Film Index
French cinema: Drama
Les Amitiés particulières (1964)
Jean Delannoy
In the 1930s, Georges de Sarre, a fifteen-year old boy from an aristocratic background, begins his studies in a Jesuit boarding school...
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Jean Delannoy
Amok (1934)
Fyodor Otsep
In a Dutch colony in the Far East, Dr Holk ekes out a solitary existence catering to the needs of the natives whilst frittering away his earnings on gambling and alcohol...
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Fyodor Otsep
Amour (2012)
Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are a happily married couple who are now in their eighties. Retired piano teachers, they have a daughter who is also a musician, but she lives abroad with her own family...
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Michael Haneke
L'Amour à mort (1984)
Alain Resnais
Whilst participating in an archaeological survey, Simon Roche, a man in his fifties, falls in love with Élisabeth Sutter, an attractive younger woman...
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Alain Resnais
L'Amour est un crime parfait (2014)
Arnaud Larrieu
Marc may be an enthusiastic literature professor, but he is also an inveterate skirt-chaser, and his habit of taking his female students to bed often brings him into conflict with Richard, his departmental head at Lausanne University...
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Arnaud Larrieu
L'Amour fou (1969)
Jacques Rivette
To those who know them, Sébastien and Claire are the model of the perfectly happy married couple. But as they rehearse a stage production of Racine's play Andromaque, the fault lines in their marriage are already starting to show... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
To those who know them, Sébastien and Claire are the model of the perfectly happy married couple. But as they rehearse a stage production of Racine's play Andromaque, the fault lines in their marriage are already starting to show... [More...]
L'Amour ne pardonne pas (2015)
Stefano Consiglio
Adrianne is a Frenchwoman in her late fifties who lives a peaceful life in a small town in the south of Italy. It has been some years since her husband died and she divides her time between her job as a nurse, her grown-up daughter and her granddaughter... [More...]
Stefano Consiglio
Adrianne is a Frenchwoman in her late fifties who lives a peaceful life in a small town in the south of Italy. It has been some years since her husband died and she divides her time between her job as a nurse, her grown-up daughter and her granddaughter... [More...]
L'Amour violé (1978)
Yannick Bellon
One evening, a nurse, Nicole, is heading home on her moped when she is driven off the road by a van. Four men get out of the van and proceed to taunt her, before abducting her... [More...]
Yannick Bellon
One evening, a nurse, Nicole, is heading home on her moped when she is driven off the road by a van. Four men get out of the van and proceed to taunt her, before abducting her... [More...]
Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (1948)
Henri Decoin
Gérard Favier is a famous composer who has been married to the charming Sylvia for almost 20 years. Still deeply in love, they walk the streets of Paris and, one day, they hear a sonata that Gérard once wrote, played on a piano in a house... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Gérard Favier is a famous composer who has been married to the charming Sylvia for almost 20 years. Still deeply in love, they walk the streets of Paris and, one day, they hear a sonata that Gérard once wrote, played on a piano in a house... [More...]
Amours célèbres (1961)
Michel Boisrond
Part 1: The Duke of Lazun is in love with Madame de Monaco, so he is understandably nonplussed when he learns that she has caught the eye of Louis XIV... [More...]
Michel Boisrond
Part 1: The Duke of Lazun is in love with Madame de Monaco, so he is understandably nonplussed when he learns that she has caught the eye of Louis XIV... [More...]
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (2007)
Eric Rohmer
Gaul in the 5th Century. Astrée is a beautiful young shepherdess who is devotedly in love with Céladon, a handsome young shepherd... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Gaul in the 5th Century. Astrée is a beautiful young shepherdess who is devotedly in love with Céladon, a handsome young shepherd... [More...]
Les Amours de minuit (1931)
Augusto Genina
Marcel and Gaston are two men who are on the run, although when they meet on a train bound for a seaport they do their best to conceal the fact... [More...]
Augusto Genina
Marcel and Gaston are two men who are on the run, although when they meet on a train bound for a seaport they do their best to conceal the fact... [More...]
Les Amours finissent à l'aube (1953)
Henri Calef
Didier Guéret is in charge of marketing for a large automobile company based in Paris. He takes advantage of his frequent business trips to other cities across Europe to pursue short-lived amorous liaisons with various women he comes into contact with... [More...]
Henri Calef
Didier Guéret is in charge of marketing for a large automobile company based in Paris. He takes advantage of his frequent business trips to other cities across Europe to pursue short-lived amorous liaisons with various women he comes into contact with... [More...]
Les Amours imaginaires (2010)
Xavier Dolan
Francis and Marie are two close friends, both in their mid-twenties, who cannot help falling in love with the same man, Nicolas... [More...]
Xavier Dolan
Francis and Marie are two close friends, both in their mid-twenties, who cannot help falling in love with the same man, Nicolas... [More...]
Les Amours secrètes (2010)
Franck Phelizon
It seems incredibly unlikely, but during the Occupation of France a young Jewish woman was passionately in love with a German soldier... [More...]
Franck Phelizon
It seems incredibly unlikely, but during the Occupation of France a young Jewish woman was passionately in love with a German soldier... [More...]
Les Anciens de Saint-Loup (1950)
Georges Lampin
The former pupils of a boy's boarding school, Saint-Loup, are invited back for a reunion. The guests turn up, eager to revisit the setting of their happy childhoods and renew old acquaintances... [More...]
Georges Lampin
The former pupils of a boy's boarding school, Saint-Loup, are invited back for a reunion. The guests turn up, eager to revisit the setting of their happy childhoods and renew old acquaintances... [More...]
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002)
Claude Lelouch
Valentin is a gentleman thief who models himself on Arsène Lupin. Pursued by the police and weary of his criminal existence, he hires a yacht and puts out to sea... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Valentin is a gentleman thief who models himself on Arsène Lupin. Pursued by the police and weary of his criminal existence, he hires a yacht and puts out to sea... [More...]
L'Ange de la nuit (1944)
André Berthomieu
Paris, 1939. A group of impoverished students open a restaurant in the Latin Quarter, and give each other moral and material support, assisted by their kindly landlord Père Heurteloup... [More...]
André Berthomieu
Paris, 1939. A group of impoverished students open a restaurant in the Latin Quarter, and give each other moral and material support, assisted by their kindly landlord Père Heurteloup... [More...]
Angèle (1934)
Marcel Pagnol
Angèle is the daughter of a respectable farmer, Clarius, and lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin on their farm in the South of France... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Angèle is the daughter of a respectable farmer, Clarius, and lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin on their farm in the South of France... [More...]
Angèle et Tony (2011)
Alix Delaporte
Angèle is a young woman who moves to a Normandy fishing town with the intention of starting a new life. For the past two years, she has been in prison and her one ambition now is to win back custody of her son, who is presently in the care of her deceased husband's parents... [More...]
Alix Delaporte
Angèle is a young woman who moves to a Normandy fishing town with the intention of starting a new life. For the past two years, she has been in prison and her one ambition now is to win back custody of her son, who is presently in the care of her deceased husband's parents... [More...]
Angélique (2013)
Ariel Zeitoun
In France during the mid-17th century, Angélique is scarcely more than a child when she marries the wealthy Count Jeoffrey de Peyrac against her will... [More...]
Ariel Zeitoun
In France during the mid-17th century, Angélique is scarcely more than a child when she marries the wealthy Count Jeoffrey de Peyrac against her will... [More...]
Les Anges du péché (1943)
Robert Bresson
Rather than follow the life of wealth and comfort that has been mapped out for her by her family circumstances, Anne-Marie Lamaury opts instead to take holy orders and devote herself to the service of God... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Rather than follow the life of wealth and comfort that has been mapped out for her by her family circumstances, Anne-Marie Lamaury opts instead to take holy orders and devote herself to the service of God... [More...]
Les Anges noirs (1937)
Willy Rozier
At their large family estate in the Landes region of France, two eternally battling brothers-in-law agree that the son of one should marry the daughter of the other for their mutual advantage... [More...]
Willy Rozier
At their large family estate in the Landes region of France, two eternally battling brothers-in-law agree that the son of one should marry the daughter of the other for their mutual advantage... [More...]
L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
Eric Rohmer
Grace Elliott, a well-connected English lady, is living in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. She was once the lover of the Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI, who remains her closest friend and confidant... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Grace Elliott, a well-connected English lady, is living in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. She was once the lover of the Duke of Orléans, cousin of King Louis XVI, who remains her closest friend and confidant... [More...]
Anna M. (2007)
Michel Spinosa
Anna M. is an unassuming young spinster who lives with her mother and spends her days meticulously restoring manuscripts for the Bibliothèque de France... [More...]
Michel Spinosa
Anna M. is an unassuming young spinster who lives with her mother and spends her days meticulously restoring manuscripts for the Bibliothèque de France... [More...]
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Alain Resnais
The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad... [More...]
Alain Resnais
The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad... [More...]
Les Années sandwiches (1988)
Pierre Boutron
In July 1947, a Jewish boy named Victor runs away from his adopted home in the south of France and heads for Paris. The 15-year-old has no one to turn, not after his parents were arrested and sent off to the concentration camps during the war... [More...]
Pierre Boutron
In July 1947, a Jewish boy named Victor runs away from his adopted home in the south of France and heads for Paris. The 15-year-old has no one to turn, not after his parents were arrested and sent off to the concentration camps during the war... [More...]
Antonio Vivaldi, un prince à Venise (2007)
Jean-Louis Guillermou
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1679. Despite his aptitude for music, his mother made up her mind that he should enter the priesthood at the age of 14... [More...]
Jean-Louis Guillermou
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1679. Despite his aptitude for music, his mother made up her mind that he should enter the priesthood at the age of 14... [More...]
Les Apaches (2013)
Thierry de Peretti
As thousands of tourists swamp the beaches, campsites and nightclubs of Corsica, five unruly adolescents hang out in Porto-Vecchio, amusing themselves with their petty criminal exploits... [More...]
Thierry de Peretti
As thousands of tourists swamp the beaches, campsites and nightclubs of Corsica, five unruly adolescents hang out in Porto-Vecchio, amusing themselves with their petty criminal exploits... [More...]
L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)
Bertrand Bonello
In a Parisian brothel at the start of the 20th century there lives a young prostitute whose face is disfigured by a scar that takes the form of a tragic smile... [More...]
Bertrand Bonello
In a Parisian brothel at the start of the 20th century there lives a young prostitute whose face is disfigured by a scar that takes the form of a tragic smile... [More...]