Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Drama
La Vérité ou presque (2007)
Sam Karmann
Anne's supposedly stable, well-ordered life is about to become horribly tangled when she develops an interest in Vincent...
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Sam Karmann
Victoria (2016)
Justine Triet
Since her egocentric husband David walked out on her, Victoria Spick has been left to bring up their two young children alone - not an easy task when you have a high-pressured career as a criminal lawyer...
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Justine Triet
La Vie d'artiste (2007)
Marc Fitoussi
Three people in search of fame and fortune... Alice has ambitions of becoming a well-known actress but must content herself with lending her voice to a character in a Japanese cartoon...
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Marc Fitoussi
La Vie d'un honnête homme (1953)
Sacha Guitry
Through a combination of hard work and ruthlessness, Albert Ménard-Lacoste has become a wealthy businessman, although his austerity prevents him from being loved, even by his family...
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Sacha Guitry
La Vie d'une autre (2012)
Sylvie Testud
Marie is 40, but when she wakes up one day she is convinced she is 25. She has forgotten fifteen years of her life. All she can think of is the great romance that lies ahead of her, but she soon discovers that this romance has long fizzled out...
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Sylvie Testud
La Vie de famille (1985)
Jacques Doillon
Emmanuel lives in Aix-en-Provence with his second wife Mara and the latter's teenage daughter Natacha. Emmanuel's relationship with his stepdaughter is strained... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Emmanuel lives in Aix-en-Provence with his second wife Mara and the latter's teenage daughter Natacha. Emmanuel's relationship with his stepdaughter is strained... [More...]
La Vie devant soi (1977)
Moshé Mizrahi
In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris... [More...]
Moshé Mizrahi
In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris... [More...]
La Vie est à nous! (2005)
Gérard Krawczyk
In a small provincial town, Louise and her mother Blanche manage a roadside bar. Their long-standing rival is Lucie, the owner of another bar... [More...]
Gérard Krawczyk
In a small provincial town, Louise and her mother Blanche manage a roadside bar. Their long-standing rival is Lucie, the owner of another bar... [More...]
La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille (1988)
Étienne Chatiliez
When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a paediatric surgeon, a nurse reveals that, twelve years ago, she switched two babies just after their birth... [More...]
Étienne Chatiliez
When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a paediatric surgeon, a nurse reveals that, twelve years ago, she switched two babies just after their birth... [More...]
La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [More...]
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [More...]
La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)
Jan Bucquoy
A writer, Jan Bucquoy, narrates his sex life from his first sexual experience (with a teenage boy a few years older than him) to age 28, where he is living alone having split up with his wife, after having had an affair with a Karma Sutra obsessed model.... [More...]
Jan Bucquoy
A writer, Jan Bucquoy, narrates his sex life from his first sexual experience (with a teenage boy a few years older than him) to age 28, where he is living alone having split up with his wife, after having had an affair with a Karma Sutra obsessed model.... [More...]
Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
Claude Berri
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, a Jewish couple decide to send their young son, Claude, to live in the country, where they hope he will be safe from arrest... [More...]
Claude Berri
In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, a Jewish couple decide to send their young son, Claude, to live in the country, where they hope he will be safe from arrest... [More...]
La Vieille dame indigne (1965)
René Allio
Madame Berthe is 70 years old when her husband dies. She has two children, Albert and Gaston, who work nearby in Marseilles... [More...]
René Allio
Madame Berthe is 70 years old when her husband dies. She has two children, Albert and Gaston, who work nearby in Marseilles... [More...]
La Vieille qui marchait dans la mer (1991)
Laurent Heynemann
Lady M spends her retirement by the sea, in which she wades every day to assuage her rheumatism. She lives with her former companion, an ex-diplomat, Pompilius, and although they taunt and harangue each other, they share a close friendship... [More...]
Laurent Heynemann
Lady M spends her retirement by the sea, in which she wades every day to assuage her rheumatism. She lives with her former companion, an ex-diplomat, Pompilius, and although they taunt and harangue each other, they share a close friendship... [More...]
Les Vierges (1963)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Five young women from very different backgrounds in the 1960s experience their first romantic coupling: Marie Claude flirts with two young men, François and Rémy, but she gives herself to a total stranger at the fairground... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Five young women from very different backgrounds in the 1960s experience their first romantic coupling: Marie Claude flirts with two young men, François and Rémy, but she gives herself to a total stranger at the fairground... [More...]
Vincent n'a pas d'écailles (2015)
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]
Thomas Salvador
On the spur of the moment, Vincent leaves the city and heads south to Provence in search of a new life. Here, he finds work as a labourer on a construction site and takes time out to go swimming in the region's bountiful lakes and rivers... [More...]
Violette & François (1977)
Jacques Rouffio
Violette loses her job in a bank after a heated argument with her boss. Her good-for-nothing boyfriend François is unable to hold a job down for more than a few days and so is unable to make up the shortfall in their household income... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Violette loses her job in a bank after a heated argument with her boss. Her good-for-nothing boyfriend François is unable to hold a job down for more than a few days and so is unable to make up the shortfall in their household income... [More...]
Vipère au poing (2004)
Philippe de Broca
In middle-age, Jean Rezeau recalls his eventful childhood, beginning with the death of his grandmother in 1926. Hitherto, Jean and his elder brother Freddie had enjoyed a happy life in the family's country estate, cherished by their grandmother and their servants... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
In middle-age, Jean Rezeau recalls his eventful childhood, beginning with the death of his grandmother in 1926. Hitherto, Jean and his elder brother Freddie had enjoyed a happy life in the family's country estate, cherished by their grandmother and their servants... [More...]
Virgil (2005)
Mabrouk El Mechri
Virgil is a young man in his early thirties who is determined to follow his father Ernest's career and become a champion professional boxer... [More...]
Mabrouk El Mechri
Virgil is a young man in his early thirties who is determined to follow his father Ernest's career and become a champion professional boxer... [More...]
La Voie lactée (1969)
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]
Voir la mer (2011)
Patrice Leconte
Nicolas and Clément, two brothers from Montbard, Burgundy, decide to spend their summer holidays with their mother at Saint-Jean-de-Luz... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Nicolas and Clément, two brothers from Montbard, Burgundy, decide to spend their summer holidays with their mother at Saint-Jean-de-Luz... [More...]
Le Voyage à Paimpol (1985)
John Berry
Maryvonne's dreams are a world apart from her daily reality. Her life as a factory worker in a humdrum town receives a boost when she starts a romance with a young Arab co-worker, Joël... [More...]
John Berry
Maryvonne's dreams are a world apart from her daily reality. Her life as a factory worker in a humdrum town receives a boost when she starts a romance with a young Arab co-worker, Joël... [More...]
Le Voyage du ballon rouge (2007)
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Susanne is a Parisian single mother who is far too preoccupied with her marionette show to attend to the needs of her two young children, Simon and Louise... [More...]
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Susanne is a Parisian single mother who is far too preoccupied with her marionette show to attend to the needs of her two young children, Simon and Louise... [More...]
Le Voyageur sans bagages (1944)
Jean Anouilh
Gaston is one of the casualties of the so-called 'war to end all wars'. His body survived the carnage of the WWI battlefields but his mind was irreparably damaged... [More...]
Jean Anouilh
Gaston is one of the casualties of the so-called 'war to end all wars'. His body survived the carnage of the WWI battlefields but his mind was irreparably damaged... [More...]
Le Voyou (1970)
Claude Lelouch
Escaped convict Simon Duroc evades capture by the police by ducking into a cinema and getting a woman he has never met before to kiss him... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Escaped convict Simon Duroc evades capture by the police by ducking into a cinema and getting a woman he has never met before to kiss him... [More...]
Week End (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
One perfectly ordinary weekend, a perfectly ordinary married couple get into their car and head off to the country for an ordinary family get-together... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
One perfectly ordinary weekend, a perfectly ordinary married couple get into their car and head off to the country for an ordinary family get-together... [More...]
Western (1997)
Manuel Poirier
When a Spanish sales rep Paco Cazale gives a lift to a Russian hitch-hiker, Nino, his life takes an unexpected turn. First he is stranded when Nino drives off with his car... [More...]
Manuel Poirier
When a Spanish sales rep Paco Cazale gives a lift to a Russian hitch-hiker, Nino, his life takes an unexpected turn. First he is stranded when Nino drives off with his car... [More...]
XXL (1997)
Ariel Zeitoun
Alain Berrebi runs a fashion store in Paris' Jewish district. He has big ideas for his business, but these are constantly thwarted by a neighbouring Chinese shop... [More...]
Ariel Zeitoun
Alain Berrebi runs a fashion store in Paris' Jewish district. He has big ideas for his business, but these are constantly thwarted by a neighbouring Chinese shop... [More...]
Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles (2014)
Cécile Telerman
This is the story of two sisters who could not be more different. Joséphine, a historian who specialises in the twelfth century, is struggling to cope with life's challenges... [More...]
Cécile Telerman
This is the story of two sisters who could not be more different. Joséphine, a historian who specialises in the twelfth century, is struggling to cope with life's challenges... [More...]
Yoyo (1965)
Pierre Étaix
A reclusive millionaire is languishing in boredom in his opulent château when, one day, amidst a travelling circus, he recognises an old flame... [More...]
Pierre Étaix
A reclusive millionaire is languishing in boredom in his opulent château when, one day, amidst a travelling circus, he recognises an old flame... [More...]