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Black Box(2021)

G
| 2h 9min | Mystery, Thriller, Drama
3.7/5 (with 485 votes)

Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts detecting some seriously disturbing details. Could the tape have been modified? Going against his boss' orders, Matthieu begins his own rogue investigation - an obsessional and dangerous quest for truth that will quickly threaten far more than his career...

Directed by Yann Gozlan - With Pierre Niney, Lou de Laâge, André Dussollier, Sébastien Pouderoux, Aurélien Recoing, Olivier Rabourdin, ...

Planetarium(2016)

1h 49min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
2.3/5 (with 90 votes)

In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.

Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski - With Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, Louis Garrel, ...

Hippocrates(2014)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 210 votes)

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.

Directed by Thomas Lilti - With Carole Franck, Christophe Odent, Félix Moati, Jacques Gamblin, Marianne Denicourt, Philippe Rebbot, ...

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché(2018)

1h 43min | Documentary, History
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

Directed by Pamela B. Green - With Alice Guy-Blaché

The Butcher’s Daughter(2022)

1h 31min | Romance / Love, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family business: a butchery. Not exactly her passion in life... She’s about to sell it when Mar- tial, who worked for her father, wants to take it over, but she is having second thoughts. These two opposite characters will have to get used to one another.

Directed by Christopher Thompson - With Géraldine Pailhas, Arnaud Ducret, Alison Wheeler, Stéphane De Groodt, Jean-François Stévenin, Anne Le Ny, ...

The Extraordinary Voyage(2011)

NR
| 1h 4min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 24 votes)

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.

Directed by Serge Bromberg - With Costa-Gavras, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Michel Gondry, Michel Hazanavicius, Tom Hanks, Georges Méliès, ...

Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema(2021)

53min | Documentary, History
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema attendance: the story of the creation of a sensual epic that marked a turning point in the struggle for sexual emancipation.

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit(2018)

54min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

Directed by Virginie Linhart

Long Live the Republic(1997)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.

Directed by Éric Rochant - With Antoine Chappey, Atmen Kelif, Aure Atika, Eva Ionesco, Florence Pernel, Gad Elmaleh, ...

One for the Road(2009)

1h 46min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a detox clinic in Geneva, his last-chance saloon. There he meets a group of fellow sufferers and one person in particular, a young woman named Magali, who help him to see life other than through the bottom of an empty bottle.

Directed by Philippe Godeau - With Anne Consigny, Bernard Campan, Éric Naggar, Eva Mazauric, Fabien Aïssa Busetta, François Cluzet, ...

Trintignant by Trintignant(2021)

53min | Documentary, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.

Directed by Yves Jeuland - With Jean-Louis Trintignant

The Dinosaur and the Baby(1967)

1h 1min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)

Directed by André S. Labarthe
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The Incredible Mr. Piccoli(2017)

56min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema(2019)

53min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.

Le Parti du cinéma(2021)

52min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

The Colour of Words(1984)

1h 3min | Documentary

This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein and The Vice-Consul. Several themes are tackled: childhood, autobiographical traces, relationships between differents characters and different films and more. India Song's main actors — Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale, who played Anne-Marie Stretter and the French vice-consul — join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft. Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos D'Alessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten. The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film.

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain(2022)

53min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.

La La La(2018)

45min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the actors and the sound effects, but also by a new element, the music, which, combined with the dance and an unprejudiced imagination, gave rise to a new genre, as important to Hollywood cinema as the western was: the musical. A journey through the history of this genre, from its beginnings to the present day.

300 Days - A Year Without Cinema(2021)

1h 50min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A French documentary on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected cinema.

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture(2016)

58min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

Endless Summer Syndrome(2023)

1h 38min | Thriller, Drama

When the mother of two adoptees is tipped off about the possible affair her husband may be having with one of their children, her sense of duty takes a macabre turn.

The Clouzot Scandal(2017)

1h | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.

La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès(2020)

1h 40min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Once There Was Everything(2017)

6min | Documentary

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

Herculanum(2016)

21min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.

Vuja de(2022)

7min | Comedy, Romance / Love

Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together.

Camille, Contactless(2020)

15min | Romance / Love

Paris in summer. Maxime has a revelation: Camille, the pretty cashier at the supermarket no longer interests him. The problem is, he does not know how to tell her without hurting her. The other problem is that in fact he has never dared to speak to her.

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art(2021)

53min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave(1992)

51min | Documentary, TV Movie

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.

¡Ay, Carmen!(2018)

55min | Documentary
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.

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