Movies and TvShows featuring "french-speaking" theme.
Childhood friends Magalie and Blandine reunite after years apart and decide to finally take their dream vacation to Greece. However, they soon realize that they have very different approaches to holidays and to life.
The Man Who Loved Women is a comedy-drama about a womanizing writer who becomes infatuated with multiple women in 1970s France. He navigates extramarital affairs, sexual encounters, and his own struggles with love and commitment. His experiences shape the plot as he learns the consequences of his actions and the complexities of human relationships.
The Fire Within tells the story of a man in the midst of a midlife crisis who contemplates suicide as he feels trapped in a world of emptiness and meaninglessness. Through his interactions with old friends, doctors, and an affair, he confronts his fears and existential despair, ultimately leading to a moment of self-discovery and acceptance.
In Paris, a disillusioned detective goes on a downward spiral as he investigates a murder case involving the mafia, debt, and a hotel. His existential loneliness and existential crisis deepen as he uncovers the dark secrets of the city.
Full Moon in Paris is a story that revolves around a young woman named Louise who is caught between her live-in boyfriend and her best friend. As she navigates through the complexities of relationships and the pressures of modern urban life, she finds herself questioning her own happiness and identity. Set against the backdrop of Paris in the 1980s, the film explores themes of alienation, existential loneliness, and the search for genuine connection.
Yannick disrupts a performance of the play 'Le Cocu' to regain control of the evening.
A Woman at Her Window (1976) is a drama film set in 1936, depicting the life of a wealthy man as his world begins to crumble due to his involvement in adultery and political corruption. The story explores themes of ambition, self-image, alienation, and the decay of bourgeois society. It showcases the protagonist's struggle with his own desires and emotions, as well as his search for meaning in a world filled with decadence and despair.
A filmmaker engages in a routine series of sexual encounters to pass the time while editing her latest film. When one man refuses to play by her rules, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to him.
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her.
The Salamander is a dark comedy that follows the story of a young woman who becomes disillusioned with her life in Geneva. As a free-spirited social worker and shoe saleswoman, she navigates existential questions and desires while dealing with social criticism and the challenges of a menage-a-trois relationship. Set against the backdrop of 1970s Geneva, the minimalist movie explores themes of feminism, journalism, and the complexities of love.
A woman who married a wealthy man for his potential riches finds herself caught in a web of deceit and blackmail when her true love, who she thought died in WWII, reappears. As her husband becomes suspicious, she must navigate through lies and betrayal to protect her secrets.
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.
Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.
"A Couple" is a film about a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were married for 36 years, had 13 children nine of whom survived. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other. Leo Tolstoy insisted that they read their diaries aloud to guests at dinner parties. The Tolstoy’s were also a dysfunctional couple, arguing frequently and being very unhappy with each other while occasionally enjoying passionate moments of reconciliation. The film is Sophia’s monologue about the joys and struggles of their life together, loosely drawn from their letters to each other and their diary entries.
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That's all -- there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.
In a dystopia Paris, this is about a campaign manager named Tristan who is knocked sideways when he receives an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test. Potentially suffering from a fatal and incurable genetic illness, Tristan becomes obsessed with the idea of finding the woman who sent him this test. He decides to carry out an investigation, risking his love life and his career in the process.
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
Alix Cléo Roubaud, a photographer, describes her images to Eustache’s son Boris. An “essay in the shape of a hoax”, Eustache’s last film wittily questions the relationship between showing and telling as it gradually shifts Alix’s narration out of sync with what we see.
She's a beautiful gifted performer, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside the mainstream. Awaiting her backstage one evening is a Spanish painter who has seen her show and wants to make her acquaintance. They walk around Paris getting to know one another, and then the painter returns to Spain. Something about the man has moved Lady M to passion: she flies to meet him in Barcelona and he shows her his beloved Catalonia. This time, however, their relationship is as much about passionate lovemaking as it is about compatibility. So smitten is Lady M with her new man that when she discovers that the painter has a black wife and child, she is only a little bit taken aback and she invites his whole family to join her in Paris. Surprisingly, they do, and the number of people sharing their love and sexual appetites changes from two to three.
A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it.