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French cinema: History

Les Trois mousquetaires (1921)
Henri Diamant-Berger

1625, France. The young d'Artagnan leaves his home in Gascony and sets out for Paris to fulfil his dream to serve as a musketeer under King Louis XIII...   [More...]

Une exécution ordinaire (2010)
Marc Dugain

In the autumn of 1952, a young woman doctor is working at a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. She is desperate to become pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist whose only reason for living is the love he has for his wife...   [More...]

Uranus (1990)
Claude Berri

Little by little, normality returns to a small French town after World War II. The town is as scarred by the petty recriminations between its inhabitants as by the very evident signs of bombings...   [More...]

Van Gogh (1991)
Maurice Pialat

In the spring of 1890, the impoverished artist Vincent Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, not far from Paris. He stays at a modest inn and places himself under the care of the kindly Dr Gachet...   [More...]

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000)
Patrice Leconte

In 1849, the calm of a small community on the bleak island St Pierre, off the coast of French Canada, is disrupted when a drunk stabs another man to death...   [More...]

Voleurs de chevaux (2007)
Micha Wald

Ukraine, 1810. Two young Cossack brothers, Jakub and Vladimir, join the Russian army hoping to find relief from the misery of their existences...   [More...]


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