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I Was a Male Sex Bomb (1964) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Irina Demick, Catherine Deneuve
Antoine was raised into the easy life by his very rich grandfather. Read More »
See Here My Love (1979) Hugo Santiago, Catherine Deneuve, Sami Frey, Antoine Vitez
Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult Read More »
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952) Yves Allégret, Claude Autant-Lara, Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Jean Debucourt
A French/Italian co-production with two episodes from Italy and five from France covering the seven deadly sins Read More »
Babette Goes to War (1959) Christian-Jaque, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Ronald Howard
During WW2, as the German forces rapidly advance toward the French coast, naive French country girl Babette makes her way to the coastal town of Dieppe. Read More »
Waiter! (1983) Claude Sautet, Yves Montand, Nicole Garcia, Jacques Villeret
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Read More »
Lucky Jo (1964) Michel Deville, Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Wilson
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. Read More »
Because of a Woman (1963) Michel Deville, Jacques Charrier, Mylène Demongeot, Juliette Mayniel
A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. Read More »
Toni (1935) Jean Renoir, Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Read More »
Bye bye, Barbara (1969) Michel Deville, Ewa Swann, Philippe Avron, Bruno Cremer
A journalist meets a pretty, young woman in Biarritz and they fall in love with each other. Read More »
Male Hunt (1964) Édouard Molinaro, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Dorléac
Fernand, a groom-to-be who is dissuaded from stepping up to the altar by his two friends after they terrify him with their personal marriage horror stories. Read More »
Private Fears In Public Places (2006) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Laura Morante
Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who thinks a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him Read More »
Before I Forget (2007) Jacques Nolot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Marc Rioufol
A potrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery. Read More »
The Pearls of the Crown (1937) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Lyn Harding
Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls Read More »
I’ve Loved You So Long (2008) Philippe Claudel, Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill
Juliette was 15 years in prison. Confronted with the unexpected goodness of her younger sister Léa Read More »