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The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Recommended by François Truffaut, Laurent Cantet, Pascale Ferran, Nicolas Philibert, Bruno Podalydès, François Ozon, Agnès Jaoui, Christian Petzold, Paul Vecchiali, Radu Jude, Jonás Trueba, Serge Bromberg, Guillaume Brac
Antoine loves Antoinette. The printer and his charming salesgirl, who works for a department store on the Champs Elysées, lead a happy well-ordered life. Every day is made up of a host of sweet nothings, spats of jealousy and pocketfuls of dreams. Yet their small world becomes threatened by the loss of a lottery ticket that eventually turns up.
Recommended by Robert Guédiguian
A young bargeman's wife is fed up with her dreary life on the barge, "l'Atalante". She takes off attracted to the bright city life, leaving her husband in deep despair, only to return to a cruelly disappointed woman. The quiet happiness of their life with Jules the old bargeman resumes its course.
Recommended by François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, Costa Gavras, Agnès Varda, Bertrand Blier, Aki Kaurismäki, Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu, Damien Chazelle, Paul Vecchiali, Mariano Llinás, Dominique and Fiona Abel & Gordon, Patrice Leconte, Jonás Trueba, Serge Bromberg, Felix Van Groeningen, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Michael Haneke
Danielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre.
Recommended by Bertrand Tavernier, Paul Vecchiali
Filmed song.
0Recommended by Jean-Charles Hue
The imaginary voyage of a woman gone blind on her former lover's boat.
Recommended by François Truffaut
A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
Recommended by François Truffaut, Bertrand Blier, Albert Dupontel, Mariano Llinás
In a French boys' school, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. At night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The day after he talks about it, he disappears. Then the second boy vanishes. Then the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are high, so the third one decides to investigate.
Recommended by Patrice Leconte
Ballad-type drama-documentary spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a fisherman and the lady of the manor.
Recommended by Jean-Charles Hue
A woman and her pimp exploit a painter for money.
Recommended by François Truffaut, Claire Simon, Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu, Albert Dupontel
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her.
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Agnès Varda, Agnès Jaoui, Paul Vecchiali, Michel Ocelot, Jean-Charles Hue
The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared?
Recommended by Bertrand Tavernier, Alain Guiraudie, Mariano Llinás, Philippe Garrel
Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he's off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.
Recommended by Alain Guiraudie, Jean-Charles Hue
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
Recommended by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Lelouch, Albert Dupontel, Francis Veber
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Recommended by Bertrand Tavernier, Diane Kurys
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.
Recommended by Christophe Honoré
After Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.
Recommended by Jean-Charles Hue
Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
Recommended by Michel Hazanavicius, Albert Dupontel, Dominique and Fiona Abel & Gordon
It's Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp who may also be Destiny predicts that Jean Diego will fall in love with a beautiful girl. That same evening, Jean meets Malou.
Recommended by Paul Vecchiali
At a telephone exchange in Paris, young Frenchwoman Lily befriends German Erich, who works at an exchange in Berlin. They would like to meet but after a mix-up, they each end up with somebody else. Max keeps trying to force his attentions on Lily while Annette constantly attempts to lure Erich into her bed. After many adventures, Lily and Erich manage to meet in Berlin.
Recommended by Bertrand Tavernier
A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.
Recommended by Bertrand Tavernier
In a french lost village an old woman is killed and her savings stolen. Several members of her family, all called:"Goupi-...", are suspected.
Recommended by Jacques Doillon, Patricia Mazuy, Christian Rouaud
Marseille, 1930. Justin is a local estimated gangster, but he will have to deal with his enemy, Esposito, the chef of a dangerous criminal organisation.
Recommended by Robert Guédiguian
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store "Aux Bonheur des Dames" across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
Recommended by Christophe Gans, Serge Bromberg
Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very happy to be able to return to Paris and to meet Lise, his daughter, again. But, to his dismay, he finds that Lise, through the fault of André, her lover and pimp, has unwillingly committed a murder.
Recommended by Leos Carax, Paul Vecchiali