Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Le Schpountz (1938)
Marcel Pagnol
Casimir and Irénée work in their uncle's grocer's shop in a Provençal village. Whilst Casimir sticks to his job, Irénée only dreams of becoming a film star...
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Marcel Pagnol
La Science des rêves (2006)
Michel Gondry
After the death of his father, Stéphane Miroux leaves his home in Mexico and returns to Paris to live with his mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child...
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Michel Gondry
Se souvenir des belles choses (2001)
Zabou Breitman
When Claire Poussin, a seemingly healthy thirty-year-old, begins having difficulty speaking and remembering things her older sister Nathalie becomes concerned...
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Zabou Breitman
Le Secret de Polichinelle (1936)
André Berthomieu
Monsieur and Madame Jouvenel are a respectable bourgeois couple who intend that their son Henri will marry the daughter of respectable bourgeois parents and follow their example...
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André Berthomieu
Secrets d'alcove (1954)
Henri Decoin
When their journey is impeded by fog, four passengers in a car decide to pass the night by telling each other stories involving beds....
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Henri Decoin
Section spéciale (1975)
Costa-Gavras
In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer... [More...]
Sempre vivu! (2007)
Robin Renucci
A remote Corsican village is in a state of turmoil. Ange, the local patriarch, has recently launched a drama workshop in a last ditch attempt to keep the village alive and arrest the decline in its population... [More...]
Robin Renucci
A remote Corsican village is in a state of turmoil. Ange, the local patriarch, has recently launched a drama workshop in a last ditch attempt to keep the village alive and arrest the decline in its population... [More...]
Le Sens de l'humour (2014)
Marilyne Canto
Some years have passed since Elise lost her husband in tragic circumstances but the pain lingers and she is still struggling to rebuild her life... [More...]
Marilyne Canto
Some years have passed since Elise lost her husband in tragic circumstances but the pain lingers and she is still struggling to rebuild her life... [More...]
Sept hommes, une femme (1936)
Yves Mirande
Widowhood definitely does not suit the Countess Lucie de Kéradec. Ever since the premature death of her husband, she has pined away in solitude in her luxurious apartments on the avenue Henri-Martin, with only her aged mother to keep her company... [More...]
Yves Mirande
Widowhood definitely does not suit the Countess Lucie de Kéradec. Ever since the premature death of her husband, she has pined away in solitude in her luxurious apartments on the avenue Henri-Martin, with only her aged mother to keep her company... [More...]
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1952)
Yves Allégret
At a busy fairground, a stallholder tries to drum up business by regaling passersby with stories illustrating each of the Seven Deadly Sins... [More...]
Yves Allégret
At a busy fairground, a stallholder tries to drum up business by regaling passersby with stories illustrating each of the Seven Deadly Sins... [More...]
Le Septième ciel (1997)
Benoît Jacquot
On the surface, Mathilde is a happily married young woman, working in her mother's law office whilst her husband pursues a successful career as a surgeon... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
On the surface, Mathilde is a happily married young woman, working in her mother's law office whilst her husband pursues a successful career as a surgeon... [More...]
Série noire (1979)
Alain Corneau
Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt... [More...]
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Catherine Breillat
Making a film is never an easy endeavour, but for Jeanne her latest magnum opus, Scènes intimes, is rapidly turning into the mother of all nightmares... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Making a film is never an easy endeavour, but for Jeanne her latest magnum opus, Scènes intimes, is rapidly turning into the mother of all nightmares... [More...]
Si c'était lui... (2007)
Anne-Marie Etienne
Valentin is a young man who has lost everything: his girlfriend, his job and his apartment. Depressed about his present predicament and future prospects, he ends up squatting in his uncle's flat in an upmarket neighbourhood... [More...]
Anne-Marie Etienne
Valentin is a young man who has lost everything: his girlfriend, his job and his apartment. Depressed about his present predicament and future prospects, he ends up squatting in his uncle's flat in an upmarket neighbourhood... [More...]
Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
Sacha Guitry
A learned professor of history relates the story of Paris to a group of enthusiastic students, not as a string of dry facts, but as a declaration of love through which various historical characters connected with the city speak for themselves... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
A learned professor of history relates the story of Paris to a group of enthusiastic students, not as a string of dry facts, but as a declaration of love through which various historical characters connected with the city speak for themselves... [More...]
Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)
Sacha Guitry
What tales the château of Versailles could tell us if its walls could speak… From the halcyon days of excess and grandeur under the reign of the "sun king" Louis XIV, to the tragic years of the French Revolution which brought an ignoble end to the French monarchy… From the intrigue of Madame de Montespan to the genius of Molière… So many stories to tell, so many lives to remember...... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
What tales the château of Versailles could tell us if its walls could speak… From the halcyon days of excess and grandeur under the reign of the "sun king" Louis XIV, to the tragic years of the French Revolution which brought an ignoble end to the French monarchy… From the intrigue of Madame de Montespan to the genius of Molière… So many stories to tell, so many lives to remember...... [More...]
Le Silence est d'or (1947)
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
René Clair
Paris, 1906. Emile Clément is a fifty-something pioneer in the recently born art of cinematography, and he is also an inveterate womaniser... [More...]
Simplette (1919)
René Hervil
Marie Pasque leads a hard life in the country, the daughter of a rough and greedy farmer. Her only true friend is her godmother Madame Rouvière, who hopes that one day she will marry her nephew Robert... [More...]
René Hervil
Marie Pasque leads a hard life in the country, the daughter of a rough and greedy farmer. Her only true friend is her godmother Madame Rouvière, who hopes that one day she will marry her nephew Robert... [More...]
Six heures à perdre (1947)
Alex Joffé
Breaking his long train journey in Paris, a traveller finds he has six hours at his disposal so he decides to wander around the city... [More...]
Alex Joffé
Breaking his long train journey in Paris, a traveller finds he has six hours at his disposal so he decides to wander around the city... [More...]
Slogan (1969)
Pierre Grimblat
Serge Faberger is a forty-something publicity director who does not allow his keen interest in the opposite sex to get in the way of a highly successful career... [More...]
Pierre Grimblat
Serge Faberger is a forty-something publicity director who does not allow his keen interest in the opposite sex to get in the way of a highly successful career... [More...]
La Smala (1984)
Jean-Loup Hubert
When his wife leaves him to pursue an affair with a riot police officer, Robert, a former violinist who has been without work for years, is left to bring up their five demanding offspring by himself... [More...]
Jean-Loup Hubert
When his wife leaves him to pursue an affair with a riot police officer, Robert, a former violinist who has been without work for years, is left to bring up their five demanding offspring by himself... [More...]
Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
Les Soeurs fâchées (2004)
Alexandra Leclère
Louise is an aspiring author who currently works in a beauty parlour in Le Mans. Bubbling with optimism and trepidation, she takes the train to Paris for a meeting with a publisher who has expressed an interest in her first novel... [More...]
Alexandra Leclère
Louise is an aspiring author who currently works in a beauty parlour in Le Mans. Bubbling with optimism and trepidation, she takes the train to Paris for a meeting with a publisher who has expressed an interest in her first novel... [More...]
Le Soleil au-dessus des nuages (2001)
Eric Le Roch
For Jean, a fifty-something bachelor, his only pleasure is to make life unbearable for those around him. He insults his neighbour, is rude to strangers, and treats his colleagues at work with contempt... [More...]
Eric Le Roch
For Jean, a fifty-something bachelor, his only pleasure is to make life unbearable for those around him. He insults his neighbour, is rude to strangers, and treats his colleagues at work with contempt... [More...]
Le Souffle au coeur (1971)
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923)
Germaine Dulac
Madame Beudet leads a melancholic and unfulfilled life, trapped in a loveless marriage to a draper who neglects and subjugates her... [More...]
Germaine Dulac
Madame Beudet leads a melancholic and unfulfilled life, trapped in a loveless marriage to a draper who neglects and subjugates her... [More...]
Le Sourire (1994)
Claude Miller
Pierre François Le Clainche is a sixty-something neuro-psychiatrist who has just survived a near-fatal heart attack... [More...]
Claude Miller
Pierre François Le Clainche is a sixty-something neuro-psychiatrist who has just survived a near-fatal heart attack... [More...]
Sous le ciel de Paris (1951)
Julien Duvivier
In a small garret in Paris's sixth arrondissement, Mademoiselle Perrier lives with her numerous cats. To feed her treasured pets, the old woman needs to find 64 francs, so she sets out one morning to see if some kind soul will give her the money... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
In a small garret in Paris's sixth arrondissement, Mademoiselle Perrier lives with her numerous cats. To feed her treasured pets, the old woman needs to find 64 francs, so she sets out one morning to see if some kind soul will give her the money... [More...]
Sous le figuier (2013)
Anne-Marie Etienne
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are all in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Nathalie has given up on men and devotes herself religiously to her work as a chef... [More...]
Anne-Marie Etienne
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are all in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Nathalie has given up on men and devotes herself religiously to her work as a chef... [More...]
Souvenir (2016)
Bavo Defurne
In middle-age, Liliane appears content with her monotonous solitary life. By day she works in a meat factory, by night she soaks up trashy television programmes... [More...]
Bavo Defurne
In middle-age, Liliane appears content with her monotonous solitary life. By day she works in a meat factory, by night she soaks up trashy television programmes... [More...]