Film Index
French cinema: Drama
L'Apparition (2018)
Xavier Giannoli
A reporter on an important regional newspaper, Jacques has acquired a reputation as a rigorous and impartial journalist. After witnessing the death of a close friend and colleague during an assignment in Syria, he suffered a breakdown and was forced to take some time off work...
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Xavier Giannoli
L'Appât (1995)
Bertrand Tavernier
An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations...
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Bertrand Tavernier
L'Appel du silence (1936)
Léon Poirier
In his early twenties, Charles de Foucauld brings disgrace upon himself when, as an officer in the French Army, he insists on taking a woman to live with him whilst he is posted in North Africa...
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Léon Poirier
Après l'amour (1948)
Maurice Tourneur
At a reception in honour of her husband winning the Noble Prize for literature, Nicole Mézaule meets a former lover who has some news for her...
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Maurice Tourneur
Après la vie (2002)
Lucas Belvaux
Pascal Manise is a dedicated police inspector who is prepared to do anything so that he can supply his drug-addicted wife Agnès with a regular supply of morphine...
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Lucas Belvaux
Après lui (2007)
Gaël Morel
Camille's whole world is ripped apart when her beloved son Mathieu is killed in a road accident. Try as she might, she just cannot put the incident behind her and she constantly seeks the support of Mathieu's best friend, Franck, who was to blame for his death... [More...]
Gaël Morel
Camille's whole world is ripped apart when her beloved son Mathieu is killed in a road accident. Try as she might, she just cannot put the incident behind her and she constantly seeks the support of Mathieu's best friend, Franck, who was to blame for his death... [More...]
Arès (2016)
Jean-Patrick Benes
By 2035, France has become one of the poorest countries in the world. A fifth of the population - over ten million people - are without work, and poverty and homelessness are endemic... [More...]
Jean-Patrick Benes
By 2035, France has become one of the poorest countries in the world. A fifth of the population - over ten million people - are without work, and poverty and homelessness are endemic... [More...]
L'Argent des autres (1978)
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank... [More...]
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank... [More...]
L'Argent (1928)
Marcel L'Herbier
With the imminent collapse of Caledonian Eagle, a company in which he has a large stockholding, Nicolas Saccard realises that the future of his own company, the Banque Universelle, is suddenly in jeopardy... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
With the imminent collapse of Caledonian Eagle, a company in which he has a large stockholding, Nicolas Saccard realises that the future of his own company, the Banque Universelle, is suddenly in jeopardy... [More...]
L'Argent (1983)
Robert Bresson
Owing money to a school friend, Norbert appeals to his parents to give him a top-up on his monthly allowance. When they refuse, he accepts a 500 franc counterfeit banknote from one of his classmates, using this to buy a picture frame in a photographer's shop... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Owing money to a school friend, Norbert appeals to his parents to give him a top-up on his monthly allowance. When they refuse, he accepts a 500 franc counterfeit banknote from one of his classmates, using this to buy a picture frame in a photographer's shop... [More...]
Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932)
Paul Czinner
Against the wishes of her family, Ariane, a naïve Russian girl, decides to study at Paris University. Not long after her arrival in the French capital, she meets Constantin, a much older businessman who is looking for an amorous fling and nothing more... [More...]
Paul Czinner
Against the wishes of her family, Ariane, a naïve Russian girl, decides to study at Paris University. Not long after her arrival in the French capital, she meets Constantin, a much older businessman who is looking for an amorous fling and nothing more... [More...]
L'Arlésienne (1908)
Albert Capellani
Frédéric, a young man from the country, arrives in the ancient city of Arles to attend a bullfight in the Roman amphitheatre... [More...]
Albert Capellani
Frédéric, a young man from the country, arrives in the ancient city of Arles to attend a bullfight in the Roman amphitheatre... [More...]
Armaguedon (1977)
Alain Jessua
After the death of his brother, 40-something Louis Carrier suddenly finds himself a very wealthy man. He gives up his job and devotes himself to a carefully conceived plan to make himself famous... [More...]
Alain Jessua
After the death of his brother, 40-something Louis Carrier suddenly finds himself a very wealthy man. He gives up his job and devotes himself to a carefully conceived plan to make himself famous... [More...]
L'Armée des ombres (1969)
Jean-Pierre Melville
October, 1942. During the Nazi occupation of France, Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, heads a small network in the French Resistance... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
October, 1942. During the Nazi occupation of France, Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, heads a small network in the French Resistance... [More...]
L'Armée du crime (2009)
Robert Guédiguian
In Paris during the Nazi occupation, a labourer named Missak Manouchian leads a group of young Jewish immigrants, of various nationalities: Spanish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Polish, Italian and Armenian... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
In Paris during the Nazi occupation, a labourer named Missak Manouchian leads a group of young Jewish immigrants, of various nationalities: Spanish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Polish, Italian and Armenian... [More...]
Les Arnaud (1967)
Léo Joannon
In Aix-en-Provence, André Arnaud is a hard-working law student with a promising career ahead of him, but he runs into some difficulty when the uncle who has been paying for his education suddenly dies whilst working on a construction site... [More...]
Léo Joannon
In Aix-en-Provence, André Arnaud is a hard-working law student with a promising career ahead of him, but he runs into some difficulty when the uncle who has been paying for his education suddenly dies whilst working on a construction site... [More...]
Arrêtez-moi (2013)
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
One evening, a woman in her mid-forties casually walks into a police station and confesses to the police officer in charge, another woman, that she murdered her husband ten years ago... [More...]
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
One evening, a woman in her mid-forties casually walks into a police station and confesses to the police officer in charge, another woman, that she murdered her husband ten years ago... [More...]
L'Arrière pays (1998)
Jacques Nolot
It has been ten years since Jacques Pruez last visited the little village in the south of France where he grew up. Now a hearty fifty-year-old, who has had some modest success as a television actor and is comfortable with his homosexuality, Jacques returns to the place of his youth to visit his dying mother... [More...]
Jacques Nolot
It has been ten years since Jacques Pruez last visited the little village in the south of France where he grew up. Now a hearty fifty-year-old, who has had some modest success as a television actor and is comfortable with his homosexuality, Jacques returns to the place of his youth to visit his dying mother... [More...]
Artemisia (1997)
Agnès Merlet
Italy in the early 1600s. Artemisia Gentileschi is the 17-year-old daughter of a well-known painter and shows something of her father's aptitude for art... [More...]
Agnès Merlet
Italy in the early 1600s. Artemisia Gentileschi is the 17-year-old daughter of a well-known painter and shows something of her father's aptitude for art... [More...]
L'As des as (1982)
Gérard Oury
Jo Cavalier is the coach for the French boxing team at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On the train to Berlin, he is accosted by a ten year old Jewish boy, Simon, who asks for his autograph - previously Jo was a flying hero who served in the flying corps during World War I... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Jo Cavalier is the coach for the French boxing team at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On the train to Berlin, he is accosted by a ten year old Jewish boy, Simon, who asks for his autograph - previously Jo was a flying hero who served in the flying corps during World War I... [More...]
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)
Louis Malle
Julien Tavernier and Florence Carala are passionately in love with one another, but there is an obstacle to their future happiness: Florence's husband Simon, a wealthy industrialist... [More...]
Louis Malle
Julien Tavernier and Florence Carala are passionately in love with one another, but there is an obstacle to their future happiness: Florence's husband Simon, a wealthy industrialist... [More...]
Asphalte (1959)
Hervé Bromberger
Being married to a rich and successful businessman does not guarantee happiness, as Nicole soon discovers. Comfortable she may be, but she is bored with the never-ending round of excursions, business dinners and polite conversation with strangers... [More...]
Hervé Bromberger
Being married to a rich and successful businessman does not guarantee happiness, as Nicole soon discovers. Comfortable she may be, but she is bored with the never-ending round of excursions, business dinners and polite conversation with strangers... [More...]
L'Assassin a peur la nuit (1942)
Jean Delannoy
Olivier Rol is a professional crook who supplies his mistress Lola Gracieuse with a regular supply of stolen goods to keep her in the manner to which she has grown accustomed... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Olivier Rol is a professional crook who supplies his mistress Lola Gracieuse with a regular supply of stolen goods to keep her in the manner to which she has grown accustomed... [More...]
Assassin(s) (1997)
Mathieu Kassovitz
Monsieur Wagner is a professional hitman who loves his job but now he has to accept he is too old to continue in this line of work... [More...]
Mathieu Kassovitz
Monsieur Wagner is a professional hitman who loves his job but now he has to accept he is too old to continue in this line of work... [More...]
L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (1908)
André Calmettes
On 23rd December 1588 the long-running power-struggle between the opposing houses of de Guise and Valois will come to a dramatic climax with the assassination of Henri I of Lorraine, the Duke de Guise... [More...]
André Calmettes
On 23rd December 1588 the long-running power-struggle between the opposing houses of de Guise and Valois will come to a dramatic climax with the assassination of Henri I of Lorraine, the Duke de Guise... [More...]
Les Assassins de l'ordre (1971)
Marcel Carné
Judge Level is investigating the death of a man named Saugeat, who died shortly after being arrested for a minor offence by two police inspectors one December morning... [More...]
Marcel Carné
Judge Level is investigating the death of a man named Saugeat, who died shortly after being arrested for a minor offence by two police inspectors one December morning... [More...]
Les Assassins du dimanche (1956)
Alex Joffé
Robert Simonet is a provincial garage owner whose ambition is to be as successful as his former boss. He is also a formidable amateur cyclist and is the favourite to win the cycling race to take place in his town... [More...]
Alex Joffé
Robert Simonet is a provincial garage owner whose ambition is to be as successful as his former boss. He is also a formidable amateur cyclist and is the favourite to win the cycling race to take place in his town... [More...]
L'Assommoir (1908)
Albert Capellani
In Second Empire France, Gervaise is in a state of distress when her lover Lantier abandons her and her children to live with his mistress Virginie... [More...]
Albert Capellani
In Second Empire France, Gervaise is in a state of distress when her lover Lantier abandons her and her children to live with his mistress Virginie... [More...]
L'Astragale (1969)
Guy Casaril
Anne is a juvenile prisoner whose only friend is Rolande. The idea of escape takes hold of her and one day, having been admitted to the infirmary, she escapes by climbing over the high prison wall... [More...]
Guy Casaril
Anne is a juvenile prisoner whose only friend is Rolande. The idea of escape takes hold of her and one day, having been admitted to the infirmary, she escapes by climbing over the high prison wall... [More...]
L'Astragale (2015)
Brigitte Sy
One night in April 1957, 19-year-old Albertine climbs over the wall of the prison where she has been serving a sentence for robbery... [More...]
Brigitte Sy
One night in April 1957, 19-year-old Albertine climbs over the wall of the prison where she has been serving a sentence for robbery... [More...]