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French cinema: All genres

La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Roman Polanski

Alone in a Paris theatre, Thomas laments the fact that he has not been able to find an actress for the lead role of his next play...   [More...]

Vénus aveugle (1941)
Abel Gance

Clarisse is an attractive young model who is in love with Madère, a handsome sailor. When she learns that she is losing her eyesight, she breaks off her relationship with Madère and resumes her career as a cabaret singer to support herself and her crippled sister Mireille whilst her lover goes off to sea...   [More...]

Vénus beauté (institut) (1999)
Tonie Marshall

Angèle is a middle-aged beautician who refuses to settle down with a man, preferring a string of one night stands and short-term relationships...   [More...]

Vénus et Fleur (2004)
Emmanuel Mouret

Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, Fleur, a shy Parisian, meets an out-going Russian named Vénus...   [More...]

Vénus Impérial (1963)
Jean Delannoy

Pauline Bonaparte, the preferred sister of the Emperor Napoléon, was destined to lead a life that would be governed more by her brother's political ambitions than her own desires...   [More...]

Vercingétorix (2001)
Jacques Dorfmann

In 60 BC, the boy Vercingétorix watches in horror as his father, the Gaul leader Celtill, is burnt alive - the reward for his ambition to unite Gaul against the Roman invader...   [More...]

Verdict (1974)
André Cayatte

André Léoni is put on trial for the rape and murder of his girlfriend Annie Chartier, the daughter of a respectable middle-class couple...   [More...]

Verdun, visions d'histoire (1928)
Léon Poirier

Early in 1916, a young French soldier returns home to break the news to his mother that he is soon to be sent to the front near Verdun, an area that has so far been untouched by the conflict...   [More...]

La Vérité ou presque (2007)
Sam Karmann

Anne's supposedly stable, well-ordered life is about to become horribly tangled when she develops an interest in Vincent...   [More...]

La Vérité si je mens! 2 (2001)
Thomas Gilou

In the face of ever increasing pressure from his competitors, Eddie Vuibert is having a hard job keeping his small clothing business from going under...   [More...]

La Vérité si je mens! 3 (2012)
Thomas Gilou

It has been almost a decade since we last encountered Eddie, Dov, Yvan and their friends trying and failing to make a killing in the world of ready-to-wear clothing...   [More...]

La Vérité si je mens (1997)
Thomas Gilou

Jobless and penniless, Eddie Vuibert has the good fortune to run into Victor Benzakhem, a Jewish businessman who manages a successful textile business in an immigrant quarter of Paris...   [More...]

La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952)
Henri Decoin

François Donge, a wealthy industrialist, is seriously ill in hospital. He knows that he has been poisoned by his young wife Bébé, but he bears her no recriminations...   [More...]

La Vérité (1960)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of her lover Gilbert Tellier. Public sympathy is not on her side and the jury is not expected to decide in her favour...   [More...]

Vers le sud (2005)
Laurent Cantet

Three women, each in her fifties, meet whilst holidaying on the beaches of Haiti in the late 1970s. They are there for one reason - to have a good time...   [More...]

Versailles (2008)
Pierre Schoeller

Homeless and jobless, a young woman, Nina, lives on the streets of Paris with her five-year old son, Enzo. In the woods near to the palace of Versailles, she comes across a small hut, which is home to Damien, a young man who has turned his back on the world...   [More...]

Versailles Rive-Gauche (1992)
Bruno Podalydès

Arnaud is determined to make a good impression on his new girlfriend Claire. He has spent hours tidying his tiny apartment on the rue Carnot in Versailles and now everything is prepared for the most perfect of evenings...   [More...]

Vert paradis (2003)
Emmanuel Bourdieu

Sociologist Lucas is preparing a thesis about bachelor life in a rural community. To that end, he returns to the place in the French countryside where he grew up...   [More...]

Vertige (2009)
Abel Ferry

With a thirst for adventure, a group of friends decide to go on a rock climbing expedition in Croatia. What begins as a carefree outing in the countryside soon turns into something darker as old feelings resurface and a fear of heights grips some members of the party...   [More...]

Le Vertige (1926)
Marcel L'Herbier

Russia, March 1917. With a fierce revolution threatening to engulf the entire country, the Petrograd estate of General Svirsky is hours away from being overrun by the peasant mob...   [More...]

La Veuve Couderc (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France...   [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...]

Le Viager (1972)
Pierre Tchernia

France, 1930. Louis Martinet, a 59 year old bachelor, learns from his doctor, Léon Galipeau, that he has only a few years left to live...   [More...]

Le Vice et la vertu (1963)
Roger Vadim

Paris 1944. Justine is about to about to marry Jean, a member of the resistance, when the latter is suddenly arrested by the Gestapo...   [More...]

Les Victimes (1996)
Patrick Grandperret

Pierre Duval is a publisher who is madly in love with Manou, an attractive but unpredictable young woman. Unfortunately, she is married to a renowned architect, Bernard Jaillac, who has no intention of letting her go...   [More...]

Victor (1951)
Claude Heymann

When he leaves prison, Victor refuses to bear a grudge against his old friend Marc, the man whose dodgy business dealings but him there...   [More...]

Victor... pendant qu'il est trop tard (1998)
Sandrine Veysset

Victor is a troubled ten-year-old boy who has had enough of his neglectful parents. One evening, he runs away from home and takes refuge amid the hustle and bustle of a busy funfair...   [More...]

Victoria (2016)
Justine Triet

Since her egocentric husband David walked out on her, Victoria Spick has been left to bring up their two young children alone - not an easy task when you have a high-pressured career as a criminal lawyer...   [More...]

Vidocq (2001)
Pitof

Paris in the 1830s. It is whilst in pursuit of a mysterious criminal called the Alchemist that the celebrated detective Vidocq meets his death...   [More...]

La Vie à deux (1958)
Clément Duhour

Realising that his days are numbered, the renowned author Pierre Carraud puts his signature to his last will and testament in the presence of his friends and his notary...   [More...]



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