Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Les Amateurs (2003)
Martin Valente
J.P. and Christophe are two ordinary lads, in their mid-twenties, who come from an ordinary low-incoming housing estate in France...
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Martin Valente
Les Ambitieux (2007)
Catherine Corsini
Julien, an aspiring young writer, succeeds in getting an interview with publisher Judith Zahn. Without reading Julien's novel, Judith rejects it, but encourages him to persevere, mainly as a pretext to make him her lover...
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Catherine Corsini
L'Ami de mon amie (1987)
Eric Rohmer
In a pristine new town on the outskirts of Paris, a young civil servant, Blanche, strikes up a friendship with a computer programmer, Léa...
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Eric Rohmer
Amour et confusions (1997)
Patrick Braoudé
Dan is a thirty year old divorcee who designs women's lingerie for a living. One day, he meets Sarah, an ambitious businesswoman who lives only for her work, and they spend the night together...
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Patrick Braoudé
L'Amour flou (2018)
Romane Bohringer
The actors Philippe Rebbot and Romane Bohringer first met in 2004. They fell in love, lived together in perfect harmony for ten years, and had two adorable children - Rose and Raoul...
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Romane Bohringer
L'Amour (1990)
Philippe Faucon
As their summer holidays draw to a close, the thoughts of a disparate collection of teenagers in the suburbs of Paris turn to love... [More...]
Philippe Faucon
As their summer holidays draw to a close, the thoughts of a disparate collection of teenagers in the suburbs of Paris turn to love... [More...]
L'Amoureuse (1987)
Jacques Doillon
Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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 (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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Archimède, le clochard (1959)
Gilles Grangier
Archimède is an old tramp who likes to think he is a cut above the rest. Not for him the penury of sleeping under bridges and scrounging for scraps in dustbins... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
Archimède is an old tramp who likes to think he is a cut above the rest. Not for him the penury of sleeping under bridges and scrounging for scraps in dustbins... [More...]
L'Argent de poche (1976)
François Truffaut
In the picturesque French town of Thiers, several primary school children are learning some important lessons in life as the end of the school term approaches... [More...]
François Truffaut
In the picturesque French town of Thiers, several primary school children are learning some important lessons in life as the end of the school term approaches... [More...]
Les Aristocrates (1955)
Denys de La Patellière
A man proud of his aristocratic lineage, the Marquis de Maubrun lives with his six children - one daughter and five sons - in a grand château that has belonged to his ancestors for hundreds of years... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
A man proud of his aristocratic lineage, the Marquis de Maubrun lives with his six children - one daughter and five sons - in a grand château that has belonged to his ancestors for hundreds of years... [More...]
Arnaud fait son 2e film (2015)
Arnaud Viard
Arnaud is a frustrated filmmaker in his mid-forties who is in the midst of a professional and domestic crisis. With one successful film already under his belt, he is determined to make a second, but try as he might, he can't come up with a subject to tempt his producer... [More...]
Arnaud Viard
Arnaud is a frustrated filmmaker in his mid-forties who is in the midst of a professional and domestic crisis. With one successful film already under his belt, he is determined to make a second, but try as he might, he can't come up with a subject to tempt his producer... [More...]
Asphalte (2015)
Samuel Benchetrit
After too strenuous a workout on his exercise bike, professional photographer Sternkowitz ends up in a wheelchair. Unwilling to chip in for repairs to the lift of the apartment block where he lives, he is barred from using it and so only comes out at night... [More...]
Samuel Benchetrit
After too strenuous a workout on his exercise bike, professional photographer Sternkowitz ends up in a wheelchair. Unwilling to chip in for repairs to the lift of the apartment block where he lives, he is barred from using it and so only comes out at night... [More...]
Atlantic City (1980)
Louis Malle
Some years after her husband Dave ran off with her sister, Sally Matthews has settled in Atlantic City, where she earns a modest crust as a waitress at one of the city's many popular casinos... [More...]
Louis Malle
Some years after her husband Dave ran off with her sister, Sally Matthews has settled in Atlantic City, where she earns a modest crust as a waitress at one of the city's many popular casinos... [More...]
Attention! Une femme peut en cacher une autre (1983)
Georges Lautner
To her friends, Alice gives the appearance of being an ordinary, happily married career woman. In truth, she is leading a bizarre double life... [More...]
Georges Lautner
To her friends, Alice gives the appearance of being an ordinary, happily married career woman. In truth, she is leading a bizarre double life... [More...]
Au coeur de la ville (1960)
Pierre Gautherin
Louis, a solitary man in his early sixties, earns a modest crust working as a sandwich man for a small advertising firm in Paris run by Monsieur Verdier... [More...]
Pierre Gautherin
Louis, a solitary man in his early sixties, earns a modest crust working as a sandwich man for a small advertising firm in Paris run by Monsieur Verdier... [More...]
Au galop (2012)
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Married to a successful businessman, the mother of a daughter she adores, Ada could not have made a better life for herself... [More...]
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Married to a successful businessman, the mother of a daughter she adores, Ada could not have made a better life for herself... [More...]
Au p'tit zouave (1949)
Gilles Grangier
Au p'tit Zouave is a café run by Armand Billot and his wife in a working class district of Paris. The café is a popular haunt for ordinary people working in the area, although Billot's main preoccupation is his treasured goldfish, which he guards day and night from his wife's cat... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
Au p'tit Zouave is a café run by Armand Billot and his wife in a working class district of Paris. The café is a popular haunt for ordinary people working in the area, although Billot's main preoccupation is his treasured goldfish, which he guards day and night from his wife's cat... [More...]
Au pays des lits clos (1913)
Maurice Mariaud
One night, the peace of Saint-Ganolé, a sleepy Breton fishing village, is broken by an alarm notifying its inhabitants that a small vessel is in distress... [More...]
Maurice Mariaud
One night, the peace of Saint-Ganolé, a sleepy Breton fishing village, is broken by an alarm notifying its inhabitants that a small vessel is in distress... [More...]
Au petit Marguery (1995)
Laurent Bénégui
For the past 30 years, Hippolyte and his wife Joséphine have managed a chic restaurant, Le petit Marguery, in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Laurent Bénégui
For the past 30 years, Hippolyte and his wife Joséphine have managed a chic restaurant, Le petit Marguery, in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Au revoir là-haut (2017)
Albert Dupontel
Édouard Péricourt and Albert Maillard are two ordinary men who manage to get themselves caught up in the madness of the First World War... [More...]
Albert Dupontel
Édouard Péricourt and Albert Maillard are two ordinary men who manage to get themselves caught up in the madness of the First World War... [More...]
Au revoir Monsieur Grock (1950)
Pierre Billon
It is whilst he was growing up in Switzerland in the late 19th century that Adrien Wettach quickly became enchanted by circus life... [More...]
Pierre Billon
It is whilst he was growing up in Switzerland in the late 19th century that Adrien Wettach quickly became enchanted by circus life... [More...]
L'Auberge rouge (1951)
Claude Autant-Lara
In the Ardèche region of France in 1883, Marie Martin and her husband manage a remote rural inn. The hostelry is unfortunately situated and the Martins have difficulty attracting customers, so they decide to make their living by less honest means, by murdering their guests and robbing them of their valuables... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
In the Ardèche region of France in 1883, Marie Martin and her husband manage a remote rural inn. The hostelry is unfortunately situated and the Martins have difficulty attracting customers, so they decide to make their living by less honest means, by murdering their guests and robbing them of their valuables... [More...]