French Dramas - Blu-ray Movie Genres

Juliette (Brigitte Bardot), an 18-year-old orphan with an insatiable appetite for pleasure, is living it up in sun-drenched St. Tropez. As she shakes the town to its very core, her naive husband, Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), endures every insult known to man on his doomed quest to tame her. Visionary auteur Roger Vadim directs this naughty international phenomenon, which showcases Bardot in her first breakout role.

a.k.a.	Et Dieu... créa la femme Und immer lockt das Weib
Genres	Classics, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Classic Dramas, Foreign Classics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, Foreign Romance, Foreign Steamy Romance, France, French Dramas, French Language, Romance, Romantic Dramas, Steamy Romance
Crew	Roger Vadim (Director)
Cast	Jean-Louis Trintignant, Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim
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While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world.

a.k.a.	L'Autre Monde
Genres	Crime Dramas, Crime Thrillers, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, Foreign Thrillers, France, French Dramas, French Language, French Thrillers, Thrillers
Crew	Gilles Marchand (Director)
Cast	Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda
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From the Oscar-nominated filmmakers of Persepolis comes a captivating live-action fairytale set in 1950s Tehran. After the destruction of his favorite violin, a renowned musician loses all taste for life and teeters on the edge of oblivion.

a.k.a.	Poulet aux prunes
Genres	Comedy, Dark Humor & Black Comedies, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Comedies, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, France, French Comedies, French Dramas, French Language
Crew	Vincent Paronnaud (Director), Marjane Satrapi (Director)
Cast	Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani, Eric Caravaca, Chiara Mastroianni, Mathis Bour, Enna Balland, Didier Flamand, Serge Avedikian, Rona Hartner, Jamel Debbouze, Isabella Rossellini, Christian Friedel, Julie Goldstein
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Music teacher Clement Mathieu lands a job at a boys' boarding school populated by delinquents and orphans. Sensing potential in the rambunctious ruffians, Mathieu forms a choir to rein in his charges through the transforming power of song.

a.k.a.	Les choristes
Genres	20th Century Period Pieces, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, France, French Dramas, French Language, Period Pieces
Crew	Christophe Barratier (Director)
Cast	Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Marie Bunel, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Didier Flamand, Maxence Perrin, Paul Charieras, Grégory Gatignol, Carole Weiss, Thomas Blumenthal, Philippe Du Janerand, Cyril Bernicot, Erick Desmarestz
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Russian maestro Andrey seizes a chance to reunite his orchestra and reclaim his life 30 years after politics destroyed his career. After intercepting an invitation sent to the Bolshoi, he gathers a ragtag band of ex-colleagues to realize his dream.

a.k.a.	Le Concert
Genres	Comedy, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Comedies, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, France, French Comedies, French Dramas, French Language
Crew	Radu Mihaileanu (Director)
Cast	Aleksey Guskov, Dmitri Nazarov, Mélanie Laurent, François Berléand, Miou-Miou, Valeriy Barinov, Lionel Abelanski, Laurent Bateau, Anna Kamenkova, Aleksandr Komissarov
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Cyrano de Bergerac (Gerard Depardieu) pines for his cousin Roxanne, but won't reveal his affections for fear that she'll find his ugly features off-putting. So, Cyrano instructs the studly but stupid Christian how to woo her. Roxanne is entranced by Christian's beautiful poetry and letters -- all ghosted by Cyrano. But Christian dies in battle before he can tell Roxanne the truth. Depardieu won the Best Actor award at Cannes for his performance.

Genres	Drama, Foreign, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, Foreign Romance, France, French Dramas, French Language, Romance, Romantic Dramas
Crew	Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Director)
Cast	Gérard Depardieu, Vincent Perez, Roland Bertin, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Pierre Maguelon, Ludivine Sagnier, Philippe Volter, Philippe Volter
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Acting as a metaphor for revolutionary events unfolding in 1980s Poland, this historical drama follows Danton and Robespierre, allies during the French Revolution who wind up on opposite sides of the struggle to control the country's future.

Genres	Art House, Classics, Courtroom Dramas, Drama, Dramas Based on Real Life, Foreign, Foreign Classics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, France, French Dramas, French Language, Independent, Political Dramas
Crew	Andrzej Wajda (Director)
Cast	Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Ronald Guttman, Gerard Hardy, Tadeusz Huk
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It's 1994, and Jacqueline (Ruth Nirere), a young Tutsi woman, works as a servant for a European family in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. As the rebel onslaught draws nearer, Jacqueline's employers flee the country, leaving her to find a way to survive on her own. She meets a fellow fugitive (Afazali Dewaele) in the nearby woods, and together, they seek refuge from the violence as genocide begins to tear Rwanda apart.

a.k.a.	Le jour où Dieu est parti en voyage Ruanda: The Day God Walked Away
Genres	Drama, Foreign, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, France, French Dramas
Crew	Philippe van Leeuw (Director)
Cast	Ruth Nirere, Afazali Dewaele, Lola Tuyaerts
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Mathieu Amalric stars as author and Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby in this adaptation of Bauby's autobiography, which he dictated by blinking his left eye after a stroke rendered him mute and paralyzed.

a.k.a.	Le Scaphandre et le Papillon Perhonen Lasikuvussa
Genres	20th Century Period Pieces, Art House, Biographies, Drama, Dramas Based on Bestsellers, Dramas Based on Contemporary Literature, Dramas Based on Real Life, Dramas Based on the Book, Foreign, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, Foreign Languages, France, French Dramas, French Language, Independent, Inspirational Stories, Medical Dramas, Period Pieces
Crew	Julian Schnabel (Director), Janusz Kaminski (Cinematographer)
Cast	Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Isaach De Bankolé, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz López Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow
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At a spirit-crushing juvenile correctional facility, teenage offenders Butch, Davis and Angel desperately struggle to steer clear of trouble while simultaneously confronting violent challenges from aggressive inmates and abusive adults.

Genres	Crime Dramas, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Countries, Foreign Dramas, France, French Dramas, Independent, Indie Dramas
Crew	Kim Chapiron (Director)
Cast	Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales, Lawrence Bayne, Alexander Conti, Tim Turnell, Dewshane Williams, Shawn Doucette, William Christopher Ellis, Jason Foote
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