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French cinema: All genres

Les Anges noirs (1937)
Willy Rozier

At their large family estate in the Landes region of France, two eternally battling brothers-in-law agree that the son of one should marry the daughter of the other for their mutual advantage...   [More...]

L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
Eric Rohmer

Grace Elliott, a well-connected English lady, is living in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. She was once the lover of the Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI, who remains her closest friend and confidant...   [More...]

L'Animal (1977)
Claude Zidi

Michel Gaucher is a stuntman who is about to marry his fiancée, Jane Gardner. Unfortunately, on the morning of his wedding he has to cancel the ceremony because he is required to perform a stunt for a movie...   [More...]

Anna M. (2007)
Michel Spinosa

Anna M. is an unassuming young spinster who lives with her mother and spends her days meticulously restoring manuscripts for the Bibliothèque de France...   [More...]

L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Alain Resnais

The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad...   [More...]

L'Année prochaine... si tout va bien (1981)
Jean-Loup Hubert

Maxime, a comic book artist, lives with his girlfriend, Isabelle, a level-headed professional. Although she is happy with the arrangement, Isabelle makes every effort to keep from her parents the fact that she is living with a self-centred, somewhat immature young man who has no income and no desire to lead a conventional life...   [More...]

L'Année sainte (1976)
Jean Girault

Former gangster chief, Max Lambert, escapes from a Paris prison with his cell-mate, Pierre Bizet. They travel to Rome and intend to profit from the mass pilgrimage of the Holy Year to recover Max's hidden stash of money...   [More...]

Les Années campagne (1992)
Philippe Leriche

Towards the end of the 1960s, a couple are too preoccupied with their work in the city to take care of their 15-year-old son Jules, so he is packed off to the countryside to live with his grandparents at their large house...   [More...]

Les Années sandwiches (1988)
Pierre Boutron

In July 1947, a Jewish boy named Victor runs away from his adopted home in the south of France and heads for Paris. The 15-year-old has no one to turn, not after his parents were arrested and sent off to the concentration camps during the war...   [More...]

Annette et la dame blonde (1942)
Jean Dréville

At Cannes, Annette Barnavon, a 17 year old girl, falls in love with a lawyer, Maurice Cammage, who doesn't even know her...   [More...]

Anthony Zimmer (2005)
Jérôme Salle

One of the world's most notorious criminals, Anthony Zimmer is doggedly pursued by the police and Russian mafia but he has a knack of evading capture...   [More...]

L'Antidote (2005)
Vincent De Brus

Jacques-Alain Marty is the head of Vladis Entreprises, one of the largest conglomerates in France. His success is compromised by frequent anxiety attacks that cause him to sweat and muddle his words...   [More...]

Antigang (2015)
Benjamin Rocher

Serge Buren is a cop of some renown, working with a team of younger police officers whose methods are, to say the least, somewhat unconventional...   [More...]

Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
Jacques Becker

Antoine and Antoinette are an ordinary working class couple who live in Paris and struggle to get by in the austere aftermath of World War II...   [More...]

Antonio Vivaldi, un prince à Venise (2007)
Jean-Louis Guillermou

Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1679. Despite his aptitude for music, his mother made up her mind that he should enter the priesthood at the age of 14...   [More...]

Les Apaches (2013)
Thierry de Peretti

As thousands of tourists swamp the beaches, campsites and nightclubs of Corsica, five unruly adolescents hang out in Porto-Vecchio, amusing themselves with their petty criminal exploits...   [More...]

L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)
Bertrand Bonello

In a Parisian brothel at the start of the 20th century there lives a young prostitute whose face is disfigured by a scar that takes the form of a tragic smile...   [More...]

L'Apparition (2018)
Xavier Giannoli

A reporter on an important regional newspaper, Jacques has acquired a reputation as a rigorous and impartial journalist. After witnessing the death of a close friend and colleague during an assignment in Syria, he suffered a breakdown and was forced to take some time off work...   [More...]

L'Appartement des filles (1963)
Michel Deville

Not for Tibère the life-sapping tedium of a routine office job. He sees himself as a man of derring-do, a man who scorns danger and lives for the present...   [More...]

L'Appartement (1996)
Gilles Mimouni

Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career...   [More...]

L'Appât (1995)
Bertrand Tavernier

An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations...   [More...]

L'Appel du silence (1936)
Léon Poirier

In his early twenties, Charles de Foucauld brings disgrace upon himself when, as an officer in the French Army, he insists on taking a woman to live with him whilst he is posted in North Africa...   [More...]

Les Apprentis (1995)
Pierre Salvadori

Antoine Parent is an aspiring writer who suffers from depression and a chronic inability to make money from his art. He lives in Paris and shares a modest apartment with his good-for-nothing friend Fred Rouyer, who appears to be more than content with his life as an inveterate loser...   [More...]

Après l'amour (1948)
Maurice Tourneur

At a reception in honour of her husband winning the Noble Prize for literature, Nicole Mézaule meets a former lover who has some news for her...   [More...]

Après l'amour (1992)
Diane Kurys

For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of mid-life crisis are beginning to bite. She leads a comfortable middleclass existence but is far from settled and seeks passion in her life...   [More...]

Après la vie (2002)
Lucas Belvaux

Pascal Manise is a dedicated police inspector who is prepared to do anything so that he can supply his drug-addicted wife Agnès with a regular supply of morphine...   [More...]

Après lui (2007)
Gaël Morel

Camille's whole world is ripped apart when her beloved son Mathieu is killed in a road accident. Try as she might, she just cannot put the incident behind her and she constantly seeks the support of Mathieu's best friend, Franck, who was to blame for his death...   [More...]

Après vous... (2003)
Pierre Salvadori

Antoine, the headwaiter of an exclusive Parisian restaurant, is taking a shortcut home across a park one evening when he sees a man, of about his own age, preparing to hang himself from a tree...   [More...]

L'Arbre de Noël (1969)
Terence Young

As has become his custom after losing his mother, ten-year-old Pascal joins his father Laurent, a millionaire businessman, in Paris for the summer holidays...   [More...]

L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)
Eric Rohmer

The mayor of a provincial French town manages to get funding to build a media centre, in a picturesque location amidst green fields and old stone houses...   [More...]



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