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Gérard Depardieu
Actor 77 years old

Gérard Depardieu

Châteauroux, Indre, France

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, film-maker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed approximately 170 movies since 1967. He has twice won the César Award for... Read full bio →

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Maigret

Maigret

Patrice Leconte 2022 1h 28m

In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.

Irréductible

Irréductible

Jérôme Commandeur 2022 1h 23m

Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.

Illusions perdues

Illusions perdues

Xavier Giannoli 2021 2h 29m 6.0

Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.

Fahim

Fahim

Pierre-François Martin-Laval 2019 1h 47m

Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

Richard Lanni 2018 1h 25m

The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.

Les confins du monde

Les confins du monde

Guillaume Nicloux 2018 1h 39m 6.0

Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection.

Alad'2

Alad'2

Lionel Steketee 2018 1h 38m

The very new adventures of Aladdin.

Un beau soleil intérieur

Un beau soleil intérieur

Claire Denis 2017 1h 34m

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

Carbone

Carbone

Olivier Marchal 2017 1h 44m

In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.

Saint Amour

Saint Amour

Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern 2016 1h 41m 7.0

Chaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.

Valley of Love

Valley of Love

Guillaume Nicloux 2015 1h 31m 6.0

A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.

Welcome to New York

Welcome to New York

Abel Ferrara 2014 2h 5m 5.7

Fiction inspired from the story of the rise and the fall of french politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Ang Lee 2012 2h 7m 7.9

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Le grand soir

Le grand soir

Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern 2012 1h 32m 7.0

The Bonzini are owners of the restaurant "La Pataterie" in a commercial area. His eldest son, Not, is the punk with more old dog of Europe. His brother, Jean-Pierre, works in a shop. Le Grand Soir, is the story of a family who decides to do the revolution... in his own way.

L'homme qui rit

L'homme qui rit

Jean-Pierre Améris 2012 1h 33m

During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.

Astérix et Obélix: Au service de Sa Majesté

Astérix et Obélix: Au service de Sa Majesté

Laurent Tirard 2012 1h 50m 5.9

Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.

Potiche

Potiche

François Ozon 2010 1h 43m 5.6

A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.

Mammuth

Mammuth

Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine 2010 1h 32m 7.7

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it!

La tête en friche

La tête en friche

Jean Becker 2010 1h 22m 7.3

An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

L'autre Dumas

L'autre Dumas

Safy Nebbou 2010 1h 45m

Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives.

Je n'ai rien oublié

Je n'ai rien oublié

Bruno Chiche 2010 1h 33m

Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, Thomas's son, and Simone are getting married.

À l'origine

À l'origine

Xavier Giannoli 2009 2h 10m 7.0

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.

Diamant 13

Diamant 13

Gilles Béhat 2009 1h 42m 3.5

A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.

Coco

Coco

Gad Elmaleh 2009 1h 35m 4.3

Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.

Bellamy

Bellamy

Claude Chabrol 2009 1h 50m

A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.

Sans arme, ni haine, ni violence

Sans arme, ni haine, ni violence

Jean-Paul Rouve 2008 1h 40m 4.7

Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist who is investigating the event.

Les plages d'Agnès

Les plages d'Agnès

Agnès Varda 2008 1h 50m 8.3

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Les enfants de Timpelbach

Les enfants de Timpelbach

Nicolas Bary 2008 2h 13m 6.6

The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

L'instinct de mort

L'instinct de mort

Jean-François Richet 2008 1h 53m 7.7

The early career (1959-’70) of outlaw Jacques Mesrine (Cassel), covering his military service in Algeria, apprenticeship with a Paris gang-lord (Depardieu), crime-spree partnership with soulmate Jeanne (De France) and escape from a tough Canadian prison.

Disco

Disco

Fabien Onteniente 2008 1h 43m 3.3

Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre.

Babylon A.D.

Babylon A.D.

Mathieu Kassovitz 2008 1h 41m 5.6

In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.

Astérix aux jeux olympiques

Astérix aux jeux olympiques

Thomas Langmann, Frédéric Forestier 2008 1h 56m 5.1

Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina (portrayed by supermodel Vanessa Hessler). Brutus (Benoît Poelvoorde) uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar (Alain Delon) in the process.

La môme

La môme

Olivier Dahan 2007 2h 20m 7.3

An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf.

Quand j'étais chanteur

Quand j'étais chanteur

Xavier Giannoli 2006 1h 52m

Alain 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.

Paris, je t'aime

Paris, je t'aime

Isabel Coixet, Sylvain Chomet 2006 2h 7.3

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life.

Olé!

Olé!

Florence Quentin 2005 1h 38m 5.0

Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of returning to sunny Andalusia.

Je préfère qu'on reste amis

Je préfère qu'on reste amis

Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano 2005 1h 40m

The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a woman, because both fail equally. While Claude is simply too shy to even start a relationship, let alone meet a woman, Serge is too jumpy to have a relationship.

Combien tu m'aimes?

Combien tu m'aimes?

Bertrand Blier 2005 1h 35m 6.0

After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.

Boudu

Boudu

Gérard Jugnot 2005 1h 44m 4.0

Light-hearted, social comedy about the house guest from Hell. A modern remake of Renoir's classic film about a vagabond saved from drowning.

RRRrrrr!!!

RRRrrrr!!!

Alain Chabat 2004 1h 38m 6.0

37 000 years ago, two neighboring tribes lived in peace ... not fully in peace. While the tribe clean hair flowed peaceful days by keeping to herself the secret formula shampoo, Tribe Hair Sales lamented. Its leader decided to send a spy to steal the recipe ...

Nouvelle-France

Nouvelle-France

Jean Beaudin 2004 2h 23m

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

Les temps qui changent

Les temps qui changent

André Téchiné 2004 1h 30m

In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.

La Femme Musketeer

La Femme Musketeer

2004 1h 30m 5.0

D'Artagnan's daughter Valentine and the three sons of her father's three legendary musketeer comrades must team up to rescue King Louis XIV's fiancée who's been kidnapped.

36 Quai des Orfèvres

36 Quai des Orfèvres

Olivier Marchal 2004 1h 51m 7.5

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

Tais-toi!

Tais-toi!

Francis Veber 2003 1h 25m 5.1

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together.

Nathalie...

Nathalie...

Anne Fontaine 2003 1h 45m 5.0

Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard.

Les clefs de bagnole

Les clefs de bagnole

Laurent Baffie 2003 1h 30m 5.8

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Crime Spree

Crime Spree

Brad Mirman 2003 1h 38m 6.8

An 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.

Bon voyage

Bon voyage

Jean-Paul Rappeneau 2003 1h 54m 6.0

On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.

I Am Dina

I Am Dina

Ole Bornedal 2002 2h 5m 7.0

Dina grows up in a village at a fjord in 1860s north Norway. As child, she accidentally kills her mom and loses her rich dad's love. She grows up to be a clever, pretty, wild, and strange woman. She marries a rich Frenchman.

City of Ghosts

City of Ghosts

Matt Dillon 2002 1h 56m

A con man (Dillon) travels to Cambodia (also on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.) to collect his share in an insurance scam, but discovers more than he bargained for

Blanche

Blanche

Bernie Bonvoisin 2002 1h 44m

In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.

Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre

Alain Chabat 2002 1h 48m 7.0

Asterix and Obelix go to Egypt to help build a palace for Cleopatra.

Vidocq

Vidocq

Pitof 2001 1h 38m 6.1

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...

Le placard

Le placard

Francis Veber 2001 1h 24m 6.9

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

Concorrenza sleale

Concorrenza sleale

Ettore Scola 2001 1h 50m 7.3

Roma, fine anni Trenta. Due commercianti di stoffa, l'uno cattolico, l'altro ebreo, conducono le proprie attività commerciali sulla stessa strada e sono in perenne conflitto.

CQ

CQ

Roman Coppola 2001 1h 28m 7.8

A story of a young film maker who moves to Paris to make Sci-fi films.

Vatel

Vatel

Roland Joffé 2000 2h 5m 5.7

Vatel is the cook of Prince Condé. When the prince invites Louis XIV to hunt, he has to give lavish banquets in order to fall in his favor. But when Vatel falls in love with the king's mistress, love and duty come into conflict.

Les acteurs

Les acteurs

Bertrand Blier 2000 1h 43m 7.0

Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.

Chicken Run

Chicken Run

Nick Park, Peter Lord 2000 1h 24m 7.4

Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom.

102 Dalmatians

102 Dalmatians

Kevin Lima 2000 1h 40m 4.5

Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots!

Astérix et Obélix contre César

Astérix et Obélix contre César

Claude Zidi 1999 1h 49m 5.6

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers.

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

Randall Wallace 1998 2h 12m 5.9

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the dual role of the cruel King Louis XIV and the mysterious prisoner encased in the iron mask. Paris is starving but the King of France is more interested in the debauched affairs of court. The Musketeers devise a daring plot to save France from the tyranny of this King, only D'Artagnan stands in their way.

Le comte de Monte Cristo

Le comte de Monte Cristo

1998 1h 30m 8.0

Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.

Bimboland

Bimboland

Ariel Zeitoun 1998 1h 30m 1.0

A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.

Pitch

Pitch

Spencer Rice, Kenny Hotz 1997 1h 21m 6.0

Two young writers try to pitch their script to the big and famous.

Unhook the Stars

Unhook the Stars

Nick Cassavetes 1996 1h 43m

Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when her adult daughter moves out of the family home.

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

Christopher Hampton 1996 1h 35m

Verloc, who is an agent for the Russian embassy, lives in London in 1886 with his wife and her mentally disabled brother. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years - something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.

Le plus beau métier du monde

Le plus beau métier du monde

Gérard Lauzier 1996 1h 45m 6.0

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.

Hamlet

Hamlet

Kenneth Branagh 1996 4h 2m 7.7
Bogus

Bogus

Norman Jewison 1996 1h 50m

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.

Élisa

Élisa

Jean Becker 1995 1h 55m 7.4

Marie 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.

Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma

Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma

Agnès Varda 1995 1h 45m

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.

Les anges gardiens

Les anges gardiens

Jean-Marie Poiré 1995 1h 50m 4.0

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.

Le hussard sur le toit

Le hussard sur le toit

Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1995 2h 15m 7.4

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Le garçu

Le garçu

Maurice Pialat 1995 1h 42m 9.0

A self-centered man with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son and the boy's mother.

Una pura formalità

Una pura formalità

Giuseppe Tornatore 1994 1h 51m 7.8

Onoff (Depardieu,) is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector (Polanski,) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.

My Father the Hero

My Father the Hero

Steve Miner 1994 1h 30m 5.7

A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover. Remake of the 1991 French film Mon père, ce héros.

Le colonel Chabert

Le colonel Chabert

Yves Angelo 1994 1h 50m 7.5

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

Hélas pour moi

Hélas pour moi

Jean-Luc Godard 1993 1h 24m 3.5

Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.

Germinal

Germinal

Claude Berri 1993 2h 40m 6.3

t's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

From Time to Time

From Time to Time

Jeff Blyth 1992

In the Visionarium, the Timekeeper is a robot testing a new time machine. Because of the potential dangers, he sends his assistant, the robot 9-Eyes, into the machine. The test works and she travels through all eras. Arriving in the nineteenth century, it was discovered by the author Jules Verne who grabbed it.

1492: Conquest of Paradise

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Ridley Scott 1992 2h 34m 5.8

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

Tous les matins du monde

Tous les matins du monde

Alain Corneau 1991 1h 55m 8.0

Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life changes when a young man approaches him to learn music.

Mon père, ce héros.

Mon père, ce héros.

Gérard Lauzier 1991 1h 45m 5.5

To impress a boy while on vacation with her divorced father, Veronique pretends that her father is her lover.

Merci la vie

Merci la vie

Bertrand Blier 1991 1h 57m

Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.

Green Card

Green Card

Peter Weir 1990 1h 48m 6.2

Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1990 2h 17m 8.0

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Trop belle pour toi

Trop belle pour toi

Bertrand Blier 1989 1h 31m 7.0

L'histoire d'un homme qui a epousé une femme qui a l'air d'etre sa maitresse et qui tombe amoureux d'une maitresse qui a l'air d'etre sa femme.

I Want to Go Home

I Want to Go Home

Alain Resnais 1989 1h 40m

An American cartoonist goes to Paris and and visits with his daughter who is there studying the writings of Flaubert with a great admirer of her father's work.

Deux

Deux

Claude Zidi 1989 1h 53m

The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage

Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre

Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre

François Dupeyron 1988 1h 40m

France is a haughty, bourgeoise wife who is abandoned at the side of the road by her husband after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles, a doctor. The meeting of the two strangers is the focus of the film, along with their encounters with characters at a truck stop.

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel

Bruno Nuytten 1988 2h 55m 6.8

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

Sous le soleil de Satan

Sous le soleil de Satan

Maurice Pialat 1987 1h 38m 7.3

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

Tenue de soirée

Tenue de soirée

Bertrand Blier 1986 1h 24m 6.6

A 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.

Les fugitifs

Les fugitifs

Francis Veber 1986 1h 25m 6.9

Coming 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 the action.

Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette

Claude Berri 1986 2h 2m 7.7

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, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in.

Police

Police

Maurice Pialat 1985 1h 53m 7.0

A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.

Rive droite, rive gauche

Rive droite, rive gauche

Philippe Labro 1984 1h 39m

Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.

Fort Saganne

Fort Saganne

Alain Corneau 1984 3h 8.0

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

Les compères

Les compères

Francis Veber 1983 1h 32m 6.3

Unable 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.

La lune dans le caniveau

La lune dans le caniveau

Jean-Jacques Beineix 1983 2h 18m 7.5

He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?

Danton

Danton

Andrzej Wajda 1983 2h 16m 6.0

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror.

Le retour de Martin Guerre

Le retour de Martin Guerre

Daniel Vigne 1982 1h 47m 7.0

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears.

Le choix des armes

Le choix des armes

Alain Corneau 1981 2h 15m 6.7

The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate.

La femme d'à côté

La femme d'à côté

François Truffaut 1981 1h 46m 8.3

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

La chèvre

La chèvre

Francis Veber 1981 1h 34m 7.1

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Mon oncle d'Amérique

Mon oncle d'Amérique

Alain Resnais 1980 2h 6m 7.5

The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film. It uses the stories of three people to illustrate Laborit's theories on evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society.

Loulou

Loulou

Maurice Pialat 1980 1h 46m 5.6

Nelly, a bored wife, leaves her husband for Loulou, an unemployed, petty criminal.

Le dernier métro

Le dernier métro

François Truffaut 1980 2h 11m 7.6

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Je vous aime

Je vous aime

Claude Berri 1980 1h 40m

A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house...

Inspecteur la Bavure

Inspecteur la Bavure

Claude Zidi 1980 1h 40m 5.8

A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.

Les chiens

Les chiens

Alain Jessua 1979 1h 40m 8.0

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

L'ingorgo

L'ingorgo

Luigi Comencini 1979 2h 1m 8.0

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot.

Buffet froid

Buffet froid

Bertrand Blier 1979 1h 33m 7.1

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Préparez vos mouchoirs

Préparez vos mouchoirs

Bertrand Blier 1978 1h 48m 6.7

Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits.

Die linkshändige Frau

Die linkshändige Frau

Peter Handke 1978 1h 56m

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.

Ciao maschio

Ciao maschio

Marco Ferreri 1978 1h 53m 7.0

A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.

Le camion

Le camion

Marguerite Duras 1977 1h 16m 5.0

A female writer reads a script to her future performer. A script still in the making, as little by little the images come to life and the characters take shape.

Dites-lui que je l'aime

Dites-lui que je l'aime

Claude Miller 1977 1h 42m 8.0

Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together.

Baxter, Vera Baxter

Baxter, Vera Baxter

Marguerite Duras 1977 1h 35m

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.

Novecento

Novecento

Bernardo Bertolucci 1976 5h 17m 8.4

Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.

La dernière femme

La dernière femme

Marco Ferreri 1976 1h 48m 7.0

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.

Je t'aime moi non plus

Je t'aime moi non plus

Serge Gainsbourg 1976 1h 28m 6.8

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.

Barocco

Barocco

André Téchiné 1976 1h 50m 5.0

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

Maîtresse

Maîtresse

Barbet Schroeder 1975 1h 52m 6.7

After breaking into a house he believes is empty, thief Olivier is caught by the owner, Ariane, who turns out to be a dominatrix. Improbably falling for her, Olivier returns periodically, and an impulsive romance blossoms despite Ariane's profession. Soon Olivier becomes more familiar with her work, even joining in on occasion.

7 morts sur ordonnance

7 morts sur ordonnance

Jacques Rouffio 1975 1h 46m 6.0

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres

Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres

Claude Sautet 1974 1h 53m 7.3

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money. The charming Vincent faces bankruptcy and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce.

Stavisky...

Stavisky...

Alain Resnais 1974 2h 6.5

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s.

Les valseuses

Les valseuses

Bertrand Blier 1974 1h 57m 7.9

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor.

Les gaspards

Les gaspards

Pierre Tchernia 1974 1h 30m

Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.

Rude journée pour la reine

Rude journée pour la reine

René Allio 1973 1h 45m

Jeanne leads a very sad life alongside an authoritarian companion secretly humiliated to be only a night watchman in a department store.

L'an 01

L'an 01

Jacques Doillon 1973 1h 30m 6.0

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable.

L'affaire Dominici

L'affaire Dominici

Claude Bernard-Aubert 1973 1h 45m

In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons.

Deux hommes dans la ville

Deux hommes dans la ville

José Giovanni 1973 1h 39m 8.0

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Nathalie Granger

Nathalie Granger

Marguerite Duras 1972 1h 23m 6.0

With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen doing yard work, talking about their families and receiving the occasional visitor. The brightest spot in the day is when a washing machine salesman comes to call.

Le viager

Le viager

Pierre Tchernia 1972 1h 40m 7.3

In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall.

Le tueur

Le tueur

Denys de La Patellière 1972 1h 27m 4.0

Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.

La scoumoune

La scoumoune

José Giovanni 1972 1h 42m 4.0

For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.

Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

Michel Audiard 1970 1h 25m

Des truands se servent d'Alfred pour passer des diamants en Turquie dans un cercueil...

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