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6.9

♡ 6

100%

Jean Cocteau Director

Marcel André as Georges

Josette Day as Madeleine

Jean Marais as Michel

Jean Cocteau as Narrator

Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home. Yvonne, Michel's overbearing mother, concocts an elaborate scheme to drive Madeleine away, thus keeping uncomfortable household truths from being exposed.

Her Bridal Night

1956

5.7

♡ 1

Pierre Gaspard-Huit Director

Brigitte Bardot as Chouchou

Roger Tréville as Designy

Micheline Presle as Judith Aurigault

Louis Jourdan as Michel

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.

Stranded

2010

husband wife relationship

5.1

♡ 8

Hugues Martin Director

Saïd Taghmaoui as Aroui

Emmanuel Bonami as Ballant

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Michel

Aurélien Wiik as Saria

Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the place’s Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .

Downhill

2020

English

4.9

♡ 53

36%

Nat Faxon Director

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Billie

Kristofer Hivju as Michel

Zoe Chao as Rosie

Zach Woods as Zach

Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.

All In

2017

Danish

6.3

♡ 2

Thriller

Christian Dyekjær Director

Nanna Koppel as Caroline

Nicolas Bro as Hasse

Michel Saouma as Michel

Serpentine Teyssier as Serpentine

When Claus, a car salesman and a passionate gambler, gets his 19-year-old son Silas mixed up in considerable gambling debts owed to criminals, he is forced to put his own life at risk to save his son.

Rio das Mortes

1971

German

6.2

♡ 1

35%

Comedy

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günther Kaufmann as Günther

Hanna Schygulla as Hanna

Michael König as Michel

Kurt Raab as Tankwart

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Suzanna Andler

4.7

Benoît Jacquot Director

Niels Schneider as Michel

Julia Roy as Monique

Nathan Willcocks as Rivière

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Suzanna Andler

Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.

Paul s'en va

2004

5.2

♡ 2

Comedy

Alain Tanner Director

Carine Sechehaye as Mélanie

Farid Taghavi as Michel

Stefanie Gunther as Mirabelle

Tatiana Auderset as Mirelle

A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn't show up for a class.

Thrill of the Hills

2011

6.7

♡ 1

Richard Roy Director

Evelyne Brochu as Hélène Paradis

Vanessa Gauvin-Brodeur as L'allumeuse

Jean-Nicolas Verreault as Michel

William Monette as Thibault

In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.

To Stay Alive: A Method

2016

English

6.7

♡ 1

Arno Hagers Director

Thomas Haak Wegmann as Marc

Peter Haak Wegmann as Marc's Father

Brecht Hekkema as Michel

Iggy Pop as Self / Narrator

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.

My Father Is a Cleaning Lady

2011

5.6

♡ 1

Comedy

older woman younger man relationship

Saphia Azzeddine Director

Alison Wheeler as Alexandra

Catherine Chevallier as La psy

Olivier Vietti as L'imitateur des Miss

François Cluzet as Michel

Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...

A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love

2022

German

5.5

♡ 2

Romance

Nicolette Krebitz Director

Laura Tonke as Laura

Udo Kier as Michel

Moritz Bleibtreu as Talkshow-Gast

Oskar Melzer as Toni

Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.

Hidden Diary

2009

parent child relationship

6.4

♡ 2

48%

pregnancy

Julie Lopes-Curval Director

Marie-Josée Croze as Louise

Catherine Deneuve as Martine

Michel Duchaussoy as Michel

Romano Orzari as Tom

In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?

The Last Woman

1976

6.4

♡ 3

60%

Marco Ferreri Director

Gérard Depardieu as Gerard

Vittorio Fanfoni as Il flic coi cani

Michel Piccoli as Michel

Ornella Muti as Valerie

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

To Our Loves

1983

7.1

♡ 8

89%

women's sexual identity

Maurice Pialat Director

Caroline Legendre as Géraldine

Matthias Sanderson as Le Moniteur

Christophe Odent as Michel

Sandrine Bonnaire as Suzanne

Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.

Stranger by the Lake

2013

6.9

♡ 11

94%

Alain Guiraudie Director

Pierre Deladonchamps as Franck

Patrick d'Assumçao as Henri

Christophe Paou as Michel

François-Renaud Labarthe as Pascal Ramière

Frank spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.

For a Woman

2013

6.6

♡ 1

90%

Diane Kurys Director

Nicolas Duvauchelle as Jean

Clotilde Hesme as Madeleine

Benoît Magimel as Michel

Clément Sibony as Sacha

After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family secret, the young woman learns that her mother once succumbed to an amorous passion that was as intense as it was short-lived...

Frères

2024

6.3

♡ 4

Olivier Casas Director

Jeanne Abraham as Carmen

Anaïs Parello as Laura

Yvan Attal as Michel

Mathieu Kassovitz as Patrice

Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.

The Big Feast

1973

7.0

♡ 19

60%

Marco Ferreri Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello

Michel Piccoli as Michel

Philippe Noiret as Philippe

James Campbell as Zack

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

Smoke Signals

2024

6.4

♡ 3