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Free Men

Free Men

Free Men
IMDb: 6.6
99

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Last Mistress

The Last Mistress

The Last Mistress
IMDb: 6.2
114

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Monkey’s Tale

A Monkey’s Tale

A Monkey’s Tale
IMDb: 5.7
80

Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders’ authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons….

Special Section

Special Section

Special Section
IMDb: 7.6
118

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to…

Stavisky…

Stavisky…

Stavisky…
IMDb: 6.5
120

Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Successive Slidings of Pleasure
IMDb: 6.2
102

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair…

Gebo and the Shadow

Gebo and the Shadow

Gebo and the Shadow
IMDb: 6.4
95

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it…

Genre: Drama
Galileo

Galileo

Galileo
IMDb: 6.6
145

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the…

Genre: Drama
Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses
IMDb: 7.6
90

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut’s alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine’s father lands Antoine a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Five Times Two

Five Times Two

Five Times Two
IMDb: 6.6
90

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Adorable Liar

Adorable Liar

Adorable Liar
IMDb: 6.5
105

Juliette is a young woman who just can’t help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie’s fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with her womanly…

Genre: Comedy
The Judge

The Judge

The Judge
IMDb: 6.3
97

A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Mr. Klein

Mr. Klein

Mr. Klein
IMDb: 7.6
123

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is…

Goya’s Ghosts

Goya’s Ghosts

Goya’s Ghosts
IMDb: 6.9
114

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

Genre: Drama
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
IMDb: 7.3
106

Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his…

Genre: Drama, Romance
India Song

India Song

India Song
IMDb: 6.2
120

India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris
IMDb: 5.7
139

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where…

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose
IMDb: 7.7
130

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William…

The Passage

The Passage

The Passage
IMDb: 6
99

During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Romantic Englishwoman

The Romantic Englishwoman

The Romantic Englishwoman
IMDb: 6.2
116

What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer’s block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Caravan to Vaccarès

Caravan to Vaccarès

Caravan to Vaccarès
IMDb: 4.6
98

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New…

Of Gods and Men

Of Gods and Men

Of Gods and Men
IMDb: 7.2
120

French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live…

Genre: Drama, History
Ronin

Ronin

Ronin
IMDb: 7.3
122

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals’ hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or…

The Bunker

The Bunker

The Bunker
IMDb: 6.9
150

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler’s last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

Genre: Drama, TV Movie, War
Enigma

Enigma

Enigma
IMDb: 6
122

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain…

Kaena: The Prophecy

Kaena: The Prophecy

Kaena: The Prophecy
IMDb: 6
85

Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people’s ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and…

Agora

Agora

Agora
IMDb: 7.2
127

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility…

Munich

Munich

Munich
IMDb: 7.5
164

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits…

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
IMDb: 7.8
134

A rule bound head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black
IMDb: 7.3
107

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Chronopolis

Chronopolis

Chronopolis
IMDb: 6.9
52

Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously…

Moonraker

Moonraker

Moonraker
IMDb: 6.3
126

After Drax Industries’ Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company’s owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the…

Murmur of the Heart

Murmur of the Heart

Murmur of the Heart
IMDb: 7.7
118

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant
IMDb: 5.7
112

A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Hibernatus

Hibernatus

Hibernatus
IMDb: 6.7
82

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the…

Titeuf

Titeuf

Titeuf
IMDb: 5.8
87

Titeuf is a comic series created by Swiss draughtsman Zep (real name Philippe Chapuis) depicting the life of a young boy (the title’s namesake Titeuf, “Tootuff” in the English translation)…