Film Index
French cinema: Romance
Une femme de ménage (2002)
Claude Berri
Since his wife left him six months ago, a middle-aged sound engineer, Jacques, has allowed himself to sink into a life of routine and solitary depression...
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Claude Berri
Une femme est une femme (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard
Angela is an attractive nightclub striptease artist who shares a small Parisian apartment with her boyfriend Emile. One day, on the spur of the moment, she decides that she must have a baby...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Une femme mariée (1964)
Jean-Luc Godard
Married to Pierre, an airline pilot, Charlotte leads a settled middle-class existence and couldn't be happier. She has a son she adores, Nicolas, and has plenty to occupy her...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Une folle envie (2011)
Bernard Jeanjean
Yann and Rose are young, very much in love and want to have a child. Nine months later, their baby has yet to put in an appearance...
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Bernard Jeanjean
Une histoire d'amour (1951)
Guy Lefranc
One morning, two policemen come across the dead bodies of a young man and woman in wrecked coach on a stretch of waste ground...
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Guy Lefranc
Une liaison pornographique (1999)
Frédéric Fonteyne
She is a woman in her mid-forties who wants a man to enact her sexual fantasies with her. She has in no interest in finding love... [More...]
Frédéric Fonteyne
She is a woman in her mid-forties who wants a man to enact her sexual fantasies with her. She has in no interest in finding love... [More...]
Une manche et la belle (1957)
Henri Verneuil
Philippe Delaroche is a modest bank employee whose attempt to swindle some easy money out of a rich widow, Betty Farnwell, ends with an unexpected proposal of marriage... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Philippe Delaroche is a modest bank employee whose attempt to swindle some easy money out of a rich widow, Betty Farnwell, ends with an unexpected proposal of marriage... [More...]
Une partie de plaisir (1975)
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Une place sur la Terre (2013)
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Fabienne Godet
Antoine is a jaded 40-something photographer who has become disillusioned with life. He finds living by himself ever more difficult, and this is probably why he shows such a keen interest in his next-door neighbour's son Matéo... [More...]
Une semaine sur deux (et la moitié des vacances scolaires) (2009)
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Ivan Calbérac
Léa is twelve years old and wishes that her parents lived in the same house, like normal parents, instead of living apart to pursue their own separate lives... [More...]
Une vie (1958)
Alexandre Astruc
In the late 19th century, Jeanne Dandieu lives with her parents in an isolated country house in Normandy. Her only companion is her childhood friend, Gilberte, who is now her servant... [More...]
Alexandre Astruc
In the late 19th century, Jeanne Dandieu lives with her parents in an isolated country house in Normandy. Her only companion is her childhood friend, Gilberte, who is now her servant... [More...]
Une vie à t'attendre (2004)
Thierry Klifa
After the death of his mother, Alex gave up his career as an artist to take over the management of the family restaurant, which he runs with his friend Camille and his depressive brother Julien... [More...]
Thierry Klifa
After the death of his mother, Alex gave up his career as an artist to take over the management of the family restaurant, which he runs with his friend Camille and his depressive brother Julien... [More...]
Une vieille maîtresse (2007)
Catherine Breillat
Paris, 1835. High society awaits with some trepidation the impending marriage of Ryno de Marigny, a notorious libertine, with Hermangarde, the unsullied daughter of the Marquis de Flers... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Paris, 1835. High society awaits with some trepidation the impending marriage of Ryno de Marigny, a notorious libertine, with Hermangarde, the unsullied daughter of the Marquis de Flers... [More...]
Les Uns et les autres (1981)
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Va savoir (2001)
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
La Valse de Paris (1950)
Marcel Achard
Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta... [More...]
Marcel Achard
Paris, in the mid-1800s. Hortense Schneider is an aspiring young actress who is keen to appear in Jacques Offenbach's next operetta... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Variétés (1935)
Nicolas Farkas
Georges, Jeanne and Pierre form a successful trapeze act, Les Trois Maximes, for a provincial circus. Impressed by their talents, an impresario books them for a season at a Parisian music hall... [More...]
Nicolas Farkas
Georges, Jeanne and Pierre form a successful trapeze act, Les Trois Maximes, for a provincial circus. Impressed by their talents, an impresario books them for a season at a Parisian music hall... [More...]
Vendredi soir (2002)
Claire Denis
Laure has arrived at a tuning point in her life. In her Parisian apartment, she has packed up her belongings and is all set to move in with boyfriend... [More...]
Claire Denis
Laure has arrived at a tuning point in her life. In her Parisian apartment, she has packed up her belongings and is all set to move in with boyfriend... [More...]
Vénus aveugle (1941)
Abel Gance
Clarisse is an attractive young model who is in love with Madère, a handsome sailor. When she learns that she is losing her eyesight, she breaks off her relationship with Madère and resumes her career as a cabaret singer to support herself and her crippled sister Mireille whilst her lover goes off to sea... [More...]
Abel Gance
Clarisse is an attractive young model who is in love with Madère, a handsome sailor. When she learns that she is losing her eyesight, she breaks off her relationship with Madère and resumes her career as a cabaret singer to support herself and her crippled sister Mireille whilst her lover goes off to sea... [More...]
Vénus beauté (institut) (1999)
Tonie Marshall
Angèle is a middle-aged beautician who refuses to settle down with a man, preferring a string of one night stands and short-term relationships... [More...]
Tonie Marshall
Angèle is a middle-aged beautician who refuses to settle down with a man, preferring a string of one night stands and short-term relationships... [More...]
Vénus et Fleur (2004)
Emmanuel Mouret
Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, Fleur, a shy Parisian, meets an out-going Russian named Vénus... [More...]
Emmanuel Mouret
Whilst holidaying in the South of France one summer, Fleur, a shy Parisian, meets an out-going Russian named Vénus... [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...]
La Vérité ou presque (2007)
Sam Karmann
Anne's supposedly stable, well-ordered life is about to become horribly tangled when she develops an interest in Vincent... [More...]
Sam Karmann
Anne's supposedly stable, well-ordered life is about to become horribly tangled when she develops an interest in Vincent... [More...]
Vers le sud (2005)
Laurent Cantet
Three women, each in her fifties, meet whilst holidaying on the beaches of Haiti in the late 1970s. They are there for one reason - to have a good time... [More...]
Laurent Cantet
Three women, each in her fifties, meet whilst holidaying on the beaches of Haiti in the late 1970s. They are there for one reason - to have a good time... [More...]
Vert paradis (2003)
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Sociologist Lucas is preparing a thesis about bachelor life in a rural community. To that end, he returns to the place in the French countryside where he grew up... [More...]
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Sociologist Lucas is preparing a thesis about bachelor life in a rural community. To that end, he returns to the place in the French countryside where he grew up... [More...]
Le Vertige (1926)
Marcel L'Herbier
Russia, March 1917. With a fierce revolution threatening to engulf the entire country, the Petrograd estate of General Svirsky is hours away from being overrun by the peasant mob... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
Russia, March 1917. With a fierce revolution threatening to engulf the entire country, the Petrograd estate of General Svirsky is hours away from being overrun by the peasant mob... [More...]
La Veuve Couderc (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France... [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...]