Movie List for "french"

Nordwand (2008) Adventure Biography Drama Movie

A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two alpinists as she knows them well. She later gets to report on/photograph her friends’ and other alpinists’ climb of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face. Year 2008.

Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Writer: Chris Silber, Philipp Stölzl, Rupert Henning
Actors: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek

Der Fußgänger (1973) Drama Movie

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece. Year 1973.

Generes: Drama
Director: Maximilian Schell
Writer: Dagmar Hirtz, Maximilian Schell, Franz Seitz
Actors: Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Peter Hall, Maximilian Schell

Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1972) Drama Sport Movie

A goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier. Year 1972.

Generes: Drama, Sport
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Peter Handke, Wim Wenders
Actors: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar

Jeux interdits (1952) Comedy Drama War Movie

A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death. Year 1952.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, War
Director: René Clément
Writer: François Boyer, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost
Actors: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée

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

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

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) Adventure Drama Movie

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant. Year 1984.

Generes: Adventure, Drama
Director: Hugh Hudson
Writer: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Towne, Michael Austin
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson

Rebelle (2012) Drama War Movie

Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12. Year 2012.

Generes: Drama, War
Director: Kim Nguyen
Writer: Kim Nguyen, Simon Trépanier, Alexandre Mangona
Actors: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda

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

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