Film Index

French cinema: Drama

Voleurs de chevaux (2007)
Micha Wald

Ukraine, 1810. Two young Cossack brothers, Jakub and Vladimir, join the Russian army hoping to find relief from the misery of their existences...   [More...]

Les Voleurs (1996)
André Téchiné

After the sudden death of his brother Ivan, Lyon-based cop Alex returns to the family home in the Rhône-Alpes with his girlfriend Juliette...   [More...]

Volga en flammes (1934)
Viktor Tourjansky

Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officer, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed...   [More...]

Les Voraces (1973)
Sergio Gobbi

A croupier at a casino in Cannes, the handsome Kosta can no longer stand and watch idle millionaires fritter away and rake in money at the gambling tables...   [More...]

La Vouivre (1989)
Georges Wilson

France, 1919. A small village bears the imprint of the First World War through the noticeable lack of young men who were once its life and soul...   [More...]

Vous n'avez encore rien vu (2012)
Alain Resnais

After his death, the famous playwright Antoine d'Anthac summons thirteen actors he once worked with to his large house for a special mission...   [More...]

Le Voyage du père (1966)
Denys de La Patellière

The Quantins are a humble farming family who lead a mundane but contented existence in a village not far from the border with Switzerland...   [More...]

Le Voyage en Arménie (2006)
Robert Guédiguian

When her father, Barsam, mysteriously disappears, Anna is deeply concerned. A doctor, she has just diagnosed that he has a serious heart condition, and may die unless he is treated soon...   [More...]

Voyage en Chine (2015)
Zoltan Mayer

Liliane is a sixty-something nurse who leads a humdrum life in France with her far from talkative husband. One day, she learns that her son Christophe, whom she hasn't seen for several years, has been killed in an accident in China...   [More...]

Voyage sans espoir (1943)
Christian-Jaque

Pierre Gohelle is a hardened criminal on the run from the police who plans to escape to another country with the help of his mistress, Marie-Ange...   [More...]

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
Louis Daquin

After the death of his parents, Gilles Mauvoisin returns to his hometown of La Rochelle. On his arrival, he is surprised to learn that his uncle, the successful businessman Octave Mauvoisin, has recently died and left him his entire fortune...   [More...]

Voyous voyelles (2000)
Serge Meynard

After the death of their father in a diving accident, two teenager sisters Léa and Aurélie live with their mother on a Parisian housing estate...   [More...]

Week-end à Zuydcoote (1964)
Henri Verneuil

Early in June 1940, the battle for France is all but lost. Overwhelmed by the superiority of the German armies, French and English troops are driven back towards the Normandy coastline...   [More...]

Welcome (2009)
Philippe Lioret

Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish man, arrives illegally at Calais, hoping to swim across the Channel to England. If he succeeds, he intends to look for the girlfriend he hasn't seen for a long time and train to become a footballer...   [More...]

Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe? (2001)
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Having completed a stretch in prison for drugs trafficking, Kamel, an illegal immigrant, returns to his Algerian family in the rundown suburbs of Paris and tries to make a fresh start...   [More...]

White Material (2010)
Claire Denis

Somewhere in Africa, in a region plagued by civil war, Maria refuses to abandon her coffee plantation before the end of the harvest...   [More...]

Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? (1996)
Sandrine Veysset

In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children...   [More...]

Les Yeux de l'amour (1959)
Denys de La Patellière

In the spring of 1944, France remains under Nazi occupation and prisoners are still being taken by the Germans, who have yet to discover that the war is already lost...   [More...]

Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
Jalil Lespert

Paris, 1957. Yves Saint Laurent is only 21 when he takes over the running of the prestigious fashion house founded by the recently deceased Christian Dior...   [More...]

Z (1969)
Costa-Gavras

In an unnamed Mediterranean country run by an ultra right-wing government, a liberal party leader is assassinated after giving a public speech...   [More...]

Zone libre (2007)
Christophe Malavoy

During the Second World War, Simon, a French Jew, succeeds in smuggling his family from Nazi-occupied France into the Free Zone...   [More...]

Zonzon (1998)
Laurent Bouhnik

Franky and Rico find themselves in prison after yet another criminal exploit turns sour. Franky, a hardened criminal who has lost just about everything he possesses, including his family, ends up sharing a cell with two less seasoned convicts, Grandjean and Kader...   [More...]

Zouzou (1934)
Marc Allégret

Zouzou and Jean, two orphans, are raised as brother and sister by circus artiste Père Mélé. Many years later, they live together in Paris, Zouzou working as a laundress, Jean as an electrician for a musical theatre, the Folies...   [More...]


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