FR #188 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Germany | French, German
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle
Cast
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette
Plot
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
FR #284 | Movie | Biography, Drama | France, USA | French
Director
Julian Schnabel
Writer
Ronald Harwood, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Cast
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Max Von Sydow
Plot
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
FR #287 | Movie | Biography | USA, France | French, Italian
Director
James Mangold
Writer
Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Jason Keller
Cast
Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal
Plot
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
FR #354 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Japan | French, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Plot
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
FR #424 | Movie | Religion | France | French, Latin
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Andre Berley, Michel Simon
Plot
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.
FR #463 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
Plot
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
FR #464 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer
Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand
Plot
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
FR #550 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French, Arabic
Director
Jacques Audiard
Writer
Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot
A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
FR #638 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, Italy | French, Persian
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Berenice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Plot
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
FR #660 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, USA | French, Russian
Director
Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Guinee, Albert Riera, Jean Vigo
Cast
Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Gilles Margaritis, Michel Simon
Plot
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
FR #827 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | France, Belgium | French, Portuguese
Director
Sylvain Chomet
Writer
Sylvain Chomet
Cast
Michele Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin
Plot
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
FR #914 | Movie | Romance, Mystery | USA | French, German
Director
Stanley Donen
Writer
Peter Stone, Marc Behm
Cast
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Plot
Romance and intrigue ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want to get their hands on a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. She soon loses trust in those who claim they want to help her.
FR #926 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, Arabic
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant
Cast
Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Marcel Dalio
Plot
A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He's protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom. A visiting Parisian beauty may determine his fate.
Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
FR #1148 | Movie | Adventure, Action | UK, USA | French, German
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller, E.M. Nathanson
Cast
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Robert Ryan
Plot
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
FR #1165 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Luc Besson
Writer
Luc Besson, Robert Garland, Marilyn Goldin
Cast
Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette
Plot
The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
FR #1169 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Emile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Cast
Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Plot
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
FR #1379 | Movie | Drama | France, Belgium | French, Bambara
Director
Ladj Ly
Writer
Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti
Cast
Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga
Plot
A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.
FR #1470 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | French, English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Rafael Sabatini, Casey Robinson
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Robert Barrat, Donald Meek
Plot
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
FR #1579 | Movie | Biography, Drama | France, UK | French, English
Director
Olivier Dahan
Writer
Isabelle Sobelman, Olivier Dahan
Cast
Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Plot
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
FR #1639 | TV | Short, Adventure | France | French
Writer
Alexandre Astier
Cast
Alexandre Astier, Lionnel Astier, Franck Pitiot
Plot
King Arthur, accompanied by the Knights of the Round Table, sets out on the mission given to him by the Lady of the Lake: the quest for the Grail. But the knights Perceval, Karadoc, Lancelot and others have a hard time grasping th...
FR #1647 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Eric Rohmer
Writer
Eric Rohmer
Cast
Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Beatrice Romand
Plot
On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
FR #1653 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Spain | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Pierre Lou?s
Cast
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ngela Molina
Plot
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
FR #1704 | Movie | Action, Short | France, Mexico | French, German
Director
Georges Melies
Writer
Georges Melies, Jules Verne, Adolphe D'Ennery
Cast
Georges Melies, Fernande Albany, Jehanne D'Alcy
Plot
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
FR #1802 | Movie | Mystery, Crime | USA, Germany | French, English
Director
Guy Ritchie
Writer
Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg
Cast
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel Mcadams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
Plot
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
FR #1836 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, UK | French, English
Director
Guillaume Canet
Writer
Guillaume Canet, Harlan Coben, Philippe Lefebvre
Cast
Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze, Andre Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean Rochefort
Plot
An accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letti...
FR #1857 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Robert Bresson
Writer
Robert Bresson
Cast
Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Jean Pelegri
Plot
Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
FR #1865 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Francois Truffaut
Writer
Francois Truffaut, Claude De Givray, Bernard Revon
Cast
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig
Plot
After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.
FR #1869 | Movie | Drama | Belgium, France | French, English
Director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Writer
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast
Thomas Doret, Cecile De France, Jeremie Renier
Plot
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.