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French cinema: Drama
La Tradition de minuit (1939)
Roger Richebé
Clara Véry, a singer at the nightclub Le Soleil noir, receives an anonymous telephone call inviting her to attend a meeting the next day in a café...
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Roger Richebé
La Traque (1975)
Serge Leroy
A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar...
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Serge Leroy
Tricheurs (1984)
Barbet Schroeder
Elric is a compulsive gambler who is at the end of his tether when he meets a young woman, Suzy, on the island of Madeira...
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Barbet Schroeder
Les Tricheurs (1958)
Marcel Carné
Middle class student Bob Letellier enters a new world when he meets Alain, a free-thinking rebel who, along with his group of young Parisians, has opted for a life of instant gratification instead of work and commitment...
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Marcel Carné
Trois chambres à Manhattan (1965)
Marcel Carné
François Combe is an actor whose hopes of becoming a big star in Hollywood are dashed within a very short time of his arrival in America...
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Marcel Carné
Trois couleurs Rouge (1994)
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Valentine is an attractive young fashion model living in Geneva. Whilst driving home one evening, she accidentally runs over a dog... [More...]
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Valentine is an attractive young fashion model living in Geneva. Whilst driving home one evening, she accidentally runs over a dog... [More...]
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
Krzysztof Kieslowski
After the death of her husband, a famous composer, and her daughter in a car accident, a young woman, Julie, decides to start a new life for herself... [More...]
Krzysztof Kieslowski
After the death of her husband, a famous composer, and her daughter in a car accident, a young woman, Julie, decides to start a new life for herself... [More...]
Trois de Saint-Cyr (1939)
Jean-Paul Paulin
Despite the objections of his father, a wealthy banker, Jean Le Moyne enters Saint-Cyr, France's most prestigious military academy, to become an officer in the French army... [More...]
Jean-Paul Paulin
Despite the objections of his father, a wealthy banker, Jean Le Moyne enters Saint-Cyr, France's most prestigious military academy, to become an officer in the French army... [More...]
Trois huit (2001)
Philippe Le Guay
Pierre is a married man in his mid-thirties who works long hours at a glass-producing factory and leads a contented family life... [More...]
Philippe Le Guay
Pierre is a married man in his mid-thirties who works long hours at a glass-producing factory and leads a contented family life... [More...]
Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (2015)
Arnaud Desplechin
On his return to France after spending several years in Tajikistan, forty-something anthropologist Paul Dédalus is prompted to looks back on his past... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
On his return to France after spending several years in Tajikistan, forty-something anthropologist Paul Dédalus is prompted to looks back on his past... [More...]
Le Trou (1960)
Jacques Becker
In 1947, a young man named Claude Gaspard is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he insists he is innocent of the crime... [More...]
Jacques Becker
In 1947, a young man named Claude Gaspard is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he insists he is innocent of the crime... [More...]
Le Trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (1911)
Louis Feuillade
Darbois, a wealthy industrialist, declines an invitation to join a trust headed by the rubber magnate Jacob Berwick after he receives a telegram from a young scientist, Jean Brémond, who claims to have invented a revolutionary new form of rubber... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
Darbois, a wealthy industrialist, declines an invitation to join a trust headed by the rubber magnate Jacob Berwick after he receives a telegram from a young scientist, Jean Brémond, who claims to have invented a revolutionary new form of rubber... [More...]
Le Tueur (2008)
Cédric Anger
Léo Zimmerman is a successful businessman who is looking forward to spending Christmas with his beloved daughter. His plans look as if they are about to be frustrated when a suspicious-looking young man named Dimitri Kopas shows up in his office and tries to pass himself off as a client... [More...]
Cédric Anger
Léo Zimmerman is a successful businessman who is looking forward to spending Christmas with his beloved daughter. His plans look as if they are about to be frustrated when a suspicious-looking young man named Dimitri Kopas shows up in his office and tries to pass himself off as a client... [More...]
Tumultes (1932)
Robert Siodmak
Once released from prison, Ralph Schwartz doesn't waste any time organising another bank raid with his band of crooks. His wife Ania is less keen to see him: she has started to have an affair with another man, a photographer named Gustave... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
Once released from prison, Ralph Schwartz doesn't waste any time organising another bank raid with his band of crooks. His wife Ania is less keen to see him: she has started to have an affair with another man, a photographer named Gustave... [More...]
Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957)
Yves Ciampi
Pierre Marsac is a French engineer working for a large oil company in Nagasaki, a Japanese city that was mostly devastated by an atomic bomb at the end of WWII... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Pierre Marsac is a French engineer working for a large oil company in Nagasaki, a Japanese city that was mostly devastated by an atomic bomb at the end of WWII... [More...]
Un acte d'amour (1953)
Anatole Litvak
Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation... [More...]
Anatole Litvak
Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation... [More...]
Un ami viendra ce soir (1946)
Raymond Bernard
August 1944. On the outskirts of a small village in the French Alps, Dr Lestrade manages an asylum for the mentally deranged... [More...]
Raymond Bernard
August 1944. On the outskirts of a small village in the French Alps, Dr Lestrade manages an asylum for the mentally deranged... [More...]
Un amour à taire (2005)
Christian Faure
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Lavandiers run a thriving laundry business. Jean is the favoured son - he works hard and avoids getting into trouble, unlike his brother Jacques who is serving a term in prison for black marketeering... [More...]
Christian Faure
During the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Lavandiers run a thriving laundry business. Jean is the favoured son - he works hard and avoids getting into trouble, unlike his brother Jacques who is serving a term in prison for black marketeering... [More...]
Un amour de jeunesse (2011)
Mia Hansen-Løve
You never forget your first love, and when it ends - as surely it must - you feel you will never get over it. This is something that Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl, knows to be true after separating from the boy she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Mia Hansen-Løve
You never forget your first love, and when it ends - as surely it must - you feel you will never get over it. This is something that Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl, knows to be true after separating from the boy she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Un amour impossible (2018)
Catherine Corsini
Towards the end of the 1950s, Rachel is a modest office worker in her early twenties who lives in the central French town of Châteauroux... [More...]
Catherine Corsini
Towards the end of the 1950s, Rachel is a modest office worker in her early twenties who lives in the central French town of Châteauroux... [More...]
Un carnet de bal (1937)
Julien Duvivier
To take her mind off the recent death of her husband, Christine de Guérande begins sorting through her old possessions and is surprised to find her dance card for her coming out ball many years ago... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
To take her mind off the recent death of her husband, Christine de Guérande begins sorting through her old possessions and is surprised to find her dance card for her coming out ball many years ago... [More...]
Un coeur en hiver (1992)
Claude Sautet
Stéphane and Maxime are partners in a successful business that makes and repairs violins. Stéphane is surprised when, one day, Maxime announces he is in love and plans to marry one of his clients, an attractive young violinist named Camille... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Stéphane and Maxime are partners in a successful business that makes and repairs violins. Stéphane is surprised when, one day, Maxime announces he is in love and plans to marry one of his clients, an attractive young violinist named Camille... [More...]
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (1956)
Robert Bresson
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, Lieutenant Fontaine is arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement with the Resistance... [More...]
Robert Bresson
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, Lieutenant Fontaine is arrested by the Gestapo for his involvement with the Resistance... [More...]
Un condé (1970)
Yves Boisset
Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin... [More...]
Un crime (1993)
Jacques Deray
Fifteen months after being arrested for the murder of his wealthy parents, Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel is acquitted on evidence provided by his girlfriend, Franca Miller... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Fifteen months after being arrested for the murder of his wealthy parents, Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel is acquitted on evidence provided by his girlfriend, Franca Miller... [More...]
Un dimanche à la campagne (1984)
Bertrand Tavernier
Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his large country house, cared for by his loyal housekeeper Mercédès... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his large country house, cared for by his loyal housekeeper Mercédès... [More...]
Un enfant dans la foule (1976)
Gérard Blain
During the Nazi Occupation of France, a 13-year-old boy named Paul lives with his mother and sister in his grandmother's cramped apartment... [More...]
Gérard Blain
During the Nazi Occupation of France, a 13-year-old boy named Paul lives with his mother and sister in his grandmother's cramped apartment... [More...]
Un flic (1972)
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Un Français (2015)
Diastème
Along with his skinhead cohorts Braguette, Grand-Guy and Marvin, Marco likes nothing better than to beat up Arabs and put up posters supporting the Far Right... [More...]
Diastème
Along with his skinhead cohorts Braguette, Grand-Guy and Marvin, Marco likes nothing better than to beat up Arabs and put up posters supporting the Far Right... [More...]