Film Index

French cinema: Romance/Comedy

La Confusion des genres (2000)
Ilan Duran Cohen

Alain, a man in his forties, is beginning to wish that his private life was as ordered and straightforward as his professional life as a lawyer...   [More...]

Cousin, cousine (1975)
Jean-Charles Tacchella

Ludovic and Marthe, two cousins by marriage, meet at the most auspicious of occasions - their parents' wedding. Although they are both already married, unhappily as it turns out, the cousins take pleasure in each other's company and decide to see each other after the wedding, seeking nothing more than mutual companionship...   [More...]

Crustacés et coquillages (2005)
Olivier Ducastel

One year, 40-something Marc decides to spend his long summer holiday in the region of the South of France where he grew up...   [More...]

De l'amour (1964)
Jean Aurel

Raoul is a dentist by trade, an inveterate Don Juan by habit. His young wife Hélène gets her revenge by leaving him and starting a relationship with Serge, a man who accosts her in the street and insists on making love to her...   [More...]

De vrais mensonges (2010)
Pierre Salvadori

One bright spring morning, Emilie receives a love letter, a beautiful but anonymous declaration of love which cannot fail to twang the romantic heartstrings of its reader...   [More...]

Décalage horaire (2002)
Danièle Thompson

Two people who have absolutely nothing in common meet by chance at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport and find that they just cannot keep apart...   [More...]

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959)
Jean Renoir

Étienne Alexis, the man most likely to be elected President of the United States of Europe, is a famous biologist who believes that society will be vastly improved if the human species is propagated by artificial insemination...   [More...]

Delphine 1, Yvan 0 (1996)
Dominique Farrugia

Yvan and Delphine are a young couple who allow a television film crew to record their day-to-day experiences over a year...   [More...]

Des gens qui s'embrassent (2013)
Danièle Thompson

Zef and Roni are two brothers who have never got on well together. Zef, an accomplished violinist, has opted for an austere life...   [More...]

Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (2001)
Pascale Bailly

Michèle has barely turned twenty and yet already she has made up her mind that her life is a complete failure. Her modelling career seems to be going nowhere and now she is alone, depressed and fed up after breaking up with her boyfriend Bertrand...   [More...]

Dieu seul me voit (1998)
Bruno Podalydès

Albert, a shy absent-minded sound engineer, is coming to a mid-life crisis. Despite his best attempts, he still has not found the woman of his dreams - but that looks set to change...   [More...]

Le Dindon (1951)
Claude Barma

Paris, in the 1890s. Monsieur Pontagnac, an inveterate womaniser, is making overtures to Lucienne when her husband Vatelin appears unexpectedly...   [More...]

Domicile conjugal (1970)
François Truffaut

Now 26, Antoine Doinel is happily married to Christine Darbon. The couple share a small but comfortable apartment in Paris, and while she gives violin lessons, he earns a meagre wage dyeing flowers for a florist...   [More...]

Domino (1943)
Roger Richebé

François Dominique, alias Domino, returns to Paris with his best friend Mirandole, having failed to make his fortune in Africa...   [More...]

Édouard et Caroline (1951)
Jacques Becker

Édouard and Caroline are a young couple who believe they have found lasting happiness, even though they come from very different milieus...   [More...]

Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)
Géza von Radványi

When his bride-to-be jilts him at the alter and runs off with a singer, racing driver Pierre Chaillot decides to drown his sorrows in alcohol and then kill himself...   [More...]

Elle et moi (1952)
Guy Lefranc

Jean Montaigu is a confirmed bachelor who loves the company of women but lives in mortal fear of getting snared in the matrimonial net...   [More...]

Elles (1997)
Luís Galvão Teles

Linda is a busy television presenter who, along with her four female friends, is the wrong side of 40 and heading for a mid-life crisis...   [More...]

Elles ne pensent qu'à ça... (1994)
Charlotte Dubreuil

Margeau returns to Paris from New York when her daughter, Jess, takes an overdose of sleeping pills. The rest of the family arrive in toe, including Jess and Margeau's former husbands and their current partners...   [More...]

Embrasse-moi (2017)
Océane Michel

Océanerosemarie is a vivacious young woman who believes in living life to the full and has no shortage of friends - a fair number of whom are ex-girlfriends she cannot seem to shake off...   [More...]

Les Émotifs anonymes (2010)
Jean-Pierre Améris

Angélique has a passion and an instinct for the art of chocolate making that is virtually unrivalled. But she is also chronically shy, so when she goes for a job interview at a chocolate factory she is almost paralysed with fear...   [More...]

En liberté! (2018)
Pierre Salvadori

Yvonne Santi, a young police officer, is still coming to terms with the death of her husband Jean, a police superintendent who died heroically two years previously in the course of his work...   [More...]

Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d'amour... (2010)
Pascal Thomas

When Nicolas and Dorothée meet at a folklore festival it is love at first sight. Yet whilst they realise they are made for one another they cannot speak and so most go their separate ways...   [More...]

Épouse-moi (2000)
Harriet Marin

Aware that her marriage is failing, Oriane decides to seek help from a fortune-teller named Bodel. Gazing deep into his crystal ball, Bodel sees what the future has in store for his distressed client...   [More...]

Erotissimo (1969)
Gérard Pirès

Annie and Philippe are a young married couple who appear to have a perfectly satisfactory love life. Then, one day, Annie is prompted by an article to ask herself if she is living up to her marital responsibilities...   [More...]

Est-ce bien raisonnable? (1981)
Georges Lautner

After his arrest, small-time crook Gérard Louvier escapes from police custody by stealing the clothes - and identity - of a high-profile judge...   [More...]

Fais-moi plaisir! (2009)
Emmanuel Mouret

Convinced that her partner, Jean-Jacques, is showing an interest in another woman, Ariane coerces him into having an affair with her, believing that this is the best way to save their relationship...   [More...]

La Fausse maîtresse (1942)
André Cayatte

In a village in Catalonia, René Rivals, a rugby footballer, is pursuing a secret love affair with the wife of his best friend, wine merchant Guy Carbonnel...   [More...]

Le Fauteuil 47 (1937)
Fernand Rivers

During his frequent visits to his sister's boarding house, Paul Séverac attracts the attention of a friend of hers, an attractive young woman named Loulou...   [More...]

La Fée (2011)
Dominique Abel

Dom is a night watchman at a small hotel in the French coastal town of Le Havre. One evening, a strange woman appears in reception, without any luggage and with no shoes on her feet...   [More...]



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