Released Date:
1977-11-04
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France, West Germany
Runtime:
317 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (16439 Reviews)
Director:
Bernardo BertolucciGenres:
DramaFranco Arcalli
Giuseppe Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.
Released Date:
1976-12-08
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (511 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèMarilyn Goldin
Andrè Tèchinè
The story of Barocco is about a girl in love with a boxer. They plan to go abroad after making a lot of money by participating in an interview intended to discredit a politician at elections time. But the boxer is killed before, and the killer, little by little, fall in love with the girl that accept him finally at the condition that he looks like the boxer he killed.
Released Date:
1976-04-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
X
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (694 Reviews)
Director:
Marco FerreriGenres:
DramaMarco Ferreri (story)
Rafael Azcona (screenplay)
Marco Ferreri (screenplay)
Dante Matelli (screenplay)
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
Released Date:
1977-05-25
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
76 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (149 Reviews)
Director:
Marguerite DurasReleased Date:
1978-02-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (752 Reviews)
Director:
Marco FerreriMarco Ferreri (idea)
Gèrard Brach (scenario & adaptation)
Marco Ferreri (scenario & adaptation)
Rafael Azcona (collaboration)
Immigrants Luigi and Lafayette work for Andreas Flaxman at his wax museum in Lower Manhattan. Luigi, an asthmatic middle-aged romantic, works as an artist/sculptor while the Lafayette functions as a jack-of-all trades for Flaxman, who is obsessed with Ancient Rome, a preoccupation that most of his exhibits reflect. Lafayette lives in a rat-infested basement some blocks away and carries a whistle with to scare the rodents, which seem to be endemic to the area. He also works as a stagehand for a feminist theater group in their Off-off Broadway theater where he suffers their sexist abuses including being forced to wear a leotard. Angelica, one of the beautiful actresses in the troupe is attracted to him, and they begin a relationship. At the same time Luigi comes across the 50 foot model of King Kong in a Hudson River landfill, apparently discarded after the 1976 movie version of "King Kong." There he finds an orphaned baby chimpanzee which he takes to be the giant simian's son. Allergic to animals, he gives it to Lafayette to adopt. Complications arise when Flaxman advises him to get rid of the monkey and Angelica becomes pregnant.
Released Date:
1978-12-17
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2441 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand BlierSolange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.
Released Date:
1979-12-19
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
89 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (3140 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand BlierBlack comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears : he is Alphonse's wife's murderer... Bizarre and unreal.
Released Date:
1981-02-19
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
France
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (8530 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois TruffautFranèois Truffaut (scenario)
Suzanne Schiffman (scenario)
Franèois Truffaut (dialogue)
Suzanne Schiffman (dialogue)
Jean-Claude Grumberg (dialogue)
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. But Lucas is actually hiding in the basement... A film about art and life.
Released Date:
1980-09-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1711 Reviews)
Director:
Maurice PialatArlette Langmann (scenario)
Arlette Langmann (adaptation)
Maurice Pialat (adaptation)
Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the unemployed layabout Loulou, whose charms include focusing his energy into sex.
Released Date:
1980-12-17
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (3113 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisJean Gruault
Henri Laborit (writings)
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. Renè is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
Released Date:
1985-07-26
Languages:
French, Spanish
Countries:
France, Mexico, Malta
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (5005 Reviews)
Director:
Francis VeberWhen the accident-prone daughter of a French businessman disappears in Brazil and the detective sent down to find her returns empty-handed, the businessman's company psychologist comes up with an unusual plan - send someone equally accident-prone to find her. Despite detective Campana's objections and disbelief in bad luck, he and Francois Perrin, the accident-prone man in question, are teamed up and head back down to Brazil to pick up the girl's trail.
Released Date:
1981-09-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (4863 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois TruffautFranèois Truffaut (original scenario)
Suzanne Schiffman (original scenario)
Jean Aurel (original scenario)
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.
Released Date:
1983-01-12
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Poland
Runtime:
136 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (4136 Reviews)
Director:
Andrzej WajdaJean-Claude Carrière (scenario)
Stanislawa Przybyszewska (based on the play by: "L'Affaire Danton/Sprawa Dantona")
Andrzej Wajda (in collaboration with)
Agnieszka Holland (in collaboration with)
Boleslaw Michalek (in collaboration with)
Jacek Gasiorowski (in collaboration with)
Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine.
Released Date:
1983-06-10
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (3063 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel VigneJean-Claude Carrière
Janet Lewis (novel)
Daniel Vigne
Natalie Zemon Davis
During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?
Released Date:
1984-03-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(3310 Reviews)
Director:
Francis VeberUnable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Released Date:
1983-05-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
137 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (908 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Jacques BeineixGenres:
DramaJean-Jacques Beineix (scenario)
Olivier Mergault (scenario)
David Goodis (novel)
In Marseilles, a woman commits suicide after she is raped in an alley. Nightly, her brother Gerard broods at the scene hoping to catch the rapist. He lives with his lover Bella whom he neglects, an alcoholic brother who lurks about, and his father who's stayed drunk since the daughter's death, ignoring work and his own companion. At a seedy bar, Gerard meets a wealthy, nihilistic hedonist and his beautiful sister. Gerard flips for her and thinks she's his ticket out of the slum. Bella warns him otherwise and also, in jealousy, sets two thugs on him. Then Gerard thinks he's found his sister's rapist. These emotional crises force Gerard to choose what's most important.
Released Date:
1984-05-11
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
180 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (607 Reviews)
Director:
Alain CorneauAlain Corneau (adaptation)
Alain Corneau (dialogue)
Louis Gardel (adaptation)
Louis Gardel (dialogue)
Louis Gardel (novel)
Henri de Turenne (adaptation)
Henri de Turenne (dialogue)
French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh. He catches the eye of Madeline, the daughter of the regional administrator. In the desert, Saganne is a leader, with the respect of Arabs, including Amajan, an independent warrior. After resourceful campaigns, Saganne goes on a diplomatic mission to Paris, where he has an affair with a journalist. Back in Africa, he leads a gallant defense against Sultan Omar, is awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and marries Madeline. Then the Great War puts at risk his success and happiness.
Released Date:
1985-09-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1419 Reviews)
Director:
Maurice PialatCatherine Breillat (based on an original idea by)
Catherine Breillat (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Sylvie Pialat (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Jacques Fieschi (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Maurice Pialat (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
Released Date:
1986-12-17
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (3700 Reviews)
Director:
Francis VeberComing out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of this action.
Released Date:
1987-08-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (18583 Reviews)
Director:
Claude BerriGenres:
DramaClaude Berri (adaptation)
Gèrard Brach (adaptation)
Marcel Pagnol (novel)
In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, so are dismayed to hear the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts they think only of getting the water.
Released Date:
1986-10-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
84 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1714 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand BlierA bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.
Released Date:
1989-02-10
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1655 Reviews)
Director:
Maurice PialatGenres:
DramaGeorges Bernanos (novel)
Sylvie Pialat (scenario)
Maurice Pialat (adaptation)
Dossignan is a zealous rural priest. The dean Menou-Segrais tries to keep him reasonable. But Dossignan will be tempted by Satan, then will try to save the soul of Mouchette, a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
Released Date:
1989-12-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
175 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (4592 Reviews)
Director:
Bruno NuyttenReine-Marie Paris (based on the book by)
Bruno Nuytten (scenario and dialogue)
Marilyn Goldin (scenario and dialogue)
Misa Terami (collaborator on dialogue)
Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow...
Released Date:
1990-04-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1902 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand BlierA car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept
Released Date:
1990-12-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
137 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (16764 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Paul RappeneauJean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Edmond Rostand (play)
Released Date:
1991-02-01
Languages:
English, French, Spanish
Countries:
France, Australia, USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (17665 Reviews)
Director:
Peter WeirGeorge Faure is a Frenchman who has been offered a job in the U.S. But in order to get the job he must obtain a work permit - green card, and the easiest way is to marry an American. Bronte Parrish is a New Yorker who is a keen horticulturist and just found the perfect flat with its own greenhouse. Unfortunately the flat is for married couples only. A marriage of convenience seems the ideal solution to both problems. To convince the immigration officers they are married for love, they must move in with each other. As the mismatched couple attempt to cope with life together, they start to fall in love.
Released Date:
1991-10-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (813 Reviews)
Director:
Claude BerriMarcel Aymè (novel)
Claude Berri
Arlette Langmann
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
Released Date:
1991-10-23
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (1979 Reviews)
Director:
Gèrard LauzierGèrard Lauzier (scenario and dialogue)
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
Released Date:
1991-12-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (4790 Reviews)
Director:
Alain CorneauPascal Quignard (based on the novel by)
Alain Corneau (adaptation)
Pascal Quignard (adaptation)
Pascal Quignard (dialogue)
It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into which he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viola.
Released Date:
1992-10-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, Spain
Runtime:
154 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (21082 Reviews)
Director:
Ridley ScottBig budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.
Released Date:
1993-09-08
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Switzerland
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (788 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Luc GodardRomance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
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:
1994-11-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Germany
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (537 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois DupeyronRenè Belletto (novel)
Franèois Dupeyron
Marc Lacroix is a psychiatrist, a student of the brain, with a rocky marriage, a mistress, and a ten-year-old son. He also has a secret laboratory where he's built a machine he thinks will allow him to penetrate the mind of any person hooked up to the machine with him. He tests it with Zyto, a psychopath who has killed three women. The machine fails and exchanges the men's brains. Zyto passes himself off as Marc, and Marc (now in Zyto's body) escapes from the asylum to the flat of his mistress. She tries to warn Marc's wife, exposing herself to Zyto. All are now in grave danger. Can Lacroix find a way to get Zyto back to the machine before irreversible damage is done?
Released Date:
1994-02-04
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (8158 Reviews)
Director:
Steve MinerGèrard Lauzier (screenplay)
Francis Veber (screenplay)
Charlie Peters (screenplay)
Andre, a Frenchman divorced from his American wife takes his teenage daughter, Nicole, on vacation with him. She's desperate to appear as a woman and not a girl, so in order to impress a local boy, she makes up more and more ridiculous stories, starting with Andre being her lover. Andre is desperate to make Nicole happy and so plays along with her crazy games, and the stories they make up get increasingly bizzare.
Released Date:
1995-05-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (6172 Reviews)
Director:
Giuseppe TornatoreGiuseppe Tornatore (story)
Giuseppe Tornatore (screenplay)
Pascal Quignard (dialogue)
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.
Released Date:
1995-10-11
Languages:
French, English, Cantonese, Italian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (2079 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Marie PoirèChristian Clavier
Jean-Marie Poirè
Gerard Depardieu plays a sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective who flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob. He leaves the boy in the hands of an earnest priest (Christian Clavier), who escorts him back to Paris. Soon Clavier and Depardieu are fighting it out, each shadowed by his good or evil guardian angel.
Released Date:
1995-02-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1594 Reviews)
Director:
Jean BeckerGenres:
DramaMarie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
Released Date:
1996-09-06
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (4985 Reviews)
Director:
Norman JewisonJeff Rothberg (story)
Francis X. McCarthy Jr. (story)
Alvin Sargent (screenplay)
Seven year-old Albert is the son of a Las Vegas circus performer. When she is killed in a car wreck, Albert is sent to live with his mother's foster sister, Harriet Franklin, a no-nonsense businesswoman struggling in New Jersey. Albert hates it with the dour Harriet, but takes refuge in the company of Bogus, a flamboyant, gentle, loving, and altogether imaginary Frenchman. With Bogus's help, Albert can perhaps come to terms with his mother's death, and Harriet with her own loss of childhood innocence.
Released Date:
1997-02-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1754 Reviews)
Director:
Nick CassavetesCharacter study about Mildred, an elderly woman who has spent her life caring for others. When her daughter finally leaves home, she finds that, for the first time in her life, she has nobody to worry about - but soon becomes involved in the life of Monica, a young mother whose husband has left her to look after her young son J.J.. As the relationship blossoms, Monica teaches Mildred that there is more to life than taking care of others.
Released Date:
1998-03-13
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA, France
Runtime:
132 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (114798 Reviews)
Director:
Randall WallaceAlexandre Dumas père (novels)
Randall Wallace (screenplay)
Paris is starving, but the King of France is more interested in money and bedding women. When a young soldier dies for the sake of a shag, Aramis, Athos and Porthos band together with a plan to replace the king. Unknown to many, there is a 2nd king, a twin, hidden at birth, then imprisoned for 6 years behind an iron mask. All that remains now is D'Artagnan, will he stand against his long time friends, or do what is best for his country?
Released Date:
1999-02-03
Languages:
French, German
Countries:
France, Italy, Germany
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (28478 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ZidiRenè Goscinny (comic book)
Albert Uderzo (comic book)
Claude Zidi (screenplay)
Gèrard Lauzier (dialogue)
The well-known little village from the Asterix and Obelix-comic books is in trouble: It is the last place not controlled by Rome. When Tax collector Claudius Incorruptus does not get his money from the villagers, Julius Caesar himself comes to the place to see what's so special about their resistance. A special magic potion, prepared by the village's druid, gives incredible power to those who drink it. And Obelix, who fell into the pot as a child has been invincible ever since. With the help of Tullius Destructivus, an intrigeur, the Romans try to get Obelix and the druid into their hands in order to wipe the little village off the map, when the last potion of it's stock has been used up. But each individual also has some plans of his own...
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:
1999-06-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Germany, Italy
Runtime:
400 min
IMDB Ratings:
(4595 Reviews)
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Released Date:
2000-05-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, UK, Belgium
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (5960 Reviews)
Director:
Roland JoffèJeanne Labrune
Tom Stoppard (English adaptation)
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?
Released Date:
1999-04-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (487 Reviews)
Franèois Dupeyron
Alain Leblanc (novel)
In the 1960s in Normandy, Mina, Georges' beautiful and sensible wife, seeks to escape from her routine life by going to the cinema with Tommy, their fifteen-year-old boy. After a screening of West Side Story, Matthias, a man they are sitting next to, invites them for a drink at a dance hall. At the same time, Georges finds a job at a building site and is compelled to stay away from home the whole week long. The growing passion between Mina and Matthias is as painful for Tommy as for Georges. He finally accepts Mina's departure, as he hopes that this love affair will not last long ...
Released Date:
2000-11-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
4.8 (24239 Reviews)
Director:
Kevin LimaDodie Smith (novel)
Kristen Buckley (story)
Brian Regan (story)
Kristen Buckley (screenplay)
Brian Regan (screenplay)
Bob Tzudiker (screenplay)
Noni White (screenplay)
After a spot of therapy Cruella De Vil is released from prison a changed woman. Devoted to dogs and good causes, she is delighted that Chloe, her parole officer, has a dalmatian family and connections with a dog charity. But the sound of Big Ben can reverse the treatment so it is only a matter of time before Ms De Vil is back to her incredibly ghastly ways, using her new-found connections with Chloe and friends.
Released Date:
2001-08-10
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (13387 Reviews)
Director:
Francis VeberGenres:
ComedyFrancis Veber (dialogue)
Francis Veber (screenplay)
Franèois Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a rubber factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing to happen: he spreads the rumor that he's gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in Franèois Pignon's life -and other people's too- is drastic !
Released Date:
2002-01-30
Languages:
French, Arabic, Cantonese, Latin, German
Countries:
France, Germany
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (34491 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ChabatRenè Goscinny (comic book "Astèrix et Clèopatre")
Albert Uderzo (comic book "Astèrix et Clèopatre")
Alain Chabat (screenplay)
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt. When Julius Caesar gets wind of the project succeeding, he has the building site attacked by his troops in order to win the bet and not lose face. But just like the local pirates, he hasn't counted on Asterix and Obelix.
Released Date:
2002-05-31
Languages:
English, French, Italian
Countries:
USA, Luxembourg, France, Italy
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (4056 Reviews)
Director:
Roman CoppolaParis, 1969. The filming of a sci-fi movie set in the distant year 2000 is in trouble. The director's obsession with the actress who plays the sexy secret agent Dragonfly has clouded his judgment and the film has no ending. A young American, in Paris to document his life on film with total honesty, is brought in to finish the movie with a bang. This proves to be difficult when the line between his fantasy life and reality becomes blurred, and he finds himself seduced by the charms of Dragonfly.
Released Date:
2001-02-23
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1070 Reviews)
Director:
Ettore ScolaFurio Scarpelli (story)
Ettore Scola (screenplay)
Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)
Silvia Scola (screenplay)
Giacomo Scarpelli (screenplay)
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
Released Date:
2002-03-08
Languages:
English, Norwegian, French
Countries:
Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark
Runtime:
125 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (4550 Reviews)
Director:
Ole BornedalGenres:
DramaOle Bornedal
Jonas Cornell
Herbjèrg Wassmo (novel)
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living. Family friend Jacob encourages Dina's father to hire Lorch, a tutor who introduces her to the cello. When Dina is old enough, she marries Jacob and moves to Reinsnes, a port he runs with his mother, Karen, and his stepsons Niels and Anders . Niels doesn't like Dina's wild ways, or the fact that she has taken over accounting duties at Reinsnes. Dina's eccentric tendencies become even stronger, eventually leading Jacob into an accident of his own and bringing Tomas back into her life.
Released Date:
2002-03-08
Languages:
English, Norwegian, French
Countries:
Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark
Runtime:
125 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (4549 Reviews)
Director:
Ole BornedalGenres:
DramaOle Bornedal
Jonas Cornell
Herbjèrg Wassmo (novel)
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living. Family friend Jacob encourages Dina's father to hire Lorch, a tutor who introduces her to the cello. When Dina is old enough, she marries Jacob and moves to Reinsnes, a port he runs with his mother, Karen, and his stepsons Niels and Anders . Niels doesn't like Dina's wild ways, or the fact that she has taken over accounting duties at Reinsnes. Dina's eccentric tendencies become even stronger, eventually leading Jacob into an accident of his own and bringing Tomas back into her life.
Released Date:
2002-11-13
Languages:
French, English, Swedish
Countries:
France, Canada, UK, Switzerland
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (526 Reviews)
Director:
Jacob BergerGenres:
DramaPascal Barollier
Jacob Berger
Ed Radtke
Writer Lèo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Lèo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. When Lèo starts traveling to the ceremony in Stockholm by motor bike, Paul decides to follow him and try to speak to him. Clearly Lèo doesn't want to be followed, starts speeding and gets involved in a accident, but isn't badly hurt. The police confuse another motorist for Shepherd and announce his death. Paul, driven by his childhood experiences, decides to kidnap his father.
Released Date:
2004-05-21
Languages:
French, German, English, Italian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(4153 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Paul RappeneauJean-Paul Rappeneau (scenario)
Patrick Modiano (scenario)
Jèrème Tonnerre (adaptation)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau (adaptation)
Gilles Marchand (adaptation)
Julien Rappeneau (adaptation)
At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets and love affairs flourish.
Released Date:
2003-04-16
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
Canada, UK
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (4593 Reviews)
Director:
Brad MirmanAn out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of street gangs on their backs as they attempt to make their way back to Paris.
Released Date:
2004-01-07
Languages:
French, Hungarian
Countries:
France, Spain
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3732 Reviews)
Director:
Anne FontaineGenres:
DramaPhilippe Blasband (original idea)
Jacques Fieschi
Anne Fontaine
Franèois-Olivier Rousseau
Nathalie is the name a Parisian prostitute assumes for a special mission or "private investigation." She is engaged in this unusual and secretive task by a professional, upper-middle-class wife who fears that her husband is unfaithful to her. Nathalie has to seduce the clueless husband and regularly report all details of her relationship with him, including his most intimate sexual preferences in bed. Nathalie is stunning, charming, and cunning. Can Nathalie and her reports to the mistrustful wife be trusted? Is the middle aged husband indeed unfaithful?
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:
2005-02-23
Languages:
French, Mandarin, Spanish, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (757 Reviews)
Olivier Nakache
Eric Toledano
One is too shy to start a relationship, other too unsettled to stay in one. Will their friendship help them to find the right woman for both?
Released Date:
2004-12-15
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (1323 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèAndrè Tèchinè (scenario)
Laurent Guyot (scenario)
Pascal Bonitzer (scenario)
Connections and personality: France and Morocco, sisters, mothers and sons, husbands and lovers. Antoine arranges a job in Tangiers so he can reconnect to Cècile, his first love, unseen for 30 years. Sami, her son, comes from Paris with his friend Nadia and her son to see his mother and his Moroccan boyfriend. Nadia wants to see Aècha, her twin, a devout Muslim unwilling to see her pill-popping sister. Antoine harbors romantic fantasies; Cècile lives in the real world of an empty marriage to Natan, a Jewish doctor who's broke, drinks too much, and wants to move back to Casablanca. Cècile is a follower. Dogs and mud present dangers, as does complaisance. Will the earth move?
Released Date:
2005-10-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (5128 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand BlierIn Paris, after winning the lottery, the clerk Franèois goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to the prostitute Daniela to live with him until the end of his money. Franèois is a lonely man, with heart problems and Daniela stays with him for eight days. Then, she decides to come back to her man, the mobster Charly, but she misses Franèois and returns to his place. But once a whore, always a whore.
Released Date:
2005-03-09
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (1008 Reviews)
Director:
Gèrard JugnotGenres:
ComedyRenè Fauchois (play)
Philippe Lopes-Curval
Light-hearted, social comedy about the house guest from Hell. A modern remake of Renoir's classic film about a vagabond saved from drowning.
Released Date:
2006-09-13
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1818 Reviews)
Director:
Xavier GiannoliAlain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest. A brief dalliance turns into something much more complicated and he starts to employ - indeed monopolise - her services as an estate agent by announcing he suddenly must move house.
Released Date:
2009-11-11
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
130 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1666 Reviews)
Director:
Xavier GiannoliGenres:
DramaXavier Giannoli (screenplay)
Daniel Karlin (collaborating writer)
Marcia Romano (collaborating writer)
France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
Released Date:
2008-10-22
Languages:
French, English, Arabic, Spanish
Countries:
France, Canada, Italy
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (24657 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Franèois RichetJacques Mesrine (book)
Abdel Raouf Dafri (scenario)
Abdel Raouf Dafri (adaptation)
Jean-Franèois Richet (adaptation)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy.
Released Date:
2011-09-16
Languages:
French, Flemish
Countries:
France
Runtime:
82 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (4726 Reviews)
Director:
Jean BeckerJean Becker (screenplay)
Jean-Loup Dabadie (screenplay)
Marie-Sabine Roger (book)
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Released Date:
2011-09-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (2780 Reviews)
Benoèt Delèpine
Gustave Kervern
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60 and is about to retire from his job in a slaughterhouse. He has always worked from the age of sixteen, never been on sick leave. So, how will this man fill his days? He does not like reading; doing odd jobs about the house is not his cup of tea; shopping is not his passion ... To make matters worse, his wife Catherine, who still works in a supermarket, notices that her husband will not get full retirement benefits since some of his former employers failed to do the requisite paperwork. So off goes Serge, riding his old Munch "Mammut" bike, in search of the missing documents ...
Released Date:
2011-04-15
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (7805 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois OzonGenres:
ComedyFranèois Ozon (scenario)
Pierre Barillet (play)
Jean-Pierre Grèdy (play)
When her husband is taken hostage by his striking employees, a trophy wife (Deneuve) takes the reins of the family business and proves to be a remarkably effective leader. Business and personal complications arrive in the form of her ex-lover (Depardieu), a former union leader.
Released Date:
2015-06-17
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (223 Reviews)
Director:
Guillaume NiclouxGenres:
DramaGuillaume Nicloux (screenplay)
David H. Pickering (translation)
Isabelle and Gèrard go to a strange appointment in Death Valley, California. They have not seen each other for years and are here to answer to an invitation from their son Michael, a photographer, which they received after his suicide, six months ago.
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