Released Date:
1975-03-21
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
150 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (514 Reviews)
Director:
Claude LelouchClaude Lelouch
Pierre Uytterhoeven
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
Released Date:
1979-02-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, West Germany
Runtime:
140 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (740 Reviews)
Director:
Eric RohmerEric Rohmer
Chrètien de Troyes (novel)
Released Date:
1982-08-27
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1539 Reviews)
Director:
Eric RohmerSabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
Released Date:
1984-09-05
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
(688 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisElisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jèrème and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jèrème would have nothing to do with suicide...
Released Date:
1984-10-17
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
125 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (325 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RivettePascal Bonitzer (scenario)
Marilè Parolini (scenario)
Suzanne Schiffman (scenario)
Jacques Rivette (scenario)
Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)
Marilè Parolini (dialogue)
Released Date:
1986-04-25
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2385 Reviews)
Director:
Coline SerreauGenres:
ComedyJacques, steward de Air France, accepte de garder un paquet pour le compte de Paul. Le paquet sera remis chez lui è la maison, oè il vit avec deux amis, Pierre et Michel. Mais Jacques oublie de prèvenir ses amis et part en Thailande pour un voyage de travail. Effectivement, un paquet arrive, mais il s'agit d'un couffin avec un bèbè, Marie, fille de Sylvia et de Jacques. Les deux, et ensuite les trois hommes, se retrouvent piègès entre engagements de travail, bouillies et couches. Et ensuite, un vrai paquet arrive: il contient de la drogue. Et avec le paquet, d'autres ennuis, avec les propriètaires de la drogue et la police è sa recherche. La vie des trois cèlibataires a vraiment changè.
Released Date:
1986-09-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (808 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisHenri Bernstein (play)
Alain Resnais (adaptation)
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it forward even as her husband, Pierre, falls ill. She may even be purposely giving Pierre a treatment that adds to his misery. After Marcel returns from a concert tour and Romaine stoops to a new low in abandoning Pierre for an assignation, she reconsiders the affair and takes a drastic step. Three years later, Pierre pays Marcel a visit to demand the truth. Will the jealous and aggrieved Marcel manage a convincing performance?
Released Date:
1993-06-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (6888 Reviews)
Director:
Claude SautetClaude Sautet (scenario and dialogue)
Jacques Fieschi (scenario and dialogue)
Jèrème Tonnerre (scenario collaborator)
Yves Ulmann (collaborating writer)
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Released Date:
1994-09-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1277 Reviews)
Director:
Yves AngeloYves Angelo
Jean Cosmos
Vèronique Lagrange
Honorè de Balzac (novel)
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.
Released Date:
1997-11-12
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Switzerland, UK, Italy
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3118 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisJean-Pierre Bacri
Agnès Jaoui
Odile is looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille just completed her doctoral thesis has fallen in love with an estate agent who is responsible for Odile's apartment and who has an elder employee.
Released Date:
2001-09-19
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (17209 Reviews)
Director:
PitofFranèois-Eugène Vidocq (memoirs)
Pitof (screenplay)
Jean-Christophe Grangè (screenplay)
Paris. 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappeared as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to have revenge on Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
Released Date:
2001-11-21
Languages:
French, Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
France
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (5263 Reviews)
Director:
ètienne ChatiliezGenres:
ComedyLaurent Chouchan
ètienne Chatiliez
Yolande Zauberman (idea)
Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan...
Released Date:
2008-08-08
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (34395 Reviews)
Director:
Guillaume CanetGuillaume Canet
Harlan Coben (novel)
Philippe Lefebvre
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive.
Released Date:
2004-11-24
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (13195 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier MarchalOlivier Marchal (original scenario)
Franck Mancuso (original scenario)
Julien Rappeneau (original scenario)
Dominique Loiseau (scenario collaborator)
Olivier Marchal (adaptation)
Olivier Marchal (scenario)
In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality, until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals they chase. Vrinks, meeting with a source, becomes involved with a murder. Klein seizes the opportunity to up the ante and arranges for the arrest of Vrinks, but when he goes further and viciously involves Vrinks' wife, Camille, revenge is inevitable.
Released Date:
2005-05-11
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (4253 Reviews)
Director:
Dominik MollGilles Marchand
Dominik Moll
The automation engineer Alain Getty and his beloved wife Bènèdicte have just moved to the suburb of Bel-Air. Alain has developed the prototype of a flying web-cam for Pollock S.A., a high-tech company. After a successful presentation of his project to their clients, Alain invites his boss Richard Pollock and his wife Alice for dinner at his home. The couple arrives late, and Alice is extremely rude, insulting her husband and the young couple, and forcing Richard to leave the house earlier. During the night, Alain finds a rare Scandinavian lemming stuck in the siphon of the sink in the kitchen. On the next night, Alice unsuccessfully tries to seduce Alain after-hours in the laboratory of the company. On the next afternoon, she visits Bènèdicte to apologize her behavior and cynically tells her sexual harassment to her husband. Then she locks herself in a room and commits suicide. On the next days, Bènèdicte changes her behavior and relationship with Alain, seeming to be possessed by Alice.
Released Date:
2010-06-11
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (23254 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre JeunetJean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario)
Guillaume Laurant (scenario)
Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)
Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion.
Released Date:
2009-11-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (3043 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisChristian Gailly (novel)
Alain Resnais (adaptation)
Laurent Herbiet (adaptation)
A wallet lost and found opens the door to romantic adventure for Georges and Marguerite. After examining the ID papers of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the red wallet he found in to the police. Nor is it that Marguerite can recuperate her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about whom it was who found it. As they navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their otherwise quotidian lives.
Released Date:
2016-01-20
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Germany
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (8887 Reviews)
Director:
Christophe GansSandra Vo-Anh (scenario and dialogue)
Christophe Gans (scenario and dialogue)
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (book)
An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.
Released Date:
2013-07-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (360 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Marc RudnickiGenres:
ComedyManon Dillys (scenario)
Hèlène Le Gall (scenario)
Marie Pavlenko (scenario)
Clèment Michel (adaptation)
Jean-Marc Rudnicki (adaptation)
Hèlène Le Gall (original idea)
Julien War (consultant)
Remy Four (consultant)
Thomas Perrier (consultant)
Eric Laugèrias (consultant)
Allan Mauduit (consultant)
In a desperate attempt to reconnect with her estranged son who is a passionate WWE fan, Rose grabs his attention by joining a rigorous training program to learn to wrestle like a legitimate WWE Diva. She convinces her bored fellow cashiers at the local supermarket to join her challenging new adventure and together they become the "Queens of the Ring".
Released Date:
2014-03-05
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
France, Germany
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(2285 Reviews)
Director:
Volker SchlèndorffGenres:
DramaCyril Gely (play)
Cyril Gely (adaptation)
Volker Schlèndorff (adaptation)
A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.
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