Film Index
French cinema: History
La Tulipe noire (1964)
Christian-Jaque
June 1789. On the eve of the French Revolution, a masked bandit, "The Black Tulip", is prosecuting his own reign of terror in and around the town of Roussillon...
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Christian-Jaque
Un peuple et son roi (2018)
Pierre Schoeller
By 1789, the French were ready to overthrow their monarchy and forge a new destiny, under the banner of a nascent republic...
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Pierre Schoeller
Une exécution ordinaire (2010)
Marc Dugain
In the autumn of 1952, a young woman doctor is working at a hospital in the suburbs of Moscow. She is desperate to become pregnant by her husband, a disillusioned physicist whose only reason for living is the love he has for his wife...
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Marc Dugain
Uranus (1990)
Claude Berri
Little by little, normality returns to a small French town after World War II. The town is as scarred by the petty recriminations between its inhabitants as by the very evident signs of bombings...
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Claude Berri
Valse royale (1935)
Jean Grémillon
In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth...
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Jean Grémillon
Van Gogh (1991)
Maurice Pialat
In the spring of 1890, the impoverished artist Vincent Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, not far from Paris. He stays at a modest inn and places himself under the care of the kindly Dr Gachet... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
In the spring of 1890, the impoverished artist Vincent Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, not far from Paris. He stays at a modest inn and places himself under the care of the kindly Dr Gachet... [More...]
Vénus Impérial (1963)
Jean Delannoy
Pauline Bonaparte, the preferred sister of the Emperor Napoléon, was destined to lead a life that would be governed more by her brother's political ambitions than her own desires... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Pauline Bonaparte, the preferred sister of the Emperor Napoléon, was destined to lead a life that would be governed more by her brother's political ambitions than her own desires... [More...]
Vercingétorix (2001)
Jacques Dorfmann
In 60 BC, the boy Vercingétorix watches in horror as his father, the Gaul leader Celtill, is burnt alive - the reward for his ambition to unite Gaul against the Roman invader... [More...]
Jacques Dorfmann
In 60 BC, the boy Vercingétorix watches in horror as his father, the Gaul leader Celtill, is burnt alive - the reward for his ambition to unite Gaul against the Roman invader... [More...]
La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000)
Patrice Leconte
In 1849, the calm of a small community on the bleak island St Pierre, off the coast of French Canada, is disrupted when a drunk stabs another man to death... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
In 1849, the calm of a small community on the bleak island St Pierre, off the coast of French Canada, is disrupted when a drunk stabs another man to death... [More...]
Violettes impériales (1952)
Richard Pottier
At Grenada, in 19th Century Spain, Eugénie de Montijo asks a gypsy girl, Violetta, to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
Richard Pottier
At Grenada, in 19th Century Spain, Eugénie de Montijo asks a gypsy girl, Violetta, to read her fortune in her hand... [More...]
Les Visiteurs (1993)
Jean-Marie Poiré
The year is 1122 and the kingdom of the Franks is locked in a seemingly interminable war against the Norman kings of England... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
The year is 1122 and the kingdom of the Franks is locked in a seemingly interminable war against the Norman kings of England... [More...]
Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour! (1961)
Claude Autant-Lara
In his 56th year, King Henri IV, Count of Navarre, is having problems with his wife, Marie de Medicis. Marie has many reasons to be jealous of the king's two mistresses, Jacqueline de Bueil and Henriette d'Entrague, particularly as the latter has borne him children... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
In his 56th year, King Henri IV, Count of Navarre, is having problems with his wife, Marie de Medicis. Marie has many reasons to be jealous of the king's two mistresses, Jacqueline de Bueil and Henriette d'Entrague, particularly as the latter has borne him children... [More...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine (1977)
Coluche
Long, long ago, France is ruled by King Gros Pif I, a man who likes to party. In fact so extravagant are the king's banquets that they are bankrupting the country and his faithful musketeers have to resort to ever more brutal methods to extract taxes from the stinking masses, which is okay because they rather enjoy it... [More...]
Coluche
Long, long ago, France is ruled by King Gros Pif I, a man who likes to party. In fact so extravagant are the king's banquets that they are bankrupting the country and his faithful musketeers have to resort to ever more brutal methods to extract taxes from the stinking masses, which is okay because they rather enjoy it... [More...]