Categories
Sadness Surprise, wonder

Funny how love songs are always sad

Carné, Montand
Les Portes de la nuit (1946)

Categories
Disgust, dislike

Vous êtes encore là ?

Lubitsch, Stewart, Sullavan
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Categories
Excuses, justification Inspirational, advice

On est américains parce qu’on est en Amérique

Baron Cohen, Ferrell, Reilly
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Categories
Boredom

This town and its people bore me

Demy, Michel
Lola (1961)

Categories
Uncategorized

Les Françaises en sont folles

Norton
Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Sure of yourself, aren’t you?

Tourneur, Scott
Easy Living (1949)

Categories
Disappointment Refusal

Pas drôle ? — Non

Lubitsch, Garbo, Douglas
Ninotchka (1939)

Categories
Disappointment Refusal

Ce n’est pas drôle ? — Non

Lubitsch, Garbo, Douglas
Ninotchka (1939)

Categories
Disappointment Excuses, justification

Nous n’avons pas crème. Sans lait, ça ira ?

A man comes into a restaurant. He sits down a table. He says : “Waiter, bring me a cup of coffee without cream.” Five minutes later the waiter comes back and says: “I’m sorry, sir, we have no cream, can it be without milk?”

Lubitsch, Garbo, Douglas
Ninotchka (1939)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Stress, worry

It’s hard to live in two places

Rohmer, Ogier
Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments Sex

Elle est superbe. Vous aimez les rousses ?

Mann, Cook
Dandy in Aspic (1968)

Categories
Invitation, party Sex

Tout dépend de celui qui est en selle

(voir aussi)

Hawks, Bacall, Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)

Vous parlez comme un chien qui en a abusé

You sound like a dog with peanut butter on the roof of your mouth

Ferrell, Baron Cohen, Reilly
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Categories
Boredom Loneliness

What do you do here nights?

Siodmak
The Killers (1956)

Categories
Get well soon, health Good News Welcome

Comment ça va ? — Mieux qu’hier

Hawks, Bacall, Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)

Categories
Get well soon, health Love Split ups

I’ll get over you quickly, believe me

Demy, Michel, Aimée
Lola (1961)

Categories
Refusal

Certainly not

Godard, Léaud
Masculin Féminin (1966)

Categories
Excuses, justification Good News Happiness, satisfaction

L’argent continue donc de circuler. Tout le monde prospère dans la joie

Wilder, Lemmon
Irma la Douce (1963)

Tu me casses les yarblocks !

Kubrick, McDowell
Clockwork Orange (1971)

Categories
Get well soon, health Surprise, wonder

Un verre de Vichy

Wilder, Lemmon
Irma la Douce (1963)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Refusal

D’ailleurs, je ne bois jamais

Wilder, Lemmon
Irma la Douce (1963)

Categories
Invitation, party Welcome

Vous buvez quoi ? — Whisky

Ray, Hayden
Johnny Guitar (1954)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Refusal

Le whisky, c’et pour les hommes. Rentre chez ta mère

Minnelli, Sinatra
Some Came Running (1958)

Categories
Uncategorized

Pernod. — Scotch

Huston, Underdown, Bogart
Beat the Devil (1953)

Categories
Uncategorized

Casanova y a passé la nuit en 1763. — Je ne parle pas de 1763

Wilder, Lemmon
Irma la Douce (1963)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Congratulations, compliments

J’aime les cheveux roux

Lloyd, Sidney, Cagney
Blood on the Sun (1945)

Vous parlez comme un petit-bourgeois

Wilder
Irma la Douce (1963)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments Good News Sex

J’en ai deux. — C’est bien, non ?

Lloyd, Sidney, Cagney
Blood on the Sun (1945)

Categories
Surprise, wonder Work

Professeur ? — Six ans, mais c’est une autre histoire

Irma la Douce (1963)

Categories
Work

J’étais professeur d’économie à la Sorbonne

Wilder
Irma la Douce (1963)

Categories
Goodbyes Work

Messieurs, je démissionne. — Encore ?

Lloyd
Blood on the Sun (1945)

Categories
Love Sex

L’amour est illégal, mais pas la haine

Wilder
Irma la Douce (1963)

Categories
Love

Do you fall in love often?

Godard, Léaud
Masculin féminin (1966)

Categories
Disappointment

Half of these gook whores are officers in the Viet Cong

(Gook : “derogatory term for certain people of East and Southeast Asian descent”)

Kubrick
Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Categories
Disappointment Excuses, justification Invitation, party Refusal

Will I see you tonight? — I never make plans that far ahead

Curtiz, Bogart
Casablanca (1942)

Categories
Loneliness Refusal

Nothing’s worse than staying home alone on a Sunday

Il n’y a rien de plus affreux que de rester toute seule chez soi le dimanche

Rohmer
La Carrière de Suzanne (1963)

Categories
Uncategorized

I promised I’d print it if he brought me a picture of a flying saucer

Uchūjin Tokyo ni arawaru

Shima
Warning from Space (1956)

Categories
Disappointment Refusal Sadness

I’m fed up

Godard, Goya
Masculin féminin (1966)

Categories
Love Welcome

Where have you been?

Wenders
Until the End of the World (1991)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

If it was the end of the world, why shouldn’t we go down laughing?

Wenders
Until the End of the World (1991)

Categories
Happiness, satisfaction Invitation, party Refusal

The answer’s no. —The answer’s yes. I’d love it

Vidor, Hayworth, Glenn Ford
Gilda (1949)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Love Refusal

Don’t ask. Never ask

Wenders
Until the End of the World (1991)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Love Shame, guilt

Tell you what, you don’t tell your folks and I won’t tell mine

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Wyler, Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday (1953)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Jealousy, envy

You’re lucky. You’re a man. You can come to a place like this

Tourneur, Mature, Ball
Easy Living (1949)

Categories
Disappointment Sex Shame, guilt

When I spend eight bucks on a chick, I don’t just go home with the morning paper

Johnson, Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice

It”s easy to die. — Depends on how

(Popiół i diament)

Wajda, Cybulski
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t have a chance!

Hitchcock, Hedren
The Birds (1963)

Categories
Happiness, satisfaction Invitation, party Refusal Surprise, wonder

I’m happily declining

(Un toast pour mademoiselle)

Kinoshia
Ojôsan kanpai (1949)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

That guy’s awful slow gettin’ there

Wellman, Fonda
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments Get well soon, health Good News

Well, you’re still alive

Kennedy, Douglas, Wayne
The War Wagon (1967)