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Frances Ha (2013)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Brazil, United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

Plot: new york city, friendship, dancer, paris, france, freedom, female friendship, loneliness, ...

Cast

Jane Russell

Marilyn Monroe

Charles Coburn

Elliott Reid

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

7.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: U

Story: Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: robbery, paris, france, diamond, parent child relationship, jewelry, double wedding, musical, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Kangana Ranaut

Rajkummar Rao

Lisa Haydon

Mish Boyko

Queen (2014)

7.3 314 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 146 min.

Story: Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

Plot: dancing, friendship, paris, france, self-discovery, roommates, canceled wedding

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg

Woody Harrelson

Isla Fisher

Dave Franco

Now You See Me (2013)

7.3 16.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

Style: shocking, suspenseful

Plot: new york city, paris, france, escape, magic, bank, fbi, vault, ...

Place: las vegas

Cast

Audrey Tautou

Gaspard Ulliel

Dominique Pinon

Chantal Neuwirth

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

Plot: prostitute, amnesia, paris, france, loss of loved one, bodily disabled person, wheelchair, lighthouse, ...

Time: world war i

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Anna Karina

Graziella Galvani

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Pierrot le Fou (1965)

7.3 949 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Plot: paris, france, painting, bourgeoisie, road trip, femme fatale, money, bombing, ...

Place: mediterranean

Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir

Cast

Antoine Tomu00e9

Anouck Hautbois

Benjamin Bollen

Fanny Bloc

Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir (2024)

7.3 547 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: France

Duration: 48 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Ladybug and Cat Noir discover the existence of a parallel universe in which they're supervillains determined to seize the Butterfly Miraculous.

Plot: paris, france, magic, superhero, butterfly, alternative reality, kids, based on tv series, ...

Victor/Victoria (1982)

7.3 454 votes

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Plot: paris, france, cabaret, remake, cross dresser, soprano, gay theme

Time: 1930s

Cast

Gerard Butler

Emmy Rossum

Patrick Wilson

Miranda Richardson

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

Plot: mask, dancing, paris, france, based on novel or book, love triangle, obsession, musical, ...

Time: 1910s

Dracula (2025)

7.2 1.3K votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Country: France

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: R

Story: In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.

Plot: paris, france, vampire, beheading, parfum, gargoyle, gothic horror, music box, ...

Time: 19th century, 15th century

Cast

Elle Fanning

Dane DeHaan

Nat Wolff

Carly Rae Jepsen

Ballerina (2016)

7.2 2.0K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: Canada, France

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

Plot: opera, dance, paris, france, flying, inventor, life's dream, ballet, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Glenn Close

John Malkovich

Michelle Pfeiffer

Uma Thurman

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

7.2 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

Plot: plan, lovesickness, paris, france, based on novel or book, cheating, cynic, sexuality, ...

Time: 18th century, baroque

Cast

Alec Guinness

Stanley Holloway

Sidney James

Alfie Bass

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

7.2 287 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Plot: gold, bank, souvenir, police chase, black and white, ealing, armored car robbery, eiffel tower, ...

Cast

Michael Pitt

Eva Green

Louis Garrel

Anna Chancellor

The Dreamers (2003)

7.2 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

Plot: hotel, first time, paris, france, love triangle, students' movement, sexuality, bathing, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Monica Bellucci

Vincent Cassel

Albert Dupontel

Jo Prestia

Irreversible (2002)

7.2 3.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Plot: prostitute, rape, paris, france, police, nihilism, homophobia, homicide, ...

Cast

Asa Butterfield

Ben Kingsley

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Sacha Baron Cohen

Hugo (2011)

7.2 7.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

Plot: paris, france, based on novel or book, library, clock tower, key, clock, museum, ...

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Anthony Quinn

James Donald

Pamela Brown

Lust for Life (1956)

7.2 207 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Style: melancholy, philosophical, intense

Plot: suicide, paris, france, painting, artist, grave, ear, painter, ...

Time: 19th century

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

7.1 11.0K votes

Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

Plot: london, england, paris, france, detective, detective inspector, steampunk, buddy, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Eric Bana

Daniel Craig

Ciaru00e1n Hinds

Mathieu Kassovitz

Munich (2005)

7.1 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 164 min.

Audience: R

Story: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Plot: hotel room, mossad, assassination, paris, france, hostage, olympic games, intelligence, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: israel

Cast

Jack Lemmon

Tony Curtis

Natalie Wood

Peter Falk

The Great Race (1965)

7.1 375 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 160 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

Plot: new york city, paris, france, car race, inventor, slapstick comedy, wager, steampunk, ...

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