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French cinema: Musical

Geronimo (2014)
Tony Gatlif

In the south of France, in the sweltering heat of August, Geronimo, a young teacher, is committed to easing tensions between young people in the district of Saint Pierre...   [More...]

La Guerre est déclarée (2011)
Valérie Donzelli

Roméo and Juliette are a young couple who are deeply in love. As soon as they met, at a Paris fair at the start of the 21st century, they knew they were right for one another...   [More...]

Holy Motors (2012)
Leos Carax

Monsieur Oscar is a man of many faces. In the space of one day, he becomes a pathetic tramp, a ruthless killer, a grotesque sewer-dwelling monster, an erotic dancer, a family man, and more besides.....   [More...]

L'Homme orchestre (1970)
Serge Korber

The world famous choreographer Evan Evans and his famous ballet company are in Monaco completing their rehearsals ahead of an important European tour...   [More...]

Honoré de Marseille (1956)
Maurice Régamey

Honoré is one of the most popular figures in the French port of Marseille. Interviewed by a journalist, he proudly recounts the history of the town, laying particular emphasis on the important part that his ancestors have played over the years...   [More...]

Il est charmant (1932)
Louis Mercanton

Jacques Dombreval is loath to give up his dissolute Parisian life style, which mainly involves frolicking into the early hours with his joyful band of friends...   [More...]

Iznogoud (2005)
Patrick Braoudé

In a distant land, many centuries ago, the caliph Haroun El Poussah is loved by everyone except his grand vizir, the thoroughly despicable and insanely ambitious Iznogoud...   [More...]

Je n'aime que toi (1949)
Pierre Montazel

Renaldo Cortez is a world famous singer who lives only for his art. Feeling neglected, his wife Irène looks for attention elsewhere and soon begins an affair with a young man, Gérard, with whom she elopes...   [More...]

Je suis avec toi (1943)
Henri Decoin

As she is on her way to New York by ocean liner to sort out an inheritance, Elisabeth La Ferrière is convinced that her husband François will take advantage of her absence to start an extramarital affair...   [More...]

Jeanne et le garçon formidable (1998)
Olivier Ducastel

Receptionist for a travel agency, Jeanne is looking for the man of her dreams. So far, her amorous encounters have been a disappointment, but she thinks she has struck lucky when she meets Olivier, a boy who is totally unlike any she has ever met before...   [More...]

Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (2017)
Bruno Dumont

In 1425, an anonymous eight-year-old shepherd girl named Jeannette is growing up in Domrémy, a little village in the northeast of France, completely unaware of what the future has in store for her...   [More...]

Laurent et Safi (2015)
Anton Vassil

Laurent Balzan, an ambitious 27-year-old company executive, leads a privileged and comfortable life in France. For Safiatou, a woman from Mali who now lives in France, Laurent's junior by three years, life is somewhat more challenging...   [More...]

Louise (1939)
Abel Gance

Louise, a young Parisian seamstress, is in love with Julien, a struggling composer who lives opposite her apartment in Montmartre...   [More...]

Le Magasin des suicides (2012)
Patrice Leconte

There once was a town so mired in misery that everyone who lived there no longer had the will to go on living. In this gloomy metropolis, the only business that thrives is a little shop which specialises in suicide...   [More...]

Magique! (2008)
Philippe Muyl

Ten-year-old Tommy looks up at the sky each night and wonders if his father will ever return. He has never met his father, but he is sure that he is an astronaut, just as he knows that one day he will come back to Earth to see visit his son...   [More...]

La Malibran (1944)
Sacha Guitry

When she learns of the premature death of her friend, the celebrated singer Maria Malibran, the Countess Merlin recalls several important episodes in her life...   [More...]

Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931)
Marc Allégret

1880, a garrison town in France. Not content with being an organist at a convent, Célestin composes comic operas in his spare time under the name Floridor...   [More...]

Mam'zelle Nitouche (1954)
Yves Allégret

Célestin leads a double life. By day, he is a respectable music teacher in a girl's convent; by night, he composes popular operas under the pseudonym Floridor, whilst having an affair with his leading lady Corinne, the wife of a major...   [More...]

Le Million (1931)
René Clair

A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave to his girlfriend, Béatrice, to repair...   [More...]

Modern Love (2008)
Stéphane Kazandjian

Eric, the writer of a musical comedy, is in love with Anne, but he finds his loyalties are divided when he meets an old flame, Marie...   [More...]

Montmartre-sur-Seine (1941)
Georges Lacombe

In Montmartre, Paris, Michel is in love with Lily, but she only has eyes for Maurice, a handsome shop assistant. Unaware of Lily's interest in him, Maurice loves Juliette, but the arrival of another man, Claude, threatens his budding romance...   [More...]

Naples au baiser de feu (1938)
Augusto Genina

Mario earns a modest living as a singer at a classy restaurant in Naples. He shares an apartment with his best friend, Michel, and is head over heels in love with an attractive girl called Assunta, his boss's niece...   [More...]

Nous irons à Paris (1950)
Jean Boyer

Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station...   [More...]

On connaît la chanson (1997)
Alain Resnais

In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated...   [More...]

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Jacques Demy

France, 1957. Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother's umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry...   [More...]

Paris chante toujours! (1951)
Pierre Montazel

After his death, the celebrated actor and benefactor Clodomir leaves a will in which he bequeaths his entire fortune to whoever can obtain the greatest number of autographs in a specified time limit...   [More...]

Pas de week-end pour notre amour (1949)
Pierre Montazel

When it is announced that the world famous singer Franck Reno is about to get married his fans are understandably up in arms...   [More...]

Pas sur la bouche (2003)
Alain Resnais

Paris, 1925. Wealthy businessman Georges Valandray is certain of his wife's fidelity since, he believes, he was the first man in her life...   [More...]

Le Pays, d'où je viens (1956)
Marcel Carné

One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double...   [More...]

Peau d'âne (1970)
Jacques Demy

On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she...   [More...]



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