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Long Live Life

Long Live Life

Long Live Life
IMDb: 6
106

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie’s trailer…

The Infernal Trio

The Infernal Trio

The Infernal Trio
IMDb: 6.2
107

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Adieu Bonaparte

Adieu Bonaparte

Adieu Bonaparte
IMDb: 6.2
115

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon’s occupation of…

Genre: Drama, History, War
All About Loving

All About Loving

All About Loving
IMDb: 6.3
90

Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too.

Genre: Comedy
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
IMDb: 5.6
98

The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Weak Spot

Weak Spot

Weak Spot
IMDb: 6.5
110

Greece 1974 – during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret…

Genre: Thriller
Fire’s Share

Fire’s Share

Fire’s Share
IMDb: 5.7
104

Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their meetings, thinking that this is the…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Black Angel

The Black Angel

The Black Angel
IMDb: 5.8
95

Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Spoiled Children

Spoiled Children

Spoiled Children
IMDb: 6.4
114

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Themroc

Themroc

Themroc
IMDb: 7
104

Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his…

Genre: Comedy
Dillinger Is Dead

Dillinger Is Dead

Dillinger Is Dead
IMDb: 6.9
95

A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Last Woman

The Last Woman

The Last Woman
IMDb: 6.4
108

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

Genre: Drama
La Belle Noiseuse

La Belle Noiseuse

La Belle Noiseuse
IMDb: 7.5
238

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer…

Genre: Drama
Godard’s Passion

Godard’s Passion

Godard’s Passion
IMDb: 6.2
87

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid
IMDb: 7.4
97

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave,…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dangerous Moves

Dangerous Moves

Dangerous Moves
IMDb: 6.6
110

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World…

Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
The Creatures

The Creatures

The Creatures
IMDb: 6.4
94

After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries…

Danger: Diabolik

Danger: Diabolik

Danger: Diabolik
IMDb: 6.5
100

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph…

Raining Cats and Frogs

Raining Cats and Frogs

Raining Cats and Frogs
IMDb: 6.6
90

It’s a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have…

The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty
IMDb: 7.9
104

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Milky Way

The Milky Way

The Milky Way
IMDb: 7.6
102

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Belle De Jour

Belle De Jour

Belle De Jour
IMDb: 7.8
101

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Contempt

Contempt

Contempt
IMDb: 7.7
103

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation…

Genre: Drama
Atlantic City

Atlantic City

Atlantic City
IMDb: 7.4
104

Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Malady of Love

Malady of Love

Malady of Love
IMDb: 5.7
122

Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
We Have a Pope

We Have a Pope

We Have a Pope
IMDb: 6.7
102

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Topaz

Topaz

Topaz
IMDb: 6.3
143

A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to…

La Grande Bouffe

La Grande Bouffe

La Grande Bouffe
IMDb: 7.2
135

A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Young Girls of Rochefort

The Young Girls of Rochefort

The Young Girls of Rochefort
IMDb: 7.7
124

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close… A film where the scenario…

Holy Motors

Holy Motors

Holy Motors
IMDb: 7.3
115

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy