French Romance Films
Research on best French romance films. Partly for fun, partly for language study.
- A la folie pas... du tout / He loves Me... He Loves Me Not (2002)
A fine arts student (Audrey Tautou) is obsessed with a married man.
- Amélie (2001)
Young waitress in her own imaginative world, decides to help people find happiness. By Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou.
- Antoine et Colette / Antoine and Colette (1962)
Young Antoine Doinel falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. By François Truffaut. Black&White.
- Baisers volés / Stolen Kisses (1968)
Antoine Doinel applies for jobs and tries to make sense of his romantic relationships. By François Truffaut.
- Before Midnight (2013)
Almost two decades since their first meeting, we find the couple in Greece. Richard Linklater with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
- Before Sunrise (1995)
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together. Richard Linklater with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
- Before Sunset (2004)
Nine years after first meeting, the pair encounter each other again in France. Richard Linklater with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
- Chocolat / Chocolat (2000)
Single mother and daughter open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of a Catholic town. With Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench.
- De battre mon coeur s'est arrete / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Will Thomas follow his thuggish father, or pursue his dream of becoming a pianist? By Jacques Audiard.
- De rouille et d'os / Rust and Bone (2012)
A love story that begins when two worlds fall apart. By Jacques Audiard.
- Domicile conjugal / Bed and Board (1970)
Antoine Doinel cheats on his pregnant wife. By François Truffaut.
- Éloge de l'amour / In Praise of Love (2001)
An author works on the subject of love, and in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life. By Jean-Luc Godard.
- Film d'amore e d'anarchia / Love and Anarchy (1973)
A melancholy farmer and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.
- French Kiss (1995)
A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiance gets into trouble with a charming crook. With Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton.
- L'amour en fuite / Love on the Run (1979)
Antoine Doinel, aging and divorced, again meets his teenage love. By François Truffaut.
- L'amour à vingt ans / Love at 20 (1962)
French project of Pierre Roustang, five segments each with a different director from a different country. Black&White.
- Le Plaisir / Pleasure (1952)
Three short stories about pleasure. Black&White.
- Les demoiselles de Rochefort / The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Two sisters leave their small seaside town in search of romance. Musical. By Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac
- Les émotifs anonymes / Romantics Anonymous (2010)
The owner of a chocolate factory and his talented chocolate maker are too shy to admit their love for each other.
- Les enfants du paradis / Children of Paradise (1945)
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her. Black&White.
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision. Musical by Jacques Demy starring Catherine Deneuve.
- Le Week-End (2013)
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.
- Paris, je taime / Paris, I Love You (2006)
Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, desecated, reinvented, and awakened.
- Sous Les Toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
Romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, where a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a woman. Black&White.
- Sur mes lèvres / Read My Lips (2001)
Romantic thriller about a deaf woman finding love and crime. By Jacques Audiard.
- Un cœur en hiver / A Heart in Winter (1992)
An emotionally distant violin restorer's cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend falls for him.
- Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement (2004)
A young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who disappeared from the trenches in World War One.
- Vénus beauté Institut / Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness. By Tonie Marshall and Jacques Audiard.
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