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Kanopy
89
8.0
/123851/
81
/4604/
81
/2810/
4.4
/970628/
97
/338/
92
/98/
95
/48/
cc age 15+

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.6
/11604/
75
/285/
73
/247/
4.1
/72361/
98
/49/
83
/52/
91
/14/

A Summer's Tale (1996)
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.
poster
82
7.6
/5246/
71
/82/
74
/155/
3.9
/4868/
100
/8/
79
/40/

This Man Must Die (1969)
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.6
/7257/
73
/153/
69
/195/
3.9
/9630/
86
/14/
87
/72/

My American Uncle (1980)
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
poster
81
7.9
/12629/
75
/261/
76
/191/
3.9
/4864/
95
/130/
88
/335/
82
/34/
cc age 7+

Winged Migration (2001)
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of miles and navigating by the stars. These arduous treks are crucial for survival, seeking hospitable climates and food sources. Birds face numerous challenges, including crossing oceans and evading predators, illness, and injury. Although migrations are undertaken as a community, birds disperse into family units once they reach their destinations, and every continent is affected by these migrations, hosting migratory bird species at least part of the year.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.1
/3831/
73
/244/
73
/447/
3.7
/26826/
100
/14/
81
/3/

Rise (2022)
Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.7
/2250/
78
/60/
74
/59/
4.2
/7854/
83
/6/
84
/16/

Jacquot (1991)
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
poster
78
7.7
/83056/
76
/1963/
75
/1269/
3.8
/42800/
82
/55/
90
/1364/
73
/11/
cc age 14+

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
poster
78
7.6
/77516/
74
/1263/
73
/1276/
3.7
/31446/
79
/146/
85
/3689/
76
/39/
cc age 17+

A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
poster
75
73
7.3
/11653/
73
/318/
72
/595/
3.6
/8841/
89
/361/

Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
72
7.4
/8305/
71
/207/
70
/288/
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
67
6.7
/1201/
56
/19/
62
/24/
3.4
/376/
80
/15/
83
/6/
74
/16/

Western (1997)
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together
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Kanopy
64
6.4
/2699/
66
/67/
65
/95/
3.3
/1579/
79
/39/
63
/32/
60
/17/

On My Way (2013)
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
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63
6.3
/1993/
62
/32/
55
/75/
3.1
/1048/
78
/59/
42
/16/
68
/25/

The Housekeeper (2002)
After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.
poster
62
6.1
/1848/
67
/25/
54
/52/
3.3
/513/
65
/31/
49
/24/
59
/15/

Little Lili (2003)
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
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Kanopy
67
62
6.7
/5585/
62
/129/
63
/79/
3.3
/3093/
79
/33/
67
/111/
68
/16/

Come Undone (2000)
Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.
poster
66
62
6.4
/4607/
63
/221/
57
/457/
3.3
/15544/
95
/19/
55
/101/

The French Kissers (2009)
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
poster
60
6.2
/1011/
54
/24/
59
/69/
3.4
/883/
60
/7/

C'est La Vie (1990)
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.
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Kanopy
72
59
6.7
/5169/
68
/356/
64
/471/
3.3
/7023/
92
/12/
77
/4/

The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019)
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It was written by a certain Henri Pick, a cook who died two years earlier and who, according to his widow, had never read a book in his life or written anything but a shopping list... Did he have a secret life? When the book becomes a huge best-seller, Jean- Michel Rouche, a skeptical and stubborn literary critic, teams up with Joséphine, Pick’s daughter, to unravel the mystery.
poster
76
59
7.6
/5039/
73
/114/
76
/179/
4.0
/8471/
67
/6/
88
/12/

The Truth (1960)
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
poster
59
6.5
/3277/
61
/47/
60
/95/
3.2
/846/
57
/65/
66
/172/
53
/24/

After You (2003)
Antoine works in a bar in Paris. One evening on his way home from work, he intervenes when a man tries to commit suicide. He feels strangely guilty about having saved the man's life and constantly tries to help him, make things better. No matter what Antoine does, he can't get Louis's mind off Blanche, the woman of his dreams, his sole obsession, the reason why he wanted to die... Antoine decides to look for her, but doesn't let Louis know.
poster
61
59
5.7
/8217/
60
/315/
58
/232/
2.9
/8001/
89
/9/
47
/143/

Livid (2011)
Lucie, Ben and William search an old woman's home for a hidden treasure and they encounter a series of supernatural events that change them forever.
poster
Netflix
59
6.8
/26261/
75
/4422/
71
/1951/
3.2
/74976/
52
/90/
63
/361/
48
/18/
cc age 6+

Ballerina (2016)
In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
57
7.5
/1852/
70
/42/
70
/49/
4.0
/3086/
88
/131/

Yoyo (1965)
The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown.
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Kanopy
70
57
6.7
/2949/
66
/35/
62
/46/
3.5
/1479/
93
/54/
59
/69/
74
/20/

The Bridesmaid (2004)
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
poster
77
56
7.9
/4518/
71
/39/
72
/45/
3.6
/1011/
93
/37/

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
poster
76
54
7.3
/1925/
71
/56/
72
/121/
3.6
/1356/
92
/119/

The Grand Highway (1987)
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
poster
66
54
6.1
/4583/
67
/875/
66
/724/
3.0
/22525/
79
/7/

Kaamelott: The First Chapter (2021)
Hidden in Rome, King Arthur is planning his return to oppose the army of his former friend Lancelot.
poster
54
5.9
/650/
48
/9/
39
/16/
3.2
/242/
71
/34/
33
/16/
68
/13/

Girls Can't Swim (2000)
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
50
7.0
/1949/
68
/37/
64
/79/
3.6
/1667/
79
/278/

Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
poster
68
50
6.6
/2653/
62
/32/
57
/61/
3.5
/2309/
100
/8/
58
/11/

The Color of Lies (1999)
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
poster
Kanopy
56
49
6.0
/3455/
56
/120/
54
/321/
2.9
/3836/
68
/22/
39
/28/
61
/11/

17 Girls (2011)
When Camille accidentally becomes pregnant, she encourages her friends and fellow high school classmates to follow suit. It's only a matter of time, before seventeen girls in the high school are pregnant and the town is thrown into a world of chaos.
poster
68
47
6.9
/2033/
53
/18/
54
/23/
3.4
/535/
92
/24/
67
/36/
78
/10/

His Brother (2003)
After years of estrangement due to difficulties accepting his brother's sexuality, a man diagnosed with a terminal illness decides to reconnect. As the brothers grow closer, their renewed bond starts to alienate their partners, leading to emotional turmoil and strained relationships.
poster
59
46
6.2
/2119/
62
/113/
57
/320/
3.1
/3515/
53
/49/

Jean-Philippe (2006)
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
poster
73
45
7.1
/1560/
70
/35/
62
/34/
3.5
/323/
84
/19/
83
/20/
74
/10/

Genesis (2004)
An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of life. Beautiful imagery makes this movie documentary complete.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
44
7.2
/2607/
62
/47/
66
/90/
3.7
/1908/
80
/10/

Captain Conan (1996)
The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
poster
68
44
6.7
/2079/
68
/157/
64
/205/
3.2
/932/
85
/13/
61
/5/

Just to Be Sure (2017)
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
poster
68
42
6.6
/668/
69
/85/
71
/110/
3.4
/6125/

Green Tide (2023)
Not less than 3 men and 40 animals were found dead on the Breton beaches. The identity of the killer is an open secret: green algae. Inès Léraud is still a young journalist when, driven by an ecological conscience, she decides to go to Brittany to investigate this phenomenon. Through her encounters with whistleblowers, scientists, farmers and politicians, she elucidates, not without difficulty, half a century of silence: samples that disappear in laboratories, bodies buried before being autopsied, influence games, pressure... Will the truth win?
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Kanopy
61
42
6.5
/1707/
61
/38/
62
/71/
3.3
/1692/
54
/542/

Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
poster
46
42
5.4
/4103/
57
/298/
50
/715/
2.7
/9191/
19
/23/

The Dream Team (2012)
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.
poster
61
40
6.4
/2157/
60
/55/
60
/74/
3.4
/1505/
57
/23/

Skylab (2011)
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
39
6.7
/1813/
66
/48/
63
/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.
poster
65
39
6.5
/2286/
61
/46/
63
/99/
3.2
/1270/
72
/17/

Elisa (1995)
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.
poster
62
38
6.1
/2060/
62
/34/
64
/61/
3.1
/1441/

Shock Treatment (1973)
Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner Dr. Berbard. But after a series of tragic events, Hélène goes further in her investigation of the clinic.
poster
67
38
6.6
/770/
71
/70/
66
/97/
3.4
/1534/

Simon's Got a Gift (2020)
Simon, a young orphan, has an extraordinary power : he can take on the appearance of people he’s already touched. When his best friend dies in an accident, there is no witness. Simon decides to steal his place in his family. Ten years later, the truth will get more and more difficult to bear and to hide...
poster
64
37
6.6
/1591/
69
/103/
67
/125/
3.3
/1172/
60
/5/
57
/1/

150 Milligrams (2016)
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
poster
72
36
7.1
/1328/
72
/47/
69
/69/
3.7
/1984/
75
/1/

Louise by the Shore (2016)
On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. As the weather turns for the worse and with no one to keep her company, louise must rely on her past to help her survive the present.
poster
65
36
6.5
/1804/
63
/48/
66
/88/
3.4
/864/

The Married Couple of the Year Two (1971)
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.


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