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French cinema: All genres

La Vie continue (1981)
Moshé Mizrahi

Jeanne Lemaire leads a simple but contented life with her husband Gérard and their three children. Her cosy routine is thrown into a turmoil one Sunday morning when her husband suffers a fatal heart attack...   [More...]

La Vie d'Adèle (2013)
Abdellatif Kechiche

15-year-old Adèle is a girl like any other, and like any girl of her age going out with boys is a habit she soon gets into...   [More...]

La Vie d'artiste (2007)
Marc Fitoussi

Three people in search of fame and fortune... Alice has ambitions of becoming a well-known actress but must content herself with lending her voice to a character in a Japanese cartoon...   [More...]

La Vie d'un honnête homme (1953)
Sacha Guitry

Through a combination of hard work and ruthlessness, Albert Ménard-Lacoste has become a wealthy businessman, although his austerity prevents him from being loved, even by his family...   [More...]

La Vie d'une autre (2012)
Sylvie Testud

Marie is 40, but when she wakes up one day she is convinced she is 25. She has forgotten fifteen years of her life. All she can think of is the great romance that lies ahead of her, but she soon discovers that this romance has long fizzled out...   [More...]

La Vie de bohème (1945)
Marcel L'Herbier

Paris in the 1840s. Schaunard, Colline, Marcel and Rodolphe are four young artists who are determined to make a name for themselves...   [More...]

La Vie de château (1966)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Normandy, 1944. Jérôme is the proud owner of a large country estate, a man who is far more preoccupied with his orchards than with the fate of his country...   [More...]

La Vie de famille (1985)
Jacques Doillon

Emmanuel lives in Aix-en-Provence with his second wife Mara and the latter's teenage daughter Natacha. Emmanuel's relationship with his stepdaughter is strained...   [More...]

La Vie de Jésus (1997)
Bruno Dumont

For Freddy, an unemployed young man suffering from autism, life is one long round of unending monotony. Living in Bailleul, a small backwater town in Northern France, there is nothing for him to do other than to listlessly roam the district on his motorbike with his gang of friends...   [More...]

La Vie des morts (1991)
Arnaud Desplechin

Deciding that life is not worth living, Patrick, a depressed 20-year-old man, attempts suicide by putting a bullet in his head...   [More...]

La Vie devant soi (1977)
Moshé Mizrahi

In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris...   [More...]

La Vie dissolue de Gérard Floque (1987)
Georges Lautner

On the day he loses his job with an advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and that his wife is having a raunchy affair with a TV presenter...   [More...]

La Vie du Christ (1906)
Alice Guy

Starting with the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable in Bethlehem, the life and death of Christ are presented in a series of tableaux representing scenes taken from the New Testament...   [More...]

La Vie est à nous! (2005)
Gérard Krawczyk

In a small provincial town, Louise and her mother Blanche manage a roadside bar. Their long-standing rival is Lucie, the owner of another bar...   [More...]

La Vie est à nous (1936)
Jacques Becker

As a reaction to the rising tide of fascism that is sweeping across Europe in the 1930s, the French communist party call upon workers to support their cause and unite to ensure a better future for themselves, their families and their country...   [More...]

La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille (1988)
Étienne Chatiliez

When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a paediatric surgeon, a nurse reveals that, twelve years ago, she switched two babies just after their birth...   [More...]

La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais

On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome...   [More...]

La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (1903)
Lucien Nonguet

The life and passion of Jesus Christ, presented as a series of tableaux taken from the four gospels of the New Testament...   [More...]

La Vie et rien d'autre (1989)
Bertrand Tavernier

France, 1920. It is two years since the signing of the Armistice that brought an end to the First World War, but the clearing up still continues...   [More...]

La Vie moderne (2000)
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

Marguerite is a solitary 17-year old, overly judgemental of others and incapable of having a normal relationship with anyone...   [More...]

La Vie parisienne (1936)
Robert Siodmak

In 1900, the wealthy Brazilian Ramiro Mendoza is enjoying his stay in Paris when he falls in love with Liane d'Ysigny, the star of a stage production of Jacques Offenbach's La Vie parisienne...   [More...]

Vie privée (1962)
Louis Malle

Within virtually no time at all, an 18 years old girl Jill is propelled from total obscurity to stardom. Whilst pursuing dancing lessons in Paris, she is hired as a fashion model, before starting a career as an actress...   [More...]

La Vie promise (2002)
Olivier Dahan

Sylvia is a forty-something prostitute who makes a reasonable living for herself, picking up clients on the streets of Nice...   [More...]

La Vie rêvée des anges (1998)
Erick Zonca

A young woman, Isa, arrives in Lille, with no job, no money, and nowhere to live. She meets up with Marie, a girl of her own age, and the two become friends...   [More...]

La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)
Jan Bucquoy

A writer, Jan Bucquoy, narrates his sex life from his first sexual experience (with a teenage boy a few years older than him) to age 28, where he is living alone having split up with his wife, after having had an affair with a Karma Sutra obsessed model....   [More...]

Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
Claude Berri

In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, a Jewish couple decide to send their young son, Claude, to live in the country, where they hope he will be safe from arrest...   [More...]

La Vieille dame indigne (1965)
René Allio

Madame Berthe is 70 years old when her husband dies. She has two children, Albert and Gaston, who work nearby in Marseilles...   [More...]

La Vieille fille (1972)
Jean-Pierre Blanc

After reaching the grand old age of 35, Muriel Bouchon decides to end her days of dull spinsterhood and now devote herself to finding a male companion to share her remaining years...   [More...]

La Vieille qui marchait dans la mer (1991)
Laurent Heynemann

Lady M spends her retirement by the sea, in which she wades every day to assuage her rheumatism. She lives with her former companion, an ex-diplomat, Pompilius, and although they taunt and harangue each other, they share a close friendship...   [More...]

Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine (1981)
Patrice Leconte

Guy is a young man who likes to have a good time, but unfortunately the world seems determined to thwart him in this ambition...   [More...]



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