French Movie Archives

A Brighter Tomorrow

Safe cracker Mehdi tries to be a good son, a good father, and to win back his ex-wife, but finds that robbery isn’t what it used to be when it comes to payment.

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband’s protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

A Tale of Love and Desire

Follows Ahmed, a 18-year old, French of Algerian origin, who meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl. He discovers a collection of sensual and erotic Arab literature and falls in love with Farah and he tries to resist the desire.

After Blue

On a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna, a woman and her teenage daughter hunt a dangerous criminal.

An Impossible Love

A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.

Annette

The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.

Beautiful Lies

A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.

Belle and Sebastian

A boy and his dog try to foil a Nazi plan to capture French resistance fighters, on the French Swiss Border.

Benedetta

A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.

Between Two Worlds

Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.

Delicious

With the help of a young woman, a chef who’s been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from life as a servant and opens the first restaurant in 1789 France.

Emporte-moi

A coming-of-age tale centered around Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard’s then-recent film “Vivre sa vie”. As she begins to model herself after the film’s lead role, Hannah slowly begins to explore the confusing nature of her sexuality.

Fidelity

A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children’s book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.

Freestyle

One fine morning, Louise panics as she finds herself trapped in her own car, but when she tries to get out, Paul steals it and therefore kidnaps her.

Keep Going

Sibylle is a divorced mother who can no longer stand by and watch her son sink into a meaningless and violent existence, so she decides to take Samuel on a long journey through Kyrgyzstan.

La Belle et la Bête

Beauty and the Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children’s version was published. It was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations. Overshadowed, the original version by Madame de Villeneuve has never been adapted for the screen… until now!

La Belle Vie

Yves is living in hiding with his sons, Sylvain and Pierre. Two years before, he had abducted them from their mother after a judge ruled against him. But the boys are growing up now, and constantly being on the run deprives them of their adolescent dreams. Hidden on an island in the Loire, Sylvain, the younger, meets Gilda: love at first sight… and they are on their way to the good life?

La Femme Nikita

A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.

Lady Chatterley

In the Chatterley’s country estate, monotonous days follow one after the other for Constance, trapped by her marriage and her sense of duty. During spring, deep in the heart of Wragby forest, she encounters Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper. A tale of an encounter, a difficult apprenticeship, a slow awakening to sensuality for her, a long return to life for him. Or how love is but one with experience and transformation.

Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France’s male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.

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