Film Index
French cinema: Romance
Amour et turbulences (2013)
Alexandre Castagnetti
Julie, an aspiring young artist, is on a plane from New York to Paris, where she is soon to be married. By chance, she is upgraded to club class and finds herself sitting next to Antoine, a philandering lawyer with whom she had a passionate love affair three years previously...
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Alexandre Castagnetti
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...
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Jacques Rivette
L'Amour n'est pas un péché (1952)
Claude Cariven
Eliane Cahuzac and Jacques Loursier are both urgently in need of an apartment and Fate decides that they will end up sharing the same landing in the same Parisian apartment block...
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Claude Cariven
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...
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Stefano Consiglio
L'Amour, c'est mieux à deux (2010)
Dominique Farrugia
Michel and Vincent are two men in their mid-to-late thirties who are both strongly attracted towards women but have very different ideas about love and romance...
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Dominique Farrugia
L'Amour (1990)
Philippe Faucon
As their summer holidays draw to a close, the thoughts of a disparate collection of teenagers in the suburbs of Paris turn to love... [More...]
Philippe Faucon
As their summer holidays draw to a close, the thoughts of a disparate collection of teenagers in the suburbs of Paris turn to love... [More...]
L'Amour, Madame (1952)
Gilles Grangier
François Célerier is a young university student who hopes to make his name as a playwright. He is attracted to fellow student Diane, but he is too shy to approach her and reveal his true feelings for her... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
François Célerier is a young university student who hopes to make his name as a playwright. He is attracted to fellow student Diane, but he is too shy to approach her and reveal his true feelings for her... [More...]
L'Amoureuse (1987)
Jacques Doillon
Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find... [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 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...]
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...]
Andalousie (1951)
Robert Vernay
In present day Spain, Juanito is earning a modest living as a pottery merchant when he is suddenly plucked from obscurity and finds fame as a bullfighter... [More...]
Robert Vernay
In present day Spain, Juanito is earning a modest living as a pottery merchant when he is suddenly plucked from obscurity and finds fame as a bullfighter... [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...]
Angel-A (2005)
Luc Besson
28 year-old con artist André lies so easily that he has even convinced himself he is the model citizen. In reality, he is the type that would sell his grandmother for a packet of cigarettes... [More...]
Luc Besson
28 year-old con artist André lies so easily that he has even convinced himself he is the model citizen. In reality, he is the type that would sell his grandmother for a packet of cigarettes... [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 et le roy (1966)
Bernard Borderie
The war in Flanders claims the life of Philippe de Plessis-Bellières. When Angélique learns of her husband's death she immediately makes the decision to retire from court life and devote herself to her children... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
The war in Flanders claims the life of Philippe de Plessis-Bellières. When Angélique learns of her husband's death she immediately makes the decision to retire from court life and devote herself to her children... [More...]
Angélique et le sultan (1968)
Bernard Borderie
Angélique has scarcely been reunited with her first husband Joffrey de Peyrac when she is abducted by the ruthless slave trader Escrainville... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Angélique has scarcely been reunited with her first husband Joffrey de Peyrac when she is abducted by the ruthless slave trader Escrainville... [More...]
Angélique, marquise des anges (1964)
Bernard Borderie
France, in the mid-1600s. On leaving a convent at the age of 17, Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup learns that her father is ruined and has affianced her to a nobleman, Joffrey de Peyrac... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
France, in the mid-1600s. On leaving a convent at the age of 17, Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup learns that her father is ruined and has affianced her to a nobleman, Joffrey de Peyrac... [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...]
Anthony Zimmer (2005)
Jérôme Salle
One of the world's most notorious criminals, Anthony Zimmer is doggedly pursued by the police and Russian mafia but he has a knack of evading capture... [More...]
Jérôme Salle
One of the world's most notorious criminals, Anthony Zimmer is doggedly pursued by the police and Russian mafia but he has a knack of evading capture... [More...]
L'Appartement des filles (1963)
Michel Deville
Not for Tibère the life-sapping tedium of a routine office job. He sees himself as a man of derring-do, a man who scorns danger and lives for the present... [More...]
Michel Deville
Not for Tibère the life-sapping tedium of a routine office job. He sees himself as a man of derring-do, a man who scorns danger and lives for the present... [More...]
L'Appartement (1996)
Gilles Mimouni
Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career... [More...]
Gilles Mimouni
Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Après l'amour (1992)
Diane Kurys
For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of mid-life crisis are beginning to bite. She leads a comfortable middleclass existence but is far from settled and seeks passion in her life... [More...]
Diane Kurys
For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of mid-life crisis are beginning to bite. She leads a comfortable middleclass existence but is far from settled and seeks passion in her life... [More...]