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French cinema: Horror
À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Georges Méliès
The world's greatest scientists gather to plan an expedition to the North Pole. Various ingenious methods of reaching the pole are put forward but it is Professor Maboul's flying machine that creates most excitement...
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Georges Méliès
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...
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Hélène Cattet
Au secours! (1924)
Abel Gance
Max is relaxing on honeymoon with his bride Renée when he suddenly feels inclined to drop in on his club. He arrives at the club just as the Count de Mornay offers a bet that no one can spend a night in his haunted castle...
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Abel Gance
L'Auberge rouge (1951)
Claude Autant-Lara
In the Ardèche region of France in 1883, Marie Martin and her husband manage a remote rural inn. The hostelry is unfortunately situated and the Martins have difficulty attracting customers, so they decide to make their living by less honest means, by murdering their guests and robbing them of their valuables...
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Claude Autant-Lara
Calvaire (2004)
Fabrice Du Welz
Marc Stevens is an itinerant singer who performs mainly for retirement homes. After an engagement at a hospice is cancelled, his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere...
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Fabrice Du Welz
Le Chaudron infernal (1903)
Georges Méliès
In a creepy Gothic castle, a visibly terrified young woman is brought before a fierce-looking green-skinned demon. Ignoring the woman's frantic protestations, the malevolent demon hastily wraps her in a white sheet and bundles her into a burning cauldron... [More...]
Georges Méliès
In a creepy Gothic castle, a visibly terrified young woman is brought before a fierce-looking green-skinned demon. Ignoring the woman's frantic protestations, the malevolent demon hastily wraps her in a white sheet and bundles her into a burning cauldron... [More...]
La Chute de la maison Usher (1928)
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Sir Roderick Usher and his wife Madeleine lead a solitary life, living in an ancient castle surrounded by sinister misty marshes in the most barren and forbidding of rural landscapes... [More...]
Delicatessen (1991)
Marc Caro
In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive... [More...]
Marc Caro
In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive... [More...]
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle and his wife Christina run a private boarding school in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris. Delasalle is a tyrant not only to the youngsters under his care but also to his wife and his mistress Nicole, who works at the school as a teacher... [More...]
Évolution (2016)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Somewhere on a remote stretch of coast there lives a community of women and young boys. Nicolas is an eleven-year-old who lives with his mother and is beginning to ask himself questions about the life he is leading... [More...]
Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949)
Robert Vernay
Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Brutally rejected by his one true love Irène de Charras, the renowned surgeon François de Bréval commits suicide by crashing his car into a tree at high speed... [More...]
La Galerie des monstres (1924)
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Jaque Catelain
Castile, Spain. Idealistic youngsters, Riquett's and Ralda are deeply in love but their union is opposed by the latter's over-proud aristrocratic grandfather, who has higher hopes for his orphaned ward than marriage to a mere itinerant gypsy boy... [More...]
Le Golem (1936)
Julien Duvivier
In the early years of the 17th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II rules Bohemia with an iron grip whilst pursuing the alchemists' dream of endowing inanimate matter with life... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In the early years of the 17th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II rules Bohemia with an iron grip whilst pursuing the alchemists' dream of endowing inanimate matter with life... [More...]
Grave (2017)
Julia Ducournau
Like the rest of her well-educated, middle-class family, Justine is a committed vegetarian who would never dream of eating meat... [More...]
Julia Ducournau
Like the rest of her well-educated, middle-class family, Justine is a committed vegetarian who would never dream of eating meat... [More...]
Histoires extraordinaires (1949)
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
Jean Faurez
France, at the time of the Second Empire. One dreary night, three gendarmes regale a new recruit with tales of murder and intrigue with which they have had first hand experience... [More...]
Ils (2006)
David Moreau
Clémentine and Lucas are a young French couple who have been living in Bucharest for several months. She works as a teacher, he is a writer... [More...]
David Moreau
Clémentine and Lucas are a young French couple who have been living in Bucharest for several months. She works as a teacher, he is a writer... [More...]
J'accuse (1919)
Abel Gance
In a village in the south of France, Jean Diaz, a sensitive young poet, is in love with Édith, the wife of the brutal and unforgiving François Laurin... [More...]
Abel Gance
In a village in the south of France, Jean Diaz, a sensitive young poet, is in love with Édith, the wife of the brutal and unforgiving François Laurin... [More...]
J'accuse! (1938)
Abel Gance
After serving in the First World War, Jean Diaz returns to his home town but cannot bring himself to continue his affair with Edith, the wife of one of his fallen comrades... [More...]
Abel Gance
After serving in the First World War, Jean Diaz returns to his home town but cannot bring himself to continue his affair with Edith, the wife of one of his fallen comrades... [More...]
Jusqu'à la garde (2018)
Xavier Legrand
Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce... [More...]
Xavier Legrand
Miriam and Antoine Besson are a French couple in their mid-forties who are going through the motions of a fraught separation and divorce... [More...]
Le Locataire (1976)
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital... [More...]
La Main du diable (1943)
Maurice Tourneur
A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. During a momentary power-cut the box suddenly goes missing, and its owner is stricken with terror... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. During a momentary power-cut the box suddenly goes missing, and its owner is stricken with terror... [More...]
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (1971)
Joël Séria
Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders... [More...]
Joël Séria
Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders... [More...]
Notre-Dame de Paris (1911)
Albert Capellani
Paris, 1482. In the streets of the capital, the common folk are enthralled by the sight of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda as she performs exotic dances for their entertainment and for the few meagre coins they offer her in return... [More...]
Albert Capellani
Paris, 1482. In the streets of the capital, the common folk are enthralled by the sight of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda as she performs exotic dances for their entertainment and for the few meagre coins they offer her in return... [More...]
Le Trio infernal (1974)
Francis Girod
After serving with distinction in the First World War, Georges Sarret now makes a respectable living as a lawyer in the town of Marseille... [More...]
Francis Girod
After serving with distinction in the First World War, Georges Sarret now makes a respectable living as a lawyer in the town of Marseille... [More...]
Un couteau dans le coeur (2018)
Yann Gonzalez
In the late 1970s, Anne Parèze is a 40-something producer of low-budget porn movies based in Paris. As her career wanes, she turns to drink and becomes increasingly emotionally unstable... [More...]
Yann Gonzalez
In the late 1970s, Anne Parèze is a 40-something producer of low-budget porn movies based in Paris. As her career wanes, she turns to drink and becomes increasingly emotionally unstable... [More...]
Le Voyage imaginaire (1926)
René Clair
Jean, a modest bank clerk, is in love with his boss's secretary, Lucie, but he is too shy to impose his feelings on the angelic being who has stolen his heart... [More...]
René Clair
Jean, a modest bank clerk, is in love with his boss's secretary, Lucie, but he is too shy to impose his feelings on the angelic being who has stolen his heart... [More...]
Les Yeux sans visage (1960)
Georges Franju
Professor Genessier, once a great surgeon, is now consumed with his overriding obsession - to restore the features of his beloved daughter Christiane... [More...]
Georges Franju
Professor Genessier, once a great surgeon, is now consumed with his overriding obsession - to restore the features of his beloved daughter Christiane... [More...]