Film Index
French cinema: Romance/Comedy
Quatre jours à Paris (1955)
André Berthomieu
Young Mario, hairdresser at the Hyacinthe beauty clinic, falls in love with Gabrielle, a young girl from the provinces who is passing through Paris...
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André Berthomieu
Ravissante (1960)
Robert Lamoureux
Maurice, a music publisher, has fallen in love with the beautiful Evelyne. There are just two problems with this. First, Maurice is already married - to Françoise...
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Robert Lamoureux
Rire et châtiment (2003)
Isabelle Doval
Vincent Roméro's skill as an osteopath is surpassed only by his talent for entertaining his entourage. Outside of work, he devotes all his time and energy to making people laugh - to the annoyance of his wife Camille, who finally walks out on him...
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Isabelle Doval
Romuald et Juliette (1989)
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories...
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Coline Serreau
Le Sauvage (1975)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France...
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Le Schpountz (1999)
Gérard Oury
Irénée Fabre has one dream - to become a great film actor. It's no small ambition for a man who lives in deepest Provence and spends his days working in his uncle's modest grocery business... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Irénée Fabre has one dream - to become a great film actor. It's no small ambition for a man who lives in deepest Provence and spends his days working in his uncle's modest grocery business... [More...]
Le Sexe faible (1933)
Robert Siodmak
Madame Leroy-Gomez is one of the wealthy patrons of an exclusive Parisian hotel. A firm believer in the idea that one can never have too much of a good thing as far as lucre is concerned, she encourages her sons Jimmy and Philippe to marry for money, not knowing that they are too fond of their carefree bachelor existence to fall in with these well-meaning plans... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
Madame Leroy-Gomez is one of the wealthy patrons of an exclusive Parisian hotel. A firm believer in the idea that one can never have too much of a good thing as far as lucre is concerned, she encourages her sons Jimmy and Philippe to marry for money, not knowing that they are too fond of their carefree bachelor existence to fall in with these well-meaning plans... [More...]
Signes extérieurs de richesse (1983)
Jacques Monnet
Jean-Jacques Lestrade, known to his friends as Gigi, is a veterinary surgeon who has grown accustomed to living the high life... [More...]
Jacques Monnet
Jean-Jacques Lestrade, known to his friends as Gigi, is a veterinary surgeon who has grown accustomed to living the high life... [More...]
Sous les toits de Paris (1930)
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]
René Clair
In a working class district of Paris in 1930, a young man named Albert makes a modest living as a street singer. One day, he meets an attractive young Rumanian woman, Pola, and instantly falls in love with her... [More...]
Les Sous-doués en vacances (1982)
Claude Zidi
Bébel is looking forward to his holiday with his American girlfriend, but when she dumps him at the airport he ends up living in a tent in Paris... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Bébel is looking forward to his holiday with his American girlfriend, but when she dumps him at the airport he ends up living in a tent in Paris... [More...]
Suivez-moi jeune homme (1958)
Guy Lefranc
Aristide Oranos, a wealthy ship owner, is in love with Françoise, a shop assistant in a jeweller's shop. When the young woman rejects him several times, Aristide becomes convinced that she already has a man in her life and hires a private detective, Michel Corbier, to spy on her... [More...]
Guy Lefranc
Aristide Oranos, a wealthy ship owner, is in love with Françoise, a shop assistant in a jeweller's shop. When the young woman rejects him several times, Aristide becomes convinced that she already has a man in her life and hires a private detective, Michel Corbier, to spy on her... [More...]
Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
Claude Autant-Lara
Sylvie is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with a man in an old portrait - Alain de Francigny, her grandmother's lover, who died many years ago in a duel... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Sylvie is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with a man in an old portrait - Alain de Francigny, her grandmother's lover, who died many years ago in a duel... [More...]
La Tentation de Barbizon (1946)
Jean Stelli
Martine and Michel are a young couple who have made up their mind to get married. During a stay at a country inn run by Martine's uncle Jérôme their love will be put to the test by a devil's emissary masquerading as American businessman Ben Atkinson... [More...]
Jean Stelli
Martine and Michel are a young couple who have made up their mind to get married. During a stay at a country inn run by Martine's uncle Jérôme their love will be put to the test by a devil's emissary masquerading as American businessman Ben Atkinson... [More...]
Tête à claques (1982)
Francis Perrin
Alex Berthier is thirty, divorced and lives in a small apartment with his 10-year-old son Bruno. He writes songs that no one wants to buy and just about scrapes by on what he can earn as a taxi driver... [More...]
Francis Perrin
Alex Berthier is thirty, divorced and lives in a small apartment with his 10-year-old son Bruno. He writes songs that no one wants to buy and just about scrapes by on what he can earn as a taxi driver... [More...]
Toi et moi (2006)
Julie Lopes-Curval
Ariane has a habit of transposing the complicated love lives of those around her into the trashy love stories that she writes for a women's magazine... [More...]
Julie Lopes-Curval
Ariane has a habit of transposing the complicated love lives of those around her into the trashy love stories that she writes for a women's magazine... [More...]
Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour (1931)
Jacques Tourneur
Renaudin, a pharmacist, takes in Claire, a young woman who is traumatised by a stillbirth. Attached to her and anxious to make her happy, Renaudin wants to court her, but she is in love with another man, Jean, who has a shop next door... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
Renaudin, a pharmacist, takes in Claire, a young woman who is traumatised by a stillbirth. Attached to her and anxious to make her happy, Renaudin wants to court her, but she is in love with another man, Jean, who has a shop next door... [More...]
Trente et quarante (1946)
Gilles Grangier
In France at the time of the Second Empire, Madeleine falls in love with a young Italian nobleman, Count Mario de Miranda, but her punctilious father, Captain Bitterlin, has no intention of marrying his daughter to such a man... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
In France at the time of the Second Empire, Madeleine falls in love with a young Italian nobleman, Count Mario de Miranda, but her punctilious father, Captain Bitterlin, has no intention of marrying his daughter to such a man... [More...]
Trois de la Canebière (1956)
Maurice de Canonge
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible make a team of fishermen in Marseille. One evening, Girelle and Toinet attempt to impress a pair of ravishing young women by passing themselves off as the owners of a sardine canning factory... [More...]
Maurice de Canonge
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible make a team of fishermen in Marseille. One evening, Girelle and Toinet attempt to impress a pair of ravishing young women by passing themselves off as the owners of a sardine canning factory... [More...]
Trois valses (1938)
Ludwig Berger
In 1867, at the time of the Second Empire, a young military man named Octave de Chalencey falls in love with a humble ballet dancer, Fanny Grandpré... [More...]
Ludwig Berger
In 1867, at the time of the Second Empire, a young military man named Octave de Chalencey falls in love with a humble ballet dancer, Fanny Grandpré... [More...]
Tu peux garder un secret? (2008)
Alexandre Arcady
Delphine clearly wasn't thinking of her longterm career plans when she let slip, in front of two of her colleagues, that she had been sleeping with her boss... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
Delphine clearly wasn't thinking of her longterm career plans when she let slip, in front of two of her colleagues, that she had been sleeping with her boss... [More...]
Un amour de sorcière (1997)
René Manzor
It seems that witches are a dying breed on planet Earth. There are just six left, and only one of these - Molok - is committed to the cause of evil... [More...]
René Manzor
It seems that witches are a dying breed on planet Earth. There are just six left, and only one of these - Molok - is committed to the cause of evil... [More...]
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 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 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...]
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...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]