Les Enfants du Paradis

Carné goes full French epic. Four men fall for the unattainable Garance amid the Parisian theatre scene of the 1840s. It all goes as well as can be expected, given the era and the forces at play.

Streaming availability changes weekly. Check the Where to watch panel above — we re-pull TMDB's JustWatch index every week. If nothing's listed, the film is between licence windows.

Our similarity graph picks 6 films based on shared director, keywords, mood-cluster overlap, and MovieLens user co-rating — niche-biased away from blockbusters. Full list: /like/children-of-paradise-1945/.

Marcel Carné directed Les Enfants du Paradis in 1945. See Marcel Carné's full filmography, where to start with Marcel Carné, or where to go after you've seen everything by Marcel Carné.

Les Enfants du Paradis was released in 1945 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 190 minutes.