
Young man Francois Nole works in a Bank. Often skips a walk, and one day he never comes to work. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
The Girl on the Train / La fille du RER (2009) André Téchiné, Émilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc

Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Read More »
Livid / Livide (2011) Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone

“It’s young Lucy’s first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman Read More »
Frequent Death / Fréquence meurtre (1988) Élisabeth Rappeneau, Catherine Deneuve, André Dussollier, Martin Lamotte

Jeanne Quester is a two-bit psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a two-bit radio station. Read More »
Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986) Paul Vecchiali, Marianne Basler, Jean Sorel, Pierre Cosso

Rosa la Rose is a Parisian hooker who works in Les Halles area. Read More »
Young Ahmed / Le jeune Ahmed (2019) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou

A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran. Read More »
Carrot Top / Poil de carotte (1925) Julien Duvivier, Henry Krauss, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss, André Heuzé

François’ mother, Mme Lepic, hates him and she nicknames him “Poil de Carotte” (Carrot hair). Read More »
Odette Toulemonde (2006) Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber

Odette dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite writer, for the optimism which she believes emanates from him. Read More »
The Widow Couderc / La veuve Couderc (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo

Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son Read More »
La grande vadrouille (1966) Gérard Oury

A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. Read More »