Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Drama
L'Autre Dumas (2010)
Safy Nebbou
France, 1848. The spirit of revolution is in the air, but Alexandre Dumas is far too preoccupied with his latest literary masterpiece to have any interest in the dramatic events that are just over the horizon...
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Safy Nebbou
Aux abois (2005)
Philippe Collin
Paris, in the 1950s. Since his divorce, Paul lives alone in an apartment which he can no longer afford. Unemployed, he cannot even find the money to pay his wife's alimony and he is teetering on the verge of suicide...
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Philippe Collin
Aux petits bonheurs (1994)
Michel Deville
Hélène returns to a grand country house she once visited in her youth, over twenty years ago, in the vain hope of finding the man she once loved...
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Michel Deville
L'Avare (1980)
Louis de Funès
In the 17th century, after a life of scrimping and saving, Harpagon has managed to build up a substantial personal fortune...
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Louis de Funès
L'Aventure commence demain (1948)
Richard Pottier
Clarence has everything she needs to be a successful adventuress - beauty, charm, cunning. Men are putty in her hands and yet Lady Luck never seems to be on her side - until the happy day when her path crosses that of Claude, a more enterprising con artist...
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Richard Pottier
L'Avion (2005)
Cédric Kahn
Christmas evening, eight-year-old Charly anxiously awaits the return of his father, Pierre, to the family home. Pierre, an aerospace engineer, is often away working on secret military projects, but he has promised his son a bike for Christmas... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Christmas evening, eight-year-old Charly anxiously awaits the return of his father, Pierre, to the family home. Pierre, an aerospace engineer, is often away working on secret military projects, but he has promised his son a bike for Christmas... [More...]
Les Babas Cool (1981)
François Leterrier
Antoine Bonfils, a travelling salesman, is happily wending his way down a country road in deepest Provence when his car suddenly breaks down... [More...]
François Leterrier
Antoine Bonfils, a travelling salesman, is happily wending his way down a country road in deepest Provence when his car suddenly breaks down... [More...]
Le Bal des actrices (2009)
Maïwenn
An enterprising young film director, Maïwenn, decides to make a documentary about actresses. She meets a number of diverse women who have chosen to make the dramatic art their career and becomes increasingly fascinated by their complex lives and personalities... [More...]
Maïwenn
An enterprising young film director, Maïwenn, decides to make a documentary about actresses. She meets a number of diverse women who have chosen to make the dramatic art their career and becomes increasingly fascinated by their complex lives and personalities... [More...]
Les Ballets écarlates (2007)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
In an anonymous little town in France, a group of privileged individuals amuse themselves by organising debauched parties at which they indulge their paedophilic appetites with whatever children they can lure to their clandestine meetings... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
In an anonymous little town in France, a group of privileged individuals amuse themselves by organising debauched parties at which they indulge their paedophilic appetites with whatever children they can lure to their clandestine meetings... [More...]
Le Ballon rouge (1956)
Albert Lamorisse
One day, a solitary little boy named Pascal comes across a spherical red balloon tied to a lamppost. Without hesitating, the boy releases the balloon and it begins following him as he continues wandering around the streets of Paris... [More...]
Albert Lamorisse
One day, a solitary little boy named Pascal comes across a spherical red balloon tied to a lamppost. Without hesitating, the boy releases the balloon and it begins following him as he continues wandering around the streets of Paris... [More...]
Baptême (1989)
René Féret
A mining town in northern France, 1935. Aline, a young waitress in a café, falls in love with one of her customers, Pierre, and persuades her reluctant parents to let him marry her... [More...]
René Féret
A mining town in northern France, 1935. Aline, a young waitress in a café, falls in love with one of her customers, Pierre, and persuades her reluctant parents to let him marry her... [More...]
Bartleby (1976)
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement... [More...]
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement... [More...]
Le Bateau d'Émile (1962)
Denys de La Patellière
Realising he is close to death, Charles-Edmond Larmentiel returns to his home town of La Rochelle to enact a cruel vengeance on his family... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Realising he is close to death, Charles-Edmond Larmentiel returns to his home town of La Rochelle to enact a cruel vengeance on his family... [More...]
La Baule-les-Pins (1990)
Diane Kurys
July 1958. Two young sisters, Frédérique and Sophie, are packed off to the seaside, to spend their summer holidays under the care of their housemaid, Odette, whilst their mother Lena and father Michel stays at home in Lyon... [More...]
Diane Kurys
July 1958. Two young sisters, Frédérique and Sophie, are packed off to the seaside, to spend their summer holidays under the care of their housemaid, Odette, whilst their mother Lena and father Michel stays at home in Lyon... [More...]
Bazar (2009)
Patricia Plattner
Sixty-year-old Gabrielle is passionate about her work as an antiques dealer. It is her life, her raison d'être, and so she is understandably shaken when she is evicted from her shop... [More...]
Patricia Plattner
Sixty-year-old Gabrielle is passionate about her work as an antiques dealer. It is her life, her raison d'être, and so she is understandably shaken when she is evicted from her shop... [More...]
Beau fixe (1992)
Christian Vincent
One summer, a young medical student, Valérie, invites her three friends, Armelle, Frédérique and Carine, to study with her at her family villa in the coastal resort of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer... [More...]
Christian Vincent
One summer, a young medical student, Valérie, invites her three friends, Armelle, Frédérique and Carine, to study with her at her family villa in the coastal resort of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer... [More...]
Le Beau mariage (1982)
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children... [More...]
Beau-père (1981)
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants... [More...]
La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature... [More...]
Les Beaux gosses (2009)
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
Riad Sattouf
Hervé is an ordinary 14-year-old who lives alone with his mother on a housing estate in Brittany. Like most boys of his age, his one thought is to get himself a girlfriend, but his attempts to do so seem doomed to failure... [More...]
Bella ciao (2001)
Stéphane Giusti
As Italy falls under the control of the Fascists, Orféo Mancini, a life-long supporter of the Communist party, decides to leave his country, with his wife Nella and their two children, Oreste and Bianca... [More...]
Stéphane Giusti
As Italy falls under the control of the Fascists, Orféo Mancini, a life-long supporter of the Communist party, decides to leave his country, with his wife Nella and their two children, Oreste and Bianca... [More...]
Belle de jour (1967)
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Belle et Sébastien (2013)
Nicolas Vanier
High up in the French Alps during the Second World War, the idyllic tranquillity of a small village is about to broken by the sudden arrival of a platoon of German soldiers... [More...]
Nicolas Vanier
High up in the French Alps during the Second World War, the idyllic tranquillity of a small village is about to broken by the sudden arrival of a platoon of German soldiers... [More...]
La Belle meunière (1948)
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]
Belles familles (2015)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
On a trip to London, Shanghai-based businessman Jérôme Varenne stops over in Paris to visit his mother and brother, but soon finds a reason to prolong his stay in la Belle France... [More...]
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
On a trip to London, Shanghai-based businessman Jérôme Varenne stops over in Paris to visit his mother and brother, but soon finds a reason to prolong his stay in la Belle France... [More...]
Bernie (1996)
Albert Dupontel
Bernie has spent his entire life in an orphanage. He has no family, no knowledge of his origins, but, aged 30, he is determined to find out where he comes from... [More...]
Albert Dupontel
Bernie has spent his entire life in an orphanage. He has no family, no knowledge of his origins, but, aged 30, he is determined to find out where he comes from... [More...]
Les Bien-aimés (2011)
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Christophe Honoré
In the early 1960s, Madeleine makes a living in Paris as a prostitute. She cannot help falling in love with one of her clients, a young Czechoslovakian doctor named Jaromil, and within no time they are married and beginning a new life together in Prague... [More...]
Bienvenue au gîte (2003)
Claude Duty
Tired of their stressful Parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence... [More...]
Claude Duty
Tired of their stressful Parisian lifestyle, Caroline and Bertrand decide to start a new life, running a traditional gîte in deepest Provence... [More...]
Le Bled (1929)
Jean Renoir
Pierre Hoffer, a loafer from metropolitan France, is on his way to Algeria to beg some money off his uncle Christian, a prosperous farmer... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Pierre Hoffer, a loafer from metropolitan France, is on his way to Algeria to beg some money off his uncle Christian, a prosperous farmer... [More...]
Le Bleu des villes (1999)
Stéphane Brizé
Traffic warden Solange has grown tired of her ordinary day-to-day existence in a dull provincial town. Whilst her husband, Patrick, is perfectly content working as an assistant in a hospital morgue and decorating their new home, she yearns for a change... [More...]
Stéphane Brizé
Traffic warden Solange has grown tired of her ordinary day-to-day existence in a dull provincial town. Whilst her husband, Patrick, is perfectly content working as an assistant in a hospital morgue and decorating their new home, she yearns for a change... [More...]