Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Un homme qui me plaît (1969)
Claude Lelouch
Françoise, a well-known actress, arrives in the United States to make a film. Whilst in Los Angeles, she meets Henri, a French composer who has come to America to record the music for a film...
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Claude Lelouch
Un jeune poète (2015)
Damien Manivel
Rémi has barely put his teen years behind him when he weds himself to the idea of becoming a poet. Confident of his ability to enchant the world with his verse, he wanders around the town of Sète in search of inspiration, armed with the instruments of his craft, a biro and a notebook...
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Damien Manivel
Un moment d'égarement (1977)
Claude Berri
Pierre and Victor have been the closest of friends since childhood. Now in their mid-forties, both men are separated from their wives and have teenage daughters, Martine and Françoise...
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Claude Berri
Un moment d'égarement (2015)
Jean-François Richet
Laurent and Antoine are two men in their fifties who have been friends since childhood. Divorced, they agree to take a summer excursion together, in the company of their feisty teenage daughters - Marie and Louna respectively...
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Jean-François Richet
Un monde presque paisible (2002)
Michel Deville
The Second World War and the Nazi Occupation have taken their toll on Jewish families living in Paris. Now that these painful experiences are behind them, one couple, Albert and Léa, set about re-starting their small tailoring business in a busy Jewish district of the capital...
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Michel Deville
Un petit jeu sans conséquence (2004)
Bernard Rapp
Bruno and Claire have been together for 12 years. On the surface, they look like the perfect couple, but on the day that Bruno invites friends around to his grand family home for a moving house picnic, Claire tells him that the spark may be going out of their relationship... [More...]
Bernard Rapp
Bruno and Claire have been together for 12 years. On the surface, they look like the perfect couple, but on the day that Bruno invites friends around to his grand family home for a moving house picnic, Claire tells him that the spark may be going out of their relationship... [More...]
L'Un reste, l'autre part (2005)
Claude Berri
Whilst Daniel and Isabelle are celebrating their wedding anniversary, they learn that Julien, Daniel's son from a previous marriage, has had a near-fatal car accident... [More...]
Claude Berri
Whilst Daniel and Isabelle are celebrating their wedding anniversary, they learn that Julien, Daniel's son from a previous marriage, has had a near-fatal car accident... [More...]
Un singe en hiver (1962)
Henri Verneuil
A young man, Gabriel Fouquet, arrives in a coastal town in Normandy to visit his daughter, who is staying in a boarding school... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
A young man, Gabriel Fouquet, arrives in a coastal town in Normandy to visit his daughter, who is staying in a boarding school... [More...]
Un taxi mauve (1977)
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960)
Denys de La Patellière
Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot... [More...]
Un, deux, trois, soleil (1993)
Bertrand Blier
Victorine is an imaginative teenage girl who is having a hard time growing up in the rough suburbs of Marseille. Her alcoholic father, a Greek immigrant, is too fond of the pastis to show much interest in her, and her mother makes up for this neglect by constantly imposing herself on her... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Victorine is an imaginative teenage girl who is having a hard time growing up in the rough suburbs of Marseille. Her alcoholic father, a Greek immigrant, is too fond of the pastis to show much interest in her, and her mother makes up for this neglect by constantly imposing herself on her... [More...]
Une époque formidable... (1991)
Gérard Jugnot
When Michel Berthier loses his executive job with American Bed he is unable to tell his family that he is now unemployed... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
When Michel Berthier loses his executive job with American Bed he is unable to tell his family that he is now unemployed... [More...]
Une femme de ménage (2002)
Claude Berri
Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression... [More...]
Claude Berri
Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression... [More...]
Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (2001)
Christian Carion
Tired of her stressful job as a computer expert in Paris, 30 year old Sandrine decides to make a new life as a farmer. After a two-year training course, she acquires a remote farm in the Rhones-Alps region of France, where she intends to make goats' cheese and run a holiday home for visitors... [More...]
Christian Carion
Tired of her stressful job as a computer expert in Paris, 30 year old Sandrine decides to make a new life as a farmer. After a two-year training course, she acquires a remote farm in the Rhones-Alps region of France, where she intends to make goats' cheese and run a holiday home for visitors... [More...]
Une nouvelle amie (2014)
François Ozon
A comfortably situated housewife, Claire falls into a deep depression when her best friend, Laura, is struck down by a terminal illness... [More...]
François Ozon
A comfortably situated housewife, Claire falls into a deep depression when her best friend, Laura, is struck down by a terminal illness... [More...]
Une petite zone de turbulences (2010)
Alfred Lot
Jean-Pierre has only recently retired but already his plans for a trouble-free retirement appear to be in jeopardy. A manic hypochondriac, he naturally assumes that when he sees a spot on his right hip he is soon going to die from cancer... [More...]
Alfred Lot
Jean-Pierre has only recently retired but already his plans for a trouble-free retirement appear to be in jeopardy. A manic hypochondriac, he naturally assumes that when he sees a spot on his right hip he is soon going to die from cancer... [More...]
Une place sur la Terre (2013)
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Une pure affaire (2011)
Alexandre Coffre
David Pelame is a 40-something lawyer and family man who is stuck in the proverbial middle-aged rut. His career has become as dull and predictable as his home life... [More...]
Alexandre Coffre
David Pelame is a 40-something lawyer and family man who is stuck in the proverbial middle-aged rut. His career has become as dull and predictable as his home life... [More...]
Une semaine sur deux (et la moitié des vacances scolaires) (2009)
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Uranus (1990)
Claude Berri
Little by little, normality returns to a small French town after World War II. The town is as scarred by the petty recriminations between its inhabitants as by the very evident signs of bombings... [More...]
Claude Berri
Little by little, normality returns to a small French town after World War II. The town is as scarred by the petty recriminations between its inhabitants as by the very evident signs of bombings... [More...]
Va savoir (2001)
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
Va, Toto! (2017)
Pierre Creton
Through three off-kilter tales which border on the outright surreal, director Pierre Creton casts a mischievous eye over the subtle relationship between human beings and animals... [More...]
Pierre Creton
Through three off-kilter tales which border on the outright surreal, director Pierre Creton casts a mischievous eye over the subtle relationship between human beings and animals... [More...]
La Vache et le président (2000)
Philippe Muyl
Lucas is an eight-year old boy who lives with his father, Romain, on a small farm in Brittany. They own a small herd of cows which includes a young Galloway calf, named Maéva... [More...]
Philippe Muyl
Lucas is an eight-year old boy who lives with his father, Romain, on a small farm in Brittany. They own a small herd of cows which includes a young Galloway calf, named Maéva... [More...]
La Vache et le prisonnier (1959)
Henri Verneuil
In 1943, Charles Bailly is an unhappy prisoner-of-war on a farm in Nazi Germany. After two years of captivity, he makes up his mind to escape and return to his hometown of Marseille... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
In 1943, Charles Bailly is an unhappy prisoner-of-war on a farm in Nazi Germany. After two years of captivity, he makes up his mind to escape and return to his hometown of Marseille... [More...]
La Vallée fantôme (1987)
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
La Vanité (2015)
Lionel Baier
David Miller is a retired architect afflicted with an inoperable cancer who has made up his mind to die. To that end, he contacts an association in Switzerland that offers an assisted suicide service and arranges a time and a place for the event to take place... [More...]
Lionel Baier
David Miller is a retired architect afflicted with an inoperable cancer who has made up his mind to die. To that end, he contacts an association in Switzerland that offers an assisted suicide service and arranges a time and a place for the event to take place... [More...]
La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Roman Polanski
Alone in a Paris theatre, Thomas laments the fact that he has not been able to find an actress for the lead role of his next play... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Alone in a Paris theatre, Thomas laments the fact that he has not been able to find an actress for the lead role of his next play... [More...]
Vénus beauté (institut) (1999)
Tonie Marshall
Angèle is a middle-aged beautician who refuses to settle down with a man, preferring a string of one night stands and short-term relationships... [More...]
Tonie Marshall
Angèle is a middle-aged beautician who refuses to settle down with a man, preferring a string of one night stands and short-term relationships... [More...]
Vénus et Fleur (2004)
Emmanuel Mouret
Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, Fleur, a shy Parisian, meets an out-going Russian named Vénus... [More...]
Emmanuel Mouret
Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, Fleur, a shy Parisian, meets an out-going Russian named Vénus... [More...]