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French cinema: Romance
L'Éternel retour (1943)
Jean Delannoy
Patrice travels to a remote island to find a young wife for his uncle Marc. There he meets a beautiful blonde named Nathalie, who agrees to return to the mainland to marry Patrice's uncle, if only to escape her life of penury...
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Jean Delannoy
L'Étoile de mer (1928)
Man Ray
A window opens onto a quiet country lane, where a man and a woman are walking side-by-side. Transported by desire, they ascend a staircase and enter a room, where the man watches as the woman removes her clothes and stretches out on a bed...
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Man Ray
Extérieur, nuit (1980)
Jacques Bral
Léo and Bony are two friends who both seem to have arrived at a crossroads in their lives. They belong to the May '68 generation who believed they could change the world, only to be disillusioned by what followed...
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Jacques Bral
La Fabrique des sentiments (2008)
Jean-Marc Moutout
To all appearances, Eloïse, 37, has made a success of her life. Her job as a property lawyer in Paris gives her a decent income, independence and a chic apartment...
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Jean-Marc Moutout
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The victim of an unhappy and lonely childhood, Amélie Poulain attains adulthood with a strong sense of justice and a willingness to help others, a strange set of qualifications for a modest waitress in a Montmarte café...
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Fais-moi plaisir! (2009)
Emmanuel Mouret
Convinced that her partner, Jean-Jacques, is showing an interest in another woman, Ariane coerces him into having an affair with her, believing that this is the best way to save their relationship... [More...]
Emmanuel Mouret
Convinced that her partner, Jean-Jacques, is showing an interest in another woman, Ariane coerces him into having an affair with her, believing that this is the best way to save their relationship... [More...]
Falbalas (1945)
Jacques Becker
Philippe Clarence is the genius couturier who runs one of the most successful fashion houses in Paris. His unsurpassed talent for design is matched only by the ease with which he draws women towards him, women he toys with whilst they amuse him, and then casually discards at his leisure... [More...]
Jacques Becker
Philippe Clarence is the genius couturier who runs one of the most successful fashion houses in Paris. His unsurpassed talent for design is matched only by the ease with which he draws women towards him, women he toys with whilst they amuse him, and then casually discards at his leisure... [More...]
Fanny (1932)
Marc Allégret
Such is the status accorded to single mothers in France of the 1930s that Fanny has no choice but to surrender herself to a marriage of convenience... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Such is the status accorded to single mothers in France of the 1930s that Fanny has no choice but to surrender herself to a marriage of convenience... [More...]
La Fée (2011)
Dominique Abel
Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet... [More...]
Dominique Abel
Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet... [More...]
La Femme d'à côté (1981)
François Truffaut
Bernard and Arlette Coudray are a young couple who live with their infant son at a remote country house near to Grenoble... [More...]
François Truffaut
Bernard and Arlette Coudray are a young couple who live with their infant son at a remote country house near to Grenoble... [More...]
La Femme de ma vie (1986)
Régis Wargnier
Simon was once an acclaimed virtuoso violinist, before he became a alcoholic and sank into the mire of depression. His life is ruined, and even his wife Laura can do nothing for him... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
Simon was once an acclaimed virtuoso violinist, before he became a alcoholic and sank into the mire of depression. His life is ruined, and even his wife Laura can do nothing for him... [More...]
La Fête à Henriette (1952)
Julien Duvivier
When the censor rejects their latest script two screenwriters set about developing the scenario for a new film. They soon decide on their main characters - a young Parisian dressmaker named Henriette and her fiancé, a photo-journalist named Robert... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
When the censor rejects their latest script two screenwriters set about developing the scenario for a new film. They soon decide on their main characters - a young Parisian dressmaker named Henriette and her fiancé, a photo-journalist named Robert... [More...]
Feu Mathias Pascal (1926)
Marcel L'Herbier
After the death of his father, Mathias Pascal learns that his family is in dire financial straits. He must abandon his dreams of an unfettered, carefree existence and finds work as an assistant librarian in the little town where he lives, Miragno... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
After the death of his father, Mathias Pascal learns that his family is in dire financial straits. He must abandon his dreams of an unfettered, carefree existence and finds work as an assistant librarian in the little town where he lives, Miragno... [More...]
La Fiancée des ténèbres (1945)
Serge de Poligny
The composer Roland Samblaca returns to his home town Carcassonne in the South of France with his family. Whilst visiting an ancient castle, he meets and is enchanted by a young woman, Sylvie, who lives in the castle with her adoptive guardian, Monsieur Toulzac... [More...]
Serge de Poligny
The composer Roland Samblaca returns to his home town Carcassonne in the South of France with his family. Whilst visiting an ancient castle, he meets and is enchanted by a young woman, Sylvie, who lives in the castle with her adoptive guardian, Monsieur Toulzac... [More...]
La Fille aux yeux d'or (1961)
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Henri Marsav is a 20-something fashion photographer who revels in hedonistic youth with his circle of equally debauched friends... [More...]
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Henri Marsav is a 20-something fashion photographer who revels in hedonistic youth with his circle of equally debauched friends... [More...]
La Fille de 15 ans (1989)
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
La Fille de l'eau (1925)
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
Jean Renoir
After the death of her father, a barge man, Virginie has no one but her cruel uncle Jef. But he merely squanders his inheritance and sells the barge, before attempting to rape his niece... [More...]
La Fille du puisatier (2011)
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
Daniel Auteuil
Whilst taking a lunch basket to her father, a well-digger, Patricia comes across Jacques Mazel, a handsome young man. She is an innocent girl of 18; he is a fighter pilot who is eight years her senior... [More...]
Le Fils de l'épicier (2007)
Eric Guirado
When Antoine Sforza offers to lend some money to his best friend Claire he could not have imagined where this would lead... [More...]
Eric Guirado
When Antoine Sforza offers to lend some money to his best friend Claire he could not have imagined where this would lead... [More...]
Fin août, début septembre (1998)
Olivier Assayas
Gabriel, in his early thirties, finds his life upended after separating from his partner Jenny and then discovering that his best friend Adrien, a writer, has a terminal illness... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
Gabriel, in his early thirties, finds his life upended after separating from his partner Jenny and then discovering that his best friend Adrien, a writer, has a terminal illness... [More...]
La Foire aux chimères (1946)
Pierre Chenal
Frank Davis is the unimpeachable director of a company that prints what he claims to be unforgeable banknotes. In his fifties, he is an object of ridicule on account of the facial disfigurement he acquired in an accident... [More...]
Pierre Chenal
Frank Davis is the unimpeachable director of a company that prints what he claims to be unforgeable banknotes. In his fifties, he is an object of ridicule on account of the facial disfigurement he acquired in an accident... [More...]
Frantz (2016)
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
French Cancan (1954)
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company... [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...]
Gazon maudit (1995)
Josiane Balasko
Laurent, a successful estate agent, and his wife Loli have two children, a nice house in the South of France and appear to be the very model of a happily married couple... [More...]
Josiane Balasko
Laurent, a successful estate agent, and his wife Loli have two children, a nice house in the South of France and appear to be the very model of a happily married couple... [More...]
Gibier de potence (1951)
Roger Richebé
On leaving the orphanage in which he grew up, Marceau Le Guern has difficulty finding gainful employment. Not long after he is dismissed as a butcher's assistant he encounters the mysterious Madame Alice, an older woman who, seeing he is in difficulty, offers him easy work for good pay... [More...]
Roger Richebé
On leaving the orphanage in which he grew up, Marceau Le Guern has difficulty finding gainful employment. Not long after he is dismissed as a butcher's assistant he encounters the mysterious Madame Alice, an older woman who, seeing he is in difficulty, offers him easy work for good pay... [More...]
Gigi (1949)
Jacqueline Audry
Gigi is a girl on the threshold of womanhood, after being brought up in the protective cocoon of her wealthy grandmother, Mamita... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Gigi is a girl on the threshold of womanhood, after being brought up in the protective cocoon of her wealthy grandmother, Mamita... [More...]
La Glace à trois faces (1927)
Jean Epstein
Three women from three different social spheres each awaits the return of her lover, and as they do so they reflect on the happy times they have spent together... [More...]
Jean Epstein
Three women from three different social spheres each awaits the return of her lover, and as they do so they reflect on the happy times they have spent together... [More...]
La Glu (1927)
Henri Fescourt
Not long after her arrival in a small Breton fishing village, a young woman from Paris soon draws attention to herself. Attached to the Count of Ribiers, a wealthy landowner several years her senior, the woman is looked on with suspicion by the locals, who see her as a dangerous temptress... [More...]
Henri Fescourt
Not long after her arrival in a small Breton fishing village, a young woman from Paris soon draws attention to herself. Attached to the Count of Ribiers, a wealthy landowner several years her senior, the woman is looked on with suspicion by the locals, who see her as a dangerous temptress... [More...]
Goupi mains rouges (1943)
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]
Jacques Becker
The Goupis are a proud, self-sufficient family living in the Charentes region of France. Most of them live at an inn that is run with an iron hand by the shrewish Goupi Tisane and her tight-fisted brother Goupi Mes Sous... [More...]