Released Date:
1983-11-16
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (3150 Reviews)
Director:
Maurice PialatArlette Langmann (scenario and dialogue)
Maurice Pialat (scenario and dialogue)
Suzanne is 15 and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour. When he leaves home, the mother becomes a little bit neurotic. And Suzanne's brother Robert, begins to beat her as a punishment...
Released Date:
1986-05-16
Languages:
French, Arabic, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (4083 Reviews)
Director:
Agnès VardaGenres:
DramaIn winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meets an agronomist trying to save plane trees, gets tipsy with an old woman, and has an offer to appear in porn films.
Released Date:
1987-12-23
Languages:
French, Arabic
Countries:
France
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (181 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèGenres:
DramaPascal Bonitzer (adaptation)
Pascal Bonitzer (screenplay)
Andrè Tèchinè (adaptation)
Andrè Tèchinè (screenplay)
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:
1990-06-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (4126 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice LeconteGeorges Simenon (novel)
Patrice Leconte (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Patrick Dewolf (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
Released Date:
1992-08-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, UK, Argentina
Runtime:
148 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(682 Reviews)
Director:
Luis PuenzoGenres:
DramaAlbert Camus (novel)
Luis Puenzo
Eric Altmayer (translation producer)
Norman Di Giovanni (translation: English)
Susan Ashe (translation: English)
Robert Katz (narration)
In the 1990s, a South American city is rocked by the imminent outbreak of a plague. While many attempt to flee the city, Dr Bernard Rieux sends his sick wife away and does his best to care for the plague's victims. The plague means different things to different people: to the doctor, it's a disease to be cured. To a pair of French journalists, it's a breaking news story. To religious leaders, it's punishment for sins. As the sense of isolation and hopelessness grow, Dr Rieux and his associates begin to question their previously-accepted feelings of justice, loneliness, and love.
Released Date:
1994-02-09
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
176 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (366 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RivettePascal Bonitzer (dialogue)
Christine Laurent (dialogue)
Released Date:
1996-12-20
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Germany
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (6188 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolRuth Rendell (novel)
Claude Chabrol
Caroline Eliacheff
The upper-class owner of a gallery, Catherine Lelievre, hires the efficient and quiet maid Sophie to work in the family manor in the French countryside. Her husband Georges Lelievre, who is an opera lover, her daughter Melinda and her teenage son Gilles welcome Sophie and appreciate her work. Sophie soon befriends the postmistress Jeanne, who is a bad egg and encourages Sophie to rebel against her employers, but the maid stays submissive. However, Sophie is ashamed of a secret and feels uncomfortable in many situations, finding a way to hide her secret. When Georges tells Sophie that he does not want Jeanne in his house, Sophie stands up to him. Melinda discovers her secret and Sophie blackmails her, but Melinda tells her parents what happened. Georges fires Sophie and she returns to the house later with Jeanne on the rampage.
Released Date:
1998-03-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
170 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (598 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RivettePascal Bonitzer (scenario)
Emmanuelle Cuau (scenario)
Jacques Rivette (scenario)
Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)
Emmanuelle Cuau (dialogue)
A young biologist (Sylvie) is thrown into confusion when her brother (Paul) tries to persuade her that their father, who fell off a train five years ago, was actually killed by his right hand man (Walser). Walser now runs their father's company. Sylvie is not convinced, but Paul has decided to have his revenge.
Released Date:
1998-03-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
170 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (599 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RivettePascal Bonitzer (scenario)
Emmanuelle Cuau (scenario)
Jacques Rivette (scenario)
Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)
Emmanuelle Cuau (dialogue)
A young biologist (Sylvie) is thrown into confusion when her brother (Paul) tries to persuade her that their father, who fell off a train five years ago, was actually killed by his right hand man (Walser). Walser now runs their father's company. Sylvie is not convinced, but Paul has decided to have his revenge.
Released Date:
1999-01-13
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1593 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ChabrolOdile Barski
Claude Chabrol
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. Renè, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, Renè is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to Renè's confusion...
Released Date:
2000-05-05
Languages:
French, Russian
Countries:
France, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Spain
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (3802 Reviews)
Director:
Règis WargnierRustam Ibragimbekov
Sergey Bodrov
Louis Gardel
Règis Wargnier
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step. By chance, she meets a touring French actress and pleads for help. She also takes a young swimmer under her wing, and several years later, he makes a bold attempt to escape. Meanwhile, the KGB is suspicious, and hope for freedom is dim. Patience, her husband's self control, and her good looks may be their only assets.
Released Date:
2001-03-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
85 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (708 Reviews)
Director:
Philippe LioretEmmanuel Courcol
Philippe Lioret
Christian Sinniger
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
Released Date:
2001-11-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (378 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre AmèrisGenres:
DramaJean-Pierre Amèris
Caroline Bottaro (book)
Marie Hennezel (novel)
Released Date:
2001-11-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (378 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre AmèrisGenres:
DramaJean-Pierre Amèris
Caroline Bottaro (book)
Marie Hennezel (novel)
Released Date:
2004-09-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (4022 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice LeconteJèrème Tonnerre (scenario and dialogue)
Jèrème Tonnerre (adaptation)
Patrice Leconte (adaptation)
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved by the young woman and fascinated to hear the secrets that no man ever heard...
Released Date:
2011-04-01
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Germany
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (2082 Reviews)
Director:
Caroline BottaroGenres:
DramaCaroline Bottaro
Bertina Henrichs (novel)
Middle-aged chambermaid Hèlène's newfound obsession with the game of chess leads her to seek the tutelage of a reclusive American expat, transforming both of their ho-hum lives in the process.
Released Date:
2008-08-13
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (675 Reviews)
Director:
Safy NebbouGenres:
DramaCyril Gomez-Mathieu
Safy Nebbou
Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl's family by aiding to develop a friendship between Thomas and the girl's brother Jeremy so that in turn Elsa can then befriend the girl's mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will baby-sit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola's house and watching her at night. At first Claire doesn't suspect anything but gradually notices that Elsa is paying too much attention to Lola and confronts Elsa. Elsa in turn claims that she knows that Lola is her long presumed-dead daughter and somehow Claire has stolen her.
Released Date:
2011-10-21
Languages:
Romanian
Countries:
Romania, Poland
Runtime:
73 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (511 Reviews)
Director:
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