Film Index

French cinema: Comedy

L'Amour aux trousses (2005)
Philippe de Chauveron

Paul and Franck are two French police officers in the narcotics squad who are the closest of friends. In the course of tracking down a dangerous drugs dealer one of their fellow officers is shot dead and Paul ends up with a serious leg injury...   [More...]

L'Amour dure trois ans (2012)
Frédéric Beigbeder

Literary critic by day, columnist by night, Marc Marronnier is convinced that love never lasts for more than three years...   [More...]

L'Amour en fuite (1979)
François Truffaut

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel has divorced his wife Christine and is having a love affair with a young shop girl, Sabine...   [More...]

Amour et compagnie (1950)
Gilles Grangier

Claude Andrieux, a young accountant for an insurance company, is about to dismissed by his boss when he is charged with a most delicate mission - to prevent a wealthy client from committing suicide...   [More...]

Amour et turbulences (2013)
Alexandre Castagnetti

Julie, an aspiring young artist, is on a plane from New York to Paris, where she is soon to be married. By chance, she is upgraded to club class and finds herself sitting next to Antoine, a philandering lawyer with whom she had a passionate love affair three years previously...   [More...]

L'Amour n'est pas un péché (1952)
Claude Cariven

Eliane Cahuzac and Jacques Loursier are both urgently in need of an apartment and Fate decides that they will end up sharing the same landing in the same Parisian apartment block...   [More...]

L'Amour, c'est mieux à deux (2010)
Dominique Farrugia

Michel and Vincent are two men in their mid-to-late thirties who are both strongly attracted towards women but have very different ideas about love and romance...   [More...]

L'Amour, Madame (1952)
Gilles Grangier

François Célerier is a young university student who hopes to make his name as a playwright. He is attracted to fellow student Diane, but he is too shy to approach her and reveal his true feelings for her...   [More...]

L'An 01 (1973)
Jacques Doillon

One Tuesday afternoon, the whole of France comes to a total standstill. Everyone stops working and all activity ceases. The old world is finished...   [More...]

Andalousie (1951)
Robert Vernay

In present day Spain, Juanito is earning a modest living as a pottery merchant when he is suddenly plucked from obscurity and finds fame as a bullfighter...   [More...]

André le magnifique (2000)
Emmanuel Silvestre

A couple who live in a rural backwater of France decide to put on a play to celebrate the history of their town. Alexis will write and direct the play, and his wife Janine will take the lead female role...   [More...]

Angel-A (2005)
Luc Besson

28 year-old con artist André lies so easily that he has even convinced himself he is the model citizen. In reality, he is the type that would sell his grandmother for a packet of cigarettes...   [More...]

Les Anges gardiens (1995)
Jean-Marie Poiré

Antoine Carco, the proprietor of a seedy Parisian night club, travels to Hong Kong to honour the dying wishes of an old friend...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Les Aristos (2006)
Charlotte de Turckheim

Count Charles Valerand d'Arbac de Neuville is the latest in a long line of aristocrats to have lived in a château that dates back a thousand years...   [More...]

L'Armoire volante (1948)
Carlo Rim

Alfred Pic, a hardworking tax inspector, finds himself in a pickle when his bossy aunt, Madame Lobligeois, goes missing in the most bizarre circumstances...   [More...]

L'Arnacoeur (2010)
Pascal Chaumeil

With the help of his sister Mélanie and brother-in-law Marc, Alex runs a special kind of agency, one that is dedicated to ending unhappy relationships...   [More...]

Arrête de pleurer Pénélope (2012)
Juliette Arnaud

Chloé, Léonie and Pénélope are three friends who haven't seen each other for years. When they finally do meet up again, it is in a solicitor's office...   [More...]

Arrête ton char... bidasse! (1977)
Michel Gérard

Four young Frenchmen travel to Germany to begin their military service at a French forces camp. None of them were expecting a holiday but the rigour and discipline of army life soon begin to get them down...   [More...]

Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962)
Edouard Molinaro

The funeral of the successful businessman André Laroche is attended by scores of important public figures, all keen to pay homage to a great man of industry...   [More...]

Arsène Lupin détective (1937)
Henri Diamant-Berger

Olga Vauban, one of the world's most celebrated actresses, is completely mystified when her home is broken into but nothing appears to have been stolen...   [More...]

L'Art d'aimer (2011)
Emmanuel Mouret

At the exact moment that one falls in love, one becomes aware of a very distinctive music, an ethereal sonata that seems to speak of eternity and promise all the delights of paradise...   [More...]

Artémis, coeur d'artichaut (2013)
Hubert Viel

After bidding her fond farewells to Mount Olympus, the goddess Artémis finds herself reincarnated as a mere moral, living in present day France and attending university in Caen...   [More...]

L'As des as (1982)
Gérard Oury

Jo Cavalier is the coach for the French boxing team at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On the train to Berlin, he is accosted by a ten year old Jewish boy, Simon, who asks for his autograph - previously Jo was a flying hero who served in the flying corps during World War I...   [More...]

L'Assassin connaît la musique... (1963)
Pierre Chenal

Lionel Fribourg is a musician who is desperate to compose his own symphony. For that reason, he needs peace and quiet, but his Parisian apartment is so noisy that it is impossible for him to write a single note...   [More...]

L'Assassin est dans l'annuaire (1962)
Léo Joannon

Albert Rinaldi is a simple bank employee whose naivety makes him an object of ridicule amongst his colleagues. When a woman named Jenny fails to keep an appointment with him, he is certain that once again his colleagues are having a joke at his expense...   [More...]



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