Englsih Title: The Black Tulip Director: Christian-Jaques 1964 Classic Swashbuckling Adventure Running Time: 1hr 55mins Cert: U French with English Subtitles "A shining example of a lavish French historical drama with a great sense of fun, staring Alan Delon – twice! – in the perfect marriage of comedy and swash-buckling adventure" Alain Delon excels in […]

English Title: Cleo from 5 to 7 Director: Agnès Varda 1962 Drama Running Time: 1hr 30mins Cert: PG French with English Subtitles "The portrait of a woman painted on to a documentary about Paris and a must watch for it’s defining role in French New Wave cinema" Agnès Varda‘s vibrant portrayal of the energy and […]

English Title: Let It Rain Director: Agnès Jaoui 2008 Comedy/Drama Running Time 1hr 50mins Cert: 12A French with English Subtitles "A delightfully bitter-sweet slice of life from arguably the most successful woman in contemporary French Cinema" It’s August, the weather is bad and it’s raining. It’s not normal, but nothing is going to be normal. […]

English Title: French Twist Director: Josiane Balasko 1995 Quirky Comedy Running Time 1hr 44mins Cert: 15 French with English Subtitles "A farcical, dynamic love triangle like no other you have seen in any cinema." A womanising estate agent and his gorgeous Spanish wife are about to have their lives turned upside down by a lesbian […]

English Title: My Donkey, My Lover & I Director: Caroline Vignal 2022 Screwball Romantic Comedy Running Time 1hr 36mins Cert: 15 French with English Subtitles "A warm comedy of unparalleled Frenchness about infidelity and animal magnetism" A Parisienne primary school teacher Antoinette accidentally-on-purpose goes on the same donkey-trekking holiday as her lover’s family. Antoinette is […]

English Title: Peppermint Soda Director: Diane Kurys 1977 Coming of Age Satire/Comedy Drama Running Time: 1hr 37mins Cert: 12A French with English Subtitles "As fresh today as it was when it was released 40 years ago – a coming of age story that is just like peppermint soda; fizzy and pleasing going down, then tingles […]

English Title: Things To Come Director: Mia Hansen-Løve 2016 Drama Cert: 12A Running time: 1hr 42mins French with English Subtitles "A terrific film, utterly real, that involves you emotionally and intellectually." Isabelle Hupert is note-perfect in this moving account of a philosophy teacher spiralling through a series of late-life crises. We meet her character, Nathalie […]

English Title: The Grand Highway/The Long Path Director: Jean-Loup Hubert 1987 Coming of Age/Comedy/Drama Running Time: 1hr 47mins Cert: 15 French with English Subtitles "A charming, bitter-sweet coming of age drama captured brilliantly with a minimum of sentimentality, played out by a remarkable childhood double-act" Louis is nine and lives in Paris. He spends his […]

English Title: Queen Margot Director: Patrice Chéreau 1994 Lavish Historical Drama/Literary Adaption Running Time: 2hrs 39mins Cert: 18 French with English Subtitles "Two hours of stabbing, shooting, goring, poisoning, incest, beheading and defenestration. A lavish and spirited adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s novel that brings French history kicking and screaming into the town square, although both […]