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The Ninth Gate(1999)

2h 13min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.2/5 (with 1,282 votes)

An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.

Downton Abbey: A New Era(2022)

PG
| 1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 161 votes)

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.

To Catch a Thief(1955)

3.7/5 (with 636 votes)

An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.

The Swimming Pool(1969)

PG
| 2h | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 193 votes)

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels(1988)

PG
| 1h 50min | Crime, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 349 votes)

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.

Fat Girl(2001)

NR
| 1h 26min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 86 votes)

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.

The Last of Sheila(1973)

3.6/5 (with 50 votes)

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

The Little Bather(1968)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 148 votes)

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

French Twist(1995)

R
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 134 votes)

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

Ultimate Heist(2009)

R
| 1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 41 votes)

The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams(2010)

G
| 1h 30min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 139 votes)

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes

My Father's Glory(1990)

1h 45min | Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 122 votes)

French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.

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Stadium Nuts(1972)

1h 28min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.

The Apparition(2018)

2h 19min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 61 votes)

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.

Directed by Xavier Giannoli - With Vincent Lindon

Two for the Road(1967)

NR
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 100 votes)

The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and the increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs.

The House That Screamed(1969)

1h 40min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

La Pointe Courte(1956)

1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.

Directed by Agnès Varda - With Silvia Monfort, Philippe Noiret, Sète

The Song of Bernadette(1943)

NR
| 2h 36min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 47 votes)

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.

Leaving(2009)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.

A Tale of Autumn(1998)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 51 votes)

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

Come Undone(2000)

NR
| 1h 34min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.3/5 (with 28 votes)

Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.

Black Girl(1966)

NR
| 1h | Drama
3.8/5 (with 47 votes)

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.

Directed by Ousmane Sembène - With Pierre Laville, Robert Fontaine

Vagabond(1985)

1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 120 votes)

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

The Return of Martin Guerre(1982)

1h 47min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

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.

Bay of Angels(1963)

1h 24min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 70 votes)

A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.

The Specialists(1985)

1h 34min | Adventure, Crime
3.3/5 (with 38 votes)

While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...

Directed by Patrice Leconte - With Bernard Giraudeau, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Jean, Frédéric Pieretti, Jacques Nolot, Jean Toscan, ...

The Wild Child(1970)

G
| 1h 23min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 127 votes)

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

I'm Losing My Temper(1974)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.

The Sower(2017)

1h 38min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.

The Easy Way(2008)

1h 40min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist who is investigating the event.

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