Film Index
French cinema: Romance
Un beau dimanche (2014)
Nicole Garcia
Baptiste is a loner. A teacher in the south of France, he has never occupied a single post for more than one term. One weekend, he finds himself in charge of Mathias, one of his pupils, who has been left behind by his neglectful father...
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Nicole Garcia
Un beau soleil intérieur (2017)
Claire Denis
After breaking up with her husband, Isabelle, a Parisian artist, is torn between her new quest for love and her desire to live life to the fullest extent...
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Claire Denis
Un carnet de bal (1937)
Julien Duvivier
To take her mind off the recent death of her husband, Christine de Guérande begins sorting through her old possessions and is surprised to find her dance card for her coming out ball many years ago...
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Julien Duvivier
Un chien andalou (1929)
Luis Buñuel
One night, a man sharpens his cut-throat razor before using it to slice open a young woman's eye... Eight years later, the same woman invites a man into her apartment...
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Luis Buñuel
Un coeur en hiver (1992)
Claude Sautet
Stéphane and Maxime are partners in a successful business that makes and repairs violins. Stéphane is surprised when, one day, Maxime announces he is in love and plans to marry one of his clients, an attractive young violinist named Camille...
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Claude Sautet
Un divan à New York (1996)
Chantal Akerman
Henry Harriston, a successful psychoanalyst living in New York City decides he needs a break from the constant daily grind of attending to other people's bruised psyches... [More...]
Chantal Akerman
Henry Harriston, a successful psychoanalyst living in New York City decides he needs a break from the constant daily grind of attending to other people's bruised psyches... [More...]
Un drôle de dimanche (1958)
Marc Allégret
Five years after his wife Catherine left him, Jean Brévent, a copyrighter on a Paris newspaper, still cannot fathom what went wrong with his marriage... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Five years after his wife Catherine left him, Jean Brévent, a copyrighter on a Paris newspaper, still cannot fathom what went wrong with his marriage... [More...]
Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (1976)
Yves Robert
Étienne, Simon, Daniel and Bouly are four friends in their forties who enjoy a shared passion for tennis. Another thing they have in common is that they are all nearing a point of crisis in their private lives; luckily they can count on the others' support to help them through... [More...]
Yves Robert
Étienne, Simon, Daniel and Bouly are four friends in their forties who enjoy a shared passion for tennis. Another thing they have in common is that they are all nearing a point of crisis in their private lives; luckily they can count on the others' support to help them through... [More...]
Un été brûlant (2011)
Philippe Garrel
Paul met Frédéric, an artist, through a mutual friend. He lives with Angèle, an actress who makes films in Italy... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
Paul met Frédéric, an artist, through a mutual friend. He lives with Angèle, an actress who makes films in Italy... [More...]
Un grand amour de Beethoven (1936)
Abel Gance
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is passionately in love with Juliette Guicciardi, but his love is not requited. She chooses instead to marry the Count Gallenberg, news which, along with his encroaching deafness, propels Beethoven into a state of depression... [More...]
Abel Gance
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven is passionately in love with Juliette Guicciardi, but his love is not requited. She chooses instead to marry the Count Gallenberg, news which, along with his encroaching deafness, propels Beethoven into a state of depression... [More...]
Un homme et une femme (1966)
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Louis Duroc is a racing car driver. Anne Gauthier is a script-girl. Both are in their mid-thirties, recently widowed and have a small child... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Louis Duroc is a racing car driver. Anne Gauthier is a script-girl. Both are in their mid-thirties, recently widowed and have a small child... [More...]
Un homme marche dans la ville (1950)
Marcello Pagliero
In the late 1940s, Madeleine and André Laurent live in Le Havre, a town that appears as grimly desolate and battle-scarred as their marriage... [More...]
Marcello Pagliero
In the late 1940s, Madeleine and André Laurent live in Le Havre, a town that appears as grimly desolate and battle-scarred as their marriage... [More...]
Un homme qui me plaît (1969)
Claude Lelouch
Françoise, a well-known actress, arrives in the United States to make a film. Whilst in Los Angeles, she meets Henri, a French composer who has come to America to record the music for a film... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Françoise, a well-known actress, arrives in the United States to make a film. Whilst in Los Angeles, she meets Henri, a French composer who has come to America to record the music for a film... [More...]
Un jour mon prince (2017)
Flavia Coste
The Queen of the fairies, Titania, is in a quandary. Sleeping Beauty has been away in the Land of Nod for over a hundred years and still no handsome prince has come to revive her with a kiss... [More...]
Flavia Coste
The Queen of the fairies, Titania, is in a quandary. Sleeping Beauty has been away in the Land of Nod for over a hundred years and still no handsome prince has come to revive her with a kiss... [More...]
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Shortly after the end of World War I, Mathilde learns of the death of her fiancé Manech on the battlefield. Unable to accept this news, she embarks on her own search to find the man she loves and who, she is certain, is still alive, somewhere... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Shortly after the end of World War I, Mathilde learns of the death of her fiancé Manech on the battlefield. Unable to accept this news, she embarks on her own search to find the man she loves and who, she is certain, is still alive, somewhere... [More...]
Un mauvais fils (1980)
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail... [More...]
Un mauvais garçon (1936)
Jean Boyer
When she passes her law exams, Jacqueline Serval anticipates a brilliant career for herself as a barrister. Unfortunately, her father has made up his mind that she will get married and start a family... [More...]
Jean Boyer
When she passes her law exams, Jacqueline Serval anticipates a brilliant career for herself as a barrister. Unfortunately, her father has made up his mind that she will get married and start a family... [More...]
Un monde sans pitié (1989)
Eric Rochant
Better a dropout than a yuppie, that's the philosophy of Hippo, a young man who has turned his back on the entire capitalist system... [More...]
Eric Rochant
Better a dropout than a yuppie, that's the philosophy of Hippo, a young man who has turned his back on the entire capitalist system... [More...]
Un petit jeu sans conséquence (2004)
Bernard Rapp
Bruno and Claire have been together for 12 years. On the surface, they look like the perfect couple, but on the day that Bruno invites friends around to his grand family home for a moving house picnic, Claire tells him that the spark may be going out of their relationship... [More...]
Bernard Rapp
Bruno and Claire have been together for 12 years. On the surface, they look like the perfect couple, but on the day that Bruno invites friends around to his grand family home for a moving house picnic, Claire tells him that the spark may be going out of their relationship... [More...]
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971)
Jacques Deray
Gilles Lantier is a young man with a brilliant future ahead of him as a journalist. But just as his career is about to take off he has a severe nervous breakdown and his life instantly falls apart... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Gilles Lantier is a young man with a brilliant future ahead of him as a journalist. But just as his career is about to take off he has a severe nervous breakdown and his life instantly falls apart... [More...]
Un pont entre deux rives (1999)
Frédéric Auburtin
1962. Although Mina and Georges are happily married, with a teenage son, times are hard. With her husband out of work, Mina is forced to accept a job as a housemaid... [More...]
Frédéric Auburtin
1962. Although Mina and Georges are happily married, with a teenage son, times are hard. With her husband out of work, Mina is forced to accept a job as a housemaid... [More...]
Un printemps à Paris (2006)
Jacques Bral
Georges leaves prison, after a five-year long stretch, with the intention of making a fresh start. No such hope. His former partner in crime, Pierrot, appears on his doorstep and persuades him to take part in another criminal exploit - to steal a vast jewel collection from a wealthy Parisian woman... [More...]
Jacques Bral
Georges leaves prison, after a five-year long stretch, with the intention of making a fresh start. No such hope. His former partner in crime, Pierrot, appears on his doorstep and persuades him to take part in another criminal exploit - to steal a vast jewel collection from a wealthy Parisian woman... [More...]
L'Un reste, l'autre part (2005)
Claude Berri
Whilst Daniel and Isabelle are celebrating their wedding anniversary, they learn that Julien, Daniel's son from a previous marriage, has had a near-fatal car accident... [More...]
Claude Berri
Whilst Daniel and Isabelle are celebrating their wedding anniversary, they learn that Julien, Daniel's son from a previous marriage, has had a near-fatal car accident... [More...]
Un revenant (1946)
Christian-Jaque
Impresario Jean-Jacques Sauvage returns to his home town of Lyons, ostensibly to stage a new ballet production, but as he renews old acquaintances it is evident that he has darker motives in mind... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Impresario Jean-Jacques Sauvage returns to his home town of Lyons, ostensibly to stage a new ballet production, but as he renews old acquaintances it is evident that he has darker motives in mind... [More...]
Un secret (2007)
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, seven year old François feels estranged from his father Maxime and invents for himself a fictitious brother... [More...]
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, seven year old François feels estranged from his father Maxime and invents for himself a fictitious brother... [More...]
Un seul amour (1943)
Pierre Blanchar
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affair that once took a macabre and deadly turn... [More...]
Pierre Blanchar
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affair that once took a macabre and deadly turn... [More...]
Une autre vie (2014)
Emmanuel Mouret
Jean is an electrician who makes a living installing household alarms in the south of France. In the course of his work he meets Aurore, a famous concert pianist who is recovering from a breakdown at her home in the country... [More...]
Emmanuel Mouret
Jean is an electrician who makes a living installing household alarms in the south of France. In the course of his work he meets Aurore, a famous concert pianist who is recovering from a breakdown at her home in the country... [More...]
Une chambre en ville (1982)
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Une employée modèle (2002)
Jacques Otmezguine
François Maurey is the managing director of a small but successful IT company. Whilst driving home one night, he encounters a young woman, Florence, who begs him to protect her from her aggressive husband... [More...]
Jacques Otmezguine
François Maurey is the managing director of a small but successful IT company. Whilst driving home one night, he encounters a young woman, Florence, who begs him to protect her from her aggressive husband... [More...]
Une famille à louer (2015)
Jean-Pierre Améris
Paul-André is a shy and introverted forty-year-old. He has money but he is bored beyond belief and ends up concluding that what he needs most in the world is a family... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Améris
Paul-André is a shy and introverted forty-year-old. He has money but he is bored beyond belief and ends up concluding that what he needs most in the world is a family... [More...]