The Dirty Dozen (1967), A Very Long Engagement (2004), A Summer's Tale (1996), Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Louise by the Shore (2016), Coming to Terms With the Dead (1994), Ballerina (2016), The Color of Lies (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Brittany movies.
Storyline: A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day.
Plot Keywords: commando mission, psychopath, world war two, commando, commando unit, behind enemy lines, suicide mission ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans finish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancée to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul.
Plot Keywords: delirium, deserter, crucifix, hand wound, self mutilation, gendarme, photographer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While having strong romantic feelings for one woman, a young man finds himself being drawn to a few others.
Plot Keywords: friendship, archaeologist, photograph, cynicism, jealousy, cousin cousin relationship, volleyball ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Monsieur Hulot goes on a holiday to a seaside resort, but accidents and misunderstandings follow him where ever he goes. The peace and quiet of the hotel guests don't last very long with Hulot around, because although his intensions are good, they always turn out catastrophically.
Plot Keywords: holiday, beach, very little dialogue, seaside, hotel, vacation, swimming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a wonderfully sweet yet poignant story, Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: character name in title, alone, loneliness, crab, breaking a window, breaking and entering, cabin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man around 40 is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them : a boy, Jumbo, aged 9 ; Francois, aged 30, and his sister Zaza, around 40. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished. How to keep on living after this ?—Yepok
Plot Keywords: 1990s, cancer, episodic, f rated, beach, death, loss of sister ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1880s, Félicie, a poor orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina, but lacks formal training, runs away from her orphanage in rural Brittany with her best friend, Victor, a young inventor. Together they go to beautiful Paris, but they soon become separated, and Victor becomes an office boy in Gustave Eiffel's workshop. Félicie finds her way to the Paris Opera, where the guard catches her trespassing. She is rescued by a mysterious cleaner with a limp, Odette, who agrees to let Félicie stay with her until she gets on her feet. Odette works for both the Opera and for the cruel and imperious Régine Le Haut, a wealthy restaurant owner. While helping Odette clean, Félicie spies Regine's daughter, Camille, practicing ballet. Camille sees Félicie, insults her, and throws Félicie's treasured music box out of the window, breaking it. As Félicie takes it to Victor for repair, she intercepts the postman who brings a letter from the Opera admitting Camille to the celebrated school of ...
Plot Keywords: one word title, 19th century, dance, dancing, dancer, cleaning, cleaning lady ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: suspicion, brittany, boat ride, beach, autopsy, audio surveillance, artist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eighteen-year-old Mathieu vacations at the beach with his family when he meets local teen Cédric. After an extremely erotic kiss, the boys begin a passionate romance, complete with skinny-dipping at night, nude dancing on the beach and intense lovemaking in the dunes; yet, as Mathieu grapples with his sexuality and copes with his sick mother, absent father and annoying kid sister, his bond with Cédric grows stronger until it bursts.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: suicide attempt, depression, male frontal nudity, gay romance, self destructiveness, bumper car, train ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.—Peter Davis <pdavis@macollamh.ucd.ie>
Plot Keywords: 1950s, year 1940, year 1944, wedding, year 1939, 1940s, f rated ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Into the small river port of St.Pierre-le-Port within Brittany under German occupation during the height of World War Two sneaks French patriot Jean Batiste who is on the run after illegally having left San Lazear seeking safe passage to England. Befriended by townsfolk including waitress Frisette, Jean is turned away for lodging by innkeeper's wife Fauntel before finding refuge with baker's mother L. Labouche who bluffs away Nazi searcher Kutrz. Lieutenant Rabineau brings word to Commandant Lazarette and aide Von Kleist that the local resistance movement has fired the petrol dump, then next day 54 German cars are demobilized with flat tires, each indignity marked by leaving a small white Lorraine Cross as the symbol of Free France. Instead of tightening security, Lazarett is persuaded by supposed-collaborators mayor Pierre DuSchen and daughter Marie to lessen patrols which might reap better feeling from the populace. Issued covering papers by the mayor's secretary Boileau, Jean secures shipyard employment before white-bearded Matthueu whisks him underground where rebel Pogo is smuggling three English sailor out by channel. Intent on getting details of the German submarine base at St. Nazaire back to England. Jean is assured that Marie is only pretending cooperation with the Boche but later spots her at a Hitler-featured movie where Lazarette clears the theatre when the audience lets loose with catcalls. Warned the vital ammunition train will be sabotaged, Lazarret learns from German-blooded cafe waitress informant Germaine Bertan that signalmen have been switched. Taken to the Stationmaster's office upon receiving a note from the freedom fighters, Marie furtively slips into the machinery room and pulls a track switch to send the ammo train exploding into a freight-car amid confusion in negating a fake bomb. After Lazarette has shot citizen Moreau who refused to yield on the pavement, Germaine calls the Nazi high command to inform of the underground hideout to which she has trailed Pogo. Horrified to see Jean with whom she has fallen in love also enter. Germaine kills Lazarret and badly wounds Von Keist prompting Gestapo official Seitz to order 50 hostages, headed by Pierre, shot if the assassin not revealed. Switching sympathies and refusing to identify a dress fragment found at the station, Germaine is killed upon approaching Marie's home. Finally realizing that Marie is aiding the resistance, after Seitz has reached the same conclusion, Jean persuades her to leave with him that evening, which is heartily endorsed by Pierre. Escaping a Nazi roundup, Jean boards a small rowboat with Marie, as semi-comatose Von Kleist discloses the secret pump-house entrance, though the Germana's arrive too late to nab the departing duo. Convincing the wealthy Jacquier and the others not to weaken into denouncing their compatriots but to uphold freedom's torch with an undaunted spirit, Pierre and the brave French folk sing the "Marseilles" as they march courageously to the death by firing squad. Stopped momentarily in the channel by Seitz before havoc reigns when Matthieu throws master switches illuminating the shipyard for a devastating bombardment by the Britsh, Jean and Marie sail toward Engkland under the glowing light of dawn, red-hued but clear.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: collaborator, nazi occupied france, french resistance, world war two, smuggler, shipyard, secretary ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul, and Jean, who was imprisoned with Paul in a German camp. While attempting to escape from the camp Paul is shot, and Jean goes to see Marise, confirming the news she had gotten already about Paul's death. Jean has fallen in love with Marise through the stories Paul told him, and wants to stay with her in the seaside town in Brittany where Paul owned a small business.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: based on play, melodrama, nazism, pow, presumed dead, prison, psychiatrist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fabrice is a big - perhaps the biggest - fan of Jean-Philippe Smet, better known as Johnny Hallyday, the greatest rocker France has ever produced.
Plot Keywords: character name as title, paris france, music concert, infidelity, husband wife relationship, hospital, gun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel's treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever..."
Plot Keywords: coma, undead, vampire, mansion, ballerina, ballet, greed ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: France 1550, Philibert learns from his dying father that his real father is Fulgence Bérendourt de Saint-Avoise. Philibert embarks on a journey to discover his origins.
Plot Keywords: parody, swashbuckler, rapier, blond, bare chested male bondage, bare chested male, 16th century ...
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