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La banquière

La banquière

Francis Girod 1980 2h 11m 7.0

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.

Coup de tête

Coup de tête

Jean-Jacques Annaud 1979 1h 29m 8.0

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.

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.

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.

La mort en direct

La mort en direct

Bertrand Tavernier 1980 2h 11m 7.6

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.

I... comme Icare

I... comme Icare

Henri Verneuil 1979 2h 9m 8.4

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

Fedora

Fedora

Billy Wilder 1978 1h 49m 7.3

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

Ma nuit chez Maud

Ma nuit chez Maud

Éric Rohmer 1969 1h 50m 8.1

A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

Le juge et l'assassin

Le juge et l'assassin

Bertrand Tavernier 1976 2h 8m 7.5

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years.

Les patriotes

Les patriotes

Éric Rochant 1994 2h 22m 8.0

Ariel, un jeune Juif français, décide de quitter sa famille pour partir en Israël et devenir un agent du Mossad, les services secrets israéliens. En participant à des missions à Paris, Tel Aviv et Washington, il sera initié à l'art délicat de la manipulation.

Le dossier 51

Le dossier 51

Michel Deville 1978 1h 48m 8.5

French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.

Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère...

Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère...

René Allio 1976 2h 10m 8.0

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside.

Providence

Providence

Alain Resnais 1977 1h 50m 9.0

Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things?

Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse

Agnieszka Holland 1995 1h 51m 6.6

The self-destructive relationship between 19th-century teenage French poet Arthur Rimbaud and his older mentor Paul Verlaine.

Capitães de Abril

Capitães de Abril

Maria de Medeiros 2000 2h 3m

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

Un moment d'égarement

Un moment d'égarement

Claude Berri 1977 1h 21m

Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being parents.

Chaussette surprise

Chaussette surprise

Jean-François Davy 1978 1h 36m

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.

Un mauvais fils

Un mauvais fils

Claude Sautet 1980 1h 50m 7.3

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

Le bon plaisir

Le bon plaisir

Francis Girod 1984 1h 48m

Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.

Coeurs

Coeurs

Alain Resnais 2006 2h 5.5

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Un enfant dans la foule

Un enfant dans la foule

Gérard Blain 1976 1h 25m

Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the Resistance, and when the Americans come to stay, he is really in his element with them.

Aurora

Aurora

Cristi Puiu 2010 3h 6m

A taciturn Romanian divorcee acquires a hunting rifle and initiates a killing spree.

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.

Mina Tannenbaum

Mina Tannenbaum

Martine Dugowson 1994 2h 8m 7.0

The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.

La maschera del demonio

La maschera del demonio

Lamberto Bava 1990 1h 34m 4.0

Skiers in Northern Italy unwittingly awaken an ancient witch after removing her mask in a crevasse. Their actions unleash a curse, leading to terrifying consequences.

Les roseaux sauvages

Les roseaux sauvages

André Téchiné 1994 1h 55m 8.0

As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.

U.S. Go Home

U.S. Go Home

Claire Denis 1995 1h 8m

In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.

Vem var Dracula?

Vem var Dracula?

Calvin Floyd 1975 1h 26m 6.0

A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.