Secondary Modern Foreign Languages
We have selected a number suggested of French, German, and Spanish language films to support and enhance your secondary school syllabuses across KS3-5, including A-Level set texts for Edexcel/AQA. Please do ask if you have other titles you would like to request.
Films are available to book for private hires weekday mornings (subject to availability with a start time of 10:00 or 10:30).
If you wish to request extra time in screen to lead a post-film discussion with your class, let us know at the time of booking and we will do our best to accommodate this
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1 Staff:10 Students ratio).
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FRENCH
Les Quatre Cents Coups (The Four Hundred Blows) (PG)
Director: Francois Truffaut. France. 1959. 100 mins.
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
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Suitability: KS3, KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Director: Claude Barras. Switzerland/France. 2016. 66 mins. Available in French with English subtitles or dubbed in English.
9-year-old Courgette is a shy, bug-eyed kid, consigned to an orphanage after his alcoholic mother’s sudden death. However, Courgette finds a place in his new home with the other misfit children. This beautiful film shows how lessons learnt can shape a child’s character and prepare them for adult life, finding strength through trust, love and solidarity.
Suitability: KS2, KS3, KS4 | Subjects: French, PSHE, Film (animation), Citizenship
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
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Au Revoir Les Enfants (12A)
Director: Louis Malle. France. 1987. 100 mins.
In 1943, Julien is a student at a French boarding school. When three new students arrive, including Jean Bonnett, Julien believes they are no different from the other boys. What Julien doesn't know is that the boys are actually Jews who are evading capture by the Nazis. While Julien doesn't care for Jean at first, the boys develop a tight bond -- while the head of the school, Père Jean, works to protect the boys from the Holocaust.
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Suitability: KS3, KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Belleville Rendez-vous (The Triplets of Belleville) (12A)
Director: Sylvain Chomet. France. 2003. 77 mins.
This animated film follows elderly Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey to find Champion, and stumbles across unlikely allies in the form of three sisters who are veterans of the vaudeville stage. Tracking down Champion's criminal captors, the quartet of old women use their wits to try and win the day.
Suitability: KS3 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
(The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec) (12A)
Director: Luc Besson. France. 2010. 104 mins.
A big-screen adaptation of the graphic novel The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. The movie stars Louise Bourgoin as the title character, an independent-minded writer who becomes embroiled in a mystery involving mummies, bad guys, and dinosaurs in pre World War I Paris.
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Suitability: KS3, KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
The Chorus (Les Choristes) (12A)
Director: Christophe Barratier. France, Germany, Switzerland. 2004. 93 mins.
Pierre is an aimless child at an austere boarding school in France. The students and faculty are constantly at odds with one another, until a music teacher, Clément Mathieu, arrives and starts a choir. Clément - who has troubles of his own - tries to change the reactionary policies of the school, choosing instead to encourage his students. His efforts have a particular impact on Pierre, who shows great musical promise.
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Suitability: KS3, KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
The Class (Entre Les Murs) (15)
Director: Laurent Cantet. France. 2008. 128 mins.
Francois Marin is a French language and literature teacher at an inner-city Paris high school. As the new school year begins, he introduces himself to his new class and begins the arduous process of reaching out to each of them. Marin encounters his share of problem students, teen violence, ethnic tensions between classmates and education barriers within the group, all of which test his patience and - more importantly - his resolve as an educator.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
A Very Long Engagement (Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles) (15)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. France. 2004. 134 mins.
Mathilde is told that her fiancé has been killed in World War I. She refuses to believe this, however, and begins trying to find out what actually happened on the battlefield the night he was supposedly killed, enlisting the help of a private investigator. During her search, she stumbles across evidence of the inhumane and morally bankrupt system used by the French to deal with deserters, and hears from other men who were sentenced to extreme punishment.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Les Untouchables (15)
Director: Olivier Nakache,Eric Toledano. France. 2011. 110 mins.
A Parisian aristocrat, quadriplegic since a paragliding accident, hires a young man to be his live-in caretaker. Although very different the two men bond and develop a close friendship Curriculum links: family and friends, relationships, contrasts in French society, prejudices.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
La Haine (15)
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz. France. 1995. 98 mins.
When a young Arab is arrested and beaten unconscious by police, a riot erupts in the notoriously violent suburbs outside of Paris. Three of the victim's peers, Vinz, Said and Hubert, wander aimlessly about their home turf in the aftermath of the violence as they try to come to grips with their outrage over the brutal incident. After one of the men finds a police officer's discarded weapon, their night seems poised to take a bleak turn.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: French
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
There are also a small number of English films available to watch with French subtitles. You can find that list of films here.
GERMAN
Good Bye, Lenin! (15)
Director: Wolfgang Becker. Germany. 2003. 121 mins.
In October 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Alex Kerner is living with his mother, Christiane, and sister, Ariane. But when the mother, a loyal party member, sees Alex participating in an anti-communist rally, she falls into a coma and misses the revolution. After she wakes, doctors say any jarring event could make her have a heart attack, meaning the family must go to great lengths to pretend communism still reigns in Berlin.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: German, History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (15)
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Germany. 2006. 138 mins.
In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler, doubting that a famous playwright is loyal to the Communist Party, receives approval to spy on the man and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, then faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria and orders Wiesler to get the playwright out of the way.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: German, History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei (The Edukators) (15)
Director: Hans Weingartner. Germany. 2004. 129 mins.
Peter and Jan are "edukators," anarchists who break into wealthy people's homes - never stealing, but serving notice to fatcats that their days are numbered. Along comes Jule, a poor student and Peter's girlfriend, who convinces Jan to help her edukate a businessman she owes money to. When Jule mistakenly leaves evidence behind, they must go back to the crime scene, where they are surprised and events quickly get out of hand.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: German
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) (15)
Director: Tom Twyker. Germany. 1998. 81 mins.
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In this visually and conceptually impressive film, two-bit Berlin criminal Manni delivers some smuggled loot for his boss, Ronnie, but accidentally leaves the 100,000 mark payment in a subway car. Given 20 minutes to come up with the money, he calls his girlfriend, Lola, who sprints through the streets of the city to try to beg the money out of her bank manager father and get to Manni before he does something desperate.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: German
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
SPANISH
El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) (15)
Director: Guillermo del Toro. Spain. 2006. 119 mins.
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In 1944 Spain young Ofelia and her ailing mother arrive at the post of her mother's new husband, a sadistic army officer who is trying to quell a guerrilla uprising. While exploring an ancient maze, Ofelia encounters the faun Pan, who tells her that she is a legendary lost princess and must complete three dangerous tasks in order to claim immortality.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: Spanish, History
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Volver (15)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar. Spain. 2006. 121 mins.
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Raimunda works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbour from their hometown reports that she has seen the ghost of Irene and both daughters do not believe her. After a murder and a family tragedy, Irene's spirit materialises around her daughters to help comfort them.
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Suitability: KS4, KS5 | Subjects: Spanish
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).