Drama
Cinémoi’s drama strand is an exciting platform for revered classic romances and the lauded work of the auteurs, for which French cinema is so internationally acclaimed.
Director: André Téchiné
André Téchiné’s drama follows a young man who arrives in Paris from a small town, with the...
Director: Gérard Lauzier
Gérard Depardieu plays a teacher struggling to cope with the difficulties of disciplining underprivileged kids in a...
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer
Donald Pleasence stars as an American writer-reporter in Pierre Schoendoerffer’s affecting drama about France’s involvement and withdrawal...
Director: André Téchiné
A young man arrives in Paris and becomes a model by chance. He soon falls in love...
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) and Marc Caro’s film follows a scientist in a surreal city who steals dreams...
Director: Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin and Alain Delon star in Henri Verneuil’s...
Le Chat 1971
(80 mins)
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Pierre Granier-Deferre’s poignant drama stars Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret as a couple struggling to retain their...
Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Virginie Ledoyen plays Jeanne, a girl with an insatiable hunger for love who finds it unexpectedly in...
Director: Jacques Doillon
Jacques Doillon’s drama follows a troubled boy who one day discovers he has an older sister. On...
Director: Enrique Rovira
Director: Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin plays a factory worker who recalls the events that led him to kill a man...
Director: Bruno Nuytten
Bruno Nuytten directs this biopic of Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani), sister of writer Paul Claudel, exploring her...
Director: Yves Angelo
Gérard Depardieu stars as Colonel Chabert, in Yves Angelo’s film based on the Balzac novel about the...
Lola 1961
(85 mins)
Director:
Jacques Demy
Marc Michel
Anouk Aimée plays a cabaret dancer who has a chance encounter with a young man...
Lourdes 2009
(96 mins)
Director: Jessica Hausner
Jessica Hausner’s moving drama stars Sylvie Testud as a wheelchair-bound woman who makes a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
Director: Claire Denis
French auteur Claire Denis directs Isabelle Huppert in a story about a white French woman struggling to...
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
A passionate independent film producer struggles with anxiety and despair as the pressures of his work become...
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Gérard Depardieu stars as a washed-up singer who falls in love with a young estate agent, in...
Director: Jacques Audiard
Romain Duris stars in Jacques Audiard’s gripping crime drama about a man torn between becoming...
Director: Christophe Honoré
Romain Duris and Louis Garrel star in Christophe Honoré’s poignant drama about two brothers, each with their...
Director: Claire Denis
Claire Denis’ drama follows Laure, a woman who finds herself caught up in a traffic jam where...
Director: Virginie Wagon
A married woman embarks on an affair with an older man in Paris, with dire consequences for...
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
The paths of Elisabeth (Brenda Blethyn), a Guernsy smallholder, and Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyaté), an African migrant, cross...
Director: Lionel Bailliu
Office tensions flare up on the sporting field in Lionel Bailliu’s taut thriller starring Marion Cotillard (Inception),...
Director: Guillaume Nacloux
Following her daughter’s disappearance, a mother hires a private detective, who embarks on an investigation full of...
Director: Jean-François Richet
Virginie Ledoyen navigates the streets of rage in this ghetto-set drama about a young girl whose life...
Sade 2000
(95 mins)
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Daniel Auteuil delivers a superbly subversive performance as the inflammatory and enigmatic Sade in this treacherously seductive...
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch’s (Pot Luck, Paris) comedy skilfully combines humour, pathos, social observation and flawless characterisation.
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Dumas 2010
(105 mins)
Director: Safy Nebbou
Romance, passion and jealousy abound in a clash of literary genius between the great author Alexandre Dumas...
Director: André Téchiné
The masterful André Téchiné reunites legends Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu for the first time in 15...
Avril 2006
(93 mins)
Director: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
The life of the convent-raised orphan Avril faces dramatic change once she sets out to find her...
Director: François Dupeyron
The award-winning Eric Caravaca plays a soldier who finds support and forges a power friendship during his...
Paris 2008
(130 mins)
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch’s popular ensemble comedy intertwines the lives of several Parisians in a joyous and tragic ode...
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Sophie Marceau and Guillaume Canet play budding photographers in Andrzej Zulawski’s tale of passion, betrayal and violence...
Frankie 2005
(85 mins)
Director: Fabienne Berthaud
Fabienne Berthaud’s searing tale of a successful model’s gruelling trajectory within the cutthroat world of the fashion...
Director: Luis Buñuel
Somewhere between the innocent girl and the not so innocent mistress is the bizarre, sensuous story of...
Director: Olivier Assayas
Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling and Jérémie Renier lead a stellar cast in Olivier Assayas' touching drama about...
Exiles 2004
(100 mins)
Director:
Freewheeling drama about a young couple’s nostalgic desire to retrace their parents’ steps to Algeria
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Director: Tony Gatlif
A haunting love story interwoven with faboulus scenes of gypsy music and dance, directed by Tony Gatlif...
Vengo 2000
(90 mins)
Director: Tony Gatlif
A powerful vendetta tale beautifully combining drama, music and flamenco in the stunning setting of Andulusia.
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Director: Bertrand Tavernier
The peaceful life of benign watchmaker Michel is thrown into disarray when he discovers his son has...
Liza 1972
(93 mins)
Director: Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri’s tale of sex, fetish and power in exotic climes, starring the then real-life glamour couple,...
Director: Leos Carax
Leos Carax’s stunning cult classic sees Juliette Binoche’s tortured painter and Denis Lavant’s alcoholic circus performer enact...
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau’s erotically charged portrait of the sexual encounters between loner Jay (Mark Rylance) and an anonymous...
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
A small French village faces crisis as its coal supply and sole source of revenue nears exhaustion...
Director: Jean Aurel
A prominent journalist cannot believe his luck when a bewitching woman whom he glimpses on his travels,...
On Fire 2006
(109 mins)
Director: Claire Simon
Livia, a volatile 15 year old, develops a crush on Jean (G.Melki), the village teacher and volunteer...
Director: André Téchiné
Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil and Chiara Mastroianni star in André Téchiné’s insightful drama about the strained ties...
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Robert Guédiguian (Army of Crime) directs Ariane Ascaride as a woman who must choose between the two...
Director: André Techiné
André Téchiné’s poignant adolescent drama examines the lives of four mismatched friends in the final year of...
Diva 1981
(117 mins)
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
A cult classic ushering in the new genre of “Cinéma du Look”, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s (Betty Blue) visually...
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
The wife of a high-powered judge attempts to cover up the killing of a stranger in her...
Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
Frédéric Fonteyne’s stylistic and intelligent romantic drama boasts award-winning performances from Nathalie Baye and Sergi Lopez as...
Director: Gaël Morel
A grieving mother (Catherine Deneuve) forges a relationship with her son’s best friend, who also was responsible...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin’s award-winning drama stars Emmanuelle Devos as a young mother, whose former lover (Mathieu Amalric) has...
Boxes 2007
(95 mins)
Director: Jane Birkin
An esteemed cast head up Jane Birkin’s deeply personal directorial debut. Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Michel Piccoli, John...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin’s witty, warm and tragic tale sees three generations of a torn family reunite at Christmas...
Director: Alain Resnais
The lives of six emotionally dysfunctional Parisians intertwine in Alain Resnais’ dramatic comedy, adapted from Alan Ayckbourn’s...
Director: André Téchiné
André Téchiné’s compelling drama follows a diverse group of friends struggling to cope with the first outbreak...
Director: Lucas Belvaux
A policeman struggles to cope with his wife’s drug addiction in a tale which constitutes the melodrama...
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
A recently laid-off dock worker takes on a prejudiced system in his bold venture to start up...
Director: Zaïda Ghorab-Volta
Two young girls from Paris embark on an art project throughout the French countryside. Zaïda Ghorab-Volta’ poignant...
Director: Claude Chabrol
Passion, desire and violence abound as two men vie for the attentions of Ludivine Sagnier’s appealing local...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin’s first feature is a complex psychological thriller reflecting on Cold War paranoia. Starring Emmanuel Salinger...
Director: Jean Aurel
Brigitte Bardot is secretary to Maurice Ronet’s womanising writer in Jean Aurel’s witty and insightful 'battle of...
Director:
Marin Karmitz’s avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case...
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer
One of the rare films to deal with the French-Indochina war, Pierre Schoendoerffer’s work is a hard-hitting...
Director: Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet’s twelfth feature is another fine fruit of the director’s crop, with an esteemed cast playing...
Director: Jeanne Moreau
The lauded star of Les Amants and Jules et Jim turns her talents to behind the camera...
Director: François Ozon
Prior to his successful feature film career, François Ozon cut his teeth as a prolific maker of...
Director: François Ozon
François Ozon’s collection of sketches takes us into the bedroom antics of seven very different couples.
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Director: Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol’s forgotten masterpiece follows the romantic and professional tribulations of four young Parisian women in the...
Director:
Akhenaton
Kamel Saleh
Pulsating urban drama set in the projects of Marseille, directed by and starring Akhenaton from the acclaimed...
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowksi
Marking the transition from his native Poland to France, The Double Life of Veronique is yet another...
Director: Jalil Lespert
Jalil Lespert’s debut film is a hypnotic tale, which follows the chance encounters between four disparate characters...
Director: François Ozon
Following a fight with his lover Sébastien, Luc goes to the beach to cool off. There he...
Betty 1992
(100 mins)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol’s film is a compelling portrait of a misguided woman magnificently played by Marie Trintignant in...
Director: Gilles Mimouni
Gilles Mimouni’s cult debut feature proves a wonderful platform for some of the most exciting, talented and...
Director: Claire Denis
Claire Denis’ first feature is an intensely moving and understated work with a powerful autobiographical bent.
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Director: Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol’s faithful adaptation of Gustav Flaubert’s classic novel stars Isabelle Huppert as the eponymous heroine....
Director: Claude Chabrol
Marie (Isabelle Huppert) is a struggling mother of two in Vichy France during World War 2, whose...
Director: Philippe Garrel
Paul (Xavier Beauvois), an aspiring architect, is having an affair with Hélène (Catherine Deneuve), an older married...
Director: Laurent Cantet
December 1999: François, a Parisian travel agent, cannot bear the thought of the impending celebratory chaos in...
Director: Otar Iosseliani
Three couples: an antique dealer with numerous lovers and her weapons making husband; a policeman and his...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
After the 20 year old Patrick shoots himself and lies critically in a coma, four strands of...
Director: Marin Karmitz
The young composer Jacques find himself suffocating in his social and family life. He jumps at the...
Director: Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat’s first film is a provocative yet tender portrayal of a teenage girl’s sexual awakening. Starring...
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
1940: As Germany intensifies its occupation of Europe, Julien Maroyeur (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a modest artisan from a...
Director: Jean-Claude Brialy
Each year Elisabeth Delerue (Romy Schneider) and her daughter Cécile (Bénédicte Bucher) go to the resort of...
Director: Francis Girod
Based on the real-life story of Marthe Hanau, La Banquière stars Romy Schneider as Emma Eckhert, a...
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
‘A gritty romantic drama’ may appear to be an incongruous description; however, it undoubtedly best fits Andrzej...
Director: Claude Sautet
The three friends Vincent (Yves Montand), a company director, François (Michel Piccoli), a doctor, and Paul (Serge...
Director: Marin Karmitz
Yan (Jean-Paul Giquel) is a dock-worker and lives comfortably with his fiancé in Saint-Nazaire. However, one day...
Director: Marin Karmitz
Marin Karmitz’s political drama innovatively borders documentary and fiction....
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
“The greatest work of art produced in postwar Europe” (Colin MacCabe)...
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Greece 1936. In the run up to General Metaxas coup d’etat and fascist dictatorship, Margot Santorini (Romy...
Director: Claude Sautet
On a country lane, traffic has been stopped and a large crowd gathers animatedly discussing the accident...
Director: Luis Buñuel
Luis Bunuel’s classic continues to enthral, beguile and dazzle audiences around the world to the present day....
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Julie (Juliette Binoche) loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated,...
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Karol, a Polish hairdresser, is divorced by his beautiful French wife Dominique and thrown onto the streets...
Director: Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette’s first feature is a daring work which pushes formal, narrative and visual boundaries in a...
Director: François Ozon
Paul, a young gay photographer, is compelled to see his estranged father, who is now on his...
Director: Robert Bresson
The consistent brilliance of Robert Bresson’s output plays an integral part in the merited reverence of the...
Director: François Truffaut
Its well crafted story and double whammy of Deneuve and Dépardieu resulted in the film’s commercial success...
Director: François Truffaut
A powerful drama of the complexities of adult relationships, Truffaut brings together two of France’s greatest stars,...
Director: François Truffaut
Set in the early 1900s, a Frenchman, Claude, strikes up a friendship with two English sisters, Anne...
Director: Catherine Breillat
36 Fillette is a model of the integrity, perceptiveness and eroticism in which cinema and sex can...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin’s second feature is a prime example of the director’s gift to weave seamlessly multi-layered plot-lines...
Director: François Truffaut
Truffaut follows the new and old loves of the now divorced Antoine
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Director: Claude Berri
A love story or a tale of the resistance.
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Uranus 1990
(100 mins)
Director: Claude Berri
A small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to...
Director: Louis Malle
The story of a bored, neglected, bourgeois house wife who falls for an irreverent young student.
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Director: Louis Malle
During WWII, in a boarding school, two boys become friends. One is a French boy, and the...
Director: Hélène Angel
A ghastly turn of events changes a seemingly peaceful summer vacation in the south of France into...
L’Enfer 1994
(100 mins)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Mounting financial woes and intense jealously over his wife lead Paul into an engulfing world of doubt...
Director: Claude Miller
A reclusive 15 year old boy uncovers a shocking family secret dating back to WW2. Claude Miller’s...
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Final entry in a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns a model who discovers...