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French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to...
The Professional
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He starts a love affair with air hostess...
The Soft Skin
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean...
Le radeau de la Méduse
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
The Assassination of Trotsky
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what...
Le Doulos
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning...
A Cop
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is...
The Grand Manoeuvre
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's...
The 25th Hour
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance...
Franciscan of Bourges
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to...
The Skirt Chaser
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor...
The Last Judgment
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his...
The Inheritor
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director.
Just a Big Simple Girl
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel,...
L'échafaud peut attendre
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter...
Véronique
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole...
La Veuve et l'innocent
Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the...
Tomorrow We Get Divorced
In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a...
Jocelyn
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small...
The Baron of the Locks
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a...
With André Gide
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company...
Heads or Tails
A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake...
Keep an Eye on Amelia
Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with documents from French, Canadian, American, English and...
You Will Reap the Tempest
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning...
The Comeuppance
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
Pastoral Symphony
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates...
The Seven Deadly Sins
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot...
The Laws of War
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Father Goriot
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with...
The Passion of Slow Fire
(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur...
Impressions de New York
Le Misanthrope
Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Rochamp (France) and...
La Chapelle de Ronchamp
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father...
Sylvia and the Ghost
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to...
The Great Deception
Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between...
125 rue Montmartre
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his...
The Possessors
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...
Royal Affairs in Versailles
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.
Loves, Delights and Organs
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in...
La Dilettante
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 -...
Love and the Frenchwoman
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN...
Lust
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and...
The Serpent
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret...
Maigret Sets a Trap
In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the...
Graduation Year
Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends,...
Chéri
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of...
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died...
The Revenge of Roger
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer...
Square of Knaves
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from...
Bullfight
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young...
The Mark Of The Day
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt...
Homeland
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Famous Love Affairs
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise...
The Irony of Chance
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the...
Countdown to Vengeance
Le deuxième coup de feu
Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing...
La Dixième de Beethoven
Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their...
Équipe de nuit
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch...
The Dance of the Heron
Cambiamento d'aria
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
The Two Orphans
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru...
One Night at the Beach
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only...
Premeditated
On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival, Simon is offered a job as a bodyguard of a...
The Dance of Death
Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple lieutenant Anton Hofmiller and Edith, the...
La pitié dangereuse
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.
Le fou du roi
A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
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