Parisian movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant parisian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous, melancholic, talky and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with parisian, love and romance, love, male female relationship, couples, friendship, urban, female nudity, loneliness and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as parisian: Little White Lies (2010), A Monster in Paris (2011), 4 Days in France (2016), On the Edge (1995), The Ultimate Accessory (2013), Kids of Töday (2011), Dead Beautiful (2010), A Night in Versailles (1992), The Fool (2019), Spellbound (2023).

List of parisian movies

Little White Lies (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies ...
Style: semi serious, talky, emotional, humorous, thought provoking ...
Plot: friendship, closeted homosexual, vacation, beach, repressed homosexual, beach house, gay interest, unrequited love, accident, gay, restaurant, secret ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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A Monster in Paris (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paris,1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colorful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Bird of Paradise cabaret, an eccentric ...
Style: feel good, thought provoking, fairy tale, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: transformation, music, obsessive quest, love and romance, friendship, buddies, heroes, unlikely partners, social misfits, heroic mission, monster, vandalism ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, 1910s, 2010s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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4 Days in France (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone ...
Style: psychological, visually appealing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, homosexuality, gay sex, lgbtq, gay relationship, breakup, loneliness, stranger, countryside, awkward situation, parisian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alps
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 5.4
 33
On the Edge (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A man. A woman. A single night in Paris. Such is the basic framework of this French romance that begins when middle-aged middle-class housewife Clara, happily drives to the airport to meet her husband who was supposed to come in on the evening ...
Style: emotional, reflective, realistic, melancholic
Plot: infidelity, airport, self discovery, character study, chance meeting, parisian, freedom, intimate, loneliness, introspection, bittersweet, midlife crisis ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
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The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, feel good ...
Plot: adoption, family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, family in crisis, disorder, life turned upside down, coming of age, parisian, child, parenthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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Kids of Töday (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The first documentary about France's post punk and cold wave scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During an art show at agnès b. gallery in 2008, Jean-François Sanz has gathered some exceptional material that brings to light, through ...
Style: avant garde, retro, experimental, realistic
Plot: urban, underground, counterculture, post punk, subculture, portrait, nightlife, parisian, biopic, performance art, revolutionary, punk ...
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 7.6
 273
Dead Beautiful (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: As group leader of the Judicial Police in Paris, Martin is responsible for investigating the most atrocious and misogynistic crimes committed against society. Distrustful of everyone, he bears the marks of both his past successes and failures. ...
Style: suspense, detective, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, homicide detective, killer, police procedural, violence against women, murder, murder investigation, killing, police investigation, teamwork, forensics, crime investigation ...
Place: paris france
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A Night in Versailles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 45 min.
Story: A young man in Versailles invites a Parisian girl to his place for dinner. The evening is thrown into turmoil.
Style: romantic comedy, lighthearted
Plot: dating, embarrassment, misunderstanding, awkwardness, parisian, intimate, young couple, wooing, dinner party, slice of life, youth, suburban life ...
Place: versailles
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 4.8
 622
The Fool (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange ...
Style: humorous, feel good, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: adult
Plot: satire, social satire, husband wife relationship, farce, infidelity, adultery, deception, escapades, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, humour ...
Place: france
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 4.3
 292
Spellbound (2023)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Cece Parker Jones' life is turned upside-down when she discovers she's a real witch. Magical mayhem ensues at the Paris Opera Ballet School when Cece begins to practice her spell work, making things harder to juggle as she balances new ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, lighthearted
Audience: teen drama
Plot: ballet, dance, magic, school, ballerina, witchcraft, supernatural, young adult, ballet school, dancing, teenage life, teenager ...
Place: paris france
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 4.6
 147
Paid (2006)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot: hitman, criminal heroes, gangster, dishonesty, redemption, moral ambiguity, call girl, underworld, regret, organized crime, sacrifice, anti hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland
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 6.2
 331
Cycle of Time (2025)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1950s France, Helene and Michel lead a simple life until a freak accident in 2025 leads to Helene becoming a bank executive and Michel struggling with unemployment and depression. Their children grow up in a technology-dominated world.
Style: family saga, melancholic, reflective, hilarious
Audience: adult
Plot: domestic drama, depression, married couple, switching roles, unemployment, nostalgia, social commentary, social change, freak accident, adaptation, alternate timeline, parisian ...
Time: 1950s
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Cesar & Rosalie (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Claude Sautet's romantic drama stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman involved with successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. ...
Style: sexy, anthology, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, obsession, love, friendship, couple relations, violent man, male female relationship, jealous lover, violent outburst, passion, businessman, jealousy ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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French Postcards (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: teenager, erotica, age difference, parisian, architecture, american abroad, college student, coming of age, college, bare chested male, nudity, sightseeing ...
Time: year 1979
Place: paris france, europe, france
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 7.3
 17K
The Last Metro (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 132 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, gestapo, nazi, women, world war, passion, anti semitism, love triangle, infidelity, wartime life, actor ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1980
Place: france, paris france, europe, montmartre paris, germany ...
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 7.0
 1K
The Discreet (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of ...
Style: sexy, sexual, anthology, contemplative, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: writers, parisian, infidelity, vengeance, manipulation, alcohol abuse, lovers reunited, power relations, couples, thirtysomething life, dishonesty, writer's life ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france
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Good Old Daze (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They ...
Style: non-linear, realistic, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: deaf, coming of age, parisian, adolescence, hospital, high school, memory, friendship, high school reunion, best friend, friends, overdose ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1975
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.3
 17K
Read My Lips (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Style: tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, breathtaking, touching ...
Plot: parole officer, mute or deaf, thief, disappearance, deaf woman, loneliness, bartender, deafness, ex convict, relationships, opposites attract, workplace ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.1
 141K
The Dreamers (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: incest, sexuality, protest, sexual relations, sex, nudity, youth, couples, love triangle, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, sex scene ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Regular Lovers (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 183 min.
Story: 1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about ...
Style: realistic, serious, black and white, touching, captivating ...
Plot: politics, idealism, coming of age, twins, hopes, sexual relations, injustice, couple relations, love affair, chaos and mayhem, love triangle, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, year 2005, 60s, year 1969
Place: france, paris france, europe, morocco
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2 Days in Paris (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style: sexy, humorous, romantic, witty, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: male nudity, profanity, parenthood, fish out of water, society, lifestyle, relationship problems, relationships, hipster, taxi driver, lovers, vacation ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
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 6.8
 13K
Paris (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, friendship, fall in love, city life, artist, self discovery, age difference, dancing, love, single mother, heart disease, parisian ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris
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Paris-Manhattan (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In Paris, the pharmacist Alice has been an obsessed Woody Allen fan since she was fifteen and has seen all his movies and talks to him alone in her room. When she meets Pierre in a night-club, she finds that he loves jazz and she believes he is her ...
Style: humorous, feel good, romantic, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: thirtysomething life, love and romance, obsession, love triangle, love affair, lifestyle, love, looking for love, opposites attract, male objectification, teaching the ways of the world, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 5.2
 2K
Breathless (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband, Dale’s, criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do with Dale after his latest ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: accidental killing, dark humor, murder, private detective, law enforcement, country, female protagonist, white trash, sheriff, vengeance, parisian, strong violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
Style: erotic, sexy, controversial, art house, cynical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, tango, erotica, sex scene, strong sexual content, hotel, suicide, voyeurism, older man younger woman relationship, lust, widower, tragedy ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 5.1
 336
Lost and Found (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Franck wants a quiet life and a fresh start. After 15 years of a failed theatre career, he finds a seemingly perfect job: museum guard. But that is before he meets Sybille, his neurotic colleague.
Style: semi serious, entertaining, disturbing, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: museum, relationships, workplace, coworker, satire, male female relationship, co worker co worker relationship, security guard, couple relations, workplace situations, personal growth, intimate ...
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L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him ...
Style: sex comedy, light hearted, romantic comedy, erotic
Audience: adult
Plot: seduction, wooing, waiting, character study, deadline, sexual awakening, irony, awkwardness, midlife crisis, urban, prostitution, unrequited love ...
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 7.0
 725
Strange Affair (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his ...
Plot: female nudity, store manager, office work, boss, fired from the job, employer employee relationship, transvestite, restaurant, funeral, male nudity, job, businessman ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: france, paris france
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 5.7
 2K
Vampires (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
TV show
Story: A Paris teen who's half human, half vampire grapples with her emerging powers and family turmoil as she's pursued by a secret vampire community.
Style: gothic, sincere, light, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Plot: vampire, female vampire, nordic, ancient, vampire human love, young lovers, impossible love, power of love, half human, secret, teenage girl, teenager ...
Place: paris france
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 7.0
 8K
Yannick (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story: In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Style: metafiction, dark comedy, independent film, black humor
Plot: theater, actor, theatre play, absurd humor, entertainment, hostage situation, hostage, boredom, male protagonist, awkward situation, ordinary people, traumatic experience ...
Place: paris france
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