PlayTime
1967 · 115m
Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris.
60 French comedy movies. Includes PlayTime, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and Day for Night.
Common vibes here: Dark Comedy · Coming-of-Age · Coming of Age
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1967 · 115m
Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris.
1972 · 101m
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and…
1973 · 116m
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and…
2005 · 126m
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his…
1934 · 88m
Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate…
1977 · 103m
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow…
1994 · 92m
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months…
1953 · 87m
Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another.
2001 · 122m
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others.
1958 · 118m
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved…
1968 · 90m
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from…
2024 · 102m
A world-famous orchestra conductor discovers the brother he never knew he had — a school cafeteria worker who plays trombone in a local marching band.
1974 · 104m
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel.
1949 · 86m
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local…
1976 · 104m
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed…
1966 · 132m
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied…
1969 · 102m
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
1933 · 48m
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
1996 · 99m
A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
1981 · 128m
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
1980 · 126m
Professor Henri Laborit uses three people's stories to discuss behaviourist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety:…
1991 · 99m
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low…
2012 · 105m
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his…
1990 · 82m
Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume, and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom.
2014 · 105m
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when…
1994 · 100m
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious…
2019 · 114m
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens.
2021 · 88m
Sophie and Vincent’s small butcher shop is on the brink of bankruptcy and their marriage is falling apart.
2023 · 91m
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill.
2013 · 90m
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear…
1967 · 104m
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as…
1979 · 87m
Summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
2019 · 115m
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true…
1973 · 100m
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage…
2009 · 100m
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday.
2022 · 99m
Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison.
1970 · 97m
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling…
1965 · 111m
In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car.
2018 · 100m
Wael, a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique.
2001 · 84m
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
2012 · 110m
Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional.
2017 · 115m
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket.
1976 · 104m
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to…
2021 · 77m
When two simple-minded best friends find a giant fly trapped in the trunk of a stolen car, they decide to train it in hopes of striking it rich.
2012 · 110m
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris.
1992 · 96m
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his…
1964 · 89m
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St.
2006 · 106m
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
2019 · 77m
A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his…
2002 · 111m
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back.
2014 · 94m
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
2008 · 106m
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while.