Locating French Language Films
The following films are primarily in French. All films are listed with the English title first. Use the call numbers to locate the films in the Media Collection (2nd floor). You may check out Media Collection items for four weeks.
Mango Languages
Mango Languages has two full-length movies you can watch within the database with simultaneous French and English subtitles. Click the Explore option and then Mango Premiere to access them. Requires Flash.
- Around a Small Mountain = 36 Vues du Pic Saint Loup: Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel.
- La Moustache: When a man shaves off his mustache, a trademark he's had for years, no one around him notices, instead insisting he's never even had one. Is he going insane, or is this some kind of strange conspiracy?
Video Titles
The 400 Blows = Les quatre cents coupsCall Number: MOVIES & TV 400 BLOWSThirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.- Amélie = Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie PoulainCall Number: MOVIES & TV AMÉLIEAmelie is looking for love, and perhaps the meaning of life in general. She grows up in an original, if slightly dysfunctional family. She learns that she must reach out to others to achieve happiness.
Anatomy of a Fall = Anatomie d'une chuteCall Number: MOVIES & TV / ANATOMY OF AA woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
Andalusian Dog = Un chien andalouCall Number: MOVIES & TV CHIEN ANDALOUA surrealistic movie written over the course of a three day exchange of fantasies and dreams between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
Angel-ACall Number: MOVIES & TV ANGEL-AWhen a down-on-his-luck gambler tries to drown himself, he winds up rescuing a gorgeous and mysterious blonde. As they set out on a mission across Paris, he discovers that his smart, spontaneous, sexy companion may really be Heaven-sent.
ArtemisiaCall Number: MOVIES & TV ARTEMESIAArtemisia Gentileschi is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion of painting. She convinces a renowned artist to tutor her. He not only liberates her into the world of art but initiates her into the world of sex and love.
Au Revoir les EnfantsCall Number: MOVIES & TV AU REVOIR LESTells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie, until a secret is revealed.
The Barbarian Invasions = Les invasions barbaresCall Number: MOVIES & TV BARBARIAN INV.A terminally ill middle-aged man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
The Beautiful Troublemaker = La belle noiseuseCall Number: MOVIES & TV BELLE NOISEUSEThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Beauty and the Beast = La belle et la bêteCall Number: MOVIES & TV BEAUTY ANDTells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him.
Because I Was a Painter = Parce que j'étais peintreCall Number: MEDIA NX650.H57 B425 2015Following the liberation of the Nazi death camps, thousands of hidden artworks created by inmates were discovered, offering profound insights into life inside the camps. Artists and Holocaust survivors explore the meaning of these artifacts in the greater context of the Holocaust.
Being 17 = Quand on a 17 ansCall Number: MOVIES & TV BEING 17Damien and Thomas are French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but can't stand each other. When circumstances bring Damien's mother Marianne to invite Thomas to live them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging attraction and complicated desires.- Belle and Sebastian = Belle et SébastienCall Number: MOVIES & TV BELLE AND SEB.A six-year-old boy and his dog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters.
Black and White in Color = La victoire en chantantCall Number: MOVIES & TV BLACK AND WH.An irrepressible and timely satire on racism, colonialism, and war. Set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War, a group of French colonials learn that their country is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their German neighbors who reside in a colony up the river.
Blue is the Warmest Color = La vie d'AdèleCall Number: MOVIES & TV BLUE IS THEAdele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Breathless = À bout de souffleCall Number: MOVIES & TV BREATHLESSA small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
Cafe au LaitCall Number: MOVIES & TV CAFÉ AU LAITAn interracial romantic trio come to grips with joint parenthood when a pregnant woman has two lovers and refuses to reveal which of them is the father.
Café de FloreCall Number: MOVIES & TV CAFÉ DE FLOREA love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. A mystical and fantastical odyssey on love.
Camille ClaudelCall Number: MOVIES & TV CAMILLE CLAUDELA historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel.
CarmenCall Number: MEDIA M1500.B629 C4 1999Film version of the classic opera, with Migenes-Johnson as Carmen, and Domingo as Don José. Carmen seduces Don José who then deserts his post, his family and his honor. When the dashing toreador Escamillo wins Carmen's affections, the spurned Don José is filled with rage and jealousy, and tragedy ensues.
Change Nothing = Ne change rienCall Number: MEDIA ML420.B13328 N4 2011French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar is seen rehearsing, recording, performing, and practicing with a singing coach for an opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach.
The Chorus = Les choristesCall Number: MOVIES & TV CHORUSThe new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music.
A Christmas Tale = Un conte de NoëlCall Number: MOVIES & TV CHRISTMAS TALEThe troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
Chronicle of a Summer (Paris 1960) = Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)Call Number: MEDIA BJ1482 .C57 2013By interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people and give us a document of a time and place with extraordinary depth.
The Class = Entre les mursCall Number: MOVIES & TV CLASSTeacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
The Conquest = La conquêteCall Number: MOVIES & TV CONQUESTNicolas Sarkozy's rise to the French presidency through the lens of his unraveling marriage to then-wife Cecilia. This lampoon depicts the future president as a bold and unashamed virtuoso of political combat, whose inattention to his disintegrating domestic partnership emerges as his chief vulnerability.
DantonCall Number: MOVIES & TV DANTONGeorges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.
Diabolique = Les DiaboliquesCall Number: MOVIES & TV DIABOLIQUEThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal hatch a plan to murder him while having the perfect alibi. They carry out the plan...but then his body disappears.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly = Le scaphandre et le papillonCall Number: MOVIES & TV DIVING BELLThe story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, French editor of Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke at the age of 43, paralyzing his entire body except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
East-West = Est-ouestCall Number: MOVIES & TV EAST/WESTFollowing World War II, a Russian doctor decides to be repatriated to the Soviet Union in 1946, along with his French wife and their son. Authoritarian society comes as a shock; interrogation, suspicion, shared living arrangements, and other austerities take their toll. The story eventually revolves around the struggle of Marie to decide if she should stay or leave.
Ernest & Celestine = Ernest et CélestineCall Number: MOVIES & TV ERNEST & CELES.The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.
A French Village Season 1, 1940 = Un village françaisCall Number: MOVIES & TV FRENCH VILLAGE / SEASON 1The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
GabrielleCall Number: MOVIES & TV GABRIELLEThe musically gifted but developmentally challenged Gabrielle lives in a group home with four other adults who have similar disabilities. When she falls in love with a similarly challenged young man in her choir, she discovers that both the families and the social workers are alarmed; can these two handle an adult relationship?
Haiti My Love = Ayiti mon amourCall Number: MOVIES & TV HAITI MY LOVEA grieving teenager discovers he has a superpower, an old fisherman thinks the cure for his ailing wife can be found in the sea, and a muse struggles to exit the story her author is penning, in this magical neorealist fable set in a coastal village Haiti, five years after a devastating earthquake.
The Hedgehog = Le hérissonCall Number: MOVIES & TV HEDGEHOGThe timely story of Paloma a young girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father's old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, she begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renee Michel. She begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath the prickliest of exteriors.
Hidden = CachéCall Number: MOVIES & TV HIDDENA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Hiroshima, My Love = Hiroshima mon amourCall Number: MOVIES & TV HIROSHIMA MYA Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
The IntouchablesCall Number: MOVIES & TV INTOUCHABLESAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring = Manon des sourcesCall Number: MOVIES & TV JEAN DE FLOR.Jean de Florette: A man inherits a farm from his mother, but his powerful neighbor plots to steal it from him. Manon of the Spring: 10 years after his death, Jean's daughter finds out about their neighbor's treachery, and determines to take revenge.
The Jewish Cardinal = Métis de DieuCall Number: MEDIA BX1378.5 .J49 2012The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood.
Joan the Maid = Jeanne la pucelleCall Number: MOVIES & TV JOAN THE MAIDFilm tells the story of Joan of Arc. Battles describes her early life, hearing the voices, and the victory over the English. Prisons describes her capture, imprisonment, trial, and execution.
Jules and Jim = Jules et JimCall Number: MOVIES & TV JULES AND JIMDecades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
The Kid with a Bike = Le gamin au véloCall Number: MOVIES & TV KID WITH A BIKEAbandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hair-dresser agrees to foster him on weekends.
La Femme NikitaCall Number: MOVIES & TV FEMME NIKITAA cop-killer junkie is forced by the government to become an undercover assassin or face a life in prison.
The Last of the Unjust = Le dernier des injustesCall Number: MEDIA DS135.C97 L378 2014In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution.
Last Year at Marienbad = L'année dernière à MarienbadCall Number: MOVIES & TV LAST YEAR ATSurrounded by guests in an old mansion, the narrator tries to persuade a woman that they have met before, and that she has agreed to leave her husband and go away with him.
La Vie en Rose = La mômeCall Number: MOVIES & TV VIE EN ROSEA dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf, considered one of the great performers of France.
Let's Visit Paris = Visitez Paris!Call Number: MEDIA PC2065 .V57 2002Overview of Paris, including the public transportation system, monuments and museums, government buildings, commercial centers, religious structures, gardens, forests, zoos, restaurants, entertainment and nightlife, and other attractions.
Look at Me = Comme une imageCall Number: MOVIES & TV LOOK AT MEA French girl gifted with a great voice, has a complex about her weight and her appearance.
Love = AmourCall Number: MOVIES & TV AMOURA touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
LumumbaCall Number: MOVIES & TV LUMUMBADramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead Zaire to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served for less than a year as the first elected prime minister, until he was brutally assassinated.
Madame BovaryCall Number: MOVIES & TV MADAME BOV.Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and a passion that can never be fulfilled. Feeling trapped in a loveless marriage, Emma indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of shocking affairs which threaten to destroy her and everyone around her.- The Manuscripts of TimbuktuCall Number: MEDIA DT551.9.T55 M36 2009This documentary demonstrates that Timbuktu was a leading cultural, economic, scientific and religious center that made a significant and lasting impact on Africa and the entire world. In French and Arabic.
The Missing Picture = Image manquanteCall Number: MEDIA DS554.8 .M577 2014Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses clay figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.
My Father's Glory = La gloire de mon pereCall Number: MOVIES & TV MY FATHER'SA young boy spends a special summer in the country with his family and strengthens the bond he has with his father.
My Uncle = Mon oncleCall Number: MOVIES & TV MON ONCLEA comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
Night and Fog = Nuit et brouillardCall Number: MEDIA D805.A2 N84 2003Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Paris, I Love You = Paris, je t'aimeCall Number: MOVIES & TV PARIS, I LOVEThrough the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened. Stories are in French, English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic.
The Passion of Joan of Arc = La passion de Jeanne d'ArcCall Number: MOVIES & TV PASIÓN DE JUANADramatization of the life of Joan of Arc centering on her trial and execution. Silent with French intertitles and Spanish subtitles.
PersepolisCall Number: MOVIES & TV PERSEPOLISA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
The Piano Teacher = La pianisteCall Number: MOVIES & TV PIANO TEACHERErika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter, a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life.
Priceless = Hors de prixCall Number: MOVIES & TV PRICELESSThrough a set of wacky circumstances, a young gold digger mistakenly woos a mild-mannered bartender, thinking he's a wealthy suitor.
The Returned: The Complete First Season = Les revenantsCall Number: MOVIES & TV RETURNED / SEASON 1A seemingly random group of people find themselves in a state of confusion as they attempt to return home. What they don't know is that they have been dead for several years, and no one is expecting them back.
The Return of Martin Guerre = Le retour de Martin GuerreCall Number: MOVIES & TV RETURN OF MAR.The plot revolves around the unraveling of the identity of a 16th century peasant who disappeared as a young husband, and the man who returns to resume his marriage nine years later.
RookiesCall Number: MEDIA LA696 .A45 2024This documentary follows young Parisian dancers training for their A levels while intensely pursuing professional dance careers, showcasing the physical and emotional challenges they overcome.
RosettaCall Number: MOVIES & TV ROSETTAYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
The Rules of the Game = La régle du jeuCall Number: MOVIES & TV RULES OF THECloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
Spanish Apartment = L'auberge EspagnoleCall Number: MOVIES & TV SPANISH APART.Straight-laced French college senior Xavier moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange programme, much to the dismay of his girlfriend Martine. Sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos.
That Obscure Object of Desire = Cet obscur objet du désirCall Number: MOVIES & TV THAT OBSCURERecounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Things to Come = L'avenirCall Number: MOVIES & TV THINGS TO COMEA philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
TimbuktuCall Number: MOVIES & TV TIMBUKTUA cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
TomboyCall Number: MOVIES & TV TOMBOYA family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.
Two Days, One Night = Deux jours, une nuitCall Number: MOVIES & TV TWO DAYS ONELiège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.
La VéritéCall Number: MOVIES & TV VERITÉA liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?
ZCall Number: MOVIES & TV ZA Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Zou ZouCall Number: MOVIES & TV ZOU ZOUA star walks out on her sugardaddy producer for true love, and a talented Cinderella takes her place, saves the show and is hailed as a new sensation opening night.
