A Romy Schneider must-see, a belated Easter celebration, a biopic set in occupied France, and a Jean-Luc Godard classic all feature on Lost in Frenchlation’s April listings of French films with English subtitles.
Lost in Frenchlation is a Paris-based club that runs screenings of French films — both new releases and timeless classics — with English subtitles, in order to allow language learners to appreciate the offerings of French cinema.
Here’s what’s on in April 2026.
Friday, April 3rd
La Guerre des Prix (Price Wars)
Where? L’Entrepôt 7 rue Francis de Pressensé Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
Les Revenants’ Ana Girardot stars in Anthony Déchaux’s directorial debut — a tense drama set, somewhat surprisingly, behind the scenes of the cut-throat supermarket retail world and the critical negotiations with producers.
Saturday, April 4th
Coutures
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Screening at 11am.
Tickets at €7 are available online here.
Another chance to see Hollywood icon Angelina Jolie star in a under-the-catwalk drama following the lives of three women — a director, a model and a make-up artist — whose lives cross paths in Paris in the frenzy of Fashion Week. You’ll also hear her more-than-creditable French.
Thursday, April 9th
L’Attachement (The Ties That Bind Us)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm, screening at 8pm, followed by a Q&A with director Carine Tardieu.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
Tender drama, in which comfortably single fiftysomething bookshop owner Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is more surprised than anyone to find herself becoming an important female role model for the six-year-old son and newborn daughter of a neighbour whose wife died in childbirth.
Saturday, April 11th
Eiffel
Where? Balzac 1 Rue Balzac Paris.
When? Screening at 11am.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
Another chance to see Martin Bourboulon’s ambitious grand-scale biopic-of-sorts of Gustave Eiffel, at the peak of his career after completing the Statue of Liberty. Everything changes the day he crosses paths with his love and their forbidden relationship inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever.
Sunday, April 12th
Délicieux (Delicious)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Drinks and chocolate tasting at 6pm and screening at 7pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
On the eve of French Revolution chef Grégory Gadebois opens the first ‘modern’ restaurant in France, with the help of free-spririted Isabelle Carré in director Éric Besnard’s sumptuous drama.
Saturday, April 18th
Police Flash 80
Where? Club de l’Étoile, 14 Rue Troyon, Paris.
When? Montmartre Movie Tour at 3pm, drinks at 6pm, stand-up comedy show with Sarah Donnelly at 7pm and screening at 7.30pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €15-€17. You can buy them online here.
Tickets for the Montmartre Movie tour, sold separately, are available here.
Those of you ‘mature’ enough to fondly remember ridiculous Eighties’ US spoof cop show Sledge Hammer! are likely to have happy flashbacks at this chaotic neon-soaked retro police comedy in which old-school dinosaur François Damiens and his uptight new partner Audrey Lamy seek to bust open a drug cartel.
Sunday, April 19th
Les Choses de la Vie (The Things of Life)
Where? Studio des Ursulines 10 rue des Ursulines Paris.
When? Tea Bar at 5pm (bring your own mug!) and screening at 5.30pm or Tea Bar at 7pm and screening at 7.30pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
The film that made the remarkable Romy Schneider an icon in France is a devastating meditation on love and the fragile nature of everyday decisions. She stars as the subject of older, married Michel Piccoli’s adulterous desires who wants to be more than just a lover — with devastating consequences.
Monday, April 20th
L’œuvre Invisible (The Invisible Work)
Where? Cinéma du Panthéon 13 rue Victor Cousin Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm, followed by a Q&A with directors Avril Tembouret and Vladimir Rodionov.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
It’s somehow appropriate that a documentary tracing the life and ghost career of unknown director Alexandre Trannoy — a Don Quixote movie maker who worked with the likes of Jean Rochefort, Anouk Aimée, Lino Ventura, and Marlene Dietrich, but who somehow never managed to finish a film — should take 15 years to make. This is the result of an impossible quest to document an impossible dreamer.
Tuesday, April 21st
Le Mépris (Contempt)
Where? L’Epée de Bois 100 Rue Mouffetard Paris.
When? Drinks at Tournebride bar from 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
One of Jean-Luc Godard’s slow-burn to cult status films could have been subtitled Scenes from a Marital Breakdown. Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot are both in top form as a couple whose lives slowly and tragically fall apart in the behind-the-camera struggles of a director (Fritz Lang – a hero of Godard’s — as himself) and producer Jack Palance during the filming of an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.
Sunday, April 26th
L’Agent Secret (The Secret Agent)
Where? Jeu de Paume 1 place de la Concorde Paris.
When? Drinks at 5pm at Rose Bakery, screening at 6pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Portuguese-language political thriller set in 1977 Brazil was a Cannes’ sensation. It tells the story of a technology specialist fleeing a mysterious past, who heads to a city on the Atlantic coast in search of peace, but soon realises it is far from the refuge he seeks.
Tuesday, April 28th
Le Goût des Autres
Where? Lucernaire 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm, screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
Acting alongside Jean-Pierre Bacri, who also co-wrote the script, Agnès Jaoui skilfully dissects dissatisfaction with French provincial life in a charming and erudite directorial debut.
Thursday, April 30th
Les Rayons et les Ombres
Where? Arlequin 76 rue de rennes Paris.
When? Midnight in Paris Tour at 4.30pm, Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. You can buy them online here.
Tickets for the Midnight in Paris Tour, sold separately, are available here.
Jean Dujardin and Nastya Golubeva Carax star in the true story of Jean and Corinne Luchaire, a father and daughter in occupied France. She is a young movie star, and he is a prominent journalist, who is also a friend of the powerful Nazi German ambassador to Paris.
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