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Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/13468/
79
/495/
76
/639/
4.3
/97542/
98
/45/
85
/219/

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
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Kanopy
82
7.8
/34331/
76
/863/
73
/856/
4.1
/163633/
97
/73/
87
/838/
86
/9/

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.0
/7481/
73
/294/
72
/538/
4.0
/65277/
89
/19/
77
/129/
70
/7/

Donkey Skin (1970)
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
72
7.4
/8343/
71
/209/
70
/289/
3.9
/31955/
95
/20/
78
/75/
73
/4/

Lola (1961)
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
62
7.2
/4706/
69
/108/
66
/185/
3.8
/17154/
76
/6/

Bay of Angels (1963)
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
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67
50
6.7
/2368/
68
/51/
65
/70/
3.6
/7276/
83
/6/
48
/19/

Model Shop (1969)
While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop", an establishment that rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers. George spends his last twelve dollars to photograph Lola, and discovers that she is as unhappy as he.
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Criterion Channel
67
39
6.7
/1820/
66
/50/
64
/86/
3.5
/6622/
68
/9/

A Room in Town (1982)
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
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Criterion Channel
58
33
5.8
/1145/
61
/29/
57
/72/
3.4
/5570/
48
/11/

A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
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Criterion Channel
54
32
6.3
/1033/
65
/25/
58
/33/
3.3
/2581/
50
/10/
22
/5/

The Pied Piper (1972)
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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27
5.7
/749/
50
/24/
56
/33/
3.3
/3391/
25
/7/

Lady Oscar (1979)
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
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49
26
4.6
/383/
33
/9/
56
/38/
3.0
/1403/

Parking (1985)
Rock star Orpheus writes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. Torn between her and his sound engineer, Calaïs, he discovers Eurydice has died of an overdose. Desperate, he descends into the Underworld to bargain with Hades.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
23
7.2
/489/
67
/22/
68
/12/
3.6
/1302/

Le Sabotier du Val de Loire (1956)
This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
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Criterion Channel
58
21
6.0
/361/
55
/18/
55
/10/
3.2
/1779/

Dead Horizons (1951)
Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man.
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69
20
6.9
/105/
61
/17/
75
/5/
3.6
/1723/

Lust (1962)
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 DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.
poster
Criterion Channel
60
20
6.4
/375/
52
/17/
57
/16/
3.3
/1213/

Ars (1960)
With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand this fighter for communal spirituality and his daily torments of mysticism.
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58
19
6.3
/736/
45
/4/
56
/17/
3.4
/867/

The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
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 into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
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60
19
6.3
/497/
42
/4/
56
/29/
3.4
/846/
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
59
18
6.3
/350/
53
/11/
54
/11/
3.4
/1204/

Le Bel Indifférent (1958)
An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.
poster
63
13
7.1
/300/
36
/3/
73
/12/
3.6
/482/

Turning Table (1988)
On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts
poster
?
57
/4/
53
/3/

Attaque nocturne (1948)
The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.
poster
?
42
/4/
47
/3/

Le pont de Mauves (1944)
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47
/4/
37
/3/

La Ballerine (1944)
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?
6.4
/21/
10
/1/

Musée Grévin (1958)
A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.
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?
5.4
/7/
10
/1/
50
/1/

La Mère et l'Enfant (1958)
This documentary short offers practical advice for mothers on how to take care of their babies, such as feeding and bathing.
poster
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Un regard sur la Hollande (1946)
Short documentary film directed by Jacques Demy in 1946. Forty-two seconds of it appear in director Florence Platarets' 2024 film 'Jacques Demy: Le rose et le noir', along with footage of Mr. Demy showing the short film to one of his grandkids. Total runtime is currently unknown.


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