Film Index
French cinema: Drama
À la petite semaine (2003)
Sam Karmann
Having served a five year stretch in jail, fifty-something Jacques returns to his old friends in Saint-Ouen, hoping to make a fresh start...
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Sam Karmann
À la place du coeur (1998)
Robert Guédiguian
Bébé and Clémentine are a mixed race couple who live in a poor district of Marseille. They are deeply in love and even though they are still in their teens they intend to marry as soon as they can...
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Robert Guédiguian
À ma soeur! (2001)
Catherine Breillat
Whilst on holiday with her family, 15 year old Elena meets an an older Italian student, Fernando. Elena is eager to fall in love and Fernando, a smooth-talking Don Juan type, persaudes her to have sex with him...
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Catherine Breillat
À moi seule (2012)
Frédéric Videau
For eight years, Gaëlle has been held captive by Vincent. During this time, she has seen no one else - he was her entire world...
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Frédéric Videau
À nos amours (1983)
Maurice Pialat
Suzanne is a free-spirited 15-year-old who, along with her best friend Anne, is having a hard time coping with the upheavals of early adolescence...
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Maurice Pialat
À nous deux (1979)
Claude Lelouch
Simon Lacassaigne is the son of a notorious hoodlum and has every intention of following in his father's footsteps. His criminal career is cut short, however, when he is arrested and thrown into prison... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Simon Lacassaigne is the son of a notorious hoodlum and has every intention of following in his father's footsteps. His criminal career is cut short, however, when he is arrested and thrown into prison... [More...]
À pas de loup (2012)
Olivier Ringer
Cathy is a six-year-old girl who believes that she cannot be seen by her parents. She has a chance to test her theory at the end of a weekend at the family's country retreat... [More...]
Olivier Ringer
Cathy is a six-year-old girl who believes that she cannot be seen by her parents. She has a chance to test her theory at the end of a weekend at the family's country retreat... [More...]
À perdre la raison (2012)
Joachim Lafosse
Murielle and Mounir are a young couple who desperately want to get married and start a family. Fortunately, they have a kindly benefactor in Dr Pinget, the man who has looked after Mounir since he was a small boy and come to regard him as his own son... [More...]
Joachim Lafosse
Murielle and Mounir are a young couple who desperately want to get married and start a family. Fortunately, they have a kindly benefactor in Dr Pinget, the man who has looked after Mounir since he was a small boy and come to regard him as his own son... [More...]
À toi de faire... mignonne (1963)
Bernard Borderie
An FBI agent is murdered just as she discovers some important documents concerning Professor Elmer Whittaker. When the professor goes missing, Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
An FBI agent is murdered just as she discovers some important documents concerning Professor Elmer Whittaker. When the professor goes missing, Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate... [More...]
À tout de suite (2004)
Benoît Jacquot
Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
Paris, 1975. Lili, a 19-year old arts student, comes from a privileged family and her life so far has been without incident... [More...]
À vendre (1998)
Laetitia Masson
Luigi Primo is a private detective hired by a disappointed bridegroom to track down the woman who jilted him on his wedding day... [More...]
Laetitia Masson
Luigi Primo is a private detective hired by a disappointed bridegroom to track down the woman who jilted him on his wedding day... [More...]
Abus de confiance (1937)
Henri Decoin
Lydia is a promising law student who is struggling to get by after her grandmother's death. She has barely enough money to buy her evening meal and now, to cap it all, her landlord is threatening to evict her... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Lydia is a promising law student who is struggling to get by after her grandmother's death. She has barely enough money to buy her evening meal and now, to cap it all, her landlord is threatening to evict her... [More...]
Accusée, levez-vous! (1930)
Maurice Tourneur
André Darbois and Gaby Delange are partners in a popular musical hall act. Whilst rehearsing their next show in Paris, the couple come up against Yvonne Delys, a far more successful performer who takes an instant dislike to Gaby... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
André Darbois and Gaby Delange are partners in a popular musical hall act. Whilst rehearsing their next show in Paris, the couple come up against Yvonne Delys, a far more successful performer who takes an instant dislike to Gaby... [More...]
L'Adieu à la nuit (2019)
André Téchiné
When her teenage grandson Alex comes to visit her, Muriel is over the moon. It seems he is about to head off to Canada to start a new life, but before he goes he wants to spend a few peaceful days with the one relative he is still on good terms with... [More...]
André Téchiné
When her teenage grandson Alex comes to visit her, Muriel is over the moon. It seems he is about to head off to Canada to start a new life, but before he goes he wants to spend a few peaceful days with the one relative he is still on good terms with... [More...]
Adieu Philippine (1962)
Jacques Rozier
Paris, in the summer of 1960. Michel is a young Frenchman who, just before he is due to start his military service in Algeria, works as a television studio trainee... [More...]
Jacques Rozier
Paris, in the summer of 1960. Michel is a young Frenchman who, just before he is due to start his military service in Algeria, works as a television studio trainee... [More...]
Les Adieux à la reine (2012)
Benoît Jacquot
In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is starting to overtake Paris... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, life at the Palace of Versailles continues in its carefree vein, far from the tumult that is starting to overtake Paris... [More...]
L'Adolescente (1979)
Jeanne Moreau
In 1939, a Parisian butcher named Jean takes his wife Eva and their 12-year-old daughter Marie to the country, to spend their long summer holidays at his mother's house in Auvergne... [More...]
Jeanne Moreau
In 1939, a Parisian butcher named Jean takes his wife Eva and their 12-year-old daughter Marie to the country, to spend their long summer holidays at his mother's house in Auvergne... [More...]
L'Adversaire (2002)
Nicole Garcia
For the past fifteen years, Jean-Marc Faure has kept up the deception that he is a brilliant physician with a senior position in the World Health Organisation... [More...]
Nicole Garcia
For the past fifteen years, Jean-Marc Faure has kept up the deception that he is a brilliant physician with a senior position in the World Health Organisation... [More...]
L'Affaire des poisons (1955)
Henri Decoin
The Marquise de Montespan is a scheming adventuress who hopes to become the favoured mistress to King Louis XIV of France to advance her social status... [More...]
Henri Decoin
The Marquise de Montespan is a scheming adventuress who hopes to become the favoured mistress to King Louis XIV of France to advance her social status... [More...]
L'Affaire Dominici (1973)
Claude Bernard-Aubert
In August 1952, Sir Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their ten-year-old daughter are taking a holiday in the Haute Provence region of France... [More...]
Claude Bernard-Aubert
In August 1952, Sir Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their ten-year-old daughter are taking a holiday in the Haute Provence region of France... [More...]
L'Affaire Dreyfus (1899)
Georges Méliès
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus is tried before a military court and found guilty of high treason, having passed sensitive documents to a foreign power... [More...]
Georges Méliès
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus is tried before a military court and found guilty of high treason, having passed sensitive documents to a foreign power... [More...]
L'Affaire Farewell (2009)
Christian Carion
Moscow in the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system... [More...]
Christian Carion
Moscow in the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Sergueï Grigoriev is a colonel in the KGB who has become so disillusioned with the regime running his country that he decides to bring down the system... [More...]
L'Affaire Maurizius (1954)
Julien Duvivier
Wolf Andergast began his illustrious career as a magistrate eighteen years ago with a murder case that resulted in a young man, Léonard Maurizius, being sent to prison for life... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Wolf Andergast began his illustrious career as a magistrate eighteen years ago with a murder case that resulted in a young man, Léonard Maurizius, being sent to prison for life... [More...]
L'Affaire Nina B. (1961)
Robert Siodmak
The funeral of German businessman Berrera attracts a distinguished crowd of mourners, but few tears are shed. His chauffeur, Holden, recalls how, shortly after his release from prison, Berrera hired him and offered him a part in a crucial mission... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
The funeral of German businessman Berrera attracts a distinguished crowd of mourners, but few tears are shed. His chauffeur, Holden, recalls how, shortly after his release from prison, Berrera hired him and offered him a part in a crucial mission... [More...]
L'Affaire SK1 (2015)
Frédéric Tellier
In 1991, Franck Magne is finding his feet as a young police inspector at Paris's police department, 36 quai des Orfèvres... [More...]
Frédéric Tellier
In 1991, Franck Magne is finding his feet as a young police inspector at Paris's police department, 36 quai des Orfèvres... [More...]
After (2013)
Géraldine Maillet
One night in Paris, a woman meets a man. Julie is beautiful, married, well-adjusted. Guillaume is a Don Juan-type, free and impulsive... [More...]
Géraldine Maillet
One night in Paris, a woman meets a man. Julie is beautiful, married, well-adjusted. Guillaume is a Don Juan-type, free and impulsive... [More...]
Agent trouble (1987)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
One winter's morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
One winter's morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed... [More...]
Agnès de rien (1950)
Pierre Billon
At the insistence of her husband Francis, Agnès de Chaligny is forced to take up residence in his ancestral family home in the country whilst he, a struggling artist in Paris, sorts out his finances... [More...]
Pierre Billon
At the insistence of her husband Francis, Agnès de Chaligny is forced to take up residence in his ancestral family home in the country whilst he, a struggling artist in Paris, sorts out his finances... [More...]
L'Agonie de Byzance (1913)
Louis Feuillade
On 6th April 1453, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II surround the holy Christian city of Constantinople, poised to attack when the command is given... [More...]
Louis Feuillade
On 6th April 1453, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II surround the holy Christian city of Constantinople, poised to attack when the command is given... [More...]
L'Agression (1975)
Gérard Pirès
The Varlins are an ordinary French family who are looking forward to their holiday on the Grande Motte, a mountain in the Savoie region of France... [More...]
Gérard Pirès
The Varlins are an ordinary French family who are looking forward to their holiday on the Grande Motte, a mountain in the Savoie region of France... [More...]