Film Index
French cinema: Comedy/Drama
Clara et les chics types (1981)
Jacques Monnet
Six friends from Grenoble with a shared love of music have formed a rock band called Les Why Notes. Bertrand, Mickey, Frédéric, Charles, Aimée and Louise are all in their late twenties but seem reluctant or incapable of putting their adolescence behind them...
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Jacques Monnet
Claudine à l'école (1937)
Serge de Poligny
Neglected by her father and robbed of her mother, Claudine grows up to be an independently minded young lady at her girls' school in the country...
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Serge de Poligny
La Clé sur la porte (1978)
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone...
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Yves Boisset
Cliente (2008)
Josiane Balasko
50-something Judith is the host of a popular television shopping programme. After her divorce, she lives with her sister and closest confidante, Irène...
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Josiane Balasko
Club de femmes (1936)
Jacques Deval
A women-only boarding house in Paris provides an affordable sanctuary for impressionable young woman who wish to be protected from the corrupting influence of the male sex...
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Jacques Deval
Le Coeur des hommes 2 (2007)
Marc Esposito
Jeff invites his three friends Alex, Antoine and Manu to spend a holiday with him at his villa in the south of France. Jeff wants to sell the villa and settle in Paris, but his friends persuade him to keep it as a holiday retreat for the four of them... [More...]
Marc Esposito
Jeff invites his three friends Alex, Antoine and Manu to spend a holiday with him at his villa in the south of France. Jeff wants to sell the villa and settle in Paris, but his friends persuade him to keep it as a holiday retreat for the four of them... [More...]
Le Coeur des hommes (2003)
Marc Esposito
Alex, Manu, Jeff and Antoine have been the best of friends since they played in the same football team, twenty years ago... [More...]
Marc Esposito
Alex, Manu, Jeff and Antoine have been the best of friends since they played in the same football team, twenty years ago... [More...]
Le Coeur en braille (2016)
Michel Boujenah
Marie is a teenager with a passion for playing the cello. As the end of the school year approaches she is looking forward to entering the Conservatoire so that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a world-class musician... [More...]
Michel Boujenah
Marie is a teenager with a passion for playing the cello. As the end of the school year approaches she is looking forward to entering the Conservatoire so that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a world-class musician... [More...]
Coeurs (2006)
Alain Resnais
Estate agent Thierry is having a hard time trying to find an apartment for a problem couple, Dan and Nicole. Each evening, Dan, an unemployed ex-army man, spills his bucket load of sorrows into the ears of friendly barman Lionel, whose sole domestic preoccupation is looking after his cantankerous old father... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Estate agent Thierry is having a hard time trying to find an apartment for a problem couple, Dan and Nicole. Each evening, Dan, an unemployed ex-army man, spills his bucket load of sorrows into the ears of friendly barman Lionel, whose sole domestic preoccupation is looking after his cantankerous old father... [More...]
Coexister (2017)
Fabrice Eboué
Nicolas Lejeune is a music producer who appears to have reached an impasse in both his professional and his private lives... [More...]
Fabrice Eboué
Nicolas Lejeune is a music producer who appears to have reached an impasse in both his professional and his private lives... [More...]
Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec (2008)
Antoine de Caunes
In 1980, Coluche is one of the most popular comic performers in France. He attracts the size of audience other comedians can only dream of, be it on stage, on television or on the radio... [More...]
Antoine de Caunes
In 1980, Coluche is one of the most popular comic performers in France. He attracts the size of audience other comedians can only dream of, be it on stage, on television or on the radio... [More...]
Combien tu m'aimes? (2005)
Bertrand Blier
The star attraction at Charly's popular nightclub in Pigalle is Daniela, an Italian prostitute that no man can resist, apparently... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
The star attraction at Charly's popular nightclub in Pigalle is Daniela, an Italian prostitute that no man can resist, apparently... [More...]
Comédie de l'innocence (2001)
Raoul Ruiz
On his ninth birthday, Camille casually tells his mother, Arianne, that she is not his real mother and that he desperately wants to go home, to his real home... [More...]
Raoul Ruiz
On his ninth birthday, Camille casually tells his mother, Arianne, that she is not his real mother and that he desperately wants to go home, to his real home... [More...]
La Comédie du bonheur (1942)
Marcel L'Herbier
When the wealthy banker François Jourdain acquires a taste for spendthrift philanthropy, his relatives have him committed to a psychiatric clinic, in the hope of saving what remains of their inheritance... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
When the wealthy banker François Jourdain acquires a taste for spendthrift philanthropy, his relatives have him committed to a psychiatric clinic, in the hope of saving what remains of their inheritance... [More...]
Le Comédien (1948)
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Comme les autres (2008)
Vincent Garenq
Emmanuel has everything a man could want. A good job, a nice apartment and a steady relationship with the man of his dreams, Philippe... [More...]
Vincent Garenq
Emmanuel has everything a man could want. A good job, a nice apartment and a steady relationship with the man of his dreams, Philippe... [More...]
Comme une image (2004)
Agnès Jaoui
Lolita is the twenty-year-old daughter of busy publisher Etienne Cassard, a man who is so wrapped up in himself that he fails to notice anything outside his own personal ambit... [More...]
Agnès Jaoui
Lolita is the twenty-year-old daughter of busy publisher Etienne Cassard, a man who is so wrapped up in himself that he fails to notice anything outside his own personal ambit... [More...]
Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Commis d'office (2009)
Hannelore Cayre
Antoine Lahoud has just turned forty when he realises he has lost his enthusiasm for his work as a criminal lawyer. It galls him that he receives so little remuneration and even less gratitude for the work he does for the betterment of society... [More...]
Hannelore Cayre
Antoine Lahoud has just turned forty when he realises he has lost his enthusiasm for his work as a criminal lawyer. It galls him that he receives so little remuneration and even less gratitude for the work he does for the betterment of society... [More...]
La Communion solennelle (1977)
René Féret
Towards the mid-1970s, a large family get-together is arranged at a tranquil spot in the north of France. Attending the out-of-doors communion dinner are around thirty people who span three generations, their life stories stretching right back to the 1890s... [More...]
René Féret
Towards the mid-1970s, a large family get-together is arranged at a tranquil spot in the north of France. Attending the out-of-doors communion dinner are around thirty people who span three generations, their life stories stretching right back to the 1890s... [More...]
Le Concert (2009)
Radu Mihaileanu
Way back in the 1970s, Andrei Filipov was one of the most famous conductors in the Soviet Union. He worked with the world-renowned Bolshoi Orchestra and led a privileged and comfortable life... [More...]
Radu Mihaileanu
Way back in the 1970s, Andrei Filipov was one of the most famous conductors in the Soviet Union. He worked with the world-renowned Bolshoi Orchestra and led a privileged and comfortable life... [More...]
Confidences pour confidences (1979)
Pascal Thomas
Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop... [More...]
Les Conquérants (2013)
Xabi Molia
Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives... [More...]
Xabi Molia
Galaad and Noé have nothing in common except that they share the same father and seem destined to fail at everything they attempt, in both their professional and personal lives... [More...]
La Conquête (2011)
Xavier Durringer
It is the 6th May 2007, the day of the second round of the French presidential election. As the people of France cast their vote, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy mopes about his home in a bathrobe, alone and dejected, unable to get in touch with his wife Cécilia... [More...]
Xavier Durringer
It is the 6th May 2007, the day of the second round of the French presidential election. As the people of France cast their vote, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy mopes about his home in a bathrobe, alone and dejected, unable to get in touch with his wife Cécilia... [More...]
Conte d'automne (1998)
Eric Rohmer
Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley... [More...]
Conte d'été (1996)
Eric Rohmer
Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar... [More...]
Conte d'hiver (1992)
Eric Rohmer
During a summer holiday, Félicie and Charles meet and have a whirlwind romance. Due to a mix-up with their addresses, they lose track of one another, even though Félicie is carrying Charles' child... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
During a summer holiday, Félicie and Charles meet and have a whirlwind romance. Due to a mix-up with their addresses, they lose track of one another, even though Félicie is carrying Charles' child... [More...]
Conte de printemps (1990)
Eric Rohmer
Jeanne is a high school teacher of philosophy who finds herself temporarily homeless when her fiancé Mathieu goes away for a few days... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Jeanne is a high school teacher of philosophy who finds herself temporarily homeless when her fiancé Mathieu goes away for a few days... [More...]
Les Convoyeurs attendent (1999)
Benoît Mariage
A new millennium beckons but life goes on as usual in a dull industrial town in Belgium. Family man Roger Closset works as a journalist on a local newspaper, L'Espoir, zipping around on his moped in search of an interesting news story, with little hope of finding one... [More...]
Benoît Mariage
A new millennium beckons but life goes on as usual in a dull industrial town in Belgium. Family man Roger Closset works as a journalist on a local newspaper, L'Espoir, zipping around on his moped in search of an interesting news story, with little hope of finding one... [More...]
Copacabana (2010)
Marc Fitoussi
Babou is one of life's eternal adolescents. Unable to hold down a job for more than five minutes, she has spent the last few years travelling around the world doing what she does best: enjoying herself... [More...]
Marc Fitoussi
Babou is one of life's eternal adolescents. Unable to hold down a job for more than five minutes, she has spent the last few years travelling around the world doing what she does best: enjoying herself... [More...]