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A Night at the Opera (2020)

A documentary view of the galas of Paris's Palais Garnier in the 1950s and '60s. ...

Les Petites Mains (2001)

After the closure of a lace factory in Calais, Andrée, Lulu and Solange are out on the street. ...

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)

A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the mu ...

Adventures of Félix (2000)

A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives happily with his lover Daniel and is a soap opera enthusiast and HIV-positive. After losing his job, Félix decides ...

Actors (2000)

A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris. ...

Pola X (1999)

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends. ...

Hold-up en l'air (1996)

Tendre piège (1996)

The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives. ...

Le Cœur étincelant (1995)

A young woman is sure that her son is alive ...

Open Season (1993)

A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre. ...

Wild Target (1993)

Victor Meynard, a hit man who still lives with his mother, is becoming more reluctant to pull the trigger during assignments. He meets a young man, Antoine, whom he takes under his wing after being unable to kill him. Their lives change when he meets René ...

Les matins chagrins (1990)

Dan, a journalist, lives alone with his daughter since his wife left him for a friend. When he accepts an appointment with him, he finds him dead. Dan decides to investigate the circumstances of the death. ...

The Carpathian Mushroom (1990)

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress. ...

Damia: Concert en velours noir (1989)

Documentary on the singer Damia made for TV. ...

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1988)

In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the ...

With Feeling (1987)

A man sings next to a young girl playing the piano. A bucolic landscape, smiles, pensive faces. With them stands a woman (their mother?) who listens to them play and sing. ...

La Rumba (1987)

Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the da ...

Faubourg St Martin (1986)

Imagine a slightly dilapidated three star hotel in the tenth arrondissement run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache, Mrs. Coppercage. Alongside tourists visiting Paris, Mrs. Coppercage rents three rooms to three women at a monthly rat ...

French Cancan (1955)

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir's exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful w ...

Napoleon (1955)

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Vers ...

Femmes de Paris (1953)

Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he thinks one of them is calling back, he finds himself on the line with a young woman threatening suicide at ...

La Visiteuse (1981)

Claire, a young woman visits an old friend to relieve her heartache. ...