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Criterion Channel
85
7.8
/15862/
74
/342/
76
/347/
4.2
/43938/
96
/23/
87
/156/

My Night at Maud's (1969)
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.6
/52921/
74
/1023/
73
/990/
4.0
/130851/
95
/60/
85
/342/

Belle de Jour (1967)
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/10265/
73
/227/
72
/208/
4.0
/39172/
87
/23/
89
/94/

Love in the Afternoon (1972)
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
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Kanopy
72
7.3
/19889/
74
/979/
73
/1771/
3.8
/55751/
71
/14/
74
/99/
66
/6/

What's in a Name (2012)
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...
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Kanopy
71
6.7
/2286/
65
/65/
61
/60/
3.4
/812/
97
/35/
66
/58/
71
/16/

Rapt (2009)
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
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Hoopla
70
69
6.6
/8276/
69
/397/
66
/687/
3.5
/11993/
83
/12/
67
/49/

Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
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Amazon Prime Video
63
6.3
/10149/
66
/481/
65
/1333/
3.5
/56981/
52
/154/

LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2009)
Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
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Kanopy
80
60
7.4
/1691/
69
/31/
72
/59/
4.1
/5135/
96
/24/
85
/16/
87
/7/

Out 1 (1990)
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
poster
The Roku Channel
65
59
6.6
/10780/
64
/133/
64
/168/
3.3
/5872/
65
/68/
69
/283/
62
/24/

Five Times Two (2004)
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
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49
6.3
/1955/
57
/32/
59
/87/
3.3
/1203/
71
/21/
70
/38/
66
/15/

Season's Beatings (1999)
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
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69
42
7.3
/2192/
66
/42/
72
/86/
3.8
/1679/
50
/8/
82
/7/

Happy New Year (1973)
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
poster
61
40
6.3
/1670/
60
/50/
56
/57/
3.4
/2177/

The Specialists (1969)
Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.
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39
6.8
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61
/39/
67
/80/
3.5
/1741/
61
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The Thief of Paris (1967)
In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. In retaliation, Georges steals the fiancé's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a lifetime of burglary.
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Kanopy
74
39
7.0
/1050/
68
/21/
63
/22/
3.9
/1487/
85
/13/
80
/9/

Secret Defense (1998)
After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner.
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58
36
5.8
/1912/
68
/114/
60
/195/
3.2
/2768/
40
/2/

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ (1982)
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Kanopy
65
35
6.3
/225/
63
/9/
55
/22/
3.5
/700/
81
/16/
63
/4/

Rose (2021)
Rose, 78-year-old, has just lost her beloved husband. When her grief gives way to a powerful impulse to live her life, making her realize that she can still redefine herself as a woman, the whole balance of the family is upset.
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34
7.2
/470/
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/11/
66
/13/
3.7
/713/
96
/24/
85
/16/

Out 1: Spectre (1973)
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
poster
Criterion Channel
73
32
7.3
/647/
61
/9/
68
/15/
3.8
/2053/
86
/1/
75
/4/

The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
poster
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27
5.5
/352/
51
/22/
61
/37/
2.6
/1733/

At the End of the Day (2024)
In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that happens to us is for our own good!
poster
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27
6.8
/786/
56
/18/
64
/42/
3.5
/675/

The Cop (1970)
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
poster
63
25
6.3
/789/
64
/32/
61
/50/
3.3
/507/

Maigret Sees Red (1963)
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...
poster
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25
5.3
/616/
56
/39/
62
/100/
3.1
/620/

Comme les 5 doigts de la main (2010)
Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugglers, he find shelter in his family while reveling them a dark secret. The five brothers, together, will find the energy to defend themself and the means to avenge the memory of their murdered father...
poster
49
25
4.5
/776/
48
/96/
49
/138/
2.7
/807/

Brillantissime (2018)
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist.
poster
63
21
6.5
/669/
60
/22/
63
/35/
64
/6/
cc age 12+

Small World (2010)
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. Conrad's frequent memory loss and behavioural problems rapidly reveal a neurological disease (Alzheimer's is suggested by doctor Cohen when he examens Elvira) which leads Elvira, Thomas's stepmother, to install Conrad in a guesthouse on the property, with the help of a nurse. When Conrad looses more and more his landmarks in present and past, memories of his youth come back to surface. They intrigue Simone, since these memories do not entirely fit together with the official family history...
poster
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19
6.3
/500/
42
/4/
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/29/
3.4
/864/
75
/3/

Three Seats for the 26th (1988)
Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid he once loved and also encounters young hopeful Marion, giving her the chance of a lifetime
poster
Hoopla
61
18
6.7
/767/
68
/7/
70
/12/
3.5
/1168/
Popcorn
31
/1/

How to Kill a Judge (1975)
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
poster
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17
5.7
/690/
52
/13/
58
/24/
3.2
/479/

That Naughty Girl (1956)
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery has just become engaged to Lili, his attractive psychoanalyst. Meanwhile, the nightclub where he works is being used by a counterfeit ring, and Paris police suspect owner Paul Latour of being the ringleader. Finding it expedient to leave town, Paul leaves his "baby" daughter with Jean...who discovers too late that she's a wild, carefree, shapely sex-kitten with a talent for getting Jean into amusing scrapes.
poster
65
16
6.9
/618/
61
/14/
65
/22/
3.5
/351/
64
/4/

Reunion (1989)
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
poster
59
16
6.3
/845/
60
/16/
59
/14/
3.5
/874/
46
/3/

The Letter (1999)
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
poster
65
15
6.5
/146/
48
/13/
52
/22/
3.2
/636/
Popcorn
99
/4/

The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023)
The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son.
poster
53
15
5.9
/704/
57
/18/
59
/24/
37
/5/

A Man and His Dog (2009)
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
poster
59
14
6.3
/405/
44
/7/
64
/21/
3.4
/285/

Going and Coming Back (1985)
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
poster
59
13
5.3
/221/
60
/19/
52
/23/
2.9
/436/
73
/5/

Love Is Better Than Life (2022)
Upon their release from prison twen­ty years ear­li­er, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked them­selves if hon­esty was not the best rack­et of them all. Today, they are insep­a­ra­ble and scrupu­lous­ly above board. But Gérard learns he is ter­mi­nal­ly ill. Their friend’s days being num­bered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love sto­ry… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is bet­ter than life.
poster
Hoopla
49
13
4.9
/795/
56
/26/
48
/20/
3.1
/552/
33
/1/

Madame Claude (1977)
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...
poster
60
12
5.8
/349/
64
/7/
52
/20/
3.3
/316/

At the Meeting with Joyous Death (1973)
The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena
poster
60
12
5.7
/286/
61
/40/
52
/13/
3.4
/535/

The Females (1970)
A young woman joins an exclusive women's health clinic only to discover it's run by feminist cannibals.
poster
56
10
5.9
/197/
55
/4/
41
/7/
3.5
/678/

The Pleasure of Love (1991)
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
poster
Plex
57
6
6.6
/218/
58
/5/
50
/11/
57
/3/

Family Tree (2010)
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.
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?
5.4
/12/
20
/1/
10
/1/

Un chantage en or (1996)
N/A
poster
?
60
/1/

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable (2022)
"And God Created Woman", "Il Sorpasso", "A Man and a Woman", "The Conformist", "Amour"... the list of successes by Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022) may be impressive but his films say little about the man himself. A look back over the life of a discrete and deliberately enigmatic actor.
poster
?
10
/1/

L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées (1957)
After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the great couturier. He decides to follow her to Nice to present her next collection.
poster
?
7.8
/63/

Mademoiselle Gigi (2006)
Paris, 1900. The 16-year-old Gigi lives in a world of mere women, inspired by Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, she doesn't want to surrender to the "bondage of a loveless marriage".
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?
7.6
/29/
90
/2/
82
/5/

Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
poster
68
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6.9
/55/
67
/9/
69
/13/

The Fragile Colossus (2022)
Sébastien is a former rugby player and a true colossus. Between the ages of 12 to 16, he was a victim of rape by a beloved relative. Thirty years later, he has failed to speak out. After he meets a little colossus like him, he is compelled to make the right choice.
poster
?
7.7
/42/

La Femme coquelicot (2005)
A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love.
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?
7.0
/10/
60
/1/

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde (2011)
A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also delighted audiences with his dangerous stunts, his laughter, his jokes, and his refreshing ease and impertinence. Cultivating the art of the counterpunch, he spanned half a century of French cinema.
poster
?
70
/2/

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues (2011)
They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand dictatorship. Snuggled up, huddled together, they build a bulwark against oblivion in our closets. Often stained for eternity with ink or redcurrant, impregnated with perfume, tears sometimes, piled up or messed up on our shelves, they remain forever linked to the happy or unhappy chapters of our life. It is through the evocation of their wardrobe that Gigi, Eve, Marie, Nora, Françoise, Amanda, Lisa and the others evoke the past, missed appointments and those that changed their lives, the joys and childhood revolts, giggles, disappointments, dramas, parties and hopes too…
poster
?
7.1
/31/
68
/4/

Trintignant by Trintignant (2021)
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.


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