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.
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)
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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: 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: 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...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin’s witty, warm and tragic tale sees three generations of a torn family reunite at Christmas...
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: 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...
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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: François Ozon
François Ozon’s collection of sketches takes us into the bedroom antics of seven very different couples.
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Director: François Ozon
Prior to his successful feature film career, François Ozon cut his teeth as a prolific maker of...
Director: Jeanne Moreau
The lauded star of Les Amants and Jules et Jim turns her talents to behind the camera...
Director: Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol’s forgotten masterpiece follows the romantic and professional tribulations of four young Parisian women in the...
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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: 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: Claude Sautet
On a country lane, traffic has been stopped and a large crowd gathers animatedly discussing the accident...
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Greece 1936. In the run up to General Metaxas coup d’etat and fascist dictatorship, Margot Santorini (Romy...
Director: Luis Buñuel
Luis Bunuel’s classic continues to enthral, beguile and dazzle audiences around the world to the present day....
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Karol, a Polish hairdresser, is divorced by his beautiful French wife Dominique and thrown onto the streets...
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Julie (Juliette Binoche) loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated,...
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: 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: Louis Malle
The story of a bored, neglected, bourgeois house wife who falls for an irreverent young student.
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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: Claude Berri
A love story or a tale of the resistance.
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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...