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84
7.8
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76
/450/
74
/431/
4.0
/38052/
97
/34/
90
/330/
84
/5/

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.8
/117999/
76
/2094/
76
/1841/
4.2
/238285/
96
/57/
93
/1914/
87
/11/

Three Colors: Blue (1993)
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
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Criterion Channel
81
76
7.5
/10440/
74
/212/
72
/276/
4.0
/18896/
100
/19/
88
/40/

Mr. Klein (1976)
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
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MUBI
75
7.1
/8621/
70
/184/
64
/174/
3.8
/10680/
94
/108/
70
/376/
86
/31/

Summer Hours (2008)
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
poster
74
7.5
/10573/
73
/183/
73
/307/
3.6
/5893/
67
/6/
88
/185/

The Eighth Day (1996)
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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Kanopy
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68
7.4
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71
/84/
67
/215/
3.6
/4237/
100
/16/
80
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The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
66
6.5
/17665/
67
/404/
65
/494/
3.5
/16863/
75
/8/
74
/294/
53
/12/

Subway (1985)
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
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76
65
7.4
/6255/
71
/118/
70
/258/
3.8
/13234/
92
/35/

The Things of Life (1970)
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
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76
63
7.4
/3301/
77
/89/
71
/178/
3.7
/2249/
89
/48/

The Children of the Marshland (1999)
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.
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Kanopy
56
5.5
/3012/
62
/87/
55
/186/
3.0
/3963/
51
/79/
30
/5/
65
/23/
cc age 17+

Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
54
6.5
/3494/
64
/206/
62
/245/
3.2
/2225/
91
/22/
54
/8/

The Country Doctor (2016)
All the people in this countryside area, can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who auscultates them, heals and reassures them day and night, 7 days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. But will she adapt to this new life and be able to replace the man that believed to be irreplaceable?
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The Roku Channel
53
6.1
/3995/
61
/68/
57
/111/
3.0
/1547/
53
/59/
37
/33/
49
/15/

Thérèse (2012)
An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
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76
39
7.5
/3770/
78
/18/
78
/25/
3.9
/657/

Mother (1991)
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
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66
33
7.1
/1372/
61
/30/
63
/49/
3.5
/875/

The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).
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53
31
5.4
/909/
61
/196/
53
/282/
2.5
/3743/
50
/1/

Looking for Teddy (2018)
A father enlists the help of an airport employee on a quest to find his daughter's teddy.
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55
27
6.2
/903/
48
/19/
53
/41/
3.3
/569/
43

The Lady Banker (1980)
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
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48
25
6.0
/833/
49
/13/
60
/22/
3.4
/1646/
33
/6/
19
/7/

Keep Your Right Up (1987)
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
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76
23
6.9
/2123/
85
/9/
72
/26/
3.6
/255/
86
/3/

588 rue Paradis (1992)
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.
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69
21
6.8
/532/
68
/16/
71
/31/
3.5
/280/

The War Is Over (1989)
The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they stumble upon a German soldier. Soon they become friends and together they head towards Lyon...
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51
20
5.8
/866/
53
/14/
58
/31/
3.2
/570/
29
/7/
44
/4/

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
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59
14
6.3
/405/
44
/7/
64
/21/
3.4
/285/

Going and Coming Back (1985)
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
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Pluto TV
64
13
6.2
/416/
65
/18/
63
/18/
3.4
/206/

Heatwave (2015)
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the farmers whose fields are not irrigated. Which is the reason why the residents are less and less well-disposed toward one of them, Joseph, a young man whose never-ending antics are becoming, in such fraught context, something of an intolerable inconvenience. The mayor tries desperately to calm things down but nothing helps...
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54
12
6.1
/505/
48
/33/
43
/12/
3.3
/466/

The Adolescent (1979)
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
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41
6
5.4
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40
/4/
50
/12/
20
/4/

A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
poster
?
6.9
/81/

Les murs porteurs (2008)
N/A
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?
5.8
/21/
60
/4/

La clef des champs (2014)
Fred Bonnemaison, a driven and self-centered Parisian food writer has to return to his home town, Lyon, when his mother, a lively octogenarian, runs away to join a community of free-thinking widows.
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?
5.9
/38/
40
/3/
40
/1/

Châteauroux district (1987)
Reading old letters, a young girl from Châteauroux, Carole, discovers that her father was an American soldier whose regiment was based in town in the 1950s. She will try by all means to find people who remember this period.
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?
8.1
/19/
10
/1/

Le chien qui a vu Dieu (1970)
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from an inheritance, he has to distribute fifty kilos of bread a day to the poor for five years. At the moment of distribution, a dog comes along and takes a loaf of bread in its mouth, to take to an old hermit whom the villagers are convinced "has seen God".
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?
10
/1/

Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge (1981)
N/A
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59
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6.3
/467/
58
/8/
56
/24/

One Summer (2006)
A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city.
poster
?
4.7
/36/
10
/1/

L'homme fragile (1981)
A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
poster
?
7.6
/14/
10
/1/

Point d'orgue (1993)
Sébastien Fischer, a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a little village in Provence, at the house of Avril Espart.
poster
?
6.3
/99/
32
/4/
44
/5/

Kiss Me (1989)
The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man at home. While her feelings become confused and the dramas burst, the girl will try to find in his entourage someone able to listen and understand it, before the worst happens.
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60
?
6.8
/608/
60
/1/
54
/4/

Aram (2002)
Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek revenge for the drama that has marked his family and his life.
poster
?
6.6
/107/
70
/5/
43
/3/

Merette (1982)
Merette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother dies, and Merette blames God, and gives up her religion. Her family turns against her, the villagers reject her, and her priest drives her into isolation.
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Hoopla
50
?
5.6
/148/
47
/14/
48
/9/

House of Time (2016)
Robert d'Eglantine invites his friends to spend a few days in an old country house where he proposes them to embark on a daring adventure with a surprising destination.
poster
?
6.2
/69/
90
/2/

Made in France (2001)
Patrick Morel has his limits tested when he's thrown in jail after a misunderstanding with the lovely Sonia and the brash Youssef, all three of them bound for deportation until a last-ditch escape frees them in more ways than one.
poster
62
?
7.4
/261/
50
/3/
60
/8/

The French Calvinists (1972)
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.
poster
61
?
6.1
/169/
57
/4/
67
/3/

Didine (2008)
Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosses the threshold of a elderly person caregivers’ agency where, faced with an extrovert teenager, a charming man, and a cruel, elderly woman, she takes hold of her existence and encounters love.
poster
61
?
6.1
/228/
60
/5/
62
/5/

Young Girls in Black (2010)
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families, who feel that these girls are capable of anything...
poster
?
5.1
/86/
35
/2/
47
/6/

Flagrant désir (1986)
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?
poster
?
6.4
/20/
10
/1/

La Bête noire (1983)
In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the dark by-ways of Paris. Seventeen-year-old Daniel grew up in foster homes in a rural area and those years contrast with his later youth in Paris. A filmmaker opts to interview Daniel for a documentary on delinquency, and that is how the young man's past and precarious present start coming to light.
poster
69
?
6.5
/103/
76
/3/
68
/5/

The Little Boy (1995)
Eight-year old Francois has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his father's mistress works as a tutor. Soon his father allows a refugee family of Polish Jews to move into the basement. Francois has a terrible crush upon their daugther. Real trouble begins when a Nazi commander and his unit also move into the house, totally unaware of the refugees living below them.
poster
60
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6.3
/186/
60
/2/
58
/6/

The Wedding Ring (1971)
A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden
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3 visages (2017)
This film presents six sequence shots of different faces. A young girl, a young woman, and an elderly woman live through a birth and a death in their own way.


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