More...]
Rien à faire (1999)
Marion Vernoux
An unemployed working class woman, Marie, has difficulty filling her empty days until one day she meets Pierre at a supermarket checkout... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
An unemployed working class woman, Marie, has difficulty filling her empty days until one day she meets Pierre at a supermarket checkout... [More...]
Les Risques du métier (1967)
André Cayatte
Jean Doucet and his wife Suzanne both teach at a school in the small Normandy village where they have lived peacefully for some years... [More...]
André Cayatte
Jean Doucet and his wife Suzanne both teach at a school in the small Normandy village where they have lived peacefully for some years... [More...]
Roger la Honte (1946)
André Cayatte
In 1885, the industrialist Roger Laroque, the owner of a factory in Ville d'Avray, has put all his hopes in his latest invention, the first steam-powered motorcar... [More...]
André Cayatte
In 1885, the industrialist Roger Laroque, the owner of a factory in Ville d'Avray, has put all his hopes in his latest invention, the first steam-powered motorcar... [More...]
Le Roman d'un mousse (1914)
Léonce Perret
Deeply in debt, the Marquis de Luscky begs the moneylender Elie Werb to save him from ruin. Werb refuses to give the Marquis any further money as he already owes him a substantial amount... [More...]
Léonce Perret
Deeply in debt, the Marquis de Luscky begs the moneylender Elie Werb to save him from ruin. Werb refuses to give the Marquis any further money as he already owes him a substantial amount... [More...]
Le Roman de ma femme (2011)
Jamshed Usmonov
Ève, a wealthy young woman, is devastated when her husband Paul goes missing, leaving her with a mountain of debt... [More...]
Jamshed Usmonov
Ève, a wealthy young woman, is devastated when her husband Paul goes missing, leaving her with a mountain of debt... [More...]
Le Roman de Werther (1938)
Max Ophüls
The setting is the German city of Wetzlar, towards the end of the 18th century. Werther is a young man of a romantic temperament, a poet and musician who occupies an important position at the town hall... [More...]
Max Ophüls
The setting is the German city of Wetzlar, towards the end of the 18th century. Werther is a young man of a romantic temperament, a poet and musician who occupies an important position at the town hall... [More...]
Les Roquevillard (1943)
Jean Dréville
In 1880s France, François Roquevillard is a highly regarded barrister in the Savoie town of Chambéry in southeast France... [More...]
Jean Dréville
In 1880s France, François Roquevillard is a highly regarded barrister in the Savoie town of Chambéry in southeast France... [More...]
Les Roseaux sauvages (1994)
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [More...]
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [More...]
Rosetta (1999)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Rosetta is an adolescent girl for whom every day is a struggle against an unsympathetic world. Living on a squalid campsite with her drunken mother, she has no friends and has to sell second hand clothes to make ends meet... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Rosetta is an adolescent girl for whom every day is a struggle against an unsympathetic world. Living on a squalid campsite with her drunken mother, she has no friends and has to sell second hand clothes to make ends meet... [More...]
La Roue (1923)
Abel Gance
Sisif, a widowed railway worker, rescues a young girl named Norma from the wreckage of a train crash. Realising her mother died in the crash, Sisif decides to bring the girl up as his own, along with his son Elie, whose mother died bringing him into the world... [More...]
Abel Gance
Sisif, a widowed railway worker, rescues a young girl named Norma from the wreckage of a train crash. Realising her mother died in the crash, Sisif decides to bring the girl up as his own, along with his son Elie, whose mother died bringing him into the world... [More...]
Le Rouge et le noir (1954)
Claude Autant-Lara
Before a court of law, Julien Sorel confesses to the attempted murder of the woman he loved and asks that he be condemned to death... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Before a court of law, Julien Sorel confesses to the attempted murder of the woman he loved and asks that he be condemned to death... [More...]
La Rupture (1970)
Claude Chabrol
Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son... [More...]
The Sacrifice (1986)
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Alexander is a man in his early sixties who leads a tranquil existence with his wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta and young son in a large house by the sea on a remote island... [More...]
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Alexander is a man in his early sixties who leads a tranquil existence with his wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta and young son in a large house by the sea on a remote island... [More...]
Saint Laurent (2014)
Bertrand Bonello
By 1967, Yves Saint Laurent is already established as one of the world's leading couturiers. As he instigates a fashion revolution, YSL becomes the figurehead of a brand the like of which the world has never known... [More...]
Bertrand Bonello
By 1967, Yves Saint Laurent is already established as one of the world's leading couturiers. As he instigates a fashion revolution, YSL becomes the figurehead of a brand the like of which the world has never known... [More...]
Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
Samia (2000)
Philippe Faucon
Samia is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family of Algerian Muslims on the grubby outskirts of northern Marseille. She is the sixth of eight children and is pressurised by her parents to adhere rigidly to their traditions and not be seduced by the sordid distractions of their adopted country... [More...]
Philippe Faucon
Samia is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family of Algerian Muslims on the grubby outskirts of northern Marseille. She is the sixth of eight children and is pressurised by her parents to adhere rigidly to their traditions and not be seduced by the sordid distractions of their adopted country... [More...]
Le Samouraï (1967)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Killing comes easy to Jef Costello. It is his job, it is what he does best. Others are willing to pay handsomely for his service, which he discharges with cool deadly efficiency... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Killing comes easy to Jef Costello. It is his job, it is what he does best. Others are willing to pay handsomely for his service, which he discharges with cool deadly efficiency... [More...]
Le Sang à la tête (1956)
Gilles Grangier
When he started out as a modest dockworker thirty years ago, François Cardinaud could not have imagined that he would become one of the most powerful men in the port of La Rochelle... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
When he started out as a modest dockworker thirty years ago, François Cardinaud could not have imagined that he would become one of the most powerful men in the port of La Rochelle... [More...]