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 March 2026.
Monday, March 2nd
Rois et Reine (Kings and Queen)
Where? Cinéma du Panthéon, 13 rue Victor Cousin, Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. Buy them online here.
Arnaud Desplechin’s tangled, parallel-lives tale of of two former lovers: a single mother (Emmanuelle Devos) who must take care of her dying father, and a brilliant-but-troubled musician (Mathieu Amalric) locked up in a psychiatric hospital, plotting his escape.
Friday, March 6th
Maigret et le Mort Amoureux (Maigret and the Dead Lover)
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 – €9.50. Buy them online here.
Georges Simenon’s celebrated — and very 20th-century — pipe-smoking detective is transplanted into the early 2000s for this updated version of the 1960 novel Maigret et les Vieillards, in which he investigates the murder of a former French ambassador, who had been having a long affair with a noted royal, whose husband had also recently died.
Saturday, March 7th
LOL
Where? Balzac, 1 Rue Balzac, Paris.
When? Screening at 11am.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5 – €11.50. Buy them online here.
Christa Theret was nominated for a Cesar in 2009 for their breakout role as the eponymous Lol in this archetypal — and possibly even seminal — rites of passage, messy teen relationships comedy drama heavily inspired by the 1980 hit La Boum, which starred Sophie Marceau — who is on fine form here as Theret’s mixed-up mother.
Sunday, March 8th
Le Bonheur (Happiness)
Where? Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris.
When? Agnes Varda Movie Tour at 2.30pm, 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 €5.40 – €9.40. Buy them for the 5.30pm showing here and for the 7.30pm showing here
Details and tickets (€18) for the Agnes Varda Movie tour are available here.
Agnes Varda’s initially controversial New Wave drama shocked audiences in 1965 with its frank and morally neutral portrayal of adultery. Jean-Claude Drouot is the happy rural carpenter who can see nothing wrong in his extra-marital affair — but his eternal Sunday with his naive wife is increasingly discordant.
Friday, March 13th
LOL 2.0
Where? Balzac, 1 Rue Balzac, Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5 – €11.50. Buy them online here.
Empty-nester Sophie Marceau is enjoying her new single life now that her children have left home in this sequel to 2009’s LOL. But, inevitably, her carefree second life is shortlived when her youngest daughter returns home after a relationship break-up — and then she learns she’s going to be a grandmother.
Sunday, March 15th
À Pied d’Oeuvre (At Work)
Where? Jeu de Paume, 1 place de la Concorde, Paris.
When? Drinks at 3pm, screening at 4pm; drinks at 5pm, 2nd screening at 6pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.50 – €11.50. Buy them online here.
Bastien Bouillon stars as a photographer at the peak of his career, who abandons his success to pursue writing, in this adaptation of Franck Courtès’ autobiography, considered one of the best books of the 2023 literary season.
Tuesday, March 17th
La Pointe Courte
Where? Epée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5 – €9.90. Buy them online here.
Agnes Varda’s feature debut tells the story of a couple on the verge of separation in a small Mediterranean fishing village, where shellfish gatherers are organising to defend their rights, families are dealing with their own troubles and neighbourly disputes.
Thursday, March 19th
Gourou
Where? Arlequin, 76 rue de rennes, Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm followed by Q&A with director Yan Gozlan.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5 – €9.90. Buy them online here.
Pierre Niney took inspiration from Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in Nightcrawler and Tom Cruise’s turn in Magnolia for his role as a charismatic and manipulative self-help guru in this tense psychological thriller.
Tuesday, March 24th
Amour
Where? Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €6 – €11. Buy them online here.
French movie titans Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva star in this tender tale of life, ageing love and death.
They play a couple of retired music teachers, whose later years are changed forever when she suffers a stroke. Her loving husband attempts to care for his wife at home as she wishes, leading to a dispiriting, and strangely heart-warming, struggle for dignity.
Thursday, March 26th
Le Rêve Américain
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple, Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.50 – €12. Buy them online here.
A pair of underdogs from France with no connections and shaky English defy the odds to become power players in the NBA. Raphaël Quenard and Jean-Pascal Zadi star in this biographical tale of noted sports agents Bouna Ndiaye and Jérémy Medjana.
Sunday, March 29th
Gourou
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Screening at 11am.
Tickets €7. Buy them online here.
A second chance to see the tense psychological thriller starring Pierre Niney as a charismatic and manipulative self-help guru in this tense psychological thriller.
Sunday, March 29th
Coutures
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.50 – €12. Buy them online here.
Hollywood icon Angelina Jolie stars in this 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.
Tuesday, March 31st
Eiffel
Where? Balzac 1 Rue Balzac Paris.
When? Eiffel Movie Tour at 4.30pm, drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5 – €11.50. Buy them online here.
Tickets (€18) and details for the walking tour can be found here.
Martin Bourboulon’s ambitious grand-scale biopic-of-sorts of Gustave Eiffel, who is 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.
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