Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Bodybuilder (2014)
Roschdy Zem
Antoine's frequent excursions into petty crime bring him into trouble not only with the law but also with a Lyonnaise gang who are now after his blood...
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Roschdy Zem
Le Bon et les méchants (1976)
Claude Lelouch
This is the story of Jacques, a young car mechanic who dreams of becoming a professional boxer, and his kind-hearted Jewish friend, Simon...
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Claude Lelouch
Le Bon plaisir (1984)
Francis Girod
For Claire Despres, a talented young fashion designer, the theft of her handbag in broad daylight ought to be a matter of personal inconvenience, nothing more...
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Francis Girod
Bon plan (2000)
Jérôme Lévy
One summer, Five French students decide to hike their way across Europe, the aim being to visit 15 great cities without falling out...
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Jérôme Lévy
Bon voyage (2003)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Paris, 1940. A few days before France falls to German occupation, a famous actress, Viviane Denvers, triggers a series of events that will irrevocably change the lives of herself and those around her...
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Le Bonheur est dans le pré (1995)
Étienne Chatiliez
Francis Bergeade is heading for a mid-life crisis. The workers in his factory which manufactures toilet accessories are up in arms when he announces cut backs... [More...]
Étienne Chatiliez
Francis Bergeade is heading for a mid-life crisis. The workers in his factory which manufactures toilet accessories are up in arms when he announces cut backs... [More...]
Les Bonnes femmes (1960)
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives... [More...]
La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
When her mother tries to kill herself, nine-year-old Mini is left in a highly traumatised state. Until her mother is well enough to leave hospital, the little girl must stay with her aunt, Solange, in a tiny apartment that is barely big enough for one... [More...]
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
When her mother tries to kill herself, nine-year-old Mini is left in a highly traumatised state. Until her mother is well enough to leave hospital, the little girl must stay with her aunt, Solange, in a tiny apartment that is barely big enough for one... [More...]
Boudu (2005)
Gérard Jugnot
Christian Lespinglet is the owner of a struggling art gallery in Aix-en-Provence. One evening starts by him trying to seduce his assistant Coralie and ends with him coming to the rescue of a drowning tramp named Boudu... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
Christian Lespinglet is the owner of a struggling art gallery in Aix-en-Provence. One evening starts by him trying to seduce his assistant Coralie and ends with him coming to the rescue of a drowning tramp named Boudu... [More...]
Le Boulanger de Valorgue (1953)
Henri Verneuil
Valorgue, a quaint little town in the south of France, used to be such an idyllic spot. Now it is caught up in the most frenzied of civil wars, with half of the town siding with the good-natured baker, Félicien Hébrard, and the other half with the grocer, the cantankerous old widow Zanetti... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Valorgue, a quaint little town in the south of France, used to be such an idyllic spot. Now it is caught up in the most frenzied of civil wars, with half of the town siding with the good-natured baker, Félicien Hébrard, and the other half with the grocer, the cantankerous old widow Zanetti... [More...]
Boule de suif (1945)
Christian-Jaque
Normandy, 1870. With Rouen occupied by the Prussian army, a prostitute named Élisabeth Rousset decides to leave the town in a stage coach bound for Le Havre... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Normandy, 1870. With Rouen occupied by the Prussian army, a prostitute named Élisabeth Rousset decides to leave the town in a stage coach bound for Le Havre... [More...]
La Boum (1980)
Claude Pinoteau
François and Françoise Berreton are an ordinary middle-class couple who have recently settled in Paris with their 14-year-old daughter Vic... [More...]
Claude Pinoteau
François and Françoise Berreton are an ordinary middle-class couple who have recently settled in Paris with their 14-year-old daughter Vic... [More...]
La Braconne (2014)
Samuel Rondière
Not yet twenty, Driss gets by with his small-time criminal exploits. His path crosses that of Danny, a world-weary crook who roams industrial areas in his old Mercedes... [More...]
Samuel Rondière
Not yet twenty, Driss gets by with his small-time criminal exploits. His path crosses that of Danny, a world-weary crook who roams industrial areas in his old Mercedes... [More...]
Le Briseur de chaînes (1941)
Jacques Daniel-Norman
The Mourets appear to be a happily united family, living a tranquil self-sufficient existence in Saint-Viaud. The head of the household is an old woman known as Mamouret... [More...]
Jacques Daniel-Norman
The Mourets appear to be a happily united family, living a tranquil self-sufficient existence in Saint-Viaud. The head of the household is an old woman known as Mamouret... [More...]
Le Bruit des gens autour (2008)
Diastème
The Festival d'Avignon, one of the cultural highlights of the French calendar, is an appropriate meeting point for artists, romantics and all manner of emotionally disturbed individuals... [More...]
Diastème
The Festival d'Avignon, one of the cultural highlights of the French calendar, is an appropriate meeting point for artists, romantics and all manner of emotionally disturbed individuals... [More...]
Le Bruit des glaçons (2010)
Bertrand Blier
Disappointed with his lacklustre career as a writer, Charles Faulque sinks into a deep depression. He takes solace by moping in solitude at his large luxury house in the south of France and pouring large quantities of alcoholic refreshment down his throat... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Disappointed with his lacklustre career as a writer, Charles Faulque sinks into a deep depression. He takes solace by moping in solitude at his large luxury house in the south of France and pouring large quantities of alcoholic refreshment down his throat... [More...]
La Bûche (1999)
Danièle Thompson
Five days before Christmas, Yvette attends the funeral of her second husband, in the presence of her three daughters, Louba, Sonia and Milla... [More...]
Danièle Thompson
Five days before Christmas, Yvette attends the funeral of her second husband, in the presence of her three daughters, Louba, Sonia and Milla... [More...]
Buffet froid (1979)
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989)
Enki Bilal
In the not too distant future, a violent civil war brings down a totalitarian state. As the war rages on the surface, the high ranking leaders of the old regime take flight and seek the sanctuary offered by Bunker Palace Hotel... [More...]
Enki Bilal
In the not too distant future, a violent civil war brings down a totalitarian state. As the war rages on the surface, the high ranking leaders of the old regime take flight and seek the sanctuary offered by Bunker Palace Hotel... [More...]
Bus Palladium (2010)
Christopher Thompson
Lucas, Philippe, Manu, Mario and Jacob are three childhood friends who have a shared passion for rock music. They form a band and within no time the five friends are en route for stardom... [More...]
Christopher Thompson
Lucas, Philippe, Manu, Mario and Jacob are three childhood friends who have a shared passion for rock music. They form a band and within no time the five friends are en route for stardom... [More...]
Bye Bye Blondie (2012)
Virginie Despentes
Gloria and Frances first met in a psychiatric clinic in the 1980s. At the time, they were both young women, barely out of adolescence... [More...]
Virginie Despentes
Gloria and Frances first met in a psychiatric clinic in the 1980s. At the time, they were both young women, barely out of adolescence... [More...]
Bye bye, Barbara (1969)
Michel Deville
Jérôme Tomas is a sportswriter who is covering an important rugby match in Biarritz when, one evening, he enters a bar and encounters a strange young woman dressed in white... [More...]
Michel Deville
Jérôme Tomas is a sportswriter who is covering an important rugby match in Biarritz when, one evening, he enters a bar and encounters a strange young woman dressed in white... [More...]
C'est la vie (2001)
Jean-Pierre Améris
Dimitri is not yet fifty when he is diagnosed with an incurable disease. Reluctantly, he gives up his comfortable home in Marseille and takes up residence in a hospice, where he will live out the last few weeks that remain to him... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Améris
Dimitri is not yet fifty when he is diagnosed with an incurable disease. Reluctantly, he gives up his comfortable home in Marseille and takes up residence in a hospice, where he will live out the last few weeks that remain to him... [More...]
Les Cachetonneurs (1998)
Denis Dercourt
Roberto, a young freelance musician, agrees to give a New Year's Eve concert of chamber music and Viennese waltzes at an aristocrat's château in Normandy... [More...]
Denis Dercourt
Roberto, a young freelance musician, agrees to give a New Year's Eve concert of chamber music and Viennese waltzes at an aristocrat's château in Normandy... [More...]
Le Café du pont (2010)
Manuel Poirier
In 1947, Pierrot is a contented 12-year-old living in the south of France with his parents, the owners of a popular café... [More...]
Manuel Poirier
In 1947, Pierrot is a contented 12-year-old living in the south of France with his parents, the owners of a popular café... [More...]
Calvaire (2004)
Fabrice Du Welz
Marc Stevens is an itinerant singer who performs mainly for retirement homes. After an engagement at a hospice is cancelled, his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere... [More...]
Fabrice Du Welz
Marc Stevens is an itinerant singer who performs mainly for retirement homes. After an engagement at a hospice is cancelled, his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere... [More...]
Camille redouble (2012)
Noémie Lvovsky
Camille, a 40-something actress, gets an unexpected shock when she returns home one day to find her husband Eric packing his bags... [More...]
Noémie Lvovsky
Camille, a 40-something actress, gets an unexpected shock when she returns home one day to find her husband Eric packing his bags... [More...]
Le Capital (2012)
Costa-Gavras
Marmande is the CEO of Phénix Bank, Europe's leading financial institution. When he is diagnosed with testicular cancer, he immediately appoints a rank outsider, Marc Tourneuil, as his acting successor... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
Marmande is the CEO of Phénix Bank, Europe's leading financial institution. When he is diagnosed with testicular cancer, he immediately appoints a rank outsider, Marc Tourneuil, as his acting successor... [More...]
Caprices (1942)
Léo Joannon
Lise and Philippe are two comfortably off young people who, to relieve their crushing boredom, resort to what they believe is some harmless playacting... [More...]
Léo Joannon
Lise and Philippe are two comfortably off young people who, to relieve their crushing boredom, resort to what they believe is some harmless playacting... [More...]
Cargaison blanche (1937)
Robert Siodmak
In Spain, Blanco is the boss of a notorious white slavery ring which lures attractive young women with the promise of a dancing career and ships them off to Brazil to be sold as prostitutes... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
In Spain, Blanco is the boss of a notorious white slavery ring which lures attractive young women with the promise of a dancing career and ships them off to Brazil to be sold as prostitutes... [More...]