Movie List for "france"

Hors la vie (1991) Crime Drama War Movie

A French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken. Year 1991.

Generes: Crime, Drama, War
Director: Maroun Bagdadi
Writer: Maroun Bagdadi, Didier Decoin, Elias Khoury
Actors: Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity

Playtime (1967) Comedy Movie

Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it’s still under construction. Year 1967.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Jacques Tati
Writer: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Actors: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden

La Classe américaine (1993) Comedy Movie

George Abitbol, “the Most Classy Man on Earth”, dies sputtering his famous last words: “cr*ppy world!” What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe … Year 1993.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Michel Hazanavicius, Dominique Mézerette
Writer: Michel Hazanavicius, Dominique Mézerette
Actors: Lionel Abelanski, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ned Beatty

Sarafina! (1992) Drama Musical Movie

South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising. Year 1992.

Generes: Drama, Musical
Director: Darrell Roodt
Writer: Mbongeni Ngema, William Nicholson
Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba

Perceval le Gallois (1978) Drama Music Romance Movie

The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur’s Round Table. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Éric Rohmer
Writer: Éric Rohmer, Chrétien de Troyes
Actors: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger

Eiffel I’m in Love (2003) Comedy Drama Romance Movie

A teenage girl who led a perfect life. Her life completely changes when her parents good friend and his son came from France to stay with them. Year 2003.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Nasri Cheppy
Writer: Rachmania Arunita
Actors: Shandy Aulia, Samuel Rizal, Vena Annisa

Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (1995) Crime Drama Thriller Movie

Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money… Year 1995.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes
Writer: Agustín Díaz Yanes
Actors: Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem, Federico Luppi

Le tombeau d’Alexandre (1993) Documentary Biography History Movie

This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitement Year 1993.

Generes: Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Chris Marker
Writer: Chris Marker
Actors: Léonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova

Une femme douce (1969) Drama Romance Movie

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominat Year 1969.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Robert Bresson
Writer: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Bresson
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre

London River (2009) Drama Mystery Movie

Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London. Year 2009.

Generes: Drama, Mystery
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Writer: Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle, Zoé Galeron
Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila

Maine Ocean (1986) Comedy Movie

“Maine-Ocean” is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The Year 1986.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Jacques Rozier
Writer: Lydia Feld, Jacques Rozier
Actors: Rosa-Maria Gomes, Abdel Kedadouche, Luis Rego

Die Marquise von O… (1976) Drama History Movie

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count. Year 1976.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Éric Rohmer
Writer: Éric Rohmer, Heinrich von Kleist
Actors: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel

Hikari (2017) Drama Romance Movie

A passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writer: Naomi Kawase
Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki, Tatsuya Fuji

Jing Ke ci Qin Wang (1998) Drama History Romance Movie

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king’s cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering. Year 1998.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Kaige Chen
Writer: Kaige Chen, Peigong Wang
Actors: Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun

West Beyrouth (À l’abri les enfants) (1998) Comedy Drama Romance Movie

In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinati Year 1998.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Ziad Doueiri
Writer: Ziad Doueiri
Actors: Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas