Movies and TV shows set in france – page 5

List of movies set in france

Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style: sexual, thought provoking, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: sex scene, cafe, prostitute, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, lifestyle, against the rules ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 60s, 70s
Place: france, paris france, new york, europe, vienna ...
Is relevant ?
A Real Young Girl (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with ...
Style: sexy, disturbing, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: puberty, eroticism, taboo sex, coming of age, interspecies sex, country girl, exploring sexuality, nymph, voyeur, erotica, animal sex, zoophilia ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 18K
13 (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, black and white, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: overdose, murder, life is a bitch, depression, visceral, reward, contests and competitions, danger, fish out of water, social decay, profanity, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
The Fire Within (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
Style: philosophical, art house, depressing, independent film, existential ...
Plot: suicide, depression, addiction, existentialism, melancholy, alcoholism, drinking, solitude, character study, european, loneliness, mental illness ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe, versailles
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
europe movies
6999
realistic movies
29790
couples movies
13883
Ultimate Heist (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, robbery, car theft, family relations, mafia, revenge, starting over, hopes, gang, heist, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france, riviera, europe
Is relevant ?
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style: emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot: murder, prison, death penalty, tragic love, fighting the system, love, death sentence, introspection, destiny, isolation, social differences, society ...
Time: 19th century, year 2000, 1850s
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
A Man and a Woman (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot: love, fall in love, relationships, auto racing, widow, couples, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, passion, lost soul, motor racing ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
Is relevant ?
I Killed My Mother (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gay son, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay sex, coming of age, family relations, single mother, lgbt teen ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns ...
Style: bleak, tense, realistic, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, robbery, against the rules, rise to the top, prison, prison escape, gangster, mob boss, romancing a criminal, heist, biopic ...
Time: 60s, year 2008, y2k, 2000s, 1950s ...
Place: france, paris france, canada, montreal, africa ...
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 2K
Balthazar (2018)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Facing a series of complex murder cases, new police commander Hélène Bach must learn to work with the brilliant yet exasperating Raphaël, who can make the dead speak like no-one else.
Style: psychological, realistic, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: police, murder, policewoman, investigation, police investigation, pathologist, murder investigation, workplace situations, police detective, nypd, crime scene, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: france
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 14K
Diva (1981)
Genre: Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman ...
Style: visually stunning, visual, lyrical, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: opera singer, classical music, police corruption, music, car chase, chase, opera, murder, gangster, postman, prostitute, stalker ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
Is relevant ?
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, intellectual ...
Plot: countryside, art, painter, artist, father daughter relationship, aging, dance, painting, elderly man, family relations, automobile, french countryside ...
Time: 1910s, year 1984
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
sexy movies
9686
art movies
art
2870
 7.0
 128K
Julie & Julia (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, sweet, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, love, blogger, lifestyle, cookbook, couple relations, blog ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 60s, 1900s ...
Place: paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant ?
Intimate Strangers (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, philosophical ...
Plot: adultery, mistaken identity, obsession, marriage, fall in love, family problems, love and romance, dishonesty, rape, orgasm, crumbling marriage, impostor ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
Is relevant ?
The Dinner Game (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Plot: misfit, screwball, food, farce, dinner, friendship, nothing goes right, goofy hero, ambition, disorder, mistaken identity, manners ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 16K
The Last Metro (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Style: sincere, art house, thought provoking, anthology, manga ...
Plot: world war two, theater, nazi, gestapo, women, world war, wartime life, infidelity, anti semitism, love triangle, actor, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 20th century, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, europe, montmartre paris
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 7K
Eiffel (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past.
Style: romantic, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: french history, civil engineer, love triangle, world's fair, forbidden love, love, based on real people, strike, father daughter relationship, flashback, success, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 1880s
Place: france, paris france
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 2K
De Gaulle (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, interesting
Plot: world war two, french history, husband wife relationship, french president, politician, political leader, politics, political unrest, world politics, philosopher, flashback, male pubic hair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940
Place: france, paris france, brittany, london
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 6.9
 12K
C'est la vie! (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Canada, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a ...
Style: light, humorous, feel good, tragicomedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: wedding planner, event planner, wedding, wedding party, plan gone awry, coworker relationship, interracial romance, extramarital affair, bride and groom, uninhibited rivalry, rivals, rivalry ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: france, paris france
Is relevant ?
The Sweet Escape (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
Style: exciting, light, humorous, witty, captivating ...
Plot: birthday, night watchman, widow, fishing, midlife crisis, dancing, anger, painting, airplane, vacation, shopping mall, birthday present ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 3K
Departure (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in ...
Style: realistic, serious, romantic, controversial, captivating ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay crush, skinny dipping, male masturbation, infatuation, teenage boy, lgbt teen, lgbt, lgbtq, first love, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
Is relevant ?
Haute Cuisine (2012)
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, culinary ...
Plot: cooking and food, chef, workplace, food, workplace situations, cooking, head of state, state affairs, unsupportive coworkers, power struggle, tradition versus modernity, tradition ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2010s
Place: france, paris france, antarctic
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 14K
La Cérémonie (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: murder, village, social differences, social relations, secrets, psychology, manipulation, female psychopath, society, master and servant, village life, family drama ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: france, los angeles, usa, brittany
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
20th century movies
10066
wine movies
1902
hotel movies
4516
My Night at Maud's (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, witty, sexual, talky ...
Plot: philosophy, love, catholic, christmas, marriage, engineer, existentialism, dialogue, morality, obsession, spirit, catholicism ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 2K
Augustine (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot: mental illness, obsession, doctors and patients, hospital, sexual content, hypnosis, epilepsy, illness, medicine, girl, scientist, psychoanalyst ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: france, paris france, europe
Is relevant ?
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
Style: exciting, period piece, entertaining, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: musketeer, heroic mission, political intrigue, swashbuckler, duel, queen, daring rescue, buddies, soldier, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, love and romance ...
Time: 17th century, middle ages, year 2011, ancient times, 2010s ...
Place: france, madagascar, europe, england, paris france ...
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 8K
Danton (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style: political, epic, talky, historically accurate, historical drama ...
Plot: french revolution, revolution, french history, biopic, politics, revolutionary, colonialism, idealism, execution, terrorism, political unrest, world history ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1983, ancient times, 1780s ...
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
Is relevant ?
The Three Musketeers (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: UK, Austria, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly hopes to usurp the throne. Fortunately, ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, romantic, action packed, epic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, boys' night
Plot: musketeer, swashbuckler, medieval, sword fight, three musketeers, treasure hunt, mythology, betrayal, sword, sorcery, renaissance, throne ...
Time: 17th century, middle ages, 90s, ancient times, year 1993 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
Is relevant ?
A Heart of Stone (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, thought provoking, sincere, anthology ...
Plot: love, classical music, music, obsession, violin, passion, unrequited love, love story, glamour, asexual, violinist, solitude ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: france, paris france, europe, hungary, geneva switzerland ...
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 56K
Le Samurai (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loner, hitman, gangster, assassination, police investigation, loneliness, assassin, betrayal, chase, anti hero, organized crime, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
Is relevant ?
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Related movie lists