Movies and TV shows set in lyon
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in lyon ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, sexy, touching and captivating films and TV shows about / with death, female nudity, family relations, murder, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, nude, life is a bitch, friendship and nudity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in France, Italy, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lyon: All Our Desires (2011), To Have (Or Not) (1995), The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974), My Man (1996), Papillon Noir (2008), Saint-Ex (1996), Yes, But... (2001), Thieves (1996), The Verdict (1974), The Young Lovers (2021).
Best films
New films
| Two Pianos (2025) | 5.9 | |
| The Marchers (2013) | 6.2 | |
| Yes, But... (2001) | 6.4 | |
| The Adopted (2011) | 6.7 | |
| A Girl Cut in Two (2007) | 6.2 |
List of movies set in lyon
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
Plot:
injustice, legal, society, legal investigation, courtroom drama, legal action, hopes, life is a bitch, dishonesty, fighting the system, workplace, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, romantic drama, thought provoking, sex comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, female protagonist, working class, unemployment, social realism, slice of life, depression, hotel, resilience, seaside, job seeking ...
Time:
future
Place:
lyon, israel, canada, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visits and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
european, countryside, murder, anti capitalism, parent child relationship, legal, life is a bitch, legal action, society, introspection, small town life, small town ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, lyon, paris france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
playboy, exploring sexuality, voyeur, female nudity, lost love, temptation, sexy girls, making love, love, infidelity, sex, eroticism ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
lyon, paris france, france
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Richard has been living alone since his wife left. His reclusion is broken when mysterious vagabond Jack comes to his rescue. Richard offers to put him up for a few days in exchange for some odd jobs. But the press soon starts hinting at a serial ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, missing person, police, corpse, investigation, danger, suspicion, recluse, serial murder, mistrust, trick ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lyon, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Plot:
bedouin, writers, art, aviation, world war two, airplane, 007, poet, friend, marriage, wedding, hallucination ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 1920s, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
lyon, saigon, new york, argentina, mediterranean sea ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, occasionally alcoholic mother. Her boyfriend Sébastien is a couple of years older; he's ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
psychotherapy, coming of age, therapist, friendship, family problems, social relations, family life, youth, introspection, family relations, teenage life, sex addict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings ...
Style:
erotic, neo noir, serious, sexual, contemplative ...
Plot:
lesbian, obsession, women, murder, petty theft, closeted homosexual, gay, organized crime, lgbt, lgbtq, gangster, destructive relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
france, lyon, alps, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, mother love, blackmail, death penalty, rape, judge, loneliness, abrupt ending, justice, gangster ...
Place:
lyon
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, male female relationship, woman, dog, architect, seaside, bare breasts, thunderstorm, husband wife relationship, fire, hospital, doctor ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
lyon, ireland, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
discipline, couples, family relations, contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, family gatherings, school teacher, fear of commitment, sex talk, high school, self confidence ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
lyon, france
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
going straight, organized crime, friendship, gypsy, gypsy camp, gang, hopes, friends, buddies, prison, mafia, murder ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, visually appealing, sexy ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, gestapo, love, french history, resistance movement, nazi occupied france, biopic, resistance, male nudity, nazi, judaism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
france, lyon, california, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
children, father son relationship, lie, father and son, family life, family relations, kids and family, parents and children, hidden truth, lifestyle, deception, life ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
lyon
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Raph and Swan, two retarded thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenseless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find ...
Plot:
urban setting, male female relationship, thief, coin, partner, theft, mob boss, saint, poverty, slum, strip club, homelessness ...
Place:
lyon
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In order to make his little sick brother's dream come true, Leo and his best mates organize a fake score...but on the d day, they make a mistake and the fake score becomes a real hold up.Here starts the extraordinary adventure of PUBLIC Amis.
Plot:
child cancer, cancer, money, siblings, nudity, hospital, prison, impersonating a police officer, poker, taxi driver, loss of daughter, soccer ...
Place:
lyon, argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
racism, human spirit, fighting the system, discrimination, cross country, society, life is a bitch, hopes, immigrant, misfit, working class, racial slur ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
lyon, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
woman, couples, couple relations, woods, picnic, female nudity, bare breasts, bus, death, fire, jealousy, tumor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lyon, france
Is relevant?
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the Klarsfelds, a Franco-German couple who devoted themselves to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Their pursuit of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," takes them to South America, where he has found ...
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
nazi, nazi hunter, false identity, torture, spy, manhunt, murder, journalist, war crime, abduction, threat, investigation ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
bolivia, peru, south america, lyon, france
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.
Style:
sexy, exciting, semi serious, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
private detective, female killer, female spy, femme fatale, female assassin, assassination attempt, on the run, uncover truth, dishonesty, danger, woman in danger, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montenegro, usa, lyon, spain, europe ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the Swiss alps. Posing as a singer, Lucretia will have to appear on the scene of the higly exclusive ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, eurospy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, assassination, opera singer, corporate crime, secret identity, undercover, hidden identity, danger, disorder, criminal heroes, espionage, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lyon, swiss alps, somalia, europe, alps ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to ...
Style:
sexy, costume drama, sexual, historical drama, captivating ...
Plot:
woman urinating, sex, woman peeing, royal court, hedonism, unfaithful wife, desire, ancient, biopic, femme fatale, couples, love triangle ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 18th century, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france, lyon, europe, versailles
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, emotional, rough ...
Plot:
starting over, family in crisis, prison, family problems, law enforcement, hopes, haunted by the past, siblings relations, graphic violence, going straight, criminal heroes, violent content ...
Time:
80s, year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place:
lyon, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, marriage of convenience, lesbianism, heartache, nazi occupation, swimming pool ...
Time:
year 1983, year 1942, 1950s, year 1952, 50s
Place:
paris france, lyon, france, europe, normandy ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style:
noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, terrorist, espionage, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, nazism, world war, betrayal, resistance movement ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, lyon, marseille, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, indie film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, sister sister relationship, bookstore, nudity, male nudity, female nudity, psychology, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Style:
sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot:
infidelity, couples, lifestyle, writer's life, gender, jazz, ex husband ex wife relationship, jazz singer, extramarital affair, television, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, lyon, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, unfulfilled love, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, filmmaking, death ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1972
Place:
lyon, france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Both detectives on a sickening murder case struggle with being alone and childless in their 40s. As they investigate the young man found beaten and strangled to death, platonic friends Karine and Herve unravel a love story between Vincent, and ...
Style:
sexy, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot:
male nudity, gay interest, police investigation, partner, murder, sex scene, uncover truth, life is a bitch, youth, law enforcement, teenage life, naked man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lyon, france, europe
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