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French cinema: All genres

3x3D (2014)
Jean-Luc Godard

In the ancient Portuguese city of Guimarães, three internationally renowned filmmakers - Peter Greenaway, Edgard Pêra and Jean-Luc Godard - come together to explore the exciting new phenomenon of 3D cinema and its impact on our perception of the seventh art through three short and highly innovative films...   [More...]

48 heures par jour (2008)
Catherine Castel

Marianne is determined to make a success of her career in advertising. Unfortunately, her ambitions look set to be thwarted by her high-flying husband, Bruno, who expects her to look after their children and take on all the household duties...   [More...]

56, rue Pigalle (1949)
Willy Rozier

Jean Vigneron is a draftsman and yachting enthusiast who for some time has been pursuing a secret and passionate love affair with Inès, the wife of one of his friends, Ricardo de Montalban...   [More...]

57000 km entre nous (2008)
Delphine Kreuter

Margot and Michel are a married couple who feel they have a mission to show the world that theirs is the perfect happy family...   [More...]

588 rue paradis (1993)
Henri Verneuil

It has been forty years since Azad Zakarian, then just a boy, fled Armenia and settled in France with his family. Thanks to his parents' selfless devotion to him, Azad has had the best education a boy of his age could hope to get himself and now he is a prominent writer, better known by his pseudonym Pierre Zakar...   [More...]

5x2 (2004)
François Ozon

Marion and Gilles have been together for many years but now they have arrived at the mutual decision to end their marriage...   [More...]

7 ans (2007)
Jean-Pascal Hattu

Maïté and Vincent are a young couple who find it hard to bear their enforced separation. Recently, Vincent has been convicted of a crime and sent to prison for seven years...   [More...]

7 ans de mariage (2003)
Didier Bourdon

Alain is concerned that, after seven years of conjugal life, the spark has suddenly gone out of his marriage. His wife Audrey, a reserved bank employee, appears to be too preoccupied with her work and their daughter Camille to have any time for him...   [More...]

7 jours pas plus (2017)
Héctor Cabello Reyes

Pierre is a 50-something ironmonger who leads a contented life running the family business in a town in northern France. One day, whilst walking around the port, he runs into Ajit, a young Indian man in his thirties who has just come to shore on a cargo vessel and is desperately looking for his uncle...   [More...]

La 7ème cible (1984)
Claude Pinoteau

Bastien Grimaldi, a former journalist now in his fifties, leads a tranquil existence until one night he becomes the victim of three unknown assailants...   [More...]

8 femmes (2002)
François Ozon

In the 1950s, rich society belle Gaby lives with her family at their comfortable country residence, tended to by her faithful maids Louise and Madame Chanel...   [More...]

8½ (1963)
Federico Fellini

Guido Anselmi is a film director who is up against the biggest crisis of his career. His last film was a huge success and his producer is expecting its successor to be an even greater hit...   [More...]

9 mois ferme (2013)
Albert Dupontel

Ariane Felder is a middle-aged woman who conducts herself as scrupulously in her private life as she does in her career as a highly respected magistrate...   [More...]

99 francs (2007)
Jan Kounen

Octave Parango is a high-powered advertising consultant who prides himself on the knowledge that he decides what people will want to buy and how they will live their lives...   [More...]

9mm (2008)
Taylan Barman

A typical day in the life of a typical family in the north of France. Nadine, the mother, is an officer in the anti-drugs squad and is the first to leave the family home...   [More...]

À 14 ans (2015)
Hélène Zimmer

Sarah, Jade and Louise are three friends who, at the not so tender age of 14, seem to be in too great a hurry to grow up - just like all girls of their age...   [More...]

À boire (2004)
Marion Vernoux

Pierre-Marie Archimbault's chronic addiction to alcohol not only threatens his health and his personal finances, it is also putting in jeopardy his marriage and his career as a doctor...   [More...]

À bout de souffle (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook on a mission: to recover some money owed to him by his criminal associates. To that end, he steals a car in Marseille and heads for Paris...   [More...]

À bout portant (2010)
Fred Cavayé

Everything was going so well for Samuel. He was about to qualify as a nurse and his wife Nadia was expecting their first child...   [More...]

À bras ouverts (2017)
Philippe de Chauveron

Jean-Etienne Fougerole is a prominent figure of France's literary scene, an intellectual humanist married to a wealthy heiress who, unlike him, has scant interest in the problems of the world...   [More...]

À cause, à cause d'une femme (1963)
Michel Deville

The young and seductive Rémi is a lady's man of the first degree. He knows that women find his charms irresistible and he exploits the fact to his advantage, oblivious to the hearts he may break along the way...   [More...]

À ce soir (2005)
Laure Duthilleul

Awaking early one morning, Nelly finds her husband Manuel is still asleep. A hardworking doctor, Manuel deserves a lie in, so Nelly leaves him in peace...   [More...]

À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte

A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...   [More...]

À demain (1992)
Didier Martiny

Whenever he has occasion to look back on his childhood, Pierre does so with great affection. His private sanctuary is his warm bedroom in a grand house in Paris, where he lives an idyllic childhood with his extended family - his sister, his parents, his grandparents, and his great-grandmother...   [More...]

À double tour (1959)
Claude Chabrol

Henri Marcoux is a fully paid up member of the French bourgeoisie. He owns a large private estate in Provence, where he lives with his wife Thérèse and two grown-up children, Richard and Elisabeth...   [More...]

À fond (2016)
Nicolas Benamou

The departure for the summer holidays is always a miserable experience in France, but for one French family who set out on their annual excursion to sunnier climes a nightmare of unimaginable proportion looms as they hit the highway in their brand-new people carrier...   [More...]

À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur (1988)
Edouard Molinaro

Yan, a successful artist, is waiting for his date, Florence, to turn up at his apartment. His doorbell rings and on his doorstep he finds another young woman, his neighbour Eva, dressed in her underwear...   [More...]

À jamais (2016)
Benoît Jacquot

Jacques Rey is a middle-aged filmmaker who falls madly in love with Laura, a performance artist who is half his age. Rey's entourage is taken by surprise when he suddenly announces he intends marrying his new lover...   [More...]

À l'attaque! (2000)
Robert Guédiguian

Two writers are busy trying to hammer out the screenplay for their next film. As they do so, they make a valiant effort to combine popular romantic comedy with hard-edged social issues and important political concerns...   [More...]

À l'aventure (2009)
Jean-Claude Brisseau

Sandrine is bored with her comfortable middle-class existence in a dull provincial town. Finally, tired of the daily rituals and the endless compromises that constrain her freedom, she leaves her home and her boyfriend and sets out in search of adventure...   [More...]



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