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French cinema: Drama
Sous les yeux d'occident (1936)
Marc Allégret
In Russia during the early 1900s, Razumov is a brilliant student with a dazzling career ahead of him. He has no interest in politics and is unmoved when he learns that the Prime Minister has just been shot dead...
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Marc Allégret
Stand-by (2000)
Roch Stéphanik
Having been together for eight years, Gérard and Hélène appear settled in their relationship. Now they are preparing to embark on a new life in Argentina...
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Roch Stéphanik
Stavisky (1974)
Alain Resnais
France, 1933. Serge Alexandre is a high-flying businessman who seems to have the Midas touch when it comes to making money...
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Alain Resnais
Subway (1985)
Luc Besson
Helena, the beautiful young wife of a wealthy businessman, invites a stranger Fred to her party. Fred repays her by stealing compromising documents from her husband's safe, with the aim of blackmailing the couple...
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Luc Besson
Sur les rails (1912)
Léonce Perret
Pierre, a young railway worker, is in love with Augustine, the owner of a café. Neither knows that Jacques, a colleague and supposed friend of Pierre, also has amorous designs on Augustine...
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Léonce Perret
Sur ta joue ennemie (2008)
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Julien has paid the debt he owes society: thirteen years in prison for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. Now, on the day of his release, he hopes to make a clean break... [More...]
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Julien has paid the debt he owes society: thirteen years in prison for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. Now, on the day of his release, he hopes to make a clean break... [More...]
Swimming Pool (2003)
François Ozon
Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France... [More...]
François Ozon
Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France... [More...]
La Symphonie fantastique (1942)
Christian-Jaque
In Paris circa 1825, Hector Berlioz is a reluctant medical student who shows more interest in music than human anatomy. Convinced that his future lies as a composer, the young Berlioz abandons his studies and devotes himself to his musical compositions, encouraged by his friend Antoine Charbonnel... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
In Paris circa 1825, Hector Berlioz is a reluctant medical student who shows more interest in music than human anatomy. Convinced that his future lies as a composer, the young Berlioz abandons his studies and devotes himself to his musical compositions, encouraged by his friend Antoine Charbonnel... [More...]
La Symphonie pastorale (1946)
Jean Delannoy
The young pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
The young pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her... [More...]
La Tare (1911)
Louis Feuillade
Anna Moulin works as a waitress in a bustling brasserie in Paris' Latin Quarter, a place frequented by students and loose women... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Anna Moulin works as a waitress in a bustling brasserie in Paris' Latin Quarter, a place frequented by students and loose women... [More...]
Tchao pantin (1983)
Claude Berri
Lambert, a chronically introverted man in his forties, leads the most solitary of lives. He is more than happy to forget his past and shuns the company of others, content with working nights at an anonymous petrol station in a busy downmarket district of Paris... [More...]
Claude Berri
Lambert, a chronically introverted man in his forties, leads the most solitary of lives. He is more than happy to forget his past and shuns the company of others, content with working nights at an anonymous petrol station in a busy downmarket district of Paris... [More...]
Les Témoins (2007)
André Téchiné
In the summer of 1984, a gay teenager named Manu arrives in Paris looking for work. He stays with his sister, Julie, an aspiring opera singer who rents a tiny room in a cheap hotel frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes... [More...]
André Téchiné
In the summer of 1984, a gay teenager named Manu arrives in Paris looking for work. He stays with his sister, Julie, an aspiring opera singer who rents a tiny room in a cheap hotel frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes... [More...]
Le Tempestaire (1947)
Jean Epstein
On a small island off the coast of Brittany, a young woman and her grandmother are sitting at a spinning wheel when the door to their cottage suddenly opens of its own accord... [More...]
Jean Epstein
On a small island off the coast of Brittany, a young woman and her grandmother are sitting at a spinning wheel when the door to their cottage suddenly opens of its own accord... [More...]
Le Temps des porte-plumes (2006)
Daniel Duval
In the summer of 1954, nine-year-old Pippo is adopted by Gustave and Cécile, a farming couple who live in a region of central France... [More...]
Daniel Duval
In the summer of 1954, nine-year-old Pippo is adopted by Gustave and Cécile, a farming couple who live in a region of central France... [More...]
Le Temps qui reste (2005)
François Ozon
Romain is young and handsome; he has a successful career as a fashion photographer; and, at age 30, he has everything to live for... [More...]
François Ozon
Romain is young and handsome; he has a successful career as a fashion photographer; and, at age 30, he has everything to live for... [More...]
Le Temps retrouvé (1999)
Raoul Ruiz
As he lies on his death bed, attended by his maid, the writer Marcel Proust recounts his life in a series of fragmented, inter-locking recollections... [More...]
Raoul Ruiz
As he lies on his death bed, attended by his maid, the writer Marcel Proust recounts his life in a series of fragmented, inter-locking recollections... [More...]
Terrain vague (1960)
Marcel Carné
For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby... [More...]
Marcel Carné
For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby... [More...]
La Tête contre les murs (1959)
Georges Franju
Worn down by the troublesome behaviour of his rebellious son François, Maître Gérane, a well-known lawyer, has him interned in a psychiatric hospital... [More...]
Georges Franju
Worn down by the troublesome behaviour of his rebellious son François, Maître Gérane, a well-known lawyer, has him interned in a psychiatric hospital... [More...]
La Tête d'un homme (1933)
Julien Duvivier
In a crowded Parisian café, Willy Ferrière, a penniless playboy, declares that he is willing to pay a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will kill his aunt, thereby allowing him to inherit a vast fortune... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a crowded Parisian café, Willy Ferrière, a penniless playboy, declares that he is willing to pay a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will kill his aunt, thereby allowing him to inherit a vast fortune... [More...]
La Tête haute (2015)
Emmanuelle Bercot
Unable to cope with her troublesome six-year-old son Malony, single mother Séverine places him in the care of a juvenile court judge, Florence Blaque... [More...]
Emmanuelle Bercot
Unable to cope with her troublesome six-year-old son Malony, single mother Séverine places him in the care of a juvenile court judge, Florence Blaque... [More...]
Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau (2016)
Olivier Ducastel
In a Parisian sex club, two young men are irresistibly drawn to one another. Surrendering to the physical yearning that suddenly takes possession of them, they are united, body and soul, in a passion that is the most intense either has ever known... [More...]
Olivier Ducastel
In a Parisian sex club, two young men are irresistibly drawn to one another. Surrendering to the physical yearning that suddenly takes possession of them, they are united, body and soul, in a passion that is the most intense either has ever known... [More...]
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
Georges Franju
Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard, by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his wife's acquittal... [More...]
Georges Franju
Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard, by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his wife's acquittal... [More...]
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)
Claude Miller
France in the late 1920s. Thérèse is coerced into a marriage with her neighbour, Bernard Desqueyroux, who owns a large rural estate in the Landes region of France... [More...]
Claude Miller
France in the late 1920s. Thérèse is coerced into a marriage with her neighbour, Bernard Desqueyroux, who owns a large rural estate in the Landes region of France... [More...]
Thérèse Raquin (1953)
Marcel Carné
After being adopted by her aunt, Thérèse Raquin was forced into marrying her sickly cousin Camille at an early age... [More...]
Marcel Carné
After being adopted by her aunt, Thérèse Raquin was forced into marrying her sickly cousin Camille at an early age... [More...]
Thomas l'imposteur (1965)
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Les Toits de Paris (2007)
Hiner Saleem
Paris, during a long hot summer heat wave. Marcel is an old man for whom home is a tiny room beneath the roofs of a Parisian apartment block... [More...]
Hiner Saleem
Paris, during a long hot summer heat wave. Marcel is an old man for whom home is a tiny room beneath the roofs of a Parisian apartment block... [More...]
Toni (1935)
Jean Renoir
In the early 1930s, Toni, a young Italian labourer, arrives in France and finds work at a quarry. His landlady Marie takes a liking to him, but he is only interested in another woman, Josepha... [More...]
Jean Renoir
In the early 1930s, Toni, a young Italian labourer, arrives in France and finds work at a quarry. His landlady Marie takes a liking to him, but he is only interested in another woman, Josepha... [More...]
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Jacques Becker
Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy... [More...]
Jacques Becker
Max and Riton are two ageing gangsters who have just pulled off a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. Both men hope to retire gracefully on their ill-gotten gains but their plans are jeopardised when Riton says more than he should to his mistress Josy... [More...]
Tous les matins du monde (1991)
Alain Corneau
At the time of Louis XIV of France, a brilliant court musician, Marin Marais, reflects on his tutelage under the great viola player, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe... [More...]
Alain Corneau
At the time of Louis XIV of France, a brilliant court musician, Marin Marais, reflects on his tutelage under the great viola player, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe... [More...]
Tout est pardonné (2007)
Mia Hansen-Løve
In the mid-1990s, Victor, a journalist, lives with his partner, Anette, and their six-year-old daughter, Pamela, in Vienna... [More...]
Mia Hansen-Løve
In the mid-1990s, Victor, a journalist, lives with his partner, Anette, and their six-year-old daughter, Pamela, in Vienna... [More...]